Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-30
NEWS OF TIE BAY.

n ocfoio earthquake SaUCk SlSlleu i ASH.
kend yesterday.
The fishery disputes between this country
and Great Britain remain unsettled yet.
Lieut.. Hem promises to bring over the
Galatea next year and enter her in all the
races.
1t is proposed TO issue 80. year three Der
cent. bond to refund the government a. per
cents. expiring in 1891.
Emperor William wants en- increase of
the army, although he believes that peace
| will be maintained.
Prince Alexander is going to England to
attend the baptism of the infant son of
Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg.
Nine youths have been sentenced TO
death at Sydney, n. S. w., for committing
an outrage on a sixteen .year.old servant
girl
Elise Bethune, widow of Gen. Bethune.
the late manager of Blind Tom, the musical
wonder, has been appointed committee Of
his person and estate.
The Pope has invited the editors CT Cath
Ollie papers throughout the world to send
their publications regularly to the press Of
ficer Of tho Vatican.
Mrs. Margaret Jerome, the widow of Gen.
| II,
died Thanksgiving eve in New York, and
her body has been buried in the Potter's
field
The report of the proposed erection of the
District of Columbia into Catholic diocese
end of the selection of the Rev. DR.. p. l..
Chappelle, pastor of st. Matthew's church,
Washington, as the bishop, is a mistake
A. Ross Ray we'll known and respected
citizen of Washington, and for years the pro-
prietor of Rays large mills in Georgetown,
died suddenly OIL Sunday at Mare Island,
California, where he was visiting his daugh-
| ter.
A meeting WAS held in Philadelphia yes
terday to prepare for the reception of the
representatives Of the several States who
are to arrange for the celebration of the
centennial anniversary of the federal con.
stitution.
A meeting of coal managers, at which rep.
resentatives of all the coal companies were
present, was held in New York yesterday.
After long discussion, it was decided to
make no change of any kind in the prices
of anthracite coal.
William Marshall, OF New York, has in.
vented aud obtained letters. patent upon
a telephone Of novel construction and prrin.
| eiPie, usiuS ~ udSueu UT diaphragm. Inc
instrument has beeu tested in every way
over resistance equal to that of 200 miles
of wire, and yielded entirely satisfactory
results, and in volume, tone and distinct.
ness was UNNECESSARILY superior to even
the best of the Bell telephones now in use.
A wagon started from the New York en-
trance yesterday afternoon to go over
the big bridge to Brooklyn. After it had
passed,a man jumped from tho vehicle to the
roadway, mounted the iron grder that en-
closes it, and without hestating a moment
eaped of, into the river. Hs turned two
somersauts in the air and fell on his back
on the water, disappearing at one The
Jumper was under the water about five min
utes. When picked up he was frothng at
the mouth, and was too exhausted to speak.
His face had yellow lock, and his eyes
were CLASSY and vacant in expression.
When he reached the wharf he was taken
to the Chambers Street Hospital. At the
station he gave his name as William Kurz
and told the officer in charge that he want.
ed to commit suicide. IL is thought that he
will recover. When asked his reason fer
the jump, he replied, II wish was dead"