Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

the PRESIDENT yesterday.
Mrs. Folsom, the Presidents mother-in.
law, is guest at the White House.
The democratic convention of Georgia
Yesterday nominated Gen. John B. Gordon
for Governor.
John Kershaw, of Washington, was chic
reformed and robbed of $40O while asleep in
his house last night. --.-.....,---..,..,
There were one hundred and eight deaths
and eighty-seven births in Washington dur
ing the last seven days.
Mr. John Healey, employed as BARTENDER
at the fremont House, Washington, died at
that place last night of apoplexy.
A colored man named Chas. Braton fell
into the reservoir, near Howard University,
Washington, yesterday. and was drowned.
The Baltimore police made raid on the
policy shops yesterday. Several persons
charged with conducting the business were
| arrested
Noah A. Rohrbaugh, well-known farmer
residing near Hanover Junction, Pa, COM
mtted suicide yesterday by shooting him.
self in the heart.
The American schooner n. J. Miller, Cap
tain Dickson, has been seized by the Cana
dian authorities for an alleged infraction OF
the custom laws.
Judge Morris has refused to grant an in
| junction against the firm of Alex. Brown Il
Sons, of Baltimore, at the instance of the re-
ceiver of the Norfolk Bank.
John Cardwell, who was to have heen
hanged at Charlotte, n. c., July 80, for as
saulting his daughter, was rescued from Jail
Monday and spirited away by mob of his
| friends.
A sloop-rigged yacht, supposed to be the
Galatea, was spoken by the steamer West.
erland, July Goth, at 2 p. M, in latitude Al
| longitude Sab. She will reach Marblehead
July 2lst.
| Gus Supdstrom, the champion swimmer,
swan from Governors Island TO High
Bridge, on the Harlem river, distance of
about eleven miles, in four hours yesterday
afternoon.
| 1t has been decided to abandon Fort
Abraham Lincoln, near Bismarck, OAK, as
military post, there being no further ne.
cessity for its existence in that now thickly-
settled neighborhood.
During Tuesday evenings storm, light
ming struck ladder on which young girl
was standing, on Fry's farm, near Washing
tonsborough, Pa, instantly killing her. Her
| i6ll Slu6 was W d CIlSp.
Helen w. McCartee, the well-known
member of the McCaul Opera Troupe, yes
terday filed suit for divorce in Washing
ton from Charles McCartee, on the ground
of desertion in 1882, ten years after their
marriage.
The Attorney General has returned the
oleomargarine bill 10 the President. with his
report thereon. 1t is expected that the
President will also obtain the views Of Ac.
ting Secretary FairchId iu regard to the bill
before he acts upon it.
In the trial of tho anarchists in Chicago
Yesterday H. l.. Gilmer, q painter, testified
that he saw Spies light the fuse to the bomb
that was thrown among the policemen dur
ing the riot 10 May. Another witness aver
red that he saw Schnaubett throw the bomb.
The charge of attempted suicide brought
against Brode, who leaped from the Brook.
lyn bridge, has been abandoned. He is held
ia $500 bail, however, for obstructiDg q
bridge officer in the discharge Of his duty,
and for using the south roadway Of the
bridge, intended for vehicles only, for pc.
destrian purposes.
A few weeks ago James Yoon, brush.
maker, of Brooklyn, was compelled to place
his wife, Mary, who was thirty.five years
old, in an insane asylum, she having lost her
reason through childbirth Yesterday Mrs.
Yoon escaped from the institution, and
threw herself under train Of cars. The
wheels passed over her neck and severed
the head from the body.
The President Yesterday nominated Alvey
A. Adee, of the District of Columbia, now
Third Assistant Secretary of State, to
be Second Assistant Secretary Of State,
/ oh n
3. Moore, of Delaware, to DO Third
Assistant Secretary of State, and T.
Spencer Pratt, of Alabama, to be Minister
Resident and Consul General of the United
States to Persia.
The u. S. flagship Tennessee came near
sinking at Portland, Me-, yesterday morn
torpedoes in the harbor, when there was a
premature explosion, and considerable dam.
age was done 10 the vessels rigging. A
mass of the latter fell on the crowded decks,
nearly killing one of the sailors and several
are said to have been wounded. The hull
is said also to have been damaged. How
the accident occurred is not known.
The United States Senate, yesterday, in.
sisted on it's amendments to the river and
haibor bill. The Senate also passed the for
LITIGATION appropriation bill, as amended by
that body. 1t appropriates nearly 81 ,0OO,-
600, against 1920 900 in the House bill. The
Senate then took up the ''surplus" resolu-
ton. The House took up the legislative
approximation bill and reeeded from the
disagreement to Senator Clarks amend
ment. The House concurred in most of the
amendments to the civil appropriation bill,
and ordered another conference on those
non concurred in.
Edward P. Piersop, the defaulting cashier
of the Baptist Publication Society at Pbila-
delphia, has turned in all the personal pro-
perty he possessed to the society, which will
reduce the amount he owes to them less
than 5000. He has also implicated Benz.
Feizburg, his assistant. The report of the
board of the American Baptist Publication
Society says: 'The total amount distracted
is 3O,421.42. OF this, s4015.15 has been re.
covered, leaving the shortage at this date
500, 406 81. The board have obtained other
securities, which, when converted into