Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-29
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

There were 127 deaths in Baltimore last
week.
Henry n. Stanley, the African explorer,
has arrived in New York.
Simon Cameron Wilson, mayor of Harris-
burg, Pa, diedSaturday.
An arrest has been made in Washington
for selling oleomargafiGe without stamp.
King Milan of Serva is Frustrated By the
discovery of plot to carry him into Mon.
tenegro.
Three colored men have been lyuched
near Natchez, Miss. for setting fire to Har.
rison Cocote's cotton gin house.
a large vault in Willibald Kueb!er's
brewery, Easton, Pa, caved in on Saturday
and destroyed 400 barrels of beer: loss
$4,000
A great fire at Duluth, Mimi, Saturday
night, destroyed several grain elevators
and other property, causing loss of over
S765 900.
The efforts made by the State and the
general government to stamp out pleuro-
pneumonia in Washington, have proven
very successful.
1t is though possible that President Cleve.
land will have the appointment OF four or
| five Supreme Court justices before the expi.
ration of his term.
The U S. S. Kearsarge, which has lust
been inspected at Portsmouth, n. H., af-
ter returning from the European squadron,
has been ordered out of commission, and ali
her officers were detached.
Charles Francis, colored msr, was shot
and killed by John Bbbon, Saturday night,
near Rogers Station, in Baltimore county !,
| Md. Francis had driven his wife and
children out of the house and they had TAX
en- refuge with Bibbon. He then attacked
this house and was killed.
The negro William Pope, who shot Gen.
Z. Z. Au2ur in Washington on the 18th of
| la3t August, was sentencad in the Crimi-
nal Court on Saturday to three years in the
Albany peniteutiavy. His motiou for a new
trial was overrnled, but execution of gen
tence was suspended on an appeal.
Old Charity Virgins, mother of the won
dertul pianist, Blind Tom. who the sheriff's
jury in New York on Friday determined
was not competent to protect his property
or take care of himself, appeared in the
Supreme Court Saturday and through coun-
! sci presented the findings of the sherinHs
jury to the court, and asked that she be- ap-
pointed guardian of her sons person. De.
cision was reserved.
| John L. West, the colored assailant of
Mrs. Page in Washington on the night of
the 10th inst, surrendered himself Saturday
to Lieutenant Guy West said that the
night he broke into Mrs. Pages house he
was suffering from some trouble OF his head
and twice during the day be fell in the
street. The next morning he realized that
he had done something wrong, but he did
not know what, aud he made no confession
as was reported at the lime. He then went
to Boston, and when, on Tuesday, he read
IN the newspapers an account Of the affair,
he returned. Bail was fixed at $1,000, and
he was charged with ''house breaking"
Mrs. Page was too i'll to be in court, and the
case was set for next Wednesday.
The stock Of the Richmond and Wess
Point Terminal railroad was to have been
stricken temporarily from the list cf the
New York Stock Exchange to-day, bur
this was prevented by the timely action OF
the directors. The books Of the company
were to have been closed to-day for the
annual election next month but it was dis.
covered that the company was short of
certificates to be Issued for tho stock de
posted with the secretary. TIE effect OF
this would have been that, while part of
the stock might be ahoat in the street. a
large part would be locked up in the books
of the company, with nothing to represent
it. This would probably have resulted in a
corner in the stock. The directors, how
ever, agreed to keep the books open until
such time as the company would be ready
with the certificates. This averted al un.
pleasant complication.