Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A dispatch from London Gays Tom King,
the ex champion prize fighter, who de feated
Heenan in 1864, is dead.
Two students, who were 10 financial
trouble, By agreement shot each other dead
in the street 10 a suburb of Vienna yester-
day.
Mr.. Robert Garretts condition yesterday
was slightly better He went out in charge
of his attendants, and showed no signs of
violence.
The Canadian raft bushes was not much
of a success as expected, and Leary, the
pioneer of the novel enterprise, will not at.
tempt it again.
The hearing of the appeal in the Clean.
Joppa collision case, by which MIR. Harrl-
son Garrett was drowned, has been indef'
nitely postponed.
Horses drawing chariots ran down crowd
on the Kutztown, Pa, fair grounds yester-
day, and killed two peraons. Many Others
were seriously hurt.
The registration OF foreigners, in accord
ance with the decree recently issued by
President Carnot, of France, commenced yes.
terdey at the prefecture of police in Paris.
On Thursday at Hyndman, l6 miles west
of Cumberland, two boys were killed out.
right nv the accidental discharge of gun in
the hands of Albert Robb, a young man
about 20 years old, who was passing the
yard in which the boys were at play.
l. is rumored that the Sugar Trust ara
about to close another refinery, Dick &
MEYERS, in Brook Ign, which is now running
with force reduced from 500 to 800 men.
| Doescher's refinery, which adjoi is also
supposed to be on The list. 1t now employs
$50 men, against 500 last May.
The Mormon semiannual conference
opened at Salt Lake yesterday Apostle
| Lorenzo Snow, q convert, presided, and adj.
yocated the establishment of private Nor
mon schools. Elder James Gates said moth
ing short of the Norm on gospel covering
the whole earth would ever content tbs Lat
ter. Day Saints.
In the House Of Representatives yesterday
concurrent resolution was agreed to for the
appointment Of select Joint committee OF
three Senators and three Representatives to
investigate the work done on the Washing
| ton auueduct tunnel, the contracts made for
the same the bidding and the letting of the
contracts, and the compensation paid for the
work.
A naighborhood quarrel between women
resulted 10 the arrest yesterday of Thomas
Miller on the charge Of being the murderer
OF Joseph Morris. who was stabbed on the
night of April both last, at the saloon OF Ed
ward Hurley, in Wheeling. All attempts
to ascertain the identity of the guilty person
were futile, and had it not been for the rap
idly moving tongues it is probable the mat
ter would never mora have been heard Of
A daring robbery was Derpetrated on
passenger train of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Thursday night. The
train had Just left Kuztown, Reading coun-
w, when four men seized Daniel Geist, a
wealthy farmer, who was seated in car in
which there were a number OF other passen
gers, bound him with rope, rihed his peck
cts, then Jumped from the train and escaped.
Geist was too much frightened to raise an
alarm, and the work of the thieves was over
so quickly that the passengers were not
aware of the crime until the men had es-
capped. The thieves secured only SIS.
Sir Charles Warren, obief of the London
police force, has decided to employ blood.
b unds in his efforts to discover the perpe-
traitor of the Whitechapel murders. The
police place confidence in the story OF Geo.
NJ. Dodge, seaman, who states that in Au-
gust last be met Malay cook named Alas
ka, with whom he bad previously been &C
quainted on shipboard in music hall in
London, aud that Alaska told him be had
beer robbed CT all be had by woman of
the town, and threatened that unless he
found the woman and recovered his proper
to he would kill and mutiate every White
chapel woman he met. The police are
searching everywhere for the Malay. Act.
ing on information which has been furnished
them, the police have seized and occupied
several houses in that section.