Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.


opened in September.
Gen. Rufus Barringer, of Charlotte, N. c.,
has left the republican party and will sup
port Cleveland.
Gov. Lee held reception at the Carroll.
ton, in Baltimore, yesterday, and lett for
home in the afternoon.
Archbishop Feehan. of Chicago, will ap
point Rev. Thomas F. Mangan, of Joliet,
vicar general, to succeed Rev. Conroy, de-
ceased.
The yacht Coronet arrived at San Diego.
CAL. yesterday, 100 days from New York.
Ca. t. Crosby reports light winds since cross
ing the equator.
The American party convention in San
Francisco pledged support to Mayor Hewitt,
Of New York, for nomination for President
of the United States.
At Jessups, Lackawanna county, Pa yes.
terday, a fight occurred between parties OF
Polanders and Hungarians. The riot was
the result of bitter race feeling.
A dynamite bomb was exploded in the
court yard at Nicholasville, KY, at mid
night Thursday night, which shook the
town and did considerable damage to the
courthouse
A fire in New York at an early hour this
morning destroyed S250,000 worth of prop
erty. Among the buildings damaged were
the office of the Century Publishing Con-
pany and the Everett House.
Gus Bogles, a bootblack, of Deaison, Tex
10 years old, who murdered William Nor
gan at Blue Tank, in the Creek Nation, q
year ago, was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark
Yesterday. Although the victims neck was
broken be was 12i minutes dying
One section of The Forepaugh circus train,
bound for New York. was wrecked at the
end of The tuanel at Fall River, Mase., yes
terday, by jumping split switch. A stall.
lion used for bareback riding and racing
mare were 30 badly injured that they had to
be shot.
The Anchor Line steamship City OF Rome,
which arrived in New York yesterday, had
a rough time. Ga Sunday last during a
heavy gale sea carried away her heavy
iron boWsprt and stove In the forward
bridge, seriously injuring the lookout.
Hon. D. L Russell declines the republican
nomination for associate Justice CT the Su-
preme Court of North Carolina. His letter of
decliuation advises the withdrawal OF the
entire republican ticket aud suggests coali.
ton with the prohibitionists or third party.
Arrangements have been perfected for
grand reunion of South Carolina Confeder
ate Veterans at Greenvile on Thursday,
July 26 Gov. Lee, of Virginia, has already
accepted an invitation to deliver the Grafton
of the day, and other distinguished Confed-
crate leaders will be present.
A bush fire is raging near South Indian,
Ont, on the Carada Atlantic Railway, be-
low Ottawa A saw. mill, five thousand
cords of wood, five freight cars, five houses
and thousands of cords of hanback, have
been destroyed. The country on each side
for some distance is impossible.
The strike Of the Brewers Union of Gin
ciunati because member was discharged
by his employer for disobedience OF rules
was formally declared Oft yesterday, after q
continuance of three months. All the brew
ries are now non.union and the workmen
tave lost about $500 in wages.
Three men are locked up in Chicago. un-
der $1,000 bonds each, on IL charge of con-
spring to blowing up the buildings and
trains of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad Company. Two Of tine prisoners
are members Of the Brotherhood Of Locomo.
tive Engineers, while of the third man is
little known.
DR.. John Curtis, late Of Little Hooking,
Ohio, but now at Bolton, Kansas, few days
since sent 81 COO by Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
Express to his brother at Little Hooking.
When the package arrived it was found that
the end had been cut off and the money ex
tracted, and the envelope filed with pieces
of paper about the size of the bills.
The Munich AIlgcmeine Zeitung says
1.-THE report of Dire Bergman and Gebhardt
on the malady of the late Emperor Fred
erck may interest the medical profession,
but it can have absolutely no political signif-
icance, as the allegation that Emperor
Frederick could not have reigned if the ex-
istence of cancer had been proved is with.
out legal foundation"
An explosion occurred in the house of an
old clothes dealer in the Rue Menars, Paris,
Thursday night, and one person was killed
and another injured. An investigation by
the police Of the cause of the explosion has
given rise to the suspicion that the occu.
pants of the house were engaged in the Be-
cret manufacture Of bombs to be used on the
14th Of July. on the occasion of the celebra-
ton of the fall of the Bastile