Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tho Sioux commissioner, it is said. have
failed to make satisfactory negotiations.
Mr.. Blaine will start on trans continen.
tai slumpipg tour one week after the Maine
election.
Mr.. Gustav Schwab, prominent Ger
man American citizen, died in New York
yesterday.
Senstor Edmunds, Of Vermont, has de.
clined to make campaign speeches for Har.
risen and Morton.
The baby lions born at the Philadelphia
Zoo on Sunday died, having been born, like
four previous pairs. without palates.
About 30, 900 packages of peaches arrived
in Baltimore yesterday and there was a
good demand. Prices ranged from 80 cents
to 81 10 per box the latter for fancy peaches.
Extensive preparations are being made in
New York at the Office of Richard X. Fox,
his hacker, for q grand reception TO JAKE
Kilrain when he returns to this country from
England.
The force of police detailed during the
administration OF Mr.. Gladstone in 1852, to
protect the various members of the British
Ministry, has been withdrawn for the first
time since it's assignment to the duty.
Three men, supposed to be the murderers
Of Mrs. Howes, who was shot last Sunday
while canoeing with her husband and family
on the Tobique river, in Maine, were cap
tured on the river yesterday morning.
The Right Rev Samuel 5. Harris, bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese Of Mich
igan, who was recently stricken with ape
plexy while preaching in Winchester Cathe'
dral, England died last night.
The total appropriations for the fiscal year
endiug June 30,h, 1889, made al the pre- sent
session of Congress is as follows House,
S4l3 6l3 204; Senate, S425 670.5l5 Estimat-
ed revenue, $40 So. 1874. Estimated sur
plus, s26. $50. $50.
Stephen r. Post, one Of the largest opera
tors on the New York Produce Exchange,
was forced to suspend yesterday by the ad
vance 10 wheat His short contracts are
estimated at from two to five million bushels,
which must be bought in for his account.
The only League game played yesterday
was that between the Indianapolis aud De
troit clubs which was won by the former By
a score of s to 3. The New Yofk-Washing
ton, Philadelphia Boston and Pittsburg
Chicago contests were prevented by rain.
Estimates are being made by both parties
as to the chances of changing the political
complexion of various close congressional
districts. The democrats figure out ma
| iority for themselves in the next Congress
equal to or little more than their majority
in this House.
The Minnesota court recently decided
| hat passenger on regular passenger
tram has right to refuse to pay the fare il
| be is not given seat, and that be does not
thereby become q tre5passer on the train, as
be has a right to seat also that railroad
/ having the right TO eject from its train one
not q trespasser must do it at regular
station.
Peter McArdle, white employee at the
Georgia Chemical Works in Augusta, Ga.
met peculiar and distressing death yester
day. While at work he fell into the dust
bin, and was smothered before be could be
extricated. In this department the dust
fills the air and the workmen have their
mouths and nostrils covered with bandsges.
McArdle lost his balance and fell into the
bin. and was strangled with the dust
At the recent State election in Alabama
the county of Jefferson, including the city
OF Birmingham, cast 10 .507 votes, being the
largest vote ever cast in the county by one
hundred per cent. Jefferson county is the
mining and manufacturing centre OF north
Alabama, and thousands of northern men
have settled there. In this large vote the
democratic candidate for Governor had q
majority ola 400 over his republican and in
dependent competitor.