Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The American College OF fnyeiclaIs al u
Surgeons began their meeting in washing
ton yesterday
Mrs. Rachael Sillwsggon, OF Flushing. l..
l.. Yesterday celebrated Der lO3 birthday,
and was able to make birthday cake.
By very large vote The House democratic
caucus last night refused 10 support MI.
Oatess resolution to edjourn tomorrow.
Mr.. Butler made speech in the u s.
Senate Yesterday in favor oftransferripg the
Weather Bureau 10 the Agricultural Depart
ment.
The Supreme Court OF Tennessee holds
that corporations in that State have not the
power TO enter inlo partnership ana oel
egate their powers to an agent.
A large delegation of women appeared
before the Senate Committee on Finance
yesterday in favor of protection and lts rela
ton to the working women OF America.
A cable dispatch was received in Baltl-
more Yesterday. saying that the engage.
ment of Miss Virginia Mactavish, of Baltl-
more, to the Duke OF Norfolk had been an
nounced.
lie France says that CD account of the in
adequate hsrvests, the French government
will probably suspend theimport duties upon
cereals. The council of ministers will dis
cuss the question Thursday.
The correspondence between the Chinese
| Minister and the Secretary Of State on the
Chinese treaty was sent to Congress yester.
day. The Chinese Minister says the treaty
and amendments are acceptable.
Secretary Whitney denies the stories as
serting that the postponment OF the launch
| d q; Il tn ia
satisfaction OF naval officers with the seiec
ton of 9 lady who is to christen her.
VIM. Bohann, of Rockaway, N. y the
brute who gouged out his wife's eyes ia July
last, and who vas indicted on two counts,
was sentenced yesterday to twenty-five
yeara and eleven months imprisonment at
! hard labor.
The League games for the baseball cham
pionshp played yesterday resulted as fol
lows New York 8, Pittsburg l ; Philadel.
phia 6. Chicago O; Boston II, Detroit 2;
Boston s. Detroit A Washington Z, Indian
apolis s; Washington S, Indianapolis 5.
Mrs. c. ]. De Leon, an elderly widow
committed suicide Monday night in Chicago
by attaching rubber tube to an unlighted
gas l4t, which was turned on. and inserting
the other end beneath the bedcothes, which
she tucked closely over her head and body
NJ. A Dulin, republican nominee for Sher,
i'll of Mecklenburg county, N. c., was yes
terday shot and seriously wounded by w
Sherman Flow, republican candidate for
constable. The quarrel grew out of the fact
that Dublin had declined to support Flow
Luther S. Marsh, the New York lawyer
whose credulity was 30 imposed upon by the
spiritual medium, Ann O'Delia Diss Dollar
has gone to the country to live, and yester-
day by his order, every article of furniture
and decoration in his former palatial resi-
dence was sold by the auctioneer,
The mosaic Portrait of Lincoln presented
to this Government by Salviati, the mosaic
worker Of Venice, which has been hanging
in the atatuary hall of the Capitol for nun
of years, Yesterday fell from its high book to
the marble floor below. The frame and the
mosaic work surrounding the protrait proper
were shattered Into small pieces, but the
portrait escaped injury.
A blooded bulldog. about year old and
weighing tbirty-two pounds, ate portion
of three men and another dog, and Kept
First avenue between 5Sth and 59Ch streets,
New York. in On uproar for nearly an hour
Yesterday morning, yielding up his life
finally only otter being shot thirteen times
By a policeman ana receiving numerous
blows from club, and final beating with
heavy shovel.