Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mr.. Robert CARROTS condition ia un
changed.
The British Parliament has adjourned to
meet in the fall.
rousing reception will be given to Mr..
Thurman when he visits New York.
The Right Rev Bishop Harris, of Michi-
gan, is at the point Of death at the Langham
Hotel, in London.
1t is ssid that Mr.. Blaine has been shown
the rough draft of the Senate tariff bill and
has approved OF it.
Jacksonville, Fla, is panic stricken, and
ten thousand of It's people have run away
through fear of Yellow Jack.
The Chicago police expect to arrest Tas-
colt, the murderer of millionaire Amos j.
Smell, within forty eight hours.
Cooper has advanced again on the belief
that the French copper syndicate can con-
tinue to take all the copper offered.
The yatch Clean owned by the late Har-
ry Garrett, on which its owner lest his life,
has been sold to New York parties for Sc 600.
The car shops of the Maryland Cen raj
Railroad Company on Boundary avenue,
Baltimore, were destroyed by fire this morn
ing.
French's Hotel, the old landmark ofPrnt-
ing house square New York has been torn
down to make way for the new World
office
There were two hundred aud seventy
deaths in Baltimore last week, an increase
of seventy one over the same period OF last
year.
The cost of the pursuit, capture and re.
turn OF Maxwell from New ,aland was
$4,000, and the cost of his conviction and
execution $4,000 more.
The King of Portugal arrived at Berlin
yesterday. He was met at the railway sta.
ton by Emperor William and guard Of
honor, and conducted to the castle.
John L. Sullivan distinguished himself Sat.
urday night by getting drunk and smashing
up team he was driving at Brighton,
Mass He was arrested for drunkenness
and bsiled.
At Galveston, Tex, Saturday, John Love
Joy, prominent attorney, shot and instant
ly killed Aaron Williamson. The difficulty
originated over debt of $50 owed William
son by Lovejoy.
Elk Judge Henry Hilton. who has large
interest in several wooden mills and manu-.
featuring properties in New York, unhesi
tatingl, and unquali6edly pronounces bin.
self in favor of Cleveland's tariff policy.
Mr.. Lawrence R. Jerome, the famous
practical Joker, died in New York yesterday
aged sixty-seven years. He Yves SD alder
mau in Tweeds time, aud opposed Tweed
He ran for Congress 10 1868. and was de
feated by Con. McCook.
The big raft JoQgins passed under the
Brooklyn bridge New York on Saturday at
ternoon amids. the footing of steam whistles
and cheers from large crowds and was Sc
curely moored at her destination in the Erie
basin. The owners are juoilant at the COM
pe.e SUCCESS Of their undertaking.
Mary Osen, 26 years old, the wife If q
waiter employed in Harlem, jumped out Of
the window of ber home, 10 New York, Sat.
| urdsy, night, 10 end her life. She struck on
the sidewalk and sustained iI juries that re-
had been drinking. Her three youcg child.
rem witnessed the fatal act,
A terrible thunder storm burt over Wheel
ing, W. Va at o'clock yesterday evening,
doing good deal of damage. Katie DUO
lap, aged nine years, was struck by light
ping and killed, and her brother Phillip,
Mrs. John Cox, Mrs. Thomas Aud, and
several others, were seriously shocked. Sew
eral dwellings were injured.
The River and Harbor bill became Law
without the Presidents signature. The
President stated that while the bill contain
ed items to which he could not sign his ap
prevail, the great bulk of the work provided
for is so important to the best interest of the
the country, that he was unwilling to OBJ
struct it by Veto The bill approprlates
S22, 600 900, the largest River and Harbor
bill ever passed by Congress.
The St. Louis limited, the fastest and best
appointed train 10 the Erie service, while
dashing westward early yesterday morning
through a violent storm struck an open
switch near Corning n Y, and ooIlied with
| tremendous momentum with freight train
and was wrecked. The big Mother Hubbard
engine, weighing over fifty FIVE tons, was
smashed and overturned. The engineer was
buried and crushed beneath the debris.
The railroad officials think the switch was
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