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

wheat in Baltimore yesterday.
It's stated that the Ita.ian government ia
unearthipg hugs socialist conspiracy.
A canal boat ran into and slightly injured
the new cruiser Baltimore in Philadelphia
yesterday.
1t is reported that the Detroit base ball
club is selling its players and will retire
from the league.
The first days registration in New York
city yesterday wss the largest for number
of years, it being 96,041.
The steamer Baltic sank at her dock at
Liverpool yesterday, the disaster being
caused by an open port hole.
In The law Office OF Senator Egarts son
of General VIM. Il. Sherman and nephew
Of Stonewall Jackson occupy desk to-
gather.
The death is announced OF Father Schley-
err, the parish priest OF Constance, France.
and the inventor OF the new language known
as Noapuk.
An overturned lamp in the butterine fac
Schuremans packing house, in Chicago,
yesterday, Loss S125. coo.
AtCumberlsnd, Md, last night Charles L..
Porter was shot and killed by inc. J. Van
Fossle in house of ill-fame, the killing
growing out CT quarrel about woman in
ths house.
The Berlin police have seized the remain
ing copies Of the October number OF the
Deutsche RundschQW, which contained the
extracts from the diary OF The late Emperor
Frederick.
Mrs Katy Fox Jeucken, the younger of
the Fox sisters, has arrived from Europe,
and says that she will co operate with Mrs.
Margaret Fox Kane in M expose of the
fraud Of epi.iGualism.
Senator Sawyer has completed ateDstamp
mill for his gold mines in Potomac district,
Monte emery county, Md. Western capital
ists intend shortly 10 resume gold mining
on al extensive scale on the William Collins
farm.
Adam Roth, of Wheeling, q Western
Uniou lineman, accidentally touched an
electric Iie:ht wire at Parkersburg yester-
day He fsll twenty five feet, and will
die from The combined effects of the shock
end fall.
Dominick McCafirey is quietly trying to
arrange contest bstween himself ana Jake
klsan for stated number Of rounds Mar.
qus of Queensberry style. There ia little
probability of his being successful just now,
however.
Workmen excsyating for sewers on Main
street. in Helena, Mon, yesterday, made .
rich find in the shape OF pay dirt, which
runs from so cents to 81 a pan. The 6nd lie
located in Alder Gulch which yielded many
millions Ia the seventies.
Mrs. Ellie Lewis. wife of w. T. Lewis,
pastor ofFree VIII Baptist Church offspring
field, O., has left her husband and joined an
opera company in Cincinnati. Her husband
announced last night from the pulpit the
fact of her deseftion of him.
dispatch from Charleston, W. Va, says:
"a pitched battle was fought at Cassvllle
Forks of Big Sandy yesterday between the
representatives of two families named Well
man. Several men were knocked senseess
with clubs and bricks. The difficulty was
the elimination Of family quarrel Of sew
eral years standing.
4 rule was taken g few daya ago in New
Orleans Oh Gen ]. 3. Vnett, public admin
i5trator, requiring him to pay over $50, 900
to Kate Townsend. The fact is now made
known that his predecessor, Gabriel Where,
is about forty Thousand dollars short in his
account. This amount or more is due TO the
administrators Of the estate by Villere
At Atlanta, Ga, early yesterday morning
woman named Irene Postell was found
near her room in the hall of prominent
block bound. gagged, chloroformed, and
with rope tied tight around her neck. Dur
ing the day she had had trouble with a
woman named Dunaway who had threat
ened to kill her, and two of Duuaway's male
friends went TO her room and at The point
of a pistol tied her arms aud feet, gagged
her. and tied the rope around her neck to
choke her to death The woman will die.
One man has been arrested on suspicion.
At Jacksonville yesterday SO new cases Of
yellow fever aud deaths were reported.
Total number Of cases to date, 3 3l9; total
number of deaths, 299 A number of people
are camped out OF town, some i'll, and near
| ly all suffering. One family has lived on
fish alone for over two weeks. At another
camp, containing about twenty per- ons, the
all iferers have eaten every root and bird 10
be found. Up to 8 O'Clock yesterday Fer
nandins bad twenty three new cases, but
no deaths. Only two cases were reported
at Decatur, Ala, yesterday. All those now
sick, it is thought, will recover.