Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

rel.
The President of France has signed de-
cree regulating the residence Of foreigners
who have settled or are about to settle in that
country.
By the death of Baron sackvile, yester-
day, Hon. Lionel Sackville West, the pres
eut British Minister at Washington, be-
comes baron.
Fred May has been expelled from the
Manhattan Club, in New York, it Is alleged.
for The non-payment Of dues and for scar-
dalous conduct.
Mr. Frank A. Tolson. late postmaster at
Riverside, Charles county, Maryland, who
was recently arrested for enlightenment, has
been acquitted
Two young men were whirled to death in
Philadelphia yesterday by being caught in
the betting OF some machinery and carried
around the shaftiug.
Theodore a. Havemeyer, pre- ident of the
sugar trust, yesterday ordered the extensive
refueries of Decastro & Bonner. of Brook
Ign, to be shut down.
Bishop Keane, of Richmond, rector of the
new Catholic university at Washington, has
secured in the West additional subscriptions
for the new institution.
MIR. Patrick O'Briep, Nationalist member
of Parliament, was released from Kilkenny
iail Yesterday. He had been in prison for
seven months Tor offences under the Crimes
Act.
The package of money containing So, 500
which disappeared go Dysteriousiy from the
National Bank of the Republic, of New
York, on Friday last has been found. but
how or where it is not stated.
The residents of Malvern, in Chester coun.
ty, Pa. took steps last night to secure the
arrest Of the negro Mills, who last week
committed so brutal an outrage upon little
y year old Berthe Howard, white.
The reports concerning the failure of Mr..
Randall's mental powers are disproved by
the fact that no wrote with his o1n hand
the platform adopted by the convention
that renominsted him for Congress.
The collector of the port of San Francisco
will ISSUE the necessary orders TO prohibit
the landing of any more Chinese. This or
der will first affect several hundred Chinese
on the steamer Belgic, which will be due to.
morrow.
Fluctuations in wheat were again wild
and rapid 10 Chicago yesterday and the feel
| ing unsettled and nervous but aggregate
| trading fell far short of Monday, and most
of that in the way Of evening up and set
Ting up trades.
The election in Georgia for State officers
and members of the Legislature takes place
to-day. Gov Gordon heads the democratic
State ticket for re election, and as there s
no regular opposition ticket the aggregate
vote will doubtless Delight.
New registration for Baltimore closed last
night. The books show voting population
of "a 223-79. SOS whites and ii Cos negroes
against S4,SS9 last year. The increase
comes from the new wards annexed to the
city this year by act of Legislature.
Ann Scanlon, aged IS. of Hoboken, N. ]
while drunk, cut her sons head with bowl.
She attacked her husband with an axe, and
later, while be was asleep, attempted TO stab
him. The blade of The knife penetrated a
thick bed quilt, but did not hurt the man.
Dispatches from Detroit ard Chicago and
elsewhere state that there were heavy
storms, accompanied by snow, in those
neighborhoods and Oh The lakes yesterday.
and much damage has been done. Several
vessels were wrecked and number OF lives
were Lost.
The scattered portions of the great Leary
timber raft, abandoned off Nantucket Shoals
in December last, are still drifting eastward,
and at the present time cannot be far from
the rocks of Gibraltar. The residents Of
the Azores and Madeira Islands already re-
port their shores lined with trunks of the
huge trees.
The wretched married life of Samuel D.
yUolt xr;f o .;llia Aod a,ta Nd
with their legal separation by jury in Phil
adelpha. During the trial Mr.. Walton told
of the lively times at his home and of the
antics of his wife, who had used poison,
caryipg-knives aud hstchets to get him be.
low The sod.
The League games for the baseball
championship played yesterday resulted
az follows Nav York 6, Detroit 2; Chicago
q Boston l Philadelphia 6, Plttsburg .
Washington g. Indianapolis t. Chicago
plays at New York to-day. Detroit at Bos
ton, Indianapolis at Philadelphia. and Pitts
burg at Washington.
There was but one death from yellow
fever in Jacksonville, Fla, yesterday, The
number of new CAGES yesterday was So, Of
which 80 were white and &c colored. Total
cases to date, 50 S23; total deaths, 264. AT
Decatur, Ala, four new cases are reported
and two others are thought to be yellow
fever. Eighteen cases are now under treat.
ment
The detained Mormon children, who ar
rived at New York recently from Liverpool,
were sent on their way TO Salt Lake City,
Utah, yesterday. They were to have been re-
turned to England, but Collector Megone
ordered their release, after securing from
the steamship company bond guarantee.
ing that the children should not become
public charge.
The trial of Prof. Gsffchen Fat Hamburg,
for publishing the Emperor Frederick's diary
was closed yesterday. The case was remit
ted to the Supreme Court at Leipsic. At
the conclusion OF Prof Geffchen's examina
ton bis friends sought to have him released
on bail, but the application was refused.
All letters addressed to him were detained
at the postoffice by order of the authorities.