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

The estimated democratic meJority In
Alabama 70 900.
The maximum temperature In Baltimore
Yesterday was 90 degrees.
A destructive fire occurred at Macon, Mo,
Yesterday morning, entailing loss OF over
800 900.
Four men at Gainesville, Fla, in twenty
DAYS killed six hundred alligators Tor their
hides ard teeth.
A dispatch from Vienna says Carl Won
dobner has accepted the command OF the
expedition to search for Stanley
Two burglars broke into Southern atore
and stole $500 When they afterwards look
ed at the money they found it was all in
Confederate notes.
Mr.. John B. Clagett died at his home at
Pomona, near Washington. Monday night,
in the sixty fifth year of his age. He was
son of Darius Clagett.
Gen. Booth, commander inc chief of the
Salvation Army, will leave England for the
United States in October, to reorganize the
"army" in the Eastern States.
A company Of the Fifth United State Cav
airy is now engaged in ejecting the non ctl-
zsns of the Chickasaw nation who have re-.
sisted the payment Of the cattle tax.
Lawrence Donovan, who jumped from the
Niagara aud Brooklyn bridges, was drowned
yesterday, in the Thames, into which be
Jumped from the Hung bridge at Lon
don.
The League games for the baseball cham
pionshp played yesterday resulted as fol-
lows: New York 6, Indianapolis 4 Wash
iogton 10, Detroit s.; Boston 6, Plttsburg Il;
Chicago 5, Philadelphia 0.
Shortly after one o'clock Sunday morning
woman jumped out of a psrlor widow in
st. Louis, and was impaled on an iron pick
ct fence, one of the paiings piercing her
breast and lung and entering the abdominal
cavity.
Thomas Lilly, an hoster, of Wilmington,
Del died yesterday from poisoning attri-
buted to dried beef, of which he and three
others partook. The others we're made very
sick by the beef, but are expected to recover.
The beef was Of Western curing and wrapped
The dory Dark Secret, in which Captain
Andrews left Boston on July 4 to voyage to
Queenstown, has been sighted for the third
time since she left port, this time by Captain
Jameson, of the steamship India. which ar
rived at New York yesterday from Mediler.
ranean ports.
The wife of Captain Bates died at their
hon near Wadsworth, o., yesterday. They
were the largest married couple in the
world. Captain Bates is eight feet tall and
his wife was seven feet and nine inches.
They have exhibited in almost every muse
um in this country aud Europe.
a desire to escape from the Montrose
Catholic Orphan Asylum, Williamsburg, n.
Y, prompted eleven.y ear-old Annie Owens
to set fire to that institution twice last Sat
urday. The lives of more than two hundred
and hfty little children were thereby en-
daneered. The young culprit has been com :
mitted to the House of Refuge.
Mr.. Sherman, in his speech in the U. S
Senate yesterday in opposition to the fish.
cries treaty, said 10 his judgment the Do
minon of Canada would be, within ten years
from this time, represented either in the I'm
perial Parliament of Great Britain or In the
Congress of the United States, and in his
opinion it would be in the Congress of the
United States.
As 20 number OF freight cars were being
shifted at The Eandervender bridge, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near Mapleton, yes
tarday, q misplaced switch caused several
o. the cars 10 leaVe iho IiaCh huu iaii ofoi
au embankment. O:er fifty men, carpen-
,rs and masous, were at work on the new
bridge structure, and six of them we're seri-
ously iojured by the fal ing cars, two of
them fatally.
Dr.J.M Toner, of Washington who has oflate
made special and exhaustive studies Of the
writings of Washington. is now engaged in
editing an edition of Washington's diary and
his earlier writings, with notes. DR.. Toner,
it ia said, has discovered that Sparks. who
published the writings of Washington. omit
ted, changed, corrected and remodeled
Washingtons work to such an extent that
it is sometimes difficult TO discover the ori.
ginal in the published version.