Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31


Episcopal Church, died in Montgomery
county, Nd, yesterday.
The Quaker meeting house at Bird-in-
Hand, Lancaster county, Pa wes destroyed
by an incendiary fire this morning.
Thirty novices yesterday toos perpetual
vows as Sisters of the Order of Notre Dame
at the convent in Baltimore.
Frank Cbspek. one of the anarchists i'm
plicated in the dynamite plot against Judges
Gary aud Grinneli. was released at Chicago
yesterday on SIG 900 bail.
John Richter, aged Is years, was killed
yesterday evening in Baltimore, by being
struck By an engine of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington end Baltimore Railroad.
Joe Lannan, the Boston pugilist, says that
friends are ready to subscribe $4,000 for o
glove fight between him and Kilrain, and
saws he will meet Kilrain in a fight TO fin
ish.
Robert c. Hewitt, widely-known Wash
ingtonan, died at his home in that city yes
terday. He was at the time ofhis death the
president of the Washington Base Ball
Club.
Four couples, ladies of the ballet and su
pernumeraries employed in Kiralfy's specta
Gle of Nero" on Staten Island, were mar.
red last night on the stage in full view OF
the audience,
The League games for the baseball champ
ionshp played yesterday resulted as follows:
Boston 7, New York 81 Philadelphia Z,
Washington s; Chicago /, Indianapolis o
Detroit 3, Pittsburg l.
The mail train south on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad yesterday ran into
four horse team near Greencastle, Pa. Three
horses and the driver, q twelve-year old son
of Mr.. Joseph Horst, wefe killed.
The State of Kentucky has siz counties
Harlan, Euott, Ferry Letcher, Bell and Les.
lie-that have never had church within
their borders during the sixty or seventy
years Of their existence as counties.
High license has proven a success in Min
nesota. A decrease in the consumption of
LIQUOR is shown ia nearly every county.
Low groegeries have been closed up and the
liquor business 10 under better police super
vision.
Emperor William of Germany is expected
to arrive al Rome on October 6. The mum.
cipa authorities will give ball in his honor.
This will be held in the three palaces on
Capitoline Hill, which will be connected for
the occasion.
Miss LILLIAN Deply, of ST. Paul. Mimi. has
run away with her fathers coachman, Will.
liam Stewart, negro. Lillian is not yet
fifteen years old, and is rather pretty.
Stewart is a big. unattraclive negro, about
"a years of age.
The reply of the French government 10
the note Of the Italian prime minister, an
nouncing Italy's seizure of Massowah, says
that French consulate, sanctioned by the
Porte, was established at Massowan twenty
FIVE wears before the date of the Italian oc-
cupation.
A dispatch from Reading, Pa says bank
er Waldron, who wreck ed three banks, stole
$500 600 and eloped with Mrs. Bidwell,
whom be virtually bought from her hus-
band, is in Windsor, Canada. 1t is said that
Waldron has two satchels filled with money,
| which he carries wherever he goes. When
ia the dining-room they are placed by his
chair.
Senator Dolph, from the Committee on
Public Lands, yesterday reported favorably
a bill to declare a forfeiture of all lands ex-
cept right of way and station grounds grant,
ed 10 The Northern Pacific Railway Compa-
ny. The lapds forfeited are restored to the
public domain and made subject to DISPOSE
ton and settlement under the general public
land law.
Rev. H. NJ. Strlckler preacher 10 charge
of Wesley Grove Circuit of the Southern
Methodist Church. proposes to erect a
church at Wesley Grove camp ground, near
Dorsey's Station, on the Washington branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, intended
for the community surrounding. The camp.
meeting association approves the project.
United Ireland says that the rampant
American Senate in rejecting the fisheries
treaty gave EGG land terrible proof of the
power of retaliation of the greater Ireland
across the sea, whose vengeance MIR. Bal.
four's coercion policy has aroused. The
paper commends the action of the Cork band
in refusing TO play the national anthem at
the Irish exhibition in London.
Horace Bishop aged Is, aud Charles APP.
pIebee, aged 16. of Branford Conn last night
stopped at drug store in that place and
called for soda water Shortly after they
were taken sick and both died in about half
an hour. An investigation revealed the
fact that tincture Of aconite had been mixed
with the soda water nstead Of syrup. The
clerk who made the fatal error has been ar
rested.
The city of East ST. Louis appears to be in
bad way The city treasury has been sgs.
tematically plundesed for years and its fin.
ances are now in such decrepit condition
that the interest on its debt cannot be paid.
BE- popular vote the citizens have decided
to fund portion of its debt by issuing three
per cent. bonds, and also to surrender the
present city and reorganizs under the State
law.
1t is said that Charlie Johnson, who keeps
a saloon in Brooklyn. and bis friends pro-
pose to back John l. Sullivan against Jake
Kilrsiu for either $4,000 or 1000. and
that if match is arranged Jack Dempsey
is to take sulivon in hand Def re aud dur
ing the fight. Johnson, who is great ad-
mirer of the Boston s'ugger, said Il know
that Sullivan is better man than Kilrain
and if he wants to fight he can have any
amount of hackers"
A few days ago party of tourists visiting
Yellowstone Park stopped to view the ia.