Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.


John F. Herne the actor, died at Hot
Springs, Ark, on Saturday.
About I 900 packages of Maryland peache 8
arrived in Baltimore yesterday.
The Dublin police are keeping c'ose
watch upon all Americans visitors.
Bishop Spalding confirmed fifty convicts
ioto the Catholic Church at Joliet prison on
Sunday.
Mr.. Robert Garrett has contributed 81 600
for the benefit of the flood sufferers of
Wheeling.
Nearly one-.hrd of the members of Con-
gress have applied for leave, or have gone
away without It,
Mrs. Margaret Robinson Smith, of Phila-
delphia, who died on Monday, left 500 QUO
to Presbyterian charities.
Maeo Gonzalez LauzsD, rich planter OF
San Antonio de los Banes, Cuba, has been
K dnapped from his private residence.
There we're two cases of yellow fever on
the brig Teneriffs, from Havana, that ar
rived at Delaware Breakwater yesterday.
The furniture establishments OF Jacob
Hartman and Gunther & Fink, on North
GAY street, Baltimore, were badly damaged
by fire yesterday.
1t is said at Elizabeth that the Supreme
Court of New Jersey, on the points raised by
Gov. Green, has declared the High License
| law unconstitutional.
Saturday last Ike Lambert, white man,
while Intoxicated, shot and killed L. ID.
Hestle and two negroes, of Mount Pleasant,
Monroe county, Ala.
Berlin and Vienna journals state, on the
strength of reports from Russian source
that the Car may perhaps approve the in
dependence of the Balkan States.
The League games for the baseball cham
pionship PLAYED yesterday resulted as fol-
lows: New York 9, Boston o; Washington
Philadelphia 8 Indianapolis 2 Chicago 4;
Pittsburg 5, Detroit /.
The international single scull regatta at
Pleasant Beach, Onandoga Lake, n. y, yes
terday, was won by ohm Teemer in twenty
| minutes, his boat crossing the finish three
| lengths ahead of the others.
A dispatch from Wady Hafa, Egypt, says
that three boats loaded with native fugitives,
who left that place during the attack of the
Dervishes on the Goth instant, sank in the
river and $50 persons were drowned.
At O'Lear Lake, Iowa, Sunday night, lee.
| SIC MChlnuey, mhITleu "ouap, onoI s~lu
fatally injured ]. F. Sullivan, a resident OF
Forest City, who, with others, was proving
around her cottage and refused to leave.
Sullivan will die. Mrs. Mckinney is 10 GUS
tody
The Secretary OF the Navy yesterday di.
rected the Dismissal of the following named
naval cadets as a result of the recent 'haz-
Jog" court martial trials at Annapolis Rich.
ard H. Leigh, Mississippi; George h. sheI..
ard, Wisconsin Bion B Bierer, Kansas, and
! Charles W. Lyle, Virginia.
The seventh victim of the West Virginia
e BOD of last Thursday night has been found
on the river bank below Wheeling. 1t was
the body OF Tommie Howley, aged FIVE
years, one OF the four children OF that fami-
ly drowned Eight bodies are still unrecov-
cred and several persons missing
Great Falls, n. H., is excited over The
supposed eopement of Emory J. Randall.
pay master and treasurer OF the Great Falls
Manufacturing Company, prominent citi-
zen, and Mrs. juiette Worcester Mrs.
Worcester s worth $4,000 or 500 600.
Randall has wife and two daughters. 1t
is supposed the couple have Comet to Europe.