Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.


IT ia reported that the Prince OF Wales
will pay a visit to Dublin before long.
There now seems to be no doubt that
Arizona again will suffer from an Apache
war.
Charles Cummins and Harry Boyd were
drowned while bathing at Atlantic City,
yesterday.
Professor Jameson is making preparations
to start from London with Major Bartellot in
search of Mr.. Stanley.
By the burning of Bessman's store, in
Mansfield, Ohio, to day $4,000 worth of
groceries were destroyed.
BARLEY Campbell, the actor and play
wright, died at the Asylum for the Insane,
in Middletown, N. Y, yesterday.
The weather in Chicago is exceedingly
sultry. the mercury in the thermometer
registering SO degrees at noon to day.
General Roger A. Pryor has been appoint.
ed, in New York, special council for the civil
prosecution of the trust corporations.
The cable companies have signed agree.
ments by which the war of rates is ended,
and from September first prices will be ac-
vanced.
Thirty horses we're burned to death by
fire in the stables of the Mutual Benefit Ice
Company in New York, at an early hour
this morning
Hon. Jefferson Davis and Gov. Lee have
been invited by the Confederate Veterans
to attend their reunion at the Atlanta Chau-
tauqua on August H.
Mayor McHugh, OF Sligo, Ireland, has
been sentenced TO four months imprison-
ment for publishing in hs newspaper, the
Sligo Champion boycotting notices.
1t has been determined by the Baltimore
and Ohio authorities to Immediately COM
plete the connection between their Phlla-
delphia extension and Staten Island.
The colored janitor of the new CONNER
cial Bank building, just completed, at st.
Joseph, found loaded dynamite bomb 10
the basement OF the building yesterday.
By the explosion of a locomotive on the
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Rail.
road at Scranton, Pa, to day the fireman
was killed and the engineer severely injured.
Masked robbers entered the farmhouse Of
Conrad Doup. in Knox county, Ohio, Sun
dsy night, beat the old man with club
bound him with chakline, aud then stole
50 600 from trunk where DOup kept his
money.
Catharine GaffGey, q former servant who
has fallen heir to fourth of the fortune of
| $4,000 left by her deceased brother, P. H.
Gaffney, has been found in the aims house
on Blackwells Island, n Y where she says
she wants to remain.
By the decision in the CLEAN Joppa col.
i ision by which Mr.. Harrison Garrett lost
his life in Chesapeake Bay recently Captain
Frank Torrey, OF the yacht Clean. was adj
| Judged guilty of unskillful navigation, and
| his license was revoked.
The Senate yesterday continued the con-
sideration of the sundry civil bill, and adopt
ed an amendment appropriating $3.50, 900
for the purpose of Investigating the extent
to which the arid region of the United States
can be redeemed by irrigation.
The four leading clubs in the League base
ball championship race lost yesterday, and
as consequence there was no change in
their positions. The result of the games
was: Washington 8. New York 1 Indiana.
polls 6 Detroit 5 +; Philadelphia 4, Boston 9 !;
Pittsburg s, Chicago T.
Nj. Herve. member of the French Acade.
my, says that General Boulanger will proba
bly, be defeated in the approaching election
for member of the Chamber of Deputies in
the department of the Nord to fill the va.
cancy caused By the Generals resignation,
and will then vanish from public life.
Last April William H. Taylor, painter,
who had been working in Harrisburg, Pa,
sloped with his sister, Mrs. Solomon Meyr
ers, OF fredericksburg, wife of q prosperous
physician. Since that time they have been
living in Princeton as man and wife under
the assumed name of Mr.. aud Mrs. William
H. Tracy.
Senate bills appropriatine $4,000 to erect
an equestrian statue to ex-PresideDt Zachary
Taylor in the District of Columbia, S15 900
to erect monument to Brigadier General
VIM l.. Davidson in North Carolina. and
Sl5 900 for monument to General Joseph
Warren at Boston, were favorably acted on
by the House committee On library yester-
day.
During heavy thunder storm in Chicago
at an early hour this morning lightning shat
tered the flagstaff on the Palmer House.
The thunder clap accompanying the stroke
was very heavy, and the guests in the hotel,
supposing the building had been blown up
by dynamite, tumbed pell NELL into the
street. Quet was soon restored however,
when it Sas found that no one had been
hurt.
Two singular accidents occurred in Chi.
cago yesterday. John Burgess, while on
his way to work, was passing along Clark
street, when stone weighing 500 pounds
fell from the fifth story of q building, grazed
his forehead and mashed his foot. Later in
the day a stone weighing l 900 pounds fell
from the third story of the courthouse, in
the north end of the rotunda, where repairs
were being made. No one was hurt.
A Distinguished locking stranger, about
thirty fVe years old, evidently a Russian,
who gave his name as Ernest Nolte, and said
he was from Philadelphia. attempted to com
nit suicide at Atlantic City last night on the
beach near the Excursion House, first by
drowning and then by firing two shots with
revolver, one Of which took effect in the
region of the heart and the other penetrated
his lung. He is in q critical condition. The
man admits it was love affair.
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