Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-04-09

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The number of deaths in Baltimore last
week was 162.
The report that c. J. Pierce. nephew of
Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia, had
been shot in Texas is denied.
One hundred head of stock were killed by
lightning striking the large stables of Mat
Kentucky.
Long & Bro, furniture manufacturers, CT
Louisville, KY, have made an assignment.
Liabilities $50, 600. of which $4,000 is secur-
ed by mortgages.
Attempts to hold land league meetings in
Ireland yesterday led. to serious conflicts be-
tween the police end tenantry, ia which
many persons were injured.
Gen. John H. King died at his home in
Washington Saturday night. His illness
was of short duration and was attributed to
severe inhammatory lung disease. he
was retired as a colonel.
A rumor ia in circulation in the City OF
Mexico to the effect that the government is
seriously considering q proposition for the
completion Of the railway across the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec by an English syndicate.
General Quincy A. Gilmore, famous
military engineer, died at his residence III
Brooklyn, n, Y, Saturday. of kidney dis.
ease, from which he had suffered for several
years.
1t ia said Mr.. Blaine proposes sailing for
home on June 16, three days before the
meeting of the Chicago convention. 1t is
limited that this is for the purpose of shut
ting off ell communication with him during
the sessions of the convention.
Francis NJ. Pittman, the murderer of mis-
daughter Rachel, in New York, who Tas un
der sentence of life imprisonment for the
crime, and who Ind been suffering from the
effects of dose of opium taken Saturday
morning, died yesterday. 1t is unknown
how he got the poison.
The proceedings Of the democratic caucus
| of the House of Representatives on Saturday
| was restricted to the consideration of the
proposition to admit four new States. There
was some Disposition to go into the tariff
and other matters, but it was deemed best
| to postpone them for the present.
A republican policy it is said is directed
| toward prolongation of the session OF Con-
gress. Their idea is that they can carry on
the campaign in Congress better than on
the stump. 1t looks now as if Congress
would be in session for at least two months
after the presidential nominations are made.
A syndicate including several Georgia
capitalists has secured the exclusive right
for the Southern States for reducing vegeta-
BILE 6bers to paper stock, with the intention
of establishing mills in all the cotton States
and applying the procets to the reduction
to paper of cotton stalks and seed bulls, now
practically worthless.
]. A. Zimmerman was hanged Saturday
at Goldendale, Washington Territory, for
I the murder of VIM. Sterling. He was bold
and defiant. He rode from the Jail TO the
gallows through the principal street, strap.
ped at the legs and arms. He babe farewell
to friends, saying be would DO damned if he
had ever been hobbled before, and to the
priest who offered religious consolation he
remarked that he was no hypocrite, and
proposed to die az be had lived.
A man about thirtyfye years Of age
walked out on the James street bridge across
the Kansas river, Saturday afternoon, and
casting away a soiled linen bag, leaped toto
the river beneath. He was rescued by
boatman. The bag, when examined, was
found to contain S7,425 in bills, about half
of which was in Austrian and German cur
rency. The only reason he gave for the act
was dependency on account of being suf-
ferer from an incurable disease.