Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The President is expected to appoint
Supreme Court judge before leaving Deer
Park for Bar Harbor.
Canadian cars bringing foreign goods to
the United States are not to be allowed 10
enter without paying duty.
The Paris lie Soir asserts that Boulanger,
fearing he will be condemned, is going to
New York to avoid an extradtion.
James Kelly, colored. who assaulted
white woman In Pare, KY, was taknn from
j all and hanged on Thursday night.
The President was visited at Deer Park
yesterday by the wife of banker Harper,
the Cincinnati defaulter, who pleaded for
pardon.
The Richm ond Paper Company, of Pfovi
dence, R. l i, has closed its million dollar
plant, and announces its inability to meet
liabilities, sggregrating $500 600.
Commander Harrington was found guilty
at Annapolis yesterday by court martial of
stranding the Constellation and sentenced
to two years suspension. The verdict will
be reviewed by Secretary Tracy.
AS result of yesterdays baseball games
Boston got still further away from New
York, and Brooklyn still closer to st. Louis
No change occurred in the positions OF the
clubs In either the League or Association.
Thr ferryboat Brooklyn, Of the Hamilton
avenue line, ran down and sank the tug
Burgess during dense fog, at New York
yesterday. There was apsnlc on the Brook
lyn but no lives were lost, and the crew of
the tug was rescued with scarcely ducking
All the republican State associations form
ed for the purpose of getting political work
and political contributions out OF the clerks
ia the departments in Washington started
up March 5 after slumbering in innocuous
desuetude for four years, and are now iun
uug on full time.
Cnss Sellers was executed at Rayville,
La vest .rday for the murder of Bunyan
Adams, and Tom Bowling, colored, was
hung 10 the Jail yard at Baton Rouge, La,
for the murder of Philip Walsh, white.
Louis Tranchop, colored, who was to have
been executed in New Orleans yesterday,
was respited by the Governor.
In conversation yesterday with Ten
nesseean VINO wanted friend appointed
postmaster in Senator Harris's county, Post
master General Wanemaker said; "Tbe
Presidents order is explicit that no appoint.
ment shall be decided upon unless it meets
Will LuO dpplONhi VI VuO OOdiOSi oeS A|ObAeO'
10 whose bailiwick the office Is located"
case has Just been decided in the Court
of Chancery, at Trenton, n. j., in which
Vice Chancellor Van Fleet holds that
woman's marriage 20 her step grandson is
valid in spite of the fact that the Catholic
priest who married the couple, on learning
of their relationship informed them that
the marriage was void by the laws Of the
church.
William NJ. Morris, car driver, shot his
wife last night at her mothers home, on
Pearl street. in Baltimore. He probably
would have killed her, but her brother, w.
]. B. Shanks. jumped upon him. took the
D st0l away from him and shot Morris twice
with his own pistol. Shanks delivered him
self up. and Morris was sent to the Mary
land University Hospital.
Sheriff Warren Moore was shot ard killed
yesterday at Wallace, N. NJ, by Joseph
Chachs. The latter was smallpox attend
ant and was ordered to leave the town,
whereupon he fired three shots in crowd
of citizens, wounding one man. he then
fl I'D to the hills, pursued by Moore, where
upon Chacha turned and killed the officer,
and was himself overtaken by an angry
crowd and riddled with bullets.
Detective John T. Norris was at Annapo-
lis yesterday to sec Governor Jackson. He
had Il requsition from Governor Lowrey, OF
Mississippi, for the prize.fghter Kilrain'5
arrest. O4iugto the absence of Secretary
IF State Lecompte he was unable to accom-
plish his ends. Detective Norris went to
Baltimore In the afternoon aud bad talk
with Police Marshal Frey. Norris said he
was going East, and would probably return
on Tuesday next.
Several of the large marine insurance
companies In Philadelphia are greatly con-
cerned over $3.50 900 risk recently taken
on a cargo of sugar Oh board the steamship
Thetis, at the PHILIPPINE Islands bound to
Sandy Hook for orders large part ofthe
cargo had been sold to be delivered to Phll-
adelpbia refineries The Thetis was new
Clyde-bullt vessel and Ia known as an
ocean tramp" She sailed from Ioilo, one
of the ports in the Philippine Islands, with
her cargo on April 26.
Mr.. Labauchere's motion to adopt his
substitute for the report Of the royal grants
committee was rejected In the House OF
Commons yesterday by vote of 29S to JIG
Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Marley, Sir VIM. Yer
non Harcourt, Mr. Pernell. MIR. O'Brien and
the bulk of the liberals and .Parnelites vo-
ted with the majority. MIR. Morley Will, on
Monday. move an amendment declaring
that the House is unwilling to increase the
burdens of the people without assurance
that no further grants will be made.
Miss Kate Drexel, of Philadelphia, who
recently entered convent at Pittsburg, has
gratified long cherished wish of Archbishop
RYAN for the establishment OF a church and
school for colored people OF the Catholic
faith by the gift of sufficient amount to
build such an institution and making provis-
ion for the support of it. location has
not vet been decided upon. 1t is said that
the foundation ofthis church will eventually
lead to the establishment in Philadelphia of
college for the colored race, Of which Miss
Drexel viii be the patroness.
Republican Ex-Confederates.
To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
Referring to frequent illusions of late to