Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-27
NEWS OF THE Day,

John King ic., has been again elected
President of the Erie Railroad.
Nearly all of the aIlbis OF the suspects in
the Cronin case were disproved.
Germany. Portugal and Eneland ara all
busiy engaged in 1.-The grab for Africa"
The New York Aldermen have decided tc
let hand organ grinders play on the streets,
For the fret time since August %. 1855
Baltimore and Ooio Railroad common stock
sold yesterday at par.
No more appointments of Presidential
postmastera8il De made prior TO the con-
vening OF Congress.
Gable dispatches from Rio Janeiro say
that no foreign government has yet recog-
nzsd the provisional government OF Brazil.
In New York yesterday Mrs. Southwortb
did not give her testimony at the Pettus In
quest, and on rendition of the verdict was
committed for murder.
At a conference at Nottingham, EGG
Lord Salisbury said the views of MIR. Glad.
stone looking to the separation of Ireland
way in England.
Herr Krupp, the great German iron
founder, will, it is again said, establish
ufactory to secure himself against the coz
tngencies of European war.
The commission of Virgil P. Clayton "a
postmaster at Columbia 3. c.. was yesterday
forwarded to him. This ia the case about
which Senator Hampton wrote an open let.
ter TO the Postmaster General.
The Turkish Journal Saadet reports that
the steamship India with 500 Mohammedan
pilgrims on board, has been sunk in the
Il Jean sea, and that of all on board only
the captain and two passengers survive.
A fire broke out in Leechburg, Pa. about
6 o'clock yesterday evening, and for three
hours ragged fercely, destroying large
portion of the business and residence sec
lion of the town, causing loss OF about
800 900.
Joseph Vermillion was committed to Jail
at Marlborough, Md, yesterday charged, on
the testimony of one his brothers, with start
iog the incendiary fires near Muliiken's STA
tor, Prince Georges county. Five meu Z.
bers of his family are also in Jail.
The building known as the sold John
Brown Fort" at Hsrpers Ferry, has been
sold to William S. Brown, of Kansas City.
The purchaser is ss yet undecided whether
he will remove the fort to Boston, New
York, Chicago, or Kansas City.
The National Silver Convention met at
the Exposition Building in st. Louis, yester'
terday, with about $50 delegates in their
seats. A. j. Warner, of OHIO, was made
chairman. A number of resolutions to be
referred to the committee on resolutions
were read.
News has reached Raleigh. n. c.. Of ia
tai cyclone which swept through Beaufort
county. At Campbell's creek, six miles
from Aurora, several houses we're blown
down and Dick Philips, colored, WAS killed,
as we're his five children, and several others
we're badly hurt. Reports just received say
others were killed.
Some of the southern republican members
of Congress held conference in Washing
too last night at the rooms Of Representa-
tive McComas, of Maryland. A general IL
terchange of views was had. Noagreement
was reached as to the candidate for the
speakership, the general feeling being that
the members individually would support
that candidate whose record gave promise
of most advantage to the legislation In
which each members own section ls most
interested.
The people of Cherry ille CASTOR county,
N. C., we're awakened late Friday night by
the fling of many guns and pistols in the
street. Several houses we're fred into and
the inmates narrowly escaped death or in
Jury. The object of the firing is supposed
to have been assassination and great excite
ment prevailed. The msraudera escaped.
The dwellings Of DR.. A. w. Howell and A.
B. Elliott were riddled with bullets. Mr..
and Mrs. Elliott were driven from their
bed, and DR.. Howell'5 lamp by which ne
had been reading was shattered.