Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

N q W . Uc LIE DAY.
The President returned to Washington
from Deer Park yesterday evening.
A german in honor of Southerpers was
given at the New York Hotel last plight.
1t Ia expected that another landslip will
occur at Quebec if the rains and frost con.
tinue.
Yesterdays cotton sales at Liverpool were
smaller than On any other day since the
American war.
The Utah commission recommends more
stringent legislation for the suppression OF
polygamy.
In London the beet sugar crop is esti
mated at 8, ITO 900 tons, the largest on re-
cord.
The report that "Black Bart" the Michi-
gan stage robher. with FIVE other prisoners
escaped from Jail a. Bessemer, Mich, yes
terday, is denied.
Yesterday morning George Estes got
caught ia a fly wheel of rolling mill at
Gate City, Ala, and was beaten TO pieces
He leaves family.
John Hadsel tried to force an entrance
in the cabin of Mrs. Della Preston on ca
nal boat at Schenectady, n. Y yesterday:
She fred revolver without taking aim and
Hadsel was killed.
A train on the Lewisburg and Tyrone
R abroad, rounding sharp curve near Bel,
efonte, Pa, struck COW yesterday and
was thrown from the track, every body on
the train being more or less inbred
A drunken couple who wished to be mar
ried yesterday, smashed the windows OF the
Baptist parsonage at eWfouDdland, n. j.,
because the minister declined to accomo
date them.
Up to the present time sugar has not suc'
cessfully been manufactured at the western
experimental stations from the sorghum
cane, which yields only molasse5 in con.
siderable amount.
Yesterday Postmaster General Wsnama-
ker issued an order closing the poatUflice al
Luderne, Ala. This action is the outcome
of the anti negro prejudice manifested BY
the residents of that town.
The New York and Boston baseball clubs
are etil tie in first place, as both won yes.
terday-the former defeating Chicago and
the latter winning at Indianapolis. Pitts
burg and Cleveland both gained eighty by
defeating Philadelphia and Washington.
A. Smith McCapn, we'll known as half
owner of the renowned trotting stallion Red
Wilkes, bought yesterday the late Gen. W..
T. Wthers' stock farm, known as Fair.
lawn" which contains $50 acres, situated
near Lexington, KY. The price paid was
sos 900.
Capt. T. W. Symops, United States engi.
neers, who for six years past has been as
siatant engineer commissioner of the District
of Columbia, was yesterday relieved from
his position by the Secretary of War and
VI IT T,tt OF nnf.
neers, appointed to the place.
Robert Ray Hamilton visited his wife in
prison at Mays Landing, n. j., yesterday,
and the two most atfectionately embraced
each other. What the purpose of his visit
was and what will be the outcome can only
be coDjectured, but the fact remains that the
frai but unfortunate Eva has by no means
lost that power over him which has caused
him 90 much suffering.
Au express train on the New Jersey and
New York Railroad running 40 miles an
hour, crashed into three cars loaded with oil
of vitriol at Lodi Junction Thursday night
Engineer Sherman never left his pest, but
Fireman Young, who jumped, was horribly
mangled and badly burned by the Vitrlo
that was scattered 10 shower in every di
rection.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala, says
Deputy Sheriff King Vann went out yester-
day morning to arrest negro named John
Steele at Walkers Station. 10 sight OF
dummy load of people John defed arrest
and killed Vann with douole.barreled
shotgun. Vann leaves wife and four little
ones The negro fed, but posse caught
him mile or TWO away, making for Red
mountain. His dead body, riddled with
OF
the hands of the coroner.