Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-02-18
NEWS OF THE Day.

OF u saw mil! Dol!Sr ID f!esshh1 cUuhtJ' w.
Va, Cd Saturday.
Over % GOO civilians and $4,000 soldiers
are on the list now for the Harrison inaugu-
ration procession.
l. is said that Count Waldersee is devel-
CHING into a formidable rival to Bismarck in
the Enperor's favor.
A war of races, it is said, is imminent in
North Carolina, ewing to the exodus OF
negroes, which causes embarrassment to the
farmers.
Ormonde, the greatest English horse, has
been sold by his owner, the Duke OF West
minister, for a14 600, and will soon be sent
TO Buenos Ayres.
Forty.seven lives were lost by fires in
New York last year, 36l persons were in.
jured, and nearly five and a-half millions
worth Of property destroyed By fire.
Miss c. Horton, passenger on the steam
az Nuaces, which was at anchor in Gel
weston hsrbor, yesterday jumped into the
guf and was drowned.
Herman 7. Keidel, manager of Knabe &
Co s piano wsrerooms in New York, and
well known in musical circles, committed
suicide yesterday by shooting himself
through the head.
Th;. celebration of the hundredth anniver-
sary of Georgetown College, the first Catho
lie institution Of learning established in the
and last three days.
John c. Klein, who figured in the Berlin
dispatches as having led the Semosns
10 battle with the Germans, has
arrived at San Francisco. He claims to
have bosn a non combetent.
There is an cutlery in Hungary against
Pfemier TisZa Tor passing the army bill and
Count Andrassy, whose reign policy is not
Ia accord with that Of Count Kalnoky, lie
taiket: Of as the successor of Herr Tisza.
Mrs. Olive e. Friend, VIM. E. Howard,
Emily Howard, Gus Halstead and George
Hats cad. the alleged conspirators in the
electric sugar fraud7 have been arrested
Howard states that the company was organ
lied for fraud.
Mrs. Meserlv, widow, aged GS years
living ri Fort Dodge, Iowa became moth
ar last week, and accused town officer Of
being the father of her child. Both persons
nro prominent in church and socsiy and
bcth have large families.
The Protostants Of Canada, with but rare
exceptions, yesterday protested against the
course of the Dominion government in not
disailowiDg the Quebec Legislature bill to
Incorporate the Society of Jesus and award
them 100000 for their conliscated estates
The taking Of the next census is p subject
that deeply interests the Southern people
particularly, and their representatives in
Congress will endeavor to protect them
against recurrence of the irjustice that is
said 10 have been done that lection ten years
ago.
The Owirgs block a beautiful Gothic
structure fourteen stories high, situated in
the centre of thu business district OF Chce-
90, collapsed yesterday morning. num-
Der OF workmen rushed out just in time 10
escape being crushed under the mountain OF
wrecksge.
Joseph Chemclcck. aged nineteen, muir.
dered an old man and three women, one of
them his sis!e--in. law at Geuvile, MinD.,
yesterday. The only cause suggested for
the murder is The fact that one of the muir
dered girls had testified against Chemeleck
in law suit.
Vincerzo Vlello end Giuseppe BAyerino,
the. accomplices of 'Red-N Nose Nike" in
the murder of Paymasers Mcclure and Elan
igan. near Wi!Besbarre, PG., have been ar
rested in LAZY The prisoners carried away
with tdem about $40 600 Of the money stolen
from Mcclure.
There were fve ballots taken for Senator
in The West Virgins Legislature on Satur-
day. and on the last kenns received 80, Gotl
80, Neal 8, (iaborltes,) Chew ,, it requiring
II to elect. II is understood That Gov. Will
son has ne papers prepared calling an extra
session February 23d, the day after the ex-
piraticn of The present session, as fixed by
law.
Il is stated that the German government
is willing to effect q settlement of the Sa-
moan question upon the basis of the United
States Governments PROPOSE! at the Wash
ington conference, namely, the establish
ment of Joint American, German and En-
'glsh control over the Samoan Government
through the consus of the three countries
at Apia.
y dispatch from Patkersburg, w. Va,
says john Esmer, a farmer, living in Writ
county, went home drunk Friday night,
beat his wife for not having supper ready
and then Selling a heavy poker he killed
her. lie also killed bis two daughters,
aged respectively 70 and II, and the hired
gjrl. He then set fec to the house and
burned it down. He has been arrested.
Red Cow, one OF Bullalo Bili's Indians,
whom he left in EoGiand, has been wander
iac around the Continent and tnrned up in
London last week, dressed in fall Paris
fashion, and has been looking for money to
enable him TO get home. Mr.. Ed. Mofatt,
the Agricultural Commissioner, collected
so from Americans and sent the disconso-
Iate Indian back TO the Pine Ridge Agency.
English people, frightened by the riots in
Rome, are leaving the city in crowds. Big
placards are posted up in the quarter inhab-
tied by prosperous foreigners informing tho
latter that they have nothing TO fear from
the disturbances, that the rioters are to be
eteciuaily restrained and adding, naively,
that in any case strangers spending money
10 Rome may always be sure of the respect
of the populace.
John Martin, mate of the Philadelphia
schooner Kate Callahan, who was reported
as having been lost over beard in Aibermarle
Sound several days since, was picked up by