Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
The new gun factory at Washington navy.
yard will he ready for work October l.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
negotiating $4,000, 900 of bonds to provide
new equipment.
The discharge of three hundred demo.
cratic laborers on the docks of Brooklyn,
has been ordered for Thursday.
The Trades Council at Birmingham, Ala,
last night, by vote of 20 to 10, eliminated
the knights of Labor from their organization.
Hon. John S. Wise, of Virginia, via New
York, is 10 Washington and the President
will return on Wednesday. There may be
fun ahead.
The civil service commission has decided
to exempt from examination clerks on steam
boats who act in the capacity oil postal clerks
throughout the country.
A vicious cur ran amuck in Hoboken yes
terday, and before it was killed it had bit.
ten three men and boy, a horse and dog,
beside turning the whole lower part of the
city upside down.
President Harrison sent letter 10 Lord
Mayor Sexton in reply to the Dublin corpo-
rations expression of sympathy for the sui
fsrers by the Johnstown disaster. Mr.. Sex
ton says the official envelope bore plain
traces of being tempered with.
T. B. Mcclure, q prominent politician of
Wayne county, w. Va, has been arrested
on the charge of assaulting lady while in
toxcated. The offence was particularly sg-
gravated and Mcclure is held under heavy
bonds. The lady who brings the charges is
OF high standing.
Consul Hollis Informs the State Depart.
ment from Cspetown, Africa, that innocent
men have been imprisoned there as con7lcts
for buying diamonds from Unauthorized per.
sons in ignorance that they we're violating
the law. Among the prisoners sre two
Americans, Isaac Levy and Fred Nelson.
The friends of Mr.. Robert Garrett are said
to be very much elated over his entire re
covery from his long sickness He is now
at Bar Harbor aud is in as good health and
spirits as he ever was, enjoying the COM
forts and Injuries of that delightful resort
with his old-tims vim and relish.
Jake Kilrain and his wife are visiting
friends at Hampton, near Fort Monroe, Va
Yesterday be was photographed there while
seated on 10 inch gun. His friends In
Baltimore seem TO think he will not follow the
hQVlC6 Vi dUUiuCl itlOuNt VIM ehO' DSeNS'''S
Norris Sunday night, and give himself up
Mrs. Idebeck, the woman who was struck
by a cat in New York on Tuesday last and
Immediately paralyzed, presumably by
fright, died on Sunday evening, and Abra.
ham Abisky, the thirteen.y ear-old boy who
Ia said to have hurled the strange missile,
was held yesterday by Coroner Levy with
ont bail for examination.
DR.. Tanner, member of Parliament for
Cork, was sentenced yesterday at Tipperary
TO one months Imprisonment for assaulting
Police Inspector Stephens in May last.
When Idgment was pronounced he cried
out in the dock II defy you. The magis-
tracy q, the real criminals" For this out
break three mon hs were added to his SEN
tence.
David G. Herbert, of Csarfoss, Washing
ton county. Md, was yesterday found guilty
of wife-beating. The sentence imposed was
that he be confined for five days 10 the coun-
ty jail and that be receive fifteen lsshes on
the bare back. The sheriff hnndcutied Her
bert, tied him up in the corridor of the old
Jail, stripped him to the waist and admini:-
tered the fifteen ashes to him with will.
Mrs. Azeuth Street and her daughter
Clara, who live near Marion, Ind, in a BE.
cuded neighborhood we're aroused by about
dozen masked men Sunday morning,
taken out. and being stripped to the waist,
were whipped with beech withers until the
blood ran. They were then released and
warned that severe treatment was in store
for them If they did not cease talking about
their neighbors.
Rube Burrows, the daring murderer and
train robber, for whose capture there are
rewards aggregating $4,000, Is just now de-
fying the whole civil and military power of
the State OF Alabama, as well as scores of
detectives employed by express and railroad
companies. With four other desperate
outlaws he ia hiding in the wlds of Lamar
county, and has sent word to the Sheriff
that he will not be taken alive.
Early yesterday morning most daring
attempt was made to burn the town of DID,
ouesne, Pa, and to rob the residences of
number of citizens. Both attempts were
partially successful The only Methodist
Episcopal church in the place was destroy
ed By FIRE; the rear of the house of Chief
Clerk Gray, Of the Allegheny Bessemer
Steel Works. badly scorched. and three other
buildings entered and robbed
The debate on the royal grants was re-
sumed 10 the British House of Commons
yesterday. Mr.. John Merely moved an
amendment declaring that "the House is
unwilling to increase the burdens of the peo-
pie without assurance that no further
claims will be made for younger members of
the royal family" The amendment was de
feated by vote OF 355 to 1874. Mr.. Glad
stone. the Parnelites aud the bulk of the
dissidents again voted with the govern
ment.