Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-02-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Dispatches from Wien assert that Prince
3 smarck is threatened with paralysis.

3 smarck is threatened with paralysis.
An entire family of I've persons was
drowned near Bismarck, d. t, yesterday
By breaking through the ice while crossing
the Missouri river
There will be deficiency in the amount
necessary for the payment Of pensions for
the current fscal year, over and above ex-
listing appropriations, of about IS 0O0,0 o0.
IL ia stated in London that Sir Julian
Pauncefote, Permanent Under Secretary Of
State for the Foreign Office, has been ap
pointed British Minister to the United
States.
1t is rumored that an attempt will be
made Ivy the French minister in the Cham
Der of Deputies to annul the election Of Gen
ersl Boulanger for the Department of the
Seine upon the grounds OF bribery and COR
ruption.
Ella S. hwar!z, wife of the brakeman now
serving sentence in the Illinois penitent!-
AIRY for the robbery and murder of Express
Messenger Nichols on the Rock Island rail-
road, has confessed that her husband gave
her $l3 500 of the stolen money.
A man named McNally, living in little
post town ia West Virginia named Moath
II Pigeon. yesterday deliberately murdered
John Chafers, with whom he had been on
ii terms, bnt with whom moment before
he had pretended to renew friendship.
The sensational news leaked out at Wen
ma Yesterday that beautiful young baro-
IS committed suicide by taking poison at
Meyerlng at the same time that the Crown
Prince took his life. The two acts were
committed almost simultaneously.
1t is said that President Cleveland will re
turn 10 New York to reside on the expira-
ton of his term of office, and will resume
the practice Of law in New York city, hav-
imp associated himself as counsel in the law
firm of Bangs Stetson, Tracy MacVeagh.
A terrible railway accident occurred yes.
| terday in Belgium. A train bound from
Brussels struck pillar of bridge, causing
the bridge to collapse. The train WAS car
ried down with it and completely wrecked.
Fifteen persons were killed outright and If
ty others were Injured.
A meteor weighing several hundred
pounds fell with terrific crash late Salur-
day afternoon on Chicago avenue, in that
city. It's fall caused the earth to shake as if
visited By an earthquake. The meteor
burst into fragments, and pieces were SCAT
tered around several blocks.
Annie Klaus Was shot and killed in Phil.
alelphia Saturday by Otto Kayser, mar.
ried man with two children. The detectives
went to his house yesterday to arrest him
when Kayser rushed up stairs, seized ra
zor. gashed his wifeis throat and then bis
own, dying "a the officers burst into the
house.
Thomas Foy, aged eighteen years, living
near Randolph Court House, w. Va, told
some of the neighbors on Saturday that his
half siater had died during the night. but
Yesterday II was ascertained that the little
girl had been assaulted and then beaten to
death. Foy afterwards confessed to the
horrible double crime and was lodged in
Jail charged with murder
Prosecutor Jenkins, If Camden. N. j.,
states officially that after conference with
the physicians who had examined into the
case he was satisfied that the injuries of Miss
E,isenbart, the Cooper Hospital nurse, were
self-inAicted, and that he would not contin-
he the investigation any further. The hos
pital authorities say that the Pinkerton de-
teclives employed in the case have como to
The same conclusion.
At the card reception given at the resi-
dcnce of Secretary and Mrs. Whitney ia
Washington on Friday night last, Mrs
Cleveland wa!ized with Representative
Scott, oil Pennsylvania, and later danced in
several Notwithstanding into the even
ng's gaieties with all the enjoyment of 6
debutante. This was the first time since
she came to Washington that Mrs Cleveland
had been seen to dance,