Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-08
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Emperor William expresses determine
lion to make Germany naval power OF the
first rank.
Gov. Jackson, Of Maryland, is quite i'll at
Salisbury, where he was taken from Phila.
delphia on Saturday night.
A dispatch from Iodia says that hundreds
Of houses have been destroyed by fire at Su
rat. The loss is placed at e20O O0O
Saturday was Confederate Decoration Day
in New Orleans, and the graves of the
Southern soldiers we're covered with flow
ers.
Hubbard & CO.. axe. shovel and saw fac
tories, at Pittsburg, were totally destroyed
by fire on Saturday. Loss fully fifty thous.
and dollars.
The Car and the King OF Denmark will
act a. godfathers to he infant son of Prince
Henry of Prussia, who will be baptized at
Kiel, on May 8.
Bill Moran, the Terror of Fat TIP"
ed after most desperate igEV on Thursday.
One officer will die.
Orders have been issued for the entire d.
vision Of the National Guard of PeDnsylva.
MIA to participate iu the Washington Cen.
tonnal ceremonies in New York.
-Four men, members OF knights of labor
assembly, are in custody charged with at.
tenn ptipp to blow up Steyenson's brewery,
in New York, with dynamite in February
last.
It is said that "boomeis'' have combined
on q plan to burn all bridges on the Santa
Fe on the night of April q, or sooner, so
that no trains can get into Oklahoma on the
221.
Henry H. Marshall, formerly postmaster
q. st. Clair, Schuy lkill CO., Pa i, who skipped
from that town eight months ago, charged
with ENLIGHTENMENT, has been arrested in
New York.
Pnineas T. Pratt, cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank of Anota, Mimi, has gone to
Canada and the bank is short more than
500. 900. a pretty widow is also missing
from the place.
Won Kwang Pei, formerly of the Chinese
Embassy at Washington, advocates the ex-
pulsion Of every American in the service OF
Chira as reprisal for the exclusion OF
Cinnamon from America.
At Bessemer, Ala, Friday night Police
man John Manning was shot dead by Andy
Jones, coored, whom he went to arrest on q
warrant. Jones, after shooting through
docr at three other policemen, escaped.
he. Wilder an editor of Eestport. Me-.
who disappeared from his home last No
vember, has turned up ut Pawtucket, h
4, and declares that from the time he left
home until few days ago his mind has
been blank.
A Era in the business part of Savannah,
iont nouca6 O loss Of -TE0
coo Among The buildings destroyed were
the ODD Fellows Hall, the Independent
Presbyterian Church. and the armcry of the
Ssvannah Guards Battalion. The total
number Of buildings burned is estimated st
fifty.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has rem
dered decision virtually making all prop.
erty held by married woman, no matter
bow acquired, responsible for the debts Of
her husband. II is said the decision clouds
the title CT nearly one-.hird the property in
Maryland.
A fat car on the Pelham Park Railroad,
ON which sixty men were standing, WAS
overturned yesterday while being driven
rapidly along n sharp curve near City Is
land, New York. The passengers were
thrown in every direction. and several were
caught under the car Fifteen men were
hurt, several severely.
A new Chinese Minister has been appoint.
ed TO Washington. His name is Tsin Kook
Van. The change in Ministers is made in
conformity with the custom Of the Chinese
Foreign Office, which does not permit their
representatives 10 remain longer than three
years in any country.
Henry J. Cassidy young man arrested
in New York on Saturday with others as in
cendiaries confessed to Inspector BEynes
that be and his father, Henry Cassidy, set
fire several times to the Catholic Protectory
in revenge for his fathers discharge from
his position as engineer of the institution.
Ia an interview on Saturday Senator
Payne said he understood pressure was be-
ing brought TO bear upon the President to
nominate Murst Hslstead for the German
mission again Senator Payne said Hal
stead would never be confirmed, and if the
President insisted on pushing him to the
front there would be a split in the republic
can party, II Halstesd became q candidate
for Governor Of Ohio democrat would be
elected.
At the sami-anpuai Mormon conference
he d in Salt Lake City, Utah. Saturday,
Apostle John w. Taylor, speaking of the
power Of elders to heal tho sick, took occa-
sion to say that he did not obi to doctors,
but their bills. Six Thousand children are
born annually among the Mormons in Utah,
at n coat Of 800, which was robbery on the
part of doctors The first presidency was
organized yesterday evening with MILFORD
Woodruff as President of the Church,
George Q Cannon and Joseph T. Smith as
Councillors, and Lorenze Snow President If
the Twelve Apostles, The new President
has been President Of the Twelve Apostles
since the election of John Taylor to the
Presidency of the church.
Saturdays Storm.
The storm at Norfolk Saturday night was
tarrifc Tho whsrves and warehouses; slonp