Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-18

ing another horrible tragedy in week
The New Jersey republicans yesterday
nominated General E Burd Grub for gov
ernor
Thomas E. Jackson. aged 10 years. was
Ahearn yesterday.
Morales, the bandit. who has been terror.
izing Southern California, has been sen
fenced to State prison for life.
Mrs. John A. Logan has been suggested
by some of her friends for the position OF
Commissioners of Pensions In Tanners place.
Another gold fever has broken out in
Montgomery county, Md, a rich vein, 1t is
claimed, having been found in the Potomac
region.
Sheriff Flack, of New York, yesterday,
rendered bis resignation as member OF the
Tammany committee of twenty four and 1t
was accepted.
G. P. Huntington, the American railroad
million sire, will not pay Prince Hatfeldt's
debte, and the latter's intended marriage to
Clara Huntington iF, accordingly, oil.
Dave Arnot, the head waiter at Del.
monico's, in New York, committed suicide
in Boston, Monday, by shooting himself.
He left g note given insomnia as the cause
of the act.
A story is ahoat in Washington to the eff
feet that the Bell Telephone Company has
successfully engineered scheme TO extend
its monopoly for seventeen years beyond the
expiration of its present patents,
There were 1875 buildings put up in the
District of Columbia last year, adding over
six millions of dollars to the value of the
real estate. Il is said that there are now
over 900 unoccupied houses in Washington
city alone,
The Boston baseball club gained slightly
on New York yesterday by defeating Phila-
delpbia, and Chicago increased its percent
age by it's victory over Indianapolis. The
games at Washington and Pittsburg were
prevented by rain.
The body of Mrs. Mary Kenny, widow oil
the late policeman Patrick Kenny, Of New
York, was found in chimney of her house
Yesterday. The woman bad been missing
since September Z, and her friends and re
latiyes were searching for her all over the
city.
Secretary Wiadom has appointed Robert
q. Terrell, colored, chief of the navy pay
division of the fourth auditors Office. Ter
rell is the son of Harrison Terrell, the ser
want of General Grant, who wss with him
during his las, illness. and who ia now a
messenger in the War Department,
The breast of the large dam belonging 10
the Kennebec lea Company of Whining.
ton. DEL, located at Hlbernia, burst yes
terdsy morning, and tremendous amount
of water rushed down the Brandywine
erflowing the banks and sweeping every
thing before it. 10 one was drowned.
A dispatch from Boone, Iowa, says a
fearful fatality was reported yesterday in
the family of John Zmthal. There were
ten children, and all left in wagon for Mil
waukee about September l. They we're ten
| DAYS on the road, and on arriving in Mil
waukee nine of the children were taken
with diphtheria. six dying within six days.
They contracted the disease on the road.
Gov. D. G. Fowle, of North Carolina, in
view of the lynching at Morganton last
week, has issued proclamation reciIing the
facts as ascertained, and joining "aIl off,
GERS, and especially those charged with the
administration ard execution Of the law in
localities where the crimes have been COM
United, to energeticaIly exert themselves to
arrest and bring to justice these offenders
against society" The laws he says must
and shall be maintained,