Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-14
NEWS OF THE Day.


NEWS OF THE Day.
The Hebrew fair in New York has so far
realized $40, 600
Broker Kennedy. who died last week. in
New York, left So 5000
Il Ia proposed to increase the pay of cer-
sus supervisors from $500 to 81, 1000.
The howsprlt for the fve-mssted schooner
Gov. Ames is fifty FIVE feet long and thirty
two inches square.
A meeting between Sullivan and Jackson
at the California Athletic Club within FIVE
months for purse ofsl5 600 ia now assured.
DR.. Lyman, of North Carolina, has been
appointed to the chair of medical classics in
the Baltimore University School OF Medicine.
A thief made bis appearance in the cloak
room of the House of Representatives Tues
day and carried off Representative Turpin' .
overcoat.
The grand jury of Washington yesterday
returned an Indictment against George
Mantz for assault with intent to kill E. G.
Blunt October 28.
A bill has passed the New York legisa-
ture creating commission to select new
site for the State prison at Sing Sing. IL Ia
thought that Kingston will be selected.
The London police believe that Jack the
Ripper" Ia again at his work. The maneled
body of woman was found among the bal
last ofa vessel at marlborough, Eng,
yesterday.
Ponciano Diaz, Mexco's great bul.-6ght
or, arrived yesterday at the City of Mexico
from Spain, and he had q brilliant reception.
A strong movement is on foot to suppress
bull.fghting.
1t is now rumored that there is PROPOSE
ton before the Senate committee on the
judiciary which may result in legislation to
increase the number of justices on the bench
of the United States Supreme Court
Clarence w. Ashford, attorney general OF
the Sandwich Islands, says the Hawaiian
government recently engaged DR.. Lutz, an
eminent authority on skin diseases, to max e
study of leprosy with the object of seeing
| if cure can be Effected
Warren Leland, jr.. the well-known botel
proprietor, made an assignment for the ben
eft of creditors yesterday at Long Branch
His liabilities amount to 1852, 900 and his
| real estate is valued at 1925 900. He says
he will pay dollar for dollar.
Capt. NJ A. O5burn. of South America
says the Brazilian revolution might have
/ had different ending had Dom Pedro been
sent to Germany instead of Portugal. Dom
Pedro refused to accept pension offered
him by the provisional government of Bra
4 zl.
Thomas Parker, well:known citzsn OF
| Washington, died yesterday, at the
| advanced age of eighty.three years. He
/ was native of Prince Georges county, Md
and it is said he was one of those who drew
Lafay ette's carriage into Washington on hi.
| arrival there from Baltimore in 1924.
| 1t is probable that pine persons will be
admitted to the Harmony or Economic Sc
/ cety, at Economy, Pa, in February at their
great annual feast of the holy communion
| Several of the men selected have families
but as one of the prime and fundamental
rules of this strange organization is celibacy
| the men will have to give up their wives
anG forever live apart from them.
naval drill ard tactics recommend that the
marine guard be done away with altogether
on board ship, as there are no duties now
| performed by the guard that might not as
we'll be done by the sailors; also that the
numerical strength of the marine corps be
no further increased, and that its duties be
confined to policing the various navy.yards
and stations.
a horrible stencil emanatDg from house
In the neighborhood Of 12;h and G streets,
Washington, yesterday, led to the discov-
cry of deuomposed body aud the nearly
lifeless form OF another man, both coored
| in one bed. The doctors incline to the be.
| lief that both the men we're poisoned 10
some way. If the condition of the live man
| vas such that four days ago, when his com
panion died, he could not get out of bed, 1t
is wonderful how he lived 80 long unless he
was taken care of by some one who has not
been fonnd.