Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Thirty head ofcattle fllcted with pleuro'
pneumonia were killed In Somerset county,
N. ]. yesterday.
Preparations for the triennlal convention
In New York of the Protestant Episcopal
Church are completed.
A fire in the lumber district, near MANS
tee, Mich, did two hundred thousand dol
lars damage yesterday.
An explosion of gas occurred In coal
mine near Dayton, Tenn, yesterday. Nine
men were badly burned.
A stone weighing two tons, while being
swung into position at Springfield, Mass
yesterday, struck car OF a passenger train,
crushing it and iDjuriug several passengers.
Rev. H. h Barbour, q prominent Baptist
minister of Chicago, created q sensation at q
minister's meeting yesterday, by denying
the existence OF personal devil.
John L. Sullivan got drunk again last
night and did not appear at benefit" ten.
dered him by some Of his friends in Brook
lyn, who by his absence lost 5000.
1t is reported that the Spanish gunboat
Cocodrllo was fred upon by ruffians on the
Morocco coast and that the gunboat replied,
destroying a number of Moorish houses.
Monsiguor OConnell who is en- route to
America from Rome, bears an important
pspal letter regarding the centennial OF the
e;ta blishment of the Catholic hierarchy in
America.
1t was rumored yesterday that Claus
Spreckels, the sugar king, has in view the
erection of large sugar refinery at New
Orleans, in order more ehectually to fight
the Trust.
The will of the late Congressman Samuel
8. Cox was filed fer probate in New York
yesterday. 1t was written i'll MIR. Cox's
hand, and bequeaths the whole OF his Ell :
tate to his widow, who is made sole execu
trix.
10 the Georgia House ofDelegstes, Satur-
day last, DR.. FELTON, and Mr.. Humphreys
made mutual apologies to that boty tor call
ing each other liars in debate on the pre-
vious day, and are now as good friends as
ever.
In Chicago yesterday Judge Hinton
charged the grand jury to take up the fact
that gambling was rampant in that city.
He ordered them to bring indictments
against the keepers and owners of gambling
houses.
La New York yesterday the grand jury
ordered indictments against Sheriff Finck,
bis son "Willie," Civil Justice Mcneil and
Referee Meeks for perjury, and against Mrs.
Raymond for subornstion of perjury in the
fraudulent divorce proceedings.
Nelson, the Maine stallion, won the great
stallion race for the Balch stake of $1,000
iu the three straight heats at Beacon Park,
Boston. Yesterday. Fully 5000 persons
witnessed The race. The weather was per-
feet. and the track was in very good condi.
ton for fast time.
The mammoth publishing house OF Boz
ford, Clark & Co., which has large estao'
lishment In Chicago, and branches in New
York and San Francisco, made an assign
ment Yesterday. The nominal assets
amount to lees than 5000 600, while the in
debtedness will exceed 100000
Simon Barucb, employed by the Austrian
government in the War Department, lied
from Austria with over 800 600 guilders In
May last The greater part OF the money
belonged to the government, and the re-
mainder was the property of army officers,
and had been intrusted to Bruch for safe-
keeping, He was arrested in New York
Yesterday and locked up 10 the Ludlow
street Jail.
Rain began to fall before dawn at jack
sopville, Fla. yesterday and continued
without cessation all day. the air at timas
being almost white with sheets of rain,
much resembling snow-squall. During
the afternoon the storm was accompanied
with sharp electrical shocks of an intensity
never before experienced In that part OF the
State. Suddenly cloud which had gath.
cred over Jacksonville, burst, and a
perfect deuge of water descended upon the
o,ty dnino puch damage