Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

II w y We 4A41 ~ "a -
Thursdays gale extended GOO miles out
at sea.
Mrs. Wm. J. Albert was found dead in
bed in Baltimore yesterday morning.
The new cruiser Baltimore has been form'
ally accepted by the Navy Department.
There we're two hundred and forty nine
business failures in the United States the
past week.
The Archbishop of Mexico on the Sth in,
slant celebrated the fiftieth anniversary OF
his first macs.
The sum of S25 900 has been given to the
Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania to
make relief fund.
Senator Ingalls,, who ia at his home at
Atchisop, Kansas, is suffering from symp-
toms of influenza.
Mrs. Julia Slidsl Rodgers wife of Rear
Admiral G. R. P. Rodgers, died Thursday
night in Washington.
The members of the United States Su-
preme Court are said to be opposed to any
increase in their number.
Three nuns have been arrested In Munich
for deceiving child by Illusions Of pre-
tended supernatural character.
ElmOu DdTuCu HAS Uo0u dIEcolcu III 4oW
York on the charge of embeZzing 800 0CO
forms from the Austrian government.
Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton has fled On an
swer to her husbands complaint in his suit
for the annulment of their marriage.
A bitter fight is said to be going on be-
tween Speaker Reed and Senators Hale
and Frye over the federal appointments 10
Maine
Emperor Williams ear is troubling him
egain, and has recently grown much worse.
He is under treatment all the time, and is
in constant pain.
Nahdiezsz, an Apache Indian, who mur
dered Lieut.; Seward Mott, of the 81 Tenth
Cavalry, on ella River, March 10. 1887 was
hanged yesterday.
Gov. Fleming. of Florida, has appointed
committee of forty eight 10 raise funds in
that State for the purpose of appropriate re.
lief of the family of Jefferson Davis,
The British steamer Queensmore, which
sunk off MiZZsn Head while on a voyage
from Baltimore for Liverpool, ia breaking
up. Valuable wreckage from her is being
washed ashore.
Mr.. Thomas Clsggett, formerly of Prince
Georges county, Nd, now q resident Of
Washington, was serenaded Thursday night
by the republicans Of Prince Georges coun-
~ residing in that city.
]. Punkett, the Christian scientist. NJ
New York, whose wife recentl;. ,,eft him TO.
A. Bentley Worthington. the bigamist, was
married at Amesbury, Mass, on Christ mas
day, to Irene Venguita.
The first public cremation at the crenaio.
| of r IL Doi
took place yesterday afternoon, when the
body of Henry Lohmann, who died Wed.
nesday, was reduced to ashes in the presence
OF 300 persons.
Sixteen large ocean steamships, each one
IF them worth, with its cargo, over 81 000.
600, are now overdue. Some of them are
twelve days ; the majority are overdue from
three to five days.
a Cabler, a passenger conductor If the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was
probably fatally shot by an unknown tramp
he had elected from his train at Old Deposit,
| KY yesterday He was similarly shot by
tramp year ago.
E. NJ. Lord, superintendent of the
| water works at Mount Vernon. H., has
been arrested on the charge CT having EN-
bezzled 81 100 of the compapy's funds. Lord
admitted that he was guilty and states that
be lost the money in poker games.
Two negro men are under arrest at Leav-
enwortb, Kansas, for the alleged murder of
Alexander Blackburn, an old soldier who
was found in an clubhouse yesterday with
his skull crushed. 1t is supposed that the
pension money that Blackburn had recently
drawn was the incentive for the crime.
A cave-in of large proportions occurred at
Plains,a suburb ofWilkesbarre, Pa, yesterday
Without warning the surface of the earth
settled and great holes appeared, some of
them thirty feet deep. st. Leos Catholic
church was damaged, as was the parsonage
and other buildings. Several acres were
affected
DR.. W. W. Bsall yesterday appeared
at the police court, in Washington
to answer the charge of grave robbery
in taking from grave at Congressional
Cemetery the body of Mrs. Venie Cheek.
II was determined to postpone the hear
ing until next Friday, and bail was fixed at
one thousand dollars DR.. Beall gave the
bond required, with his father as his bonds.
man.
The officers of the next Maryland legisa.
ture have practically been decided upon.
John E. Hubner, of Baltimore county, will
he elected speaker of the House. aud Robert
Brattan. of Somerset county, president of
the Senate. There will be "a contest over
the United States Senatorship. The friends
of Governor Jackson are pushing the gov
ernor's claims, but Sedator Wilson will
probably succeed himself
FIFTY YEARS IN PRIsoN.-There will be
released on Monday next from the Indiana
penitentiary, at Jacksonville, convict who
has probably served longer time in p ison
than any man now living. His name is
John Hicks. He was born in Montgomery
county, Va, in 1906, and moved to Lees
burg. Ind. when young man. He has six
timts been sentenced to the peniteuliary in
Ind;ana-twice for attempted rape, three