Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-03
NEWS OF THE nAY

$l7 LOO.
The Catholic cathedral at Harbor Grace,
N. F., was burned to the ground yesterday.
The loss is placed at $4,000.
The ermy posts of Fort Laramie. Wyom-
ing; Fort Hayes, Kansas, and Fort Lyon,
Colorado, are to be abandoned.
Frank Slavin, the Australian pugilist has
challenged Jem Smith, OF London, to fight
for the championship of England and 81 900
side.
In quarrel at Leonardtown, Md, yes
terday over five cents Henry Scriber, color
ed, struck Alonzo Campbell, colored, with q
stone and fractured his SKULL
The great strike In London still continues,
the dock companies expressing confidence
and the strikers showing no serious disa fec
ton, though some are discouraged
| Odds of 8 to are offared that Searle, the
Australian. will defeat 'Connor, of Canada.
In the sculliDg match for the championship
of the world to take place on the Thames
on Monday.
The only remaining portion of the Madi
soo Square Garden building, in New York
was taken down yesterday. A new build
log is to be erected on the site at cost of
nearly 81 00O,0 600.
Hon. Jefferson Davis gives positive as
surance that he will be at Fayetteville, n. c..
10 November to attend the Constitutional
Center NAL Celebration. Fully fifty thou
sand people will be present to see him.
James s. DaMott, member of the we'll
known New Jersey family of that name,
committed suicide last evening about 7:30
O'Clock by jumping from the ferryboat Pa
cifc as she WAS nearing her Flip in New
York.
Mr. William O'Brieu was yesterday re-
moved from the Cork to the Galway Jail to
serve out his sentence recently imposed un-
der the crimes act. He was loudly cheered
by the crowds on his way to the railroad
station.
| The new employees OF the Allegheny Bes-
semer Steel Works of Pittsburg. who took
the places Of the strikers last spring, struck
yesterday against new scale presented by
the firm. The mill is idle, and about 500
men are affected.
At Jacksonville, Ala on Saturday last,
the colored men who served in The Confed
crate army In various capacities as team
sters, servants, cooks etc, had Conieder-
ate reunion. The deg was celebrated with
a barbecue, speeches and baseball,
,Ichn Mcconnell a snake ebarmer, was
bitten by one of thirty-nine rsttlesnskes he
was taking up Broadway, N Y, yesterday.
1t was his seventh experience OF the kind
and he expects to recover with the help OF
a doctor. whiskey and secret remedy.
CD. Graham, who shot Niagara in bar
rel on Sunday, says he is willing to 60 over
the falls if any one will make it financial
/ object to him. He has received letter
from Miss May Marchand, Of New York, 10
which she expressed desire to go over the
falls ia the same way.
The conference of the coal miners and
coal operators held at Joliet, Ill.,, yesterday
afternoon resulted in settlement OF the
wage troubles Sbroughou the northern Hill
nois coal 6sIds and an early resumption Of
work, except in the mines of W. L. Scott.
| The miners acceded 10 the terms offered by
the operators,
| The race troubles in the South have been
quite violent. The true inWardness of the
Mississippi trouble cannot as yet he deter
mined, but there seems to have been az
erosion on both sides. There does not APP
pear to have been any party or political pro
vocation for the arraying of the two races
against each other.
A
Pail Mall Gazette denounoing the abandon
meut of a single plank Of the home rule
platform for mess of Catholic university
pottage. The London Protestant Alliance
has resolved strenuously to oppose the gov
ernments proposal to establish Catholic
university in Ireland.
Miss McFadden, of Bowder Springs, Ga,
who was to have been married yesterday,
/ 4 I'll g.. tLot
lion of her friends. She suddenly put her
hand to her forehead, and, with scream
| fell to the flor dead When her intended
arrived ut the appointed time, he found that
he was at funeral instead OF wedding.
At the limestone quarry Of Peter Gala
nan at South Bethlehem, n. Y, last even
ing, the largest displacement of rock at one
blast ever made in this country was &C
complished Twenty .wo thousand tons OF
rock came crashing down. The force used
was one ton of dynamite, placed In several
holes driven to the depth of thirty feet in
the solid rock.
The New York baseball club took two
games from Pitlsburg yesterday, while Bos
ton disposed of.lndionapolis in the same
way. Chicago and Philadelphia squared
accounts by winning and losing game.
Cleveland strengthened its position by de-
feating Washington. Brooklyn still leads in
the Association race, with St. Louis second
and Baltimore third.
Several months ago commission appoint
ed for the purpose made a report TO the
War Department recommend ng that the
Chricshua Apache Indians now confined as
prisoners at Mount Vernon barracks, Ala :,
be removed either to Sherwood farm, Va,
or to the Cherokee tract in North Carolina
The Secretary of War has as yet taken no
action on the report of the commission.
A negro employed bv VIM. Oats, farm
or of Wayne county, KY, day or two ago
assaulted the young daughter of Mr.. Oats
during the absence of the parents of the girl.
A posse caught the negro 10 the woods az
forwards, tied him to stake, built pen Of
rails, saturated The negro and fence with
coal oil and get fire to both, burning the
man to death.
Darwin A. Henry, superintendent of con-
struction of the East River Electric Light