Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Jake Kilrain has returned to Baltimore
from Mississippi.
The Reading Railroad is discharging lis
employees who join the Knights Of labor.
Dempsey is very sore over his defeat BY
the Marine, and begged to be given another
fight.
1t is proposed that the ministers through
out the country shall preach Thanksgiving
Day on civil.service reform. It should be
against 1t.
At Milwaukee yesterday Gen. Russell A.
Alger, of Michigan, was elected commander
10. chief of the G. A R. for the ensuing year.
Boston was chosen as the next meeting
place.
The Jury of the Paris Exposition has
recommended that gold medal be award.
ed to the University of Virginia, Cornell
University and the city OF Boston TOR edu-
cational exhibits.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, has an-
other scheme. 1t s to build an addition to
the White House out of blocks of hardened
supsr. Spreckels maintains that he is now
able to produce blocks of sugar whittier than
mar Bile, and harder.
A meeting of the bondholders of the Ore.
pon Railway Company was held to-day at
| the Office of the company, Dundee, scot
| land. at which, by unanimous vote, the sale
of the railroad to Mr.. G. P. Huntington for
ESQ 600 was approved.
The London dock companies yesterday
offered to concede all the demands OF the
striking dockmen except that liking the
rate of compensation at six pence per hour,
but the dockmen insisted upon the six pence
op6 tho ctriRa
tinues.
The two colored editors J. 81. Clark and
E. G. Jones, of the Selma, Ala, Independent,
who were reported as being lynched at
Meridian, arrived iu Pittsburg yesterday.
They intend going to Washington, where
they claim friends are able to give them
Government positions.
Chief Justice Larremore, of the Court of
| Common Pleas ia New York, after consults'
ton with his colleagues yesterday, sent for
the District Attorney and requested him to
plnce before the grand jury all the papers
| ia the Flack Gaze with a view to an indict
ment should the grand jury think MT.
Hugh Myers, an old watchman in South
| Washington, who recently submitted TO al
| Injection of the Brown.Sequard mixture,
died last night His friends believe that his
death was due to the experiment with tbs
mixture, but the doctor, who attended him,
states that his death was caused by typhoid
fever.
The two games the New York baseball
hclub won from Washington yesterday and
the defeat Boston sustained at Philadelphia
brought the champions to within two games
of the leaders. Philadelphia is being close
ly pressed by Chicago for third place.
Boston plays at New York to day while
Philadelphia plays at Washington.
The Pennsylvania coal output for Sep
TENDER has been restricted to three million
tons, which is about l 900. 600 tons less than
was mined during September of1SSS. ibis
is done in the hope that there will be
scarcity OF coal, and thus the dealers will
be compelled to pay the operators high prl
Gee. and in the end the consumer will be
plGcked.
A meeting of the representatives OF the
various State republican organizations 10
the District of Columbia was held at Grand
Army Hall in Washington last night, under
the auspices of the Pennsylvania republican
association, at which number OF speeches.
were made, expressing great dissatisfaction
with the administration for failing to recog'
nizs the claims of republicans 10 the matter
of appointments.
Mrs. Mary Donnelly, the nurse who was
stabbed by Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton, at
Atlantic City, recently, Is resting quietly
and the physician attending her says her
ultimate recovery is assured, providing no
new complications arise. Mr.. Hamilton
was in consultation with his lawyer yester
day. The attorney said that the favorable
condition of the nurse would lead him
to seek to have Mrs. Hamilton released on
bail.