Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-02-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

slight earthquake shock was felt Tues
3av night 10 lower South Carolina
The late street Car strike 10 New York, it
is estimated, cost the companies $ZUo,oUo
and the strikers $5i 600.
The House of Representatives yesterday
adopted the conference report on The Nlcara'
qua canal bill by . vote OF III to 60.
Wm. Knabe, head OF the William Kuabe
Piano Company, died at Aiken, S. g., last
Tuesday night CT congestion OF the lungs.
INSPECTOR Bonlield and Capt Setback Ct
the Chicago police force, have been suspend
ed from Office charged with receiving brides.
A bill has been passed by the PeDnsylva-
MIA Senate to submit TO the people the ques-
ton Ct abolishing the poll tax as qnahhca-
ton for voter.
Charles Arbucke, the millionaire coffee
merchant, has taken an appeal from Tue
:.l5 900 judgment against him IN favor OF
Miss Cara Campbell.
A bin before tho Nevada Legislature
mak.s it a misdemeanor for any lady to
wes7 hat of greater height than tnFee
inches at any theatre in the State.
Impressive funeral services were held over
the body of Mrs. Mary H. Fiske at Scottish
Rite Hall in New York yesterday. Colonel
K. q. lngersoll made touching address
a company hiss been organized in Phila-
deinaia, with $50 Geo capital, to make an
Other search for the English sloop-of war
De Braak, sunk during the revolution IN
Delaware bay with untold treasure.
The minefs in the White Bridge tunnel OF
the ID laware and Hudson Canal Company,
at Carbondale, Pa, have been ordered out
on account OF the burning of the pillars and
the setting Of the roof and the ground above
it,
Il The West Virginia Legislature The dem
ocrats carried their point Ia The election
count or. The vote for United States
Senator resulted: Coil ~, Kenns 40, scat
tering 7, four democrats refusing to vote for
! kenDa.
The tneboat George j. Simpson. lost in
Delaware bay during the blizzard of last
| March, was found yesterday sunk near the
hyeakwater. Tue Simpson was one Of the
finest tugs On tbs river, being valued ct
$l4 900
Samuel w. Lincoln, of Virginia, whose
father ia said to be nephew OF President
| Lincoln. was arrested on charge OF rob
hing the United States mail il Baltimore
Yesterday Lincoln is 81 years old, aud re-
aided up to r. Gew weeks ago with his par
ents al Lacey Springs
Tuesday night two deeperndoes named
Frank Blown ard George Christian were
captured and jailed at Guyandote, W.
Va Shortly after The Jail was found to b.
in flames, the men having set fire to it.
Christian escaped, but Brown was burned
to death. The Jail vas entirely destroyed,
| and fnur other prsOnerB escaped.
The prominent democrats in Washington
turned ont in full force yesterday o pay
their respects to Gov. HUI, of New York,
who was rendered reception at the resi-
dence OF Secretary Whitney. Governor
Hill's friends regard tho departure Of the
President from Washington during the visit
of the Governor as slight to the latter.
Ia Cumberland, Md, few weeks ago
white girl named Gruber, aged sixteen,
was outraged by negro named Douglas,
who threatened that if she uttered one word
he would cut her throat. Thu girl was so
| frightened that il was not unlii recently
she informed her father of the negros
| crime Before the warrant could be issued
| for his arrest, Douglas fled from the city. IL
is said thai the peoplssare bent upon lynch
ing the negro if he is captured.
Either Jack the Ripper Of Whitechapel
has emigrated from the scene Of his
| CHASTITY murders, or he has found one or
more imitators in Central America. The
peops have been greatly aroused By six OF
the most a!rocious nufder5 ever committed
within the limits Of Manaeuo, Nicaragua.
The murderer or murderets have vanished
as quickly az Jack the Ripper, and have left
no traces for identification. AL OF the vic
tins were women of the character who met
their fate at The hands Of the London null
derer.
The British bark Largo Bay, bound for
Auckland, was towed to opithead yesterday
in sinking condition. She reports that on
| Monday night lost she was in collision with
an unknown four mased steamer oil Beach0
Head. and that the steamer was sunk with
all on board. The seamen of the Largo
Bay say they are certain tba: the lost steam
or carried passengers, and they estimate
that the crew and passengers together num-
bered at least 100 persons. The steamer
sunk eight minutes after the collision &C.
Cured.
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