Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Congress tomorrow.
The increasing immigration into Russia,
particularly of Germans, is to be checked.
1t is reported that Alfred Russell, of De-
troit, will be appointed Justice of the Su
preme Court.
Twenty people were recently killed and
one hundred wounded by the fall of thea
tire gallery in Japan.
Ex-Congressman Edwin r. Meade, of
New York, died in the Wards Island in
sane asylum last Thursday.
Mr.. Stanley has sold his forthcoming book
outright to the Sampson Low Company OF
publishers for the sum of $40 900.
Mrs. John E. Hartnett, of Philadelphia.
in a fit of jealousy on Saturday gave her
husband horsewhipping in public.
The experiment by Brooklyn surgeon
of making a nose with chickens breast
bone is said to have been successful.
The Emperor of Germany has conferred
upon Count Won Moltke the exceptional
honor of the crown and brilliants for merit
Cardinal Gibbons will most probably at
tend the celebration of the golden jubilee of
Archbishop Labastide in the City of Mexico
The visit of the Emperor of Germany to
the Sultan s said to have cost the latter
$75 OOO-all expended for three-days' stay.
The friends of the direct tax bill propose
to make another effort to push the bill
through the House during the coming Con-
gress.
The Chicago police force is said to be ter.
rbly demorslizsd and is to be reorgapizsd
and purified when the Cronin trial Is lin
ished.
1t is reported that the Haytiaus are still
"kckipg" against the appointment OF Fred
Douglas, negro, as Q. s. Minister to that
country.
The Western Brick Works, near Knob
noster, Mo-, owned by the Garrisons, of ST..
Louis, were burned yesterday. Loss about
$500
Secretary Window has announced his in.
tention of reducing the number c:e national
bank repositories and the amount of the
deposits.
1t is evident from the great Boston fire
that no city in the country is absolutely
protected by existing safeguards against
such devastation.
The race between the cutters OF the ships
of the squadron of evolution, 10 Boston bar
Dor, for cup filled with silver dollars, was
won by the Chioago's crew.
The Washington Hotel, at st. Paul, NJ nn.,
two story stone building, was burned
shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday mornin G
Two men persisted from suffocation.
Governor Gordon, of George, was given
an enthusiastic ovation in Chicago on Sat
prday, and made speech in the interest Of
the NOV ement for confederate monument.
In Salt Lake on Saturday Judge Auder-
son denied the applications for citizenship
made by Mormons who had taken the I'm
dowmenu house oaths in the Mormon church
1t 10 said that the chief republican objpc
l:on to Rev. Mr.. Milburn, chaplain of the
House of Representatives. was that be has
among the lectures he delivers euogy of
Robert E. Lee.
While the collector of the Commercial
National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, was
counting 81. 500 in the general office of the
German-American Bank ofthat city on Sat
urday, thief snatched 81, 00j and escaped.
1t is reported that the President, in his
forthcoming message. will favor the gener
al purposes of the Blair educational bill, and
will not recommend any law taking federal
charge OF the election of Representatives to
Congress.
Iceman Charles II. Turner, the Tammany
candidate, was elected to Congress from the
Sixth Congressional district in New York
on Saturday, to ill the vacancy caused by
the election of Frank T. Fitzgerald to the
office of Register,
Everything is ready for the execution by
electricity at Sing Sing prison next week of
IL Nix n 4r0cRr
Luca in Brooklyn, but the prison officials ex
pect that the carrying out the sentence Will
be deferred by the courts.
Frank Macarthur. son of ex-Judge Ar.
thur Macarthur. of Washington, COMMITTED
suicide last night by jumping from train
on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad,
near the bridge over the Patuxent river,
during period of mental alteration.
The Secretary Of the Interior in his an-
nual report recon mends the granting of q
pension to every soldier and sailor who did
substantial service during the war and was
honorably discharged, and who, being de.
pendent on his daily labor, is now or may
hereafter be disabled from procuring his
subsistence by such labor.
The annual report of the Secretary OF
War, shows that with the completion ofthe
vessels authorized by Congress the United
States will have but forty two modern Wis
SELF, an Insignificant number compared with
these OF other maritime nations. He recon-
mends the building of two fleets of armored
battle ships, one Of twelve vessels for the
Atlantic coast, and one of eight vessels for
the Pacific coast also the elevation-of the
personnel of tho enlisted service and crea
ton of naval militia.
The Coroner's jury at Pottstowu, Pa, in
the case of John Chama, helpless paralytic,
who was found on Thursday morning in his
room hanging to a rope fastened to bed
post, returned verdict that death resulted
from strangulation at the hands of bis wife's
paramour, John Kindarosch, and that Mrs.
Chama was an accessory to the crime. Kin
darosch, and Mrs. Chama were committed
to prison to answer the chargs of murder.
The woman was accompanied by three
children, the youngest only days old.
General Malone on His Defeat