Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-09

NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Baltimore City Council last night tx
ed the tax rate at 81 80 on the 500.
Public Printer Palmer will take charge of
the Government printing office in week
or 30.
Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, is being hand
somely entertained by the Grand Array of
New Jersey.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has made
stock allotment of six and half millions to
provide capital for betterments and equip
ment.
The French Senate committee has decid-
ed to expedite its labors in order to conclude
its inquiry in the case Of Gen. Boulanger in
a fortnight.
Miss G.. de Potestad, daughter of the
to Mr.. Richard Tilghman, of Philadelphia,
by Archbishop Ryan.
Mrs. Carrie Wright Coolidge, wife of Mr..
Henry Coolidge, banker, of New York. died
at their residence, in East Orange, N. j.,
yesterday afternoon.
DIR. Cronin, OF Chicago, is still missing.
The people he lived with say they have
positive information that he was murdered.
1t is also believed he was thrown in the lake
in trunk.
Grand Rabbi Joseph, of New York, has
taken away from the Brooklyn siaughterers
the church seal, and the butchers must now
90 to New York for their meat. Prices have
been advanced.
James D. Fish, the ak President of the
Marine Bank of New York city, who was
convicted of misapplying the funds OF the
bank and causing its failure, will be released
from Auburn prison on Saturday.
Daniel Smith, who burned two little boys,
George Wright and VIM. Mulhern, on the
arms with nitric acid aud sent them out on
the streets to beg for his benefit, was In New
York Yesterday sentenced to four years and
six months in the State prison.
The Elk year-old son of William Tagg, OF
South Amboy, while playing on the Central
Railroad track at that place yesterday, was
struck by an engine, tossed forward on the
track and decapitated before the eyes OF g
number of people standing on the depot
platform.
Although it costs only one penny to walk
across the Brooklyn bridge, aud but
three cents to ride across, the profits from
that road are becoming larger and larger ell
the time. At the small tolls charged the
road earned in Centennial week the round
sum Of 6,4GO.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has accepted an invi.
| tation to attend the centennial celebration of
the adoption of the Federal constitution by
ettevile November 81, 1889. MIR. Davis &C.
cepts on condition that he will not be tasked
as orator of the day.
The Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal
Church of South Carolina met at Aiken yes
terday with majority of both orders pres
ent. The seceders have not yet returned to
the fold, and the bone OF contention, viz. the
negro question, has not yet been reached.
The fight will probably come of to-day.
Herman Schoonmaker ten-year-old lad,
was adrift all Tuesday night in small row.
boat in East river with his stepfather, Will.
liam Frederick Harrison Carvell, who is &C.
| centric, who spent the time alternately row.
ing about in the bay. praying, singing and
uttering the frepzied thoughts of religious
maniac.
The Navy Department will in few days
issue advertisements for proposals for the
construction of three 1000 ton steel cruisers,
officially known as cruisers Nos. 8. 10 and
II, which were autorizad by act of Congress
approved September 7. 1888 Each vessel is
limited in coat to 100000. The cruisers
will be but 800 tons larger than the York
town class, but they will not resemble that
class of vessels much in design.
A shocking accident occurred yesterday
evening ct the crossing of the Michigan
Central Railroad in Kalamazoo, Mich. A
street car containing seven ladies and
two gentlemen was crossing the track,
when switch engine dashed down
upon it, sending the pieces flying in
all directions, and killing elk lady
passengers, two being found dead In the
cattle guard. one in the creek near by, and
tUO nm the track