Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS Ue LIE ~ !.
Pupilist Kilrain left Baltimore to CAV for
Purvis, Miss, to stand trial for fighting Sui
livan.
The proposition to create national park
near Washington will be pushed before Con-
gress.
The President has completed his message
which will on Monday he sent to Congress
in manuscript.
Matthew Banks, colored, 16 years of age,
was hanged at Elizabeth City, n. o., yes
terday, for criminal assault on WHITE
girl.
A company has been formed in New York
to manufacture and deliver soup In bottles
regularly or to order, from house TO house,
az is done with milk.
Four little girl children of Hugh Dunn
were killed on Wednesday by the explosion
of keg of powder in sn abandoned coal
mine at Eliottvile, w. Va.
Elk President Cleveland has refused
handsome offer for his Oak View property
near Washington, and says he expects to re-
turn there some day to live.
At the investigation Of the wreck Ct the
Germauia at Long Branch one of the rescued
the vessel was purposely lost.
President Harrison has appointed BscE-
ford Mackey, of South Carolina, U. 5. Con-
sui to San Jose, Costa Rics. He Was trans
ferred from Paso del Norte. Mexico.
1t is said that the Investigations OF DR..
Domingos Freire OF Rio Janeiro have dem
onstrated that the human system can be
protected against yellow fever by inocula'
ton.
More aibis were disproved in the Cronn
case Yesterday. A detective swore he found
DR.. Cronin's knives on Coughlin when he ar
rested him. States Attorney Longenecker
began his address to he jury.
Mr.. J,fl,rson Davis is said to have been
in q critical condition last night. The
stomach could retain nothing but beef tea,
aud it appeared impossible to get him to take
enough to maintain strength.
A fire at Burnside Beach, Florida. Thurs
day night destroyed the Burnside House,
the Palmetto Hotel and one beech pavilion.
They were summer resort houses on the 81
lantic coast, about twenty miles from Jack
sonville.
There is considerable jealousy in Ger
many over the work of Stanley, the expIor-
err, in Africa, it being claimed that he Is
working in the interest of Great Britain.
There is talk OF eplsting the services OF
Emin Pasha in the interest Of Germany.
The Corean government hss decided to
dispense with the servicee of Col. Cummins
and Major Lee, American officers who went
to that country several years ago to organize
the military forces of the nation. Col Dy',
ct one time chief OF police in Washington,
D. c., will remain In the serv ce II Corea.
The Rsddiug and Weaverville stage was
robbed few miles from Redding, Cal on
Thursday night. The biehwaymar armed
with shotgun and pistol, compelled the
driver to throw out Wells Fargo Il Co Is
treasure box and the mail pouches. There
was but little money in the express box,
but the robOer secured considerable regis
tered mail.
Hank Pritchatd, of Galipols. Ohio, q
white "stoker" on the steamer Telegraph,
crszed with liquor seizsd meat-a1e and ran
amuck among the deck hands last evening
while the boat was opposite Columbia, Ohio,
on its way up the Ohio river. Richard al.
Curry, coiored roust.abous, was almost
decapitated by the Infatuated man, and
James Butler received cut on the top Of
his head which it is thought will prove ia
tai.
Eighteen men ard boys connected with
the Oleson ynching at Whitehall, Wis f,
have been arrested on q charge Of riot
They are out on bonds. Six have left the
State and the other six. it is thought will
be arrested. Many of the best families In
the town of Preston are implicated. -Four
boys in Jail here have made a confession de-
failing all the incidents of the hanging and
making public the names OF ali connected
with the affair.