Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.


A complete jury was secured in the Cronin
case in Chicago yesterday.
In the worlds baseball games, Brooklyn
| yesterday Won the Third contest By s 10 z.
The home of ex Mayor Ballard, of Lex.
iugton, Mo. wss destroyed By fire yester.
day, enc his wife persisted.
Ia Baltimore yesterday, Judge Morris de-
cided the oyster suits in favor of the board
of public works OF Maryland, and com.
mendad Captain Howard for his gsllantry.
The village of Woodville, o., has nearly
one third Of it's 800 population sick OF ty-
phoid fever aud dipbtheria. Last week
there were ten deaths from typhoid fever
and nearly that number from diphtheria.
Congressman Mills of Texas, thinks the
republicans iu Congress will attempt to pass
the Senate tariff bill of last session. Mr..
Mills also says many Southern negroes are
drifting into Northern and Western States.
Report comes from London of the an
| nouncerent of the engagement there of Mr..
August Jessup, of Philadelphia, q son of the
late Alfred Jessup, the wealthy paper man
ufsciurer, and Lady Mildred Lyon, daugh-
ter of the Earl and Countess OF Strathmore.
Disheertened over family troubles and
weary of an unhappy life, John Robinson,
sexton Of the Reformed Episcopal Church OF
the ReGesmer, at Philadelphia. sought the
solitude of the church loft on Monday even
ing end ended his life by hanging himself to
rafter.
A strange atmospheric phenomenon was
observed ct Pittsfeld, Mass, yesterday after
noon. The sun was sinking toward the ho-
rzon and tha sky was hazy, when brilliant
rainbow, quarter circle. appeared In the
zenith, being visible for an hour. Weather
prophets predict heavy winds.
In the Protestant Epis copal convention in
New York yesterday an amendment to read
Aud live together 10 holy love unto their
life's end" to be used IN the existing mar
raae ceremony. wss adopted The bishops
also made changes in the litany and in the
order ofthe Lords Supper, one of which
was that ths word bishop" be substituted
for the word 'priest."
The death Of Col. Frank J Bowman, who
was killed at Ferguson, Mo-, Monday by B.
M. Chambers. leaves his large estate to q
lady from whom he was recently divorced.
His first wife, Mary Bowman, renounced all
dover and claims nj every other sort to his
estate on receipt of $25 900, and the decree
divorcing Ida NJ. Clement not having been
actually entered when he died, his marriage
to Es!eile O. Plat in New York is void, and
she gets nothing.
A dispatch from Ottawa says: The resi-
dents of Aliens Settlement, Hastings coun
| t., havo been thrown into wild excitement
over the discovery that for upward of a
year John t. Biondin, % years of age, who
has bsen teaching one of the schools, has
seduced number of his pupils. whom he
appears to have, through intimidation, got
J com pletely under his control. The true
state of affairs became publicly known only
on Saturday last.
The New York State league OF democratic
clubs met in New York yesterday. Gov.
Hill made speech and paid high tribute
to Mr. CieveianG's administration. Mr..
Cleveland sent letter in which, after thank
ing the clubs for their invitation, he said :
II look to the ascaudancy of the principles
upon which true democracy rests. which
will be greatly aided by the activity of
| leagues such as yours, to secure us from
wasting extrave ganca, from demagogic pre-
tence, from sectional bitterness and from the
widespread corruption of suffrage"