Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-17
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The hoy or the woman VINO Jumped over
NisqarR :alls Friday afternoon has been
Identified as Mrs. Wagner, of Buffalo.
jim Keenan,, the sporting man and hacker
ofJake Kilrain. died lsst night at his home
in somerville, Mass, after long illness.
Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, predicts that
Southern delegations will vote solidly for
Cleveland in the democratic convention OF
1892.
st. Louis Judge has decided that gam
bier is entitled to his chips and all other
parsphernalia OF the game captured in
raid
A destructive nail storm visited portions
of Berkeley county, W. ", Saturday after
noon. To some cases entire wheat crops
were ruined.
Seventeen thousand houses in the poor
districts of Naples vii be demolished, the
streets repaved and new buildings erected
t. improve the sanitary condition ct the city.
General William Temple Withers, aged
CT gears, proprietor OF the Fairtown stock
farm, Lexington, Ky., died at his home this
morning of wounds received in the Mexican
war.
Mrs. E.iz .beth Tyler, aged 25 years, aud
her baby, ware burned to death last night
hy the explosion of coal oil lamp at their
home In Rainersv.lle, ia Anne Arundel coun-
ty, Md.
The French Senate hos forwarded to the
public prosecutor report on the case OF
Gen. BoulaDger. The Senate advises that
proceedings he at once begun against Bou'
larger.
Two thousand pounds of dynamite were
used Saturday 10 blowing out the wreckage
in the channel of the Conemaugh above the
Pennsylvania Railroad stone bridge at Johns
town, Ia.
A dispatch from Berlin says Mr.. William
Walter Phelps is regarded by every one as
the coming United States minister, though
he himself denies that he has been offered
tho position.
The necessity of submitting the Samoan
treaty to the Senate is used az an argument
for the assembling of Congress 10 October.
President Harrison is said to favor the early
meeting OF Congress,
Woodruff, the befse thief implicated in
the Cf0uin cese at Chicago, has made new
confession duplicating Alexander Sullivan,
Couehiin, Melville sud McDoueal, alias Viii.
llams. Investigation proves the lest comics
sion contains cs little truth as the former
ones.
William Baggea, son of Mrs. ]. D. Begges
Of Boone county, w. Va, came home Satui :
dav morning from hunting expedition
and rlevfuilY pointed his gun at his mother
The weapon was discharged, and the ball
passed through her body, death resulting In
few hours.
The Confederate veterans have organized
themselves into q grand army. The meet
ing ives hold in New Orleans, juno 10Th.
Ga that day the organization wae completed
by the adoption of constiI ution and the
election CT Gov. John r. Gordon as com
handing general. The orean'zation ls
known as the Omitted Confederate Veto
raDs.n
An infant in cradle, which was swept
away nv tho food at Johnstown and rescued
at Veraue, sixty miles below. has been re
stored to lis mother, Mrs Jennie Moore
When the water came Mrs. Moore, her hue.
band End two children were washed away
from their homo In Johnstown. The body
of the husband and the other child were re
covered.
As result OF dispute between the Prui-
sian government and the Vatican, there was
no German among the Cardinals recent ~
appointed The Vatican favored Arch
bishop Kramitz, Of Cologne, but Prussia
wanted DR.. Kopp, of Bees au The Pope
vas willing TO create both of them cardinals,
but owing to pe-sistant PTussian opposition
to Archbishop Kremifz the negotiations on
the subject were broken.
While the fishing schooner Hattie Q. was
on che Banks, near Halifax, last week, one
OF her mea caught large balibut. The fish
WAS OF such huge proportions that it took
| several Of the crew to haul it alb ard. Upon
opening tho halibut portion OF 4 woman g
hand, with the thumb and first and second
fingers, was found in it. On the second fin
ger was plain gold band ring. Oh which
were engraved the letters, &c. W. g."
Sullivan had serious quarrel with Null
doom, his trainer, last Friday, and going to
his hotel, began drinkiog, and drove the
bartender out of the house because he was
rcfosed liquor. BE then took his position
behind the bar and helped himself literally
obancad to be about. Saturday he was
back to MuldooD's house if he never met
Kilrnin.
a sensation has been caused at Vienna by
the announcement that the NouUelle Rerue
vii! shortly publish letter purporting to
be from the Prince OF Wales to King Leo
pold, 10 which the Prince states that En-
peror Williams body is seriously attacked
by disease that be cannot get sleep, save
what drugs procure for him (; that he suffers
from intense headaches, compelling him to
resort to morphine, and that he easily loses
his temper. The letter continues II shall
never forgive or forget his treatment of me
on the OCCASION of the funeral of his father,
nor the insults printed in the Rcichsanzeiger.
ZEb VANCE AND lHE Busa MEETING Folks :
When Senator Zcb Vance, of North Carolina was
younger than no is now, he used to travel extern
sively over the State on an easy going PAGER max