Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The French cabinet has decided to close
the Paris Exhibition on November 6.
Five men have been indicted Mt Chicago
for attempting to corrupt the Cronin jury.
President Woodruff, of the Mormon
church, says the saints mean TO obey the
anti.polygamy law.
Henry Smith, widely known 10 Wall and
Nassau streets, New York, as the Razor
strop Man." is. dead.
Jack the Ripper writes to the Whitechap-
ell Vigilance Committee to expect to hear
from him on the 18th inst.
The Baltimore medical colleges have re-
fused admission to James o. Credit,
colored native born citizen of Baltimore.
The steamer City of New York, which
had been stuck on a sand bank near Ged.
news Channel, below New York, was fcated
Saturday night.
Chicago Is greatly excited over the at
tempt to bribs the yeniremen in the Cronin
case, and The indicted men will doubtless
go to the penitentiary.
The White House is said to be oVerrun
with rats and it IL announced that profes
sonal rat-catcher and his ferrets are to rid
the premises of the rodents.
Fire which started in Cooks lumber yard
at Serpent river, Ont., Saturday afternoon.
destroyed forty bulldogs and so 600, 600 feet
of lum Der, this years cut. Lcss 100000.
The Louisiana state authorities have re.
covered $45 600 of the new four per cent
bonds that were missing, bat it is said that
Treasurer Burke's deficit still amounts to
$500. 900.
A fast express train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was deraied at Railway Yesterday
while running at the rate of fifty.fiVe miles
an hour. No passenger, STANCE TO say, was
seriously hurt.
Hon. A G. Riddle attorney for the Dis.
the assistant attorney, on Saturday forward
ed to the Commissioners their designations,
which have been accepted.
At Omaha Saturday the court martial in
the case of Captain Chss Dempsey, of this
city, charged with asssulting Lieutenant
Colonel Fletcher, bestowed mild repri-
mand on the Captain and restored him to
duty.
Will am Ebbert, of Middeburg district,
Carroll county, Md, was whipped Saturday
night by men who had promised to help him
force his young wife to leave her fathers
house, in which she has taken refuge from
mis- cruel treatment.
Mrs. Mary A. Barnett, who three years
ego was deserted by her husband, Flory
Barnett, the sporting man, because of IN.
faithfuluess, and her paramour, Daniel
Murphy, were yesterday found dead in a
room at the Mansion House, New York,
where they had locked themselves in and
turned on the gas, dying from asphyxiation.
On Saturday Mrs. E las Earnest, wife of q
coal dealer of ST. Louis, walked out on the
big bridge across the Mississippi river and
deliberately jomped from the top of the
parapet into the river, a distance OF nearly
one hundred feet. She was seriously hurt
when picked up by boatmau. She seid,
81 wanted to die, and it seemed to me tina,
was the best way to do it,"
Charles A. Breck, former we'll known
printer of Buffalo, n. Y. who seven years
ago ran away with the vile of wealthy
umbrella manufactures named SchWinn, has
turned the woman adrift and eloped with
her eighteen-y ear-old daughter Lavinia,
whom be- has married. When Schwnn
died, shortly after his wife deserted him, be
cut the latter off without cent and left
800, 900 to Lavinia.
L uc VI tuC SopSe Coi Wy
has received the letter from Gov. Jackson, of
Maryland, enclosing letter from Gov. Lee,
of Virginia, asking that on expert engineer
be detailed to assist in defoing the exact
boundary line between the two States on the
eyster beds near Hog Islabd, in the lower
Potomac river. The request will be grant
I'D. and the survey will be made as soon as
the States are ready and have their repre-
sentatives on hand to witness il.
q great deal ofexcitement was created yes
tsrGay afternoon 10 the vicinity of Msdl-
son Square, New York, by hornlsss Texan
steer, which trampled number Of people
under foot and was the cause CT the wound
ing of q man who bad ,ued crowd pur
suing him. Forty. five shots were fred at
the animal by policemen, to say nothing of
fusilade directed at him by green marks.
mep, who shot from windows with entire
disregard to possible consequences TO people
on the street.
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