Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

connt Tolstoi, Russian Minister OF the ID
torjor who has been III for some time, is
dead.
a drop in pig-iron has been made by
Pennsylvania company to meet Southern
competition.
The new suspension bridge at n iagara
Falls which replaces the one destroyed ear
~ in January, was thrown open to the pub
tic yesterday.
Representative Cannon, of Illinois, Gays
the President is considering the advlsahlllty
of converting Congress in advance OF the
regular session.
An explosion Of powder occurred on
board the whaling bark Sea Fox at Equl-
mena. about March l. Five men were
killed and several injured.
John Kidd, the las5 survivor OF the pas.
sencers of the Forfnrehire who were rescu
ed bv Grace Darling iu 1888 of the coast OF
Great Britain, died recently,
The friends of the three Bald Knobbers
who are condemned to be hanged in the
Ozark ili on Friday have made their last
appeal to Governor Francis of Missouri.
A fire in Sullivan, Mich, yesterday after.
noon DESTROYED fifteen dwellings and two
large lumber mills. Three members OF
family named Brown persisted in the flames.
Three men entered the bank at Forest
CITY, Mo-, yesterday, evening, drew revolt
yers on the cashier and other officials pres.
ent, robbed the vault of 81 500 and escaped.
Pythagoras Hall, in New York. for which
the knights of labor paid some $40, 900 two
years ago. was sold yesterday under legal
mandate for $40 500 to real estate specu-
lators
The debts of the late Crown Prince of Aus.
tria, which were paid by his royal father.
the King, amounted to almost 81 500. OOO
Most of them were incurred in gambling and
riotou5 living.
The Swiss Bundesrath has ordered the ex-
pulsion from Switzerland Of a number Of
Russians who are suspected of having been
concerned in the secret manufacture OF
bombs al Ilrich.
10 Chesterfield county, S. c.. yesterday
W. d. Merryman shot and killed A. g..
Douglas from ambush while the latter was
chipping turpentine on disputed land. Mer-
ryman and three acc;mpIices have been ar
rested.
The stables of Captain Moore, near Gym
thiana, Ky, we're burned Monday night
consuming fifteen valuable horses. One of
/ them, Van Wilkes, was valued at So 600.
A colt among them was valued at $4,000
| There is no insurance.
Mr.. David Tayors SHIT for divorce from
his wife, Minnie Elizabeth Taylor, in Brook
| lyn, has come to sudden ending. Rather
than disclose the facts in the case, and for
the sake of their child, the father and
! mother agreed to stop the suit and to live
! apart.
II is said that Andrew Carnegie has sur
| prise in store for the iron and steel workers,
and that before he leaves on his European
| tour he will order that the wages OF some
who earn as high as $50 to $50 day by the
use OF improved machinery be cut down.
The United States cruiser Charleston
started on her trial trip yesterday morning
under Captain Charles Goodal, jr., of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company. After
cruising around San Francisco bay to test
the compasses SHE started out to sea about
o'clock
Senator German, of Maryland, who was
in New York yesterday, says that the re
port that he is to succeed the late W. II.
Barnum as chairman of the democratic ma
tional committee is Incorrect and that at
the June meeting Calvin S. Brice will be
unanimously chosen for that position.
Ga Saturday while train on the Burling
ton and Quincy road was going at the rate
of thirty miles an hour black snake forty.
two inches long crawled out of a mail bag
1t was promptly dispatched. The reptile
had come from a pasteboard box which was
addressed to Miss Smith, California, Iowa.
In testing a new elevator in a five story
building at Providence, r. l., yesterday, the
car was cut loose and descended with fright
ful velocity, two men in it being fatally in
iured, and the reporter who accompanied
them badly hurt. The elevator was made
10 drop without damage, but the test was
fatal failure.
Mrs. 6. II. Hall, died ut Athens, Pa, Mon.
day night in giving birth to child which, it
is said, weighed thirty one pounds and two
ounces. Mrs Hall was woman Of medium
height. very stout, and weighed something
over 200 pounds. -Four doctors we're in at
tendance on Mrs. Hall and they all say her
child was the largest they have ever known.
After referring to the report OF the pro
ceednes of the House Of Commons, Mr.. Par
nell told the Parnell commission in London
Yesterday that the statement made by him
in reference to outrages in Ireland, for which
he has since been censured, was a fairly &C.
curate one, iuasmuch as the question of Al
torney. General Webster referred more par
ticularly to rbbonism than conspiracies in
general.
The State Of New York has purchased for
the electrical execution of condemned crimi-
nails three Westinghouse alternating current
electrical light dynamos. TheState prisons
at Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton are each
to have one of these deadly machines. The
current will he applied to the unfortunates
at the same pressure used By this system for
electric lighting, and experiments have
shown that death will ensue in less than
thirty seconds.
a dispatch from Paris says AT the expo
sition yesterday. SO far as the spectator could
Judge, Boulangism might have been wholly
uon- exstsnt. There was no sign of its vi
tally anywhere, or even of its having had
any vitality and the French government