Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-19
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

| The London police will prohibit boxing
matches in that city in the future
a delegation called on the President yes
terday to urge the enactment OF uniform
bankrupt law.
Aman in New York who bit of tur.
ksv,s head for wager has been sent to all
for cruelty to animals.
Every candidate for Speaker of the ntxt
House of Representatives is In Washington
and actively at wosk.
Il is stated that ex-Congressman McCrea-
nv. of Iowa, will succeed Justice Matthews
on the Supreme bench
The Divinity School OF the Catholic Uni.
versily, near Washington, was opened yes
terday by the rector, Bishop keane.
Bail has been refused Frank X. Ward,
and he was remanded to Jail 10 Washington
Yesterday to be tried for the murder OF
Maurice Adler.
Iysn Panin, the Russian itterateur sud
infidel. has renounced infdelity, and was
baptized in the Central Baptist Church OF
Minneapolis, Mimi. Sunday evening.
The Patuxent section of s.. Mary's
county, Md. was visited by whiEl@ind
yesterday. bngeye was overturned and
it's crew is supposed to have been drowned,
Al or a recess of over six weeks the dale
gates to the International American Con.
gress were called together yesterday morn
log at Washington by Secretary Blaine, the
presiding officer.
Knowles, Taylor & Knowles china
works, East Liverpool. Ohio, the largest 10
! The uiied States, were totally destroyed
by fire yesterday evening The loss will
probably reach $500 900.
1t ia said that Mr.. Parnell was greatly sur
prised when be read in newspapers the
reports of his mothers poverty, AID imme'
diately cabled from London to mis- agent in
New York to supply her with funds.
Six hundred organ grinders, whose occu'
patton has been gone of late through New
York AIdermsnic decree, met last evening
and prepared petition against the action
of the Aldermen in suppressng hand or
gans.
The American squadron OF evolution. I'M
der Admiral Walker, sailed from New York
for Boston yesterday. 1t is rumored 10
Washington that the squadron would be
ordered to Brazil to protect American inter
ests there.
The eastern cypress train on the Pennsy J.
vania Railroad was stopped in the yards at
Pittsburg last night by the upsetting OF q
passenger coach, which caught ire from
the stove and wss burned Aterrble scene
ensued in which one person was fataly
burned aud large number injured.
The convention of the Knights OF Labor
at Atlanta, Ca, yesterday adopted reso-
luton declaring that land is the heritage oil
all the people and should not be suit sct to
speculative traffic, and that taxes should be
levied upon it's full value for use sufficient
to make for the community all the unearned
Increment.
The sensational abduction of a young
heress occurred in st. Louis yesterday.
Alice Jackman, a sixteen year old child, was
playing in front OF the residence of w. h.
Brouthers, in whose charge she was tempo
rariy placed, when six men jumped from
hack, seized her and forci5y carried her
away in the presence of Two ladies.
Sir Henry Parkes, of New South Wales
has addressed to the Premiers of the
other colonies in Australia, an invitation to
meet and consider the formation of an in
dependent combination of the colonies.
The Premier does not openly suggest q sep
aratiou from the mother country, but the
meaning of his proposal is plain.
At meeting 10 Washington last night of
the Typographical Union a resolution was
adopted repeating the eight.hour rule. This
action will allow employers to work their
men as many hours as they please, and will
result, 1t is believed, in causing the men in
the government printing Office who now
work in the day time TO work also at night,
whenever ordered to do co. II ia claimed
that the abolition of thu eight hour rule
was demanded hy Public Printer Palmer,
| and the men emDlnyed by him welded to
his demands.