Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.


President Harrison, accompanied by secre-
tary Window and his family are at Deer
Park.
The new cruiser Baltimore on her frat
run out to sea yesterday worked satiafac.
torily.
A prisoner in Kentuckey Jail attempted
to commit suicide by eating two dozen pads
of blottlng paper.
John wilkins, of Wampus, Ohio, let his
razor fa'l while shaving the other day and
cut off his big toe.
The jamestown, Pa, school board has is-
sued orders forbiding lady teachers to ON
bark either in counting or matrimony.
1t is said In Rochester, n. Y, that II. FL.
Warner g. Co. are negotiating for the sale OF
their vast proprietary business to English
capitalists.
Yesterday, at Chicago, the great Western
FLY Maori ran a mile in one minute thirty
nine and four.ffths seconds the fastest mile
ever recorded in race.
Gel J.. G. Jones, superintendent of the
Carolina Central Railroad and we'll known
civil engineer, died of heart disease at VIII
mingtop, N. c. yesterday.
The Connecticut House of Representa-
tives has passed bill making women eligi,
bic for the Office Of assistant town clerk and
registrar of births, marriages, etc.
Brother Vincent, the superior general oil
the Naverian Brotherhood, and Brother
Peter. the provincial of the order 10 Eng
land, arrived in Baltimore yesterday.
William Gaertues, aged fourteen years, of
New York, was caught in the patdle,w wheel
of steam boat yesterday, and thrown out
unipiured after several revolutions.
During the thunder storm Thursday light
ming struck the grain shed on the farm OF
Charles Hartman in Frederick county, Nd,
and killed Mr.. Hartman and Denton Reif.
snider.
Hadj Hassein Ghooly Khan, the Persian
minister, and his secretary, Mira Mabmoud
Kahn, left Washington yesterday for New
York, where they took one OF the French
steamers for Havre to day.
The prediction has been made by several
eminent biologists who have made study
of the oil deposits OF Pennsylvania that all
the oil field of this State will be exhausted
in comparatively few years.
1t is now said that should the Pope be
forced to exile himself from Rome he will
not ask sovereignty from any power, but
will merely request temporary hospitality,
as be will certainly return to Rome.
Frances Cooper, colored, of Mount Pleas
ant, Fla, who had a-grndge against three
other colored women, invited them to her
house to dinner, and 10 dish of butter
beans, gave them Rough on Rats"
M. Thomson became involved in 8 quar-
rel yesterday in the lobby of the French
Chamber of Deputies with M. Laur and
struck him. M. Lsur challenged NJ. Thorn
son to fight duel. They fought in the
evening with pistols. Neither was hit.
A rat ran across the floor of schoo-room
in Long Island City, on Tuesday. a child
cried FIRE." the pupils tumbed over each
other down stairs, some one turned on an
alarm, and the fire department and police
reserves were called out. No one WAS hurt,
especially the ret.
The Pail Mall Ga=ettS gives prominence
to an interview with Rev. DR.. Howley, a
Catholic NewfoupdDander, in London who
warns England of the danger of that 'lony
seeking annexation to the United States as
the only way of obtaining redress against
French interference with the fisheries
A dispatch from London says: Nine hun.
dred and fifty members of the Connaught
Rangers nave Deen sent 10 Malta To replace
troops who have been dispatched to Egypt
Four regiments stationed at Aldershot have
been ordered to hold themselves in readi
ness to proceed to the front in Egypt at q
moments notice.
At Lecaire, small town north of Daven
port, Ia, last Sunday, the pastor Of the Pres
byterian church, Rev. Monroe Drew. young
minister from Chicago. made the sweeping
charge from his pulpit to the effect that
virtuous woman between 16 and % years of
age could not be found in the place. The
women subsequently, held mass meeting
and denounced Drew, who has left the State,
fearing personal injury.
The victory the New York baseball club
gained over Cleveland yesterday enabled
the champions to take second place in the
League race. They are now but two games
behind Boston Philadelphia is fourth 10
the race, Chicago fifth, followed by Pitts
burg, Indianapolis and Washington. In the
American Association St. Louis leads, fol.
lowed by Brooklyn, Athletic. Baltimore,
Cincinnati, Kansas City, Columbus and