Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.


THE Parnel commission resumed its sit
ting in London to day.
The elections for members OF the Cham.
her of Deputies of France have been liked
for September -.
The terrible disaster on the Grand Trunk
Railroad near Hamilton, Ont., Sunday, was
caused by broken axle on the locomotive.
1t is reported from st. Petersburg that in
addition to revolutionary pamphlets, menac-
ing letters have been found on the Cars
table.
The boiler OF dredger burst in the bar
Dor of Calais yesterday. The explosion
killed seven persons and injured several
others.
1t ia reported that the Pennsy lvania Rail-
road Company contemplates purchasing
Barnums Hotel, in Baltimore, for railroad
offices.
A woman at Scranton, Pa, yesterday had
a desperate hand to hand struggle with a
maniac who struck her in the breast with
au axe.
The Catholic Congress OF Madrid yester-
day unanimously adopted resolution de.
handing the restoration OF the temporal
power of the Pope.
Mrs. Alex. McKim, nee Miss Elise La.
trobe, and DIR. William Barton Hopkins, oil
Philadelphia, were married at Christ =. h.
Church, Baltimore, yesterday.
Twenty five English youths slowed them
selves away on the st. Romans which arriv-
I'd at New York yesterday and were most
cruelty treated On the voyage from Liver
poo.
II stated that marriage between the
Prince Of Naples, Crown Prince of Italy,
and The Princess Clementine, third daughter
of the King of the Belgians will soon be ar
ranged.
Captain Hamilton Murrell and the officers
of the steamship Missouri were given re
ception at the Baltimore Corn and Flour
Exchange by commercial organizations yes
terday.
A number of ipehraled Boston soldiers
amused themselves going about downtown
streets OF New York yesterday ordering the
removal Of Eaglish flags wherever they
fljated above the Stars and Stripes.
a new powder adopted in the British
army is the invention Of Mr.. Hengst. 1t
is said to be emokeleea nAvorless and non
heating, with less recoil and report than the
powder of the old sort.
A patient suffering with ST. Vitus's Dance
| VINO was recently subjected to the action OF
rotating mirrors by DIR. Luys, physician OF
the Charlie Hospital, Paris, was able to
leave the hospital after three weeks and in
three months was perfectly cured.
DR.. Alexander Spottswood Dandtidge, a
prominent citizen Of Cincinnati, died in that
city Saturday afternoon aged 20 years. He
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W Va, November .. 1919, aud was the
Youngest child of Adam Stephen cambridge
and Sarah Pendleton.
Richard HAYES, on trial at Birmingham,
| Ala, for the murder OF his little daughter
May, who was found in the lake at East
lake, testified in his own defense yesterday.
Ii said on his return home after having
been absent day he found his wife and
children gone.
Four men were drowned at the Cascades
on the Columbia river Oregon, last evening.
There boat was caught in the whirl, and de.
spite all efforts was swept over the rapids.
When about half way down the boat struck
on the rocks, was thrown twenty feet in the
air and the occupants we're pitched into the
roaring waters.
Drury X Burchette. Of Lawrence county,
Ky, has been appointed by President Har
rson United States marshal of Kentucky.
As mis- chief deputy Mr.. Burchette has chos
en- the Rev. G. J. Howes, formerly ofPaints
vile, but for some years pastor of a Meth
odist church in louisville. Mr.. Howes has
resigned The charge OF his church and quail
fled as United States deputy marshal. HIS
chief duty will be to assist in The capture Of
moonshiners in Eastern Kentucky, n difficult
and dangerous pursuit.