Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-02
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The Catholic Bishop of Londonderry, Ire
land, is dead.
A letter-stamping machine that cancels
$4,000 stamps an hour is on trial in the New
York postofice.
Minnesota's wheat crop will be the lar.
gest that the State has produced. 1t
will 60 between 100000 and $4,000 900
bushels
1t is said that General Boulanger has de-
cided to submit to arrest the week proceed.
ing the election, in order to avoid seizure
before his arrival in Paris.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has advanced the rates between New York,
Boston, and Philadelphia to twenty cents,
and one cent q word extra for over ten words.
William Brown, of Buffalo, wants to be
cremated alive In order that he may return
to earth rid of his body and fulfill his mis-.
sion ss seer.
A deposit of asphalt has been discovered
near Covington, KY. 1t covers large area
and is thirteen feet thick. 1t is just below
the surface, and can be mined at very small
cost.
The German government is preparing a
bill for submission to the coming session Of
the Reichstag for credits to augment and
reorganize the army in view of the contnu-
al increase of the French and Russian ar
maments.
The residence of Mrs. John Waldeck, at
Manayunk, Pa. was robbed ofnearly 81 900
in cash on Saturday evening while the family
sat talking together in the dining room.
Not the slightest noise was made by the
robbers, not lock was forced or the slight.
est cew left.
The defeat of the St. Louis club By the
Columbus yesterday places Brooklyn at the
head of the race for the championship OF
the American Association. The Athletics
by defeating Cincinnati came to within four
points of Baltimore.
The dwelling in which archbishop Car
roll, the first Catholic bishop of the United
States, was born, in 1875, is being torn
downs This edi6ce. which is the property
OIL. S. Wilson, editor of the Marlboro
| Gazette, was without doubt one of the old.
est landmarks in Prince Georges county,
Md.
John Grass, the great chisf Of the Black
feet and famous orator aud lawgiVer of the
Sioux Nation, is dy ng, it is alleged by his
friends, from the effects of herbal poison
mixed with His fool by brace Of young
bucks, adhereuts of Sitting Bull. II Grass
dies there will be a general uprising among
the Sioux that may result In the extermina
lion of Sitting Bull and mis- band.
Albert Briefly, the Liverpool merchant,
who has gained world wide notoriety
through his connection with the Maybrick
murder, WAS O passenger on the Scythia,
which arrived at Boston yesterday. he
admitted that he had paid the costs OF the
trial, amounting to sc. 500, but said he had
( figured more prominently in the case 10 the
| prints than any real connection with it war.
ranted.
| Charles G. Luth, notorious a5 woman.
hater, committed suicide in Baltimore, yes
erday, in the garrett in which he had eked
| out miserable existence for many years.
He was 46 years old, and cabinetmaker
and woodcarver He made good wages, but
what he did with his money the police and
his neghbors are now trying to hod out.
He Is said to have been disappointed In
love affair in his youth, and ever since he
has manifested the strongest aversion TO
women.
A dispatch from London says: There is
almost as much curiosity here as in America
to see whether Mr.. Coils P. Huntington is
going to let his adopted daughter marry
Prince Hatzfedt, and thereby to assume
that young mans almost unlimited indebt-
edness. Prince Halzfeldt has been on the
London matrimonial market for years as
fortune.hunter Gossip has connected his
name with several rich women eager to pur-
chase title through matrimony."
The funeral of Melvin q. Garli!z, who was
hung 10 Cumberland on Friday morning,for
the murder of his wife, took place yesterday
from the residence of his brother, Alorzo
Garitz, and was attended by many people.
Ever since the remains were taken to his
brothers. house many persons were eager
to get glimpse of the corpse, but were
not admitted. Only the immediate friends
of the family were permitted to view the
body