Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

not be candidate for reelection.
Democratic clerks in the railway mail ser
vice are still being, removed rapidly.
The Berlin Folks Zeitung has been indct.
cd for attacking the memory OF Emperor
William.
Four men, implicated in the derailmeut of
President DiaZ's train in Mexico, have been
shot.
1t is estimated that 100 600 persons will
enter the new Territory ofOklahoma within
a month after April.
I.umbertou, Ala, fifty. five miles north of
Mobile, was totally destroyed by hre on
Thursday afternoon.
The President yesterday appointed Ly.
man z. Knapp, of Middleburg, Vermont, TO
be Governor of Alaska.
A rumor from Bucharest says that go at
tempt was made to kill the Gar sunday
night last and that he vas wounded By an
exploding shell.
The Cologne Ga-siic advises President
Harrison TO reconsider the nomination OF
Mr.. Bates to be commissioner to the Sa-
moan conference.
1t is said in Washington that Gen. Long
street, of Georgia, will be appointed Consul
to Hong honS UT W SouSUahtlnopie, ""'e' :
ever one he prefers.
The German bark Emile, which left Pen
sacola March ,, was abandoned April 18th.
Three of the crew were lost, and the others
have arrived in London.
Prince Law, negro living On Springfield
plantation, five miles from Savannah, Ca,
killed his ive-year-old son yesterday after
noon as sacrifice to the devil. Law is crazy
on religion.
Latin, Rand s, CO. q powder magazine at
West Stratford, Conn, exploded yesterday,
the building having caught from fire
| which, it seemed, he'd been kindled in
field adjoining. No one vas hurt.
The divorce suit of James c. McComb, the
millionaire farmer of Delaware, has been dis
continued by an agreement by which he is
to pay his wife $50 per week for the support
of herself and three children, and the couple
are to live apart.
The Uniled States grand jury st Port
| Townahend, W. T., have found eleven in
dictments against Herbert +. Bsecher, ex-
! treasury agent, for stealing from the govern
ment. Mr. Beecher is a son OF the late Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher
The final instructions to the Samoan COM
missioners we're completed at the Depart
ment OF State after they had been consider
ed in cabinet yesterday, and were dispatch
Ell to the commissioners, who sailed from
| New Yosk,to day for Europe.
The big whisky dealers and dislillers Of
the eastern part of the country have join Ell
themselves into trust for the purpose o.!
cooperating with the existing Western
Whisky Trust, and thus practically control
| ling the output of Mi the distilleries in the
country.
The New York Assembly yesterday pass
ed the bill for the removal Of Sing Sing pri-
son TO Sullivan county, where the convicts
are to he employed in cutting stone. New
| Workers. will not build summer residences in
the neighborhood of Sing Sing village while
the prison is there.
10 the case Of Hope Il Co Of Amsterdam,
against the Louisiana State board ofliquida
ton, to compel the funding of 100000 of
the old CtiZ ms Bank bonds into State con-
soils. Judge r liz handed down his decision
+ yesterday maintaining the exception OF the
State aud dsmis5ing the PLAINTIFF demand.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, wants the
Secretary Of tho Treasury TO increase the
monthly purchase OF silver, which, he says
would he the best way to reduce che surplus
in the treasury, but Secretary Window can
not see Just how the surplus can be reduced
by giving out greenbacks AID getting silver
| in return.
AZ stated in the GAZETTE the French Sen
ate began its trial of Gen. Boulauger yes
to-day A motion from the right declaring
| that there were no grounds for judicial in
Qury into the conduct of Boulanger was re
jected by vote of 206 to Sc, The Senate
thee resolved, by vote OF 2l0 to 30, to pro-
coed Immediately with his trial.
Passengers on tho steamer Tropic last
Sunday, when the ship was battling with
the hurricane of Cape HaIterss, were start
led by huge bal! of Ere darting from the
sky toward the vessel According 10 the
captains report it fell into the ocean only
few ya,ds from the ship with q terrible hiss
ing, and thousands of sparks fell in the
wake Of the fire BALL"
Meredith Stanley, OF Cincinnati a well.
known athlete ana bridge. Jumper, who has
challenged Brode, of New York, yesterday
jumped from the high bridge, on the Ciacn-
natl Southern road, 2S5 feet, to the water
below. He claims The worlds champion
ship. He escaped without breaking the skin,
aud says be feels ~ well as ever. This
bridge il the highest in ne world except one.