Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Trug,s have been declared illegal in Mich

Trusts have been declared lllegal ID MICH
igan.
Mrs. Catharine W. Bowie. widow of the
late Thomas J. Bowie, of Montgomery
county. Md, died in Baltimore yesterday
aged 76 years.
It is believed in sporting circles that the
Kilrain. Sullivan prize fight will come Oft at
Abta Springs, in St. Tammany Parish, La,
SO miles from New Orleans.
Mrs. Hayes, wife of ex President Ruther'
ford B. Hayes, was stricken with apoplexy
at her home in Fremont. Ohio, yesterday,
and last night was unconscious.
Senior Becerra, Spanish minister of the
colonies, rea affirmed in the Cortes that the
United States has made no proposition for
the purchase of CUBE, and added that Spain
would entertain no such proposition.
The jury in the case of the five railway
employees charged with causing the recent
disaster by which seyenty-fi i've persons lost
their lives near Armagh, Ireland, has
brought in a verdict of manslaughter.
A water spout burst near Mount Glare,
Harrison county. W. Va, yesterday morn
ing, doing large amount Of damage to
property. Streams we're swollen and many
buildings were damaged. The loss to crops
will be heavy.
Claus Spreckles informs the Reading
Board of Trade that be will build sugar
mill there. provided the surrounding farm
ers plant so 600 acres with sugar beets. The
agricultural society's aid will be invoked
with the farmers.
The steamship Holland, which arrived at
New York from Liverpool yesterday, has on
board two English boodhounds. valued at
81 600 each, and which were used in the at
tempt to hunt down Jack the Ripper" the
Whitechapel fend.
Gen. W. n. Taft, ex postmaster and lead
er of the republican party in South Carolina,
died Yesterday. His wife is the daughter of
Franklin j. Moses. Governor of South Caro-
iine, who made himself so unenViably IA
nous during radical days.
The Lafayette Artillery, of Charleston, S.
| C, the oldest artillery company in the State
| and one OF the oldest in the South, Thursday
night elected Dr. ]. B. Mellow as surgeon OF
the company. Dr. Mellow is now in all
awaiting trial for the murder of Capt. F. w.
Dawson, editor of the Ne,cs and Courier.
The biggest iceberg of the season was
passed on June IA by the steamship State OF
Pennsylvania. 1t was fully 500 feet long,
ana nearly oCU Ieet ulSu 81 luo aPcA' 1nolo
vas long, low stretch of ice on either side
the pyrsmidal centre of the berg, making it
like conical, broad brimmed hat in out
line.
Among the appointments made by the
President yesterday were William Fl. Di
mond to be superintendent of the mint at
San Francisco, Cal. Pearls B. Ellis. to be
assayer of the mint at Carson, New; Frank
Mason, of Ohio, consul general at Frankfort;
Charles B. Trail. Of Maryland, consul al
Marseilea; II. 6. Knowles, of Delaware,
consul at Bordeaux.
Capt. Fisher, of the American schooner
Baltic, which arrived at New Bedford yes.
terdsy, reports that on the 18Th of May,
while lying in Sam Bay, San Domingo,
where be put in for water, five soldiers, I'M
der command of an officer, fired ten or fit
teen shots at the schooner. Capt. Fisher
went ashore next day and demanded an ex-
PLANTATION, when the Officials arrested the
soldiers. Three days after Gen. lHappoo re-
leased them, giving as his reason that they
did not kill any one. A complains against
the Hayiien government will be cent TO Sec
re airy Blaine by Capt. Fisher.