Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OE LIE Ud1.
Senator Allison thinks an extra session OF
Congress may be called Nov. 1.
Forty-nine persons at YOUNGSTOWN are af-
hicted with typhoid fever symptoms.
Latest reports from Hay:i deny that Hip.
po!yte is anywhere near Port au Prince.
S. Robinson & Son, the big iron firm of
Philadelphia, failed yesterday for Sl20,OGO.
The Pennsylvania Railroad system lost
million and half of dollars by the recent
floods.
A general In the British army stationed
at Bombay is said to have been attacked by
leprosy.
The SupremeCourt of Indiana has decided
liquor license to be special tax, and not
contract.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest son of
General w. L. Sherman, will shortly be ad-
mitted into the Order of Jesuits ss priest.
Coal sales agents met in New York yes
terday, and decided 10 advance coal prices
five to ten cents per ton, to take effect
July 18Th.
The Ohio republican convention yester-
day renominated Gov. ]. B. Foraker for
third term and made up full State ticket.
Gov Foraker's nomination occurred on the
second ballot.
The American steamer Oceans was re
Gently seized at Govanis by the Haytien
warship Belisee aud taken to Port au Prince,
but the United States man.ofwar O5sipee
Immediately secured her release.
The soldiers of York city and county, Pa,
held large indignation meeting last night
at which they severely condemned Corpo-
tai Tanner for his action in regard to ap
pointments to fill vacancies on the pension
examining board.
There are millions OF the seventeen year
ocusts in the mountain eections on both
sides of the Blue Ridge, North Carolina.
They are in strips of country often many
miles in length and their ceaseless clatter is
deafening. They do no damage.
Gov. Nicol, of Louisiana, has issued a
proclamation against prize fighting In that
State, saying that no sucn disgraceful exhi
billions shall take place in Louisiana, and
that, If such be attempted, all persons con-
cerned therein will be held to strict legal
responsibility and punishment.
The West Virginia gubernatorial contest
committee yesterday disallowed number
of republican votes of Brooke county cast by
repeaters aud non-residents. Gof's plurali.
ty is now reduced to thirty-Lhree, and there
are further proofs of fraud which will give
Fleming the election by ut least 200.
The pilot chart of the photographic Of
flee of the Navy Department shows that
there are thirty-four abandoned vessels
drifting about in and near the Gulf Stream.
They are chiefly laden with lnmber, and are
q constant menace to ships calling through
| fog and darkness. During the last four
months number of these derelicts have
been sighted in the waters between Virgin.
ia and the Bahamas.
A handsome gold medal was sent from
Pittsburg yesterday TO Washington for 3
novel purpose. 1t bore this inscription :
Presented to Major George A. Armes by
one hundred subscribers in approval of his
pulling Governor Beavers nose." The sub
scription to the fund with which the medal
was purchased was prompted by Governor
Beavers alleged dilatoriness in arranging
for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers.
Waller Hamp, a young butcher from
Lancaster, Pa, murdered his wife at Spring.
field, ILL.,, yesterday, and then committed
suicide by shooting himself. About six
month ago Ramps wife, after possessing
herself OF IS much of her husbands money
as she could get hold of, abandoned her
home and aed with one Henry Doerr.
About three months ago they went to
Springfield and opened butcher shop.
They were located by Hamp and he Visited
his wife at her clearinghouse and request
ed her to accompany him to Justices Office
to aign certain DECIDE. The justice went out
for few moments, and during his absence
Hamp fred three balls into bis wifes breast
from revolver. Then turning the weapon
on himself be fired ball into his own brain.
Both died almost instantly.