Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-20


Miss, yesterday.
O,Connor won the boat race at Tacoma on
Saturday. beating Peterson, Hamm and Lee
in the q mile contest. Time II o..
An eight-year. old girl and an eleven-year
old boy murdered their baby sister near Co.
lumbia. S. c., on Saturday, because she
cried.
Henri Rochefort attempted to shoot M.
Pelotel Saturday night in London, but was
prevented by bystander. He was arrested
and gave bail for G hearing.
Buffalo Bill opened his Wild West show
In Paris yesterday. There was large au.
dieDce, President Carnot and numbers OF
distinguished persons being present.
The second autopsy on the body of Wash
inetor Irving Bishop, the mind reader, neld
in New York on Saturday evening, failed
to show whether or not he had been ViVi
sected.
According to the Indian papers, the royal
Bengal tiger is following in the footsteps oil
the American buffalo toward that land Of
shade VS. where the hunters cease from hunt
ing and the animals are at rest.
Disastrous storms swept over parts OF
Austria Saturday. Three persous were kill
Cured near Pisen. Houses collapsed at
Rockowilz and Bieckowilz, killing nine
children, and at Zinc, where thirty persons
were killed.
In convention in Paris yesterday Max
O'Rell said France is approaching one Of
the hist orical crises that occur at intervals,
but the new master wont be Boulauger.
The communists may triumph for time
and then will follow Caesar, but he will
not be Boulanger.
The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor,
decided that hereafter benefits shall not be
paid TO members who commit suicide, and
subordinate lodges were instructed to rid
themselves of habitual drunkard5 and all
other characters addicted to vicious habits
that hasten death.
The Baroness Won Sucrow, nee Miss
Constable, of Baltimore, and her husband
have separated for good. She has returned
to this country and says: "For seven months
| have been fool, but am to be deceived
no longer. The man is surely insane or
base beyond words"
The Presbyterian Assembly of Chatta.
nooga on Saturday discussed the report OF
the committee from the Northern Assembly
in regard to uuion of the two churches,
and referred it to o special committee, Of
which the Rev. j. W. Lupton, of Virginia,
was elected chairman.
The bridge across Stone river, near Nash.
Vile. on the Lebanon branch OF the Nash
Vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis Railroad
caught fire from q passing train Saturday
and an engine and fifteen men were thrown
into the river fifty feet below. Several OF
the men were severly hurt.
at hIartnsburg, w. Va, on Friday night,
thieves forced their way into St. Josephs
Catholic Church and drilled holes in the
safe, which contained two gold chalices and
other valuables to the amount OF $500. Oae
of the holes WAS charged with dynamite,
but was not exploded, the thieves having
been frightened of.
1t is understood that appointments to po-
sitions in the various government depart
ments as skilled laborers is also under the
civil service rules, and that applicants for
positions as cabinet makers, carpenters,
plumbers aud machinists will have to under
90 q civil service examination as to their fit
ness for those places.
Detectives have finally succeeded in break.
ing up a notorious and desperate gang of
thieves, incendiares and general crooks
which has made it's headquarters in Fayette
county Wv, in tho vicinity of the mines of
the FIRE Creek Coal and Coke Company. The
gang was mixed one of whites and blacks,
and several women were connected with 1t.
Several outgoing steamships full of Eu.
ropean tourists got aground during fog in
New York harbor Saturday. The Nor
mandie on her way out cut down pilot
boat and two pilots lost their lives. A
number Of collisions occurred during the
fog in the harhor The steamer Comal was
run into by the steamer Guyand0tte. The
Guyaudotte's bow WIS cut into or feet in
width 10 within foot OF the waters edge.
The CoClsl'5 steering gear was destroyed by
the collision. Both 5teamcrs put back for
repairs.
On Saturday evening Frank Nearing
started to drive his brothers. wife in car
riace from Nav Milford, Conn, to her home
ct Lane5vlle. On the way he assaulted
her and then fed to the woods He was
afterwards captured and lodged in Jail at
Milford. That night mob attacked the
Jail, put rope around Nearing's neck and
suspended him from tree but the mob was
in turn attacked and. after fight, driven
off by the citizans and Nearing was resusci.
tated and again lodged in jail which ia now
strongly guarded.
DR.. w. II. Shoemaker, talented phyai.
clan of Birmingham, Ala, has been declared
insane, owing to having become victim to
the cocaine habit. While under the inlu
ence of the drug he, in December last, per-
formed upon himself probably the most
unique and most remarkable eurgical opera
tions ever recorded. He had been sufferer
for some time from tumor on his liver.
One night, while alone, he took his surgical
instruments and deliberately cut into the
abdominal cavity, cut the tumor from his
liver, sewed the incision up, showed the cut
and tumor next morning to brother physi-
clans, and has since entirely recovered.
Mrs. May niece of Mr.. Jefferson
Davis, aud French Canadian arstocrat by
birth, he's been arresten at Liverpool on the
charge of poisoning her husband with arae-
mic. Mr.. Maybrich, who was prominent
merchant, died with symptoms of slow pois-