Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Burke had confessed.
Eben S. Allen, New York street railway
president, has been arrested for false stock
isiues and embezzlement.
Twenty.eigh United States soldiers de-
serted the barracks on David's Island, at
New York, late on Monday night.
Philadelphia merchants are bringing their
customers to deal with them directly at their
stores and will do away with drummers.
The Pennsylvania republican convention
In Harrisburg yesterday nominated Henry
K. Boyer, OF Philadelphia, for State treas
urer.
Emperor William, ia speech at ban
quent given in his honor by the Prince of
Wales, said the British fleet of men-of-war
was the finest in the world.
The steamship Montreal, which sailed
from Montreal on July 81 for Liverpool, is
totally wrecked on Belle Isle. The passen
gers and all hands are saved.
The High Court of the order of Forresters
in England. has granted the loyal courts of
America power to establish subsidiary
high court in this country.
The Sioux Indians have agreed to cede
IL ,000, 900 acres of their lands In Dakota. II
Congress approves the agreement the lands
will be thrown open to settlement.
1t is rumo.ed that the machine shops and
round house of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad will be removed from Huntington
to st. Adams, near Charleston, w. Va.
a company ia about being formed in Balli
more to place in operation the syatem OF
telegraphing to and from moving railroad
trains invented by Baylus Cade, of Raleigh,
NC.
Workmen have begun to tear down the
walls of Madison Square Garden, New YORK.
Tue new amphitheatre to be erected on its
=i;e is to be lnished by June 20 of next
year.
Mrs. Seaton Monroe, who was for mum.
Der of years one of the most prominent la
dies in Washington society, died yesterday.
She was sister of Col. Malcomb Seaton, of
that city.
The Henry E las Brewery, in New York,
which has capacity Of about ninety thou
sand barrels year, has been bought by an
English syndicate. The price paid Is said
to be $780, 900.
Two attachments amounting to nearly
half million dollars have been placed on
the Riverside and O.wego mills at OSwego
Falls, N Y, and it is possible that failure
of the mills may follow.
A day or two ago the prisoners confined
in Fort San Juan de Uiloa at Vera Cruz re-
yoted against the officials. The troops on
duty at the fort shot twenty of the prison
ers and quellsd the uprising.
Thomas Payne, promising young man of
Spotsylvania county, while hunting yester
day evening near Massaponnax bridge &C.
cidentslly discharged bis gun, the load en-
tering his heart, killing him almost instantly.
Yesterday J. J. Sweeney, young man
serving az a Deputy SherifIat the Alice Fui-
mace, at Heating Station, Pa.f was shot by
coke striker in an attempt made by the men
10 prevent resumption Of work at that fur
mace.
1t is said that the prisoner In Jail in SCOTS.
boro, Ala, is not Treasurer Tate, OF Ken
lucky. He ia now believed TO be criminal
talk. Tate's friends in Frankfort say he ls
not in the United States.
Jere mIah O'Donovan Rosa, the much
bothered Irish editor, was once more in the
Tombs Police Court in New York yesterday
to answer a charge of criminal libel prefer
red BY Patrick Sarafeld Cassidy. Justice
Hogan held Rosa and fixed bail in $500.
It was rumored at Saratoga last night that
Governor Hill has been asked to remove
Sheriff Flaok, of New York, but has'refused
to do so. 1t is possible that the grand jury
nav investigate the sheriff5 divorce suit,
and Mrs. Flack desires the case reviewed.
Martin Burke, charged with completely In
the murder of DR.. P. H. Cronin, at Chicago,
was given letter yesterday received from
his mother In Ireland. Ga reading 1t the
prisoner shook violently and cried like
child, and when he finished it threw himself
on the floor of the cell.
On two mile circular track the startling
speed of two miles minute was yes erday
maintained for about ten miles by the three
ton motor of the Electro Automatic Transit
Company of Baltimore City at the grounds
at Laurel, Md. This speed equals three
miles per minnie on straight track.
wv. Smith, a we'll TODD farmer and man
of family, of Sharon township, near Char
lotte, N. c., Left his home and departed the
county yesterday, on mandate OF his neigh
bors, on the charge of attempting yesterday
to assault twelve.year old daughter of bis
neighbor and kinsman, G. M. Campbell.
There are no changes to record in the pc
sitons of the League or American baseball
cubs as the result of yesterdays games, but
New York seems to be rapidly gaining on
Boston. Philadelphia and Cleveland are
having a race for third place, just as Balti-
more, the Athletic and Cincinnati are in
the Association.
The residents of Sag Harbor, L. [ were
last Tuesday Mortified to discover pirates
flag floating from the weathercock on the
spire of the Presbyterian church. The flag,
which was of the regulation black, was en-
blazoned with red crossbones and skulls in
the centre. How the flag was put mp is q
mystery, as no trace of climbers has been
found.
The radicals of the British parliament
have seized their first chance to mark their
sense of what they choose to regard as the
desertIon of the Parnelites, the question OF
the royal grants. They did this by leaving
the house Immediately upon the debate on
the Irish estimates being opened. The Irish
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