Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Amf rican turkeys are being shipped in
large quantities to London.
One thousand three hundred and thirty
one immigrants were landed yesterday at
Castle Garden.
A dispatch from Zanzibar says: An Fog.
lish cutter has captured dhow off Pemba
with 13l slaves on board.
Wbitecaps are soaring the good citizens of
Norwalk. Capt. Pierce has been notified to
step out of politics or town.
It is again reported that $4,000 negrots
will leave the two Carolinas between now
and Christmas for Arkansas and Mississippi.
Twenty-two men we're placed under arrest
in Guthrie, lid. T., yesterday for selling
liquor. They will be sent TO Wichita for
trial.
Samuel Murray was shot and killed at
Louisiana, Mo-, yesterday, by his lS-year
old son white he was matreating his young
er son.
The steamer Florence fouodered in the
Irish sea yesterday, while en- route from
Garston to Belfast. Nine persons were
drowned.
The people of Rome yesterday celebrated
the eighteenth anniversary OF the occupa-
ton OF the city by the troops OF Victor
Emanuel.
Edward Floyd, halloween and promi-
nent lumberman of Braxton county, w. va +,
Yesterday stumbled over spike, fell against
the circular saw in his mill and was sliced to
pieces.
Men engaged in cleaning the hold of the
steamer Denmark at New York, yesterday,
found the body of the big python which es-
capped from it's cage on former voyage from
London.
The committee appointed for the purpose
has chosen Morningside Park, tha Bloom
inedele lands, and as much of Central Park
as may be needed as the site of the Worlds
fair to be held in New York in 1892.
Timothy O'Grady. convicted of the muir
der of Police Officer OBrien at Chicago, in
1887, and sentenced to seventeen years In
the penitentiary, has been proven innocent
by the confession of one of the most notori-
GUS criminals in the country.
The Sovereign Lodge OF Odd Fellows, in
session at Columbus o., has decided to bold
the next session in Topeka, Kas. All the
restrictions placed on those members who
refused to withdraw from the old patriarch.
al circle were removed, and they can now
return to the order.
Lawson TAFT, the eminent gynecoloeist,
| 10 sn interview, said he was of the opinion
that the Whitechspel, Chelsea and Batter
| sea murders were committed by the same
criminal, probably lunatic woman en-
poyed in slaughter house and subject to
fits of epileptic Juror
The site of the rock slide at Quebec on
Thursday night is almost identical with
that of the one which occurred in ISL.
| when eight buildings were crushed aud
thirty two persons we're killed. 1t is fear
ed that large part of the rock adjoining
the slide will come down. Forty per
sons are known to be killed and eighteen
injured.
An electric motor car, filled with excur.
sionists, refused to answer its brake and
rushed down the mountain from Mission
Ridge, near Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday.
Many ladies wives aud daughters of mem
bers of the Army of the Cumberland, leaped
from the rushing car. Oae lady was killed
and ten persons were seriously injured.
In the Servian village of Loso Wiks recent
~, body of gendarmes surrounded and
Set fire to house in which party of brig
ands had taken refuge. The leader of the
band, who was a woman, aud two other
members perished in the flames after maxi
ing desperate attempts to fight their way
OUT. The other members OF the band were
captured. One gendarme was killed.