Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

city.
Queen Victoria arrived at Sandringham
paIacs last night. The elite of Norfolk re-
ceived her.
The public proceedings of the Armes
court martial were concluded in Washing.
ton this morning.
Lord Salisbury, in az address at Bristol,
yesterday, ridculed the agitation in favor of
home rule in Ireland.
Jay Gould was yesterday elected presi'
dent of the Texas Pacific Railway in place
of John c. Brown, resigned.
The Hon. Charles H. Gibson and Mrs.
Marietta Powell Holiday, Of Maryland,
were married at Louisville, Kentucky, yes
terday.
The Morgantown Female Seminary at
MorgantowD, w. Va, was destroyed by
fire yesterday. Loss 5000; insurance
s., 600.
Congyesspen Reed aud Mckinley say
there will undoubtedly be an extra session
of Congress called about the middle of De-.
tober.
The largest number of immigrants ever
landed at an American port. 2,043, were
brought to Baltimore from Bremen on the
LiOSbOb ySpSStNeJ'
Col. Daniel Lamont was to day elected
secretary of the New York Loan and I'm
provement Company in place of William FL.
Rockwell, resigned.
AT Fiudlay, O., last night, four masked
men entered the residence OF Mrs. Sertell,
and at the poiut of revolvers, compelled the
old lady to give mp $500, all of her savings.
Capt. Walters, of the oyster boat Martha
A. Jones, was convicted at Chestertown,
Md, yesterday, of illegal dredging and sen
fenced to three months ia the House OF Cor
recticp.
Yesterday evening Patrick Carroll a
south roadway of the Brooklyn bridge, New
York He was picked up by tug boat and
arrested.
The national convention of machinery
constructors. knights of labor, ia in session
in Detroit, Mich, considering steps to SO
cede from the knights of labor and organize
trades unions.
The municipal authorities of Edinburg,
yesterday. voted the freedom of the city to
Mr. Parnell. The vote on the proposition
to confer this honor on Mr.. Parnell stood IA
in favor and Is against.
| Gov. Hill has vetoed the bill recently pass,
ed by the New York legislature to prevent
the cutting of streets through the Polo
Grounds, and the New York Ball Club will
have to play on Staten Island or Jersey
City.
Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop ksin, of Wheel.
ing, Rev. John Boland and Major John D.
Kelly, of Brooklyn, will start tor New Or.
leans May l, where on May the Cardinal
will confer the pallium on Archbishop Jams.
sens.
Lord Lonsdale arrived at San Francisco,
yesterday, from Kodiak. Alaska. His OBJ.
ject was not to find the North pole, as has
been published, but to explore the islands In
the Arctic Ocean and study the birds and
animals found there.
Col. e. M. Brsyton, chairman of The South
Carolina republican executive committee,
who has recently been to Washington, COM
plains Of the Indifference of the President
to his advances, and says that the re-
publican party OF the South is thing OF the
past.
In the case CT j. ]. Miller, commercial
traveller, who got verdict st Youngstown,
Ohio. against the Pennsylvania r. y. Co
for 5000 900 for injuries received at Wan
pun Pa, the Circuit Court has set aside
the verdict on the ground that it was ex
cessive.
A thief entered Collins & Sons bank at
Ventura; Cal, yesterday, laid down pack
age which he said contained dynamite, drew
six-shooter and demanded $4,000 of the
only clerk in the bank, who fled in terror.
The thief then grabbed 81 600 and ran, bnt
was soon captured.
The committee appointed by the West
Virginia Legislature at its last session to
make report ON the gubernatoriel contest,
which was to have met in Charleston, yes
terday, failed to meet, but il is stated that
all the members of the committee will meet
to-day TO begin their labors.
The strike of the oar men in Vienna is
nearly at an end. The rioting. however,
quarters. The mob yesterday stoned the
cavalry. and endorsements of infantry were
required. Many rioters were wounded and
large number were arrested.
Dr.. G. f. Simmons's suit to recover
$143 $50 for professional services from the
estate of Samuel j. Tilden came up yester.
of 9 go visits, and wants additional com.
peDSbllui ioi iiIHo SpeHt III WhttiuS iui n
summons 10 the house of his patient.
The rush into Oklahoma continues.
Towns are sprnging up like mushrooms,
but the hot days and chilly nights and the
scarcity OF water cause distress. s. T.
Compile, while sleep on a claim near
Cottonseed creek, was shot and killed
yesterday by the man who had disputed the
claim.
The case of Dick Halves, charged with the
murder of his daughter May, last December,
was called in the Criminal Court of Birming
ham, Ala yesterday. There are three in-
dictments against Hawes, one for the MUIR
der of his wife and two others for the muir.
der of his two little daughters. The present
trial is on the Indictment for the murder of
May, his eldest daughter, the finding Of
whose body at East Lake led to Hawes's
arrest and the subsequent recovery of the
bodies of his wife and little daughter, Irene,
at Lake View