Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-23

elbow FEVER III vera Siu% 10 Ne1J oau.
The Gar is about to psy prolonged visit
to Poland.
John D. Rockefeller has offered to endow
the Baptist University at Chicago with
100000.
1t is reported that the President intends to
appoint Judge Woods, Of Indiana, to the
Supreme Court vacancy.
Three keepers of the insane in the Phila-
delphia almshouse have boon arrested,
charged with cruelty to the insane.
A dispatch from Berlin says it is believed
there that the Samoan conference has come
to an agreement upon all the questions at
issue.
The suit of the State of South Carolina
against the Pacific Guano Company has
been settled. The Stale receives S32 GOO
royalty.
The Southern Assembly of the Peesbyte-
rian Church voted yesterday to remove the
missionary headquarters from Baltimore to
Nashville, Tenn.
The agents of the coal companies at the
meeting in New York yesterday advanced
the price OF CRATE and egg 10 cents and stove
Is cents, to take effect June /.
u S. Minister Whitelaw Reid has taken
the furnished residence of the Countess de
Grammont, Paris, for his family home, Tor
which he will pay $4,000 year rent.
The West Virginia Legislature inveatiga'
ton committee progressed as far as Poea-
bontas county yesterday. The changes
made so far in the gubernatorial vote are
insignificant
The annual convention of the Protestant
of tho n;nnp.a
land was begun yesterday in Washington.
The convention is opposed to any cDanee 10
iha name Of the church.
The fight to finish between Joe Nc
Aulffe, of San Francisco, aud Tom Lees, ex
champion Of Australia, for purse OF 81 ,3oo
took place in San Francisco last night Lees
was knocked out 10 eight rounds.
Miss Apnie Grifiths arrived at her home
in Franklin, Pa, yesterday, to the great eur
prise of her relatives, who bad mourned her
as dead, and buried the body of woman
found dead in Kansas City two years ago.
News coming from the Union Iron Works
! of San Francisco in regard to the new cruls'
| er Charleston is that much remains to bs
dore upon the ves5el-prohably at the gov
ernmen:'s expeDse-before the contract re-,
auirements are realized.
Advice from St. Pierre, Miq state that
two fishing vessels, the Ella and Quartz
Freres, which left France some time ago for
the Newfoundland fisheries, with l75 men
on board, have been lost, and that all hands
have doubtless been drowned.
The train conveying the Empress of Aus
trja from Wiesbaden to Vienna met with an
accident yesterday. While the train was
being shunted at Frankfort the last car left
the rails, and three of them were upset. The
| Empress and suite were shaken, but nobody
was hurt.
Certain portions of the remarks of Bishop
Keane, at the dinner in bis honor ID Wash
| ington Tuesday night, were of great public
interest. His description OF the character
and views OF Pope Leo is of much value by
reason Of bis recent intimate personal asso-
citation with him. He described the Pope
as intensely American in his feelings, and as
evincng the warmest sympathy with Amer
ican institutions and progress.
The dead body of DIR. P. II. Cronin, who
strangely disappeared from his home in Chi
cago recently, was found yesterday evening
some distance north of chat city in sewer
on Evanston avenue. A bloody towel was
wrapped about the head. The rest of the
body was stark naked. Il Catholic emblem
witch the doctor always wore next his skiD
suspended about his neck was untouched.
On the dead mans head were dCZan deep
cuts which had severed the scalp and in
dented the skull. II is the opinion of the
police that Cronin was foully murdered.