Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-03
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

Tt Is said that the Marquis OF Ormunde
will succeed Lord Londonderry a5 Viceroy
of Ireland.
1t is proposed to remove the old warship
from Portsmouth, n. H., to
Washington.
The widow of the late Julius G. Waddle,
for many years proprietor of the Capon
Springs, w. Va, died last week.
The original "Star Spangled Banner" of
Fort McHenry, owned in New York, Will be
loaned to Baltimore for the coming ceebra
ton in September.
Ten thousand pounds of dynamite explo-
ded in an aqueduct shaft in Westminster
county. n. Y, yesterday, but no one was
hurt. Less $4,000.
Count Herbert Bismarck gave dinner in
Berlin this evening to the commissioners TO
the Samoan conference and the members OF
the British and American Legations.
The Catholic Congress in Vienna after
adopting the various sections OF the reso-
lutions before them, adjourned yesterday
amid cheers for the Pope and the Emperor.
Dispatches from South America announce
the death there from fever of Lord Walter
Campbell, third son of the Duke of Argyll
and brother of the Marquis OF Lorne. He
was IL years old.
A gang OF four men and one woman were
arrested at Denver yesterday charged with
robbing the grave of the late Colonel }. A.
Greenlow, the scheme being to secure ran.
som for the body.
The following named cadets have report.
ed at the Naval Academy for fna! examna-
ton, having returned from the Trenton al
Samoa: B c. Decker, B. w. Wells, Il. I'll.
Jackson, and Il. Stocker
An order has been issued by the Postmas.
ter General prohibiting the changes in
fourth class pGstmaslers except Tor incompe-
tency or bad management, which has caused
much dissatisfaction.
Melvin G. Gari;Z, on triei ut Cumberland
| for the murder OF his wife, gave his tes!l-
mony Yesterday. He claims that the killing
was done in fit OF passion over his wlfe's
confession of unfaithfulness.
The League games for the baseball cham
pionshiD PLAYED yesterday resulted as fol-
! lows: New York l6, Washington 8; Boston
| 3 Philadelphia 4 Indianapolis Is, Chicago
IS; Cleveland 4, Pittsburg 2.
Mr.. Parnell testified at length yesterday
b. fore the commission in London, but moth
ing detrimental to himself elected, though
The Government sought by every means TO
implicate him in the Fenian movement.
James H. Hall, of Cincinnati, has broken
the matrimonial record and married his
mother-in- law The question puzzliDg the
| neighbors is, What relation Is the bride to
The child of her daughter by their mutual
| husband?
The remains of ex President Sebastian
Lerdo de Teiado, of Mexico. were removed
under military escort from the Marble
Cemetery, in New York, yesterday, and
shipped over the Pennsylvania Railroad to
the City OF Mexico.
Thomas e. Gilroy qualified and gave bond
Yesterday as commissioner of public works
of New York, to succeed ID. Lowder Smith,
who still refuses to give way, claiming to
have been appointed by Mayor Hewitt for
the unexpired term of General Newton, till
1891.
Mrs Frank Leslie has received letters
from Lord Ronald Cover, informing her OF
his purpose 10 present, through her, to some
public gallery OF collection in New York,
his colossal marble bust Of the Saviour,
called 1T is Finished" now in the Royal
Academy OF London.
The dispalche sent from Texas yesterday
that go persons had been killed by the pc
lice at Silao and GuanS juato, Mex in efforts
to resist mcb attempting to rescue live
Jesuit prissts from prison ere gross exageer-
atoms The perfect Of SlGo was assasaina-
ted yesterday, and his was the only life lost.
The Maryland State Temperance Alliance
in Baltimore yesterday placed cider on the
prescribed list end heard papers read show
ing the good effects Ct prohibition on the
canning interests OF Hartford county and the
evil effects Of liquor in producing crime in
certain parts CT the state. AT night sam
Smail made an address.
The town or Mapewood is one Of those
recently annexed to Chicago Yesterday
Chief OF Police Hubbard went there to take
formal possession eli the place and put it in
charge Of city police officers. He found Chat
from the Town Hall, where the village pc
lice and fro department mad made their
headquarters, everything had been taken.
A Berlin correspondent says it is under
stood that England will on many points
support the American proposals in regard
TO Samoa. Tamasese it Is said, may be ap
pointed vice king Of Samoa, but Germany
will decline TO allow Mataafa an official
position. The Emperor has invited the del
egatea to tho Samoan conference to dine Mt
P0tsdam on Monday.
A wealthy lumber dealer. named George
II. Tomb, OF LYcoming county, Pa, met his
death strangely at Gloucester, N. j., yes
erday. He was found shortly before
o'clock lying dead Mt the foo: of The stairs in
a lodging house kept by Melvin l.. Jack,
with his neck broken and severe confusion
on the back of his head. Suspicious of foul
play are entertained by the county authori
ties.
In New Orleans yesterday the jury in the
case of Doctor Etienne Deschamps, charged
with the murder of Jullette Deitsche, aged II
years, returned verdict of guilty. The
prisoner was remanded for sentence. Des
champs on the 30.h of last January criminal
~ assaulted the child, killed her by admin.
islerng chloroform and then attempted
to take his own life in the same way but
failed