Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-26
NEWS OF TIE Day.

The friends of MIR. Reed, OF Maine. are
confident that be will be elected Speaker of
tho House.
Republican managers in Ohio are said to
be seriously alarmed over the election pros.
poets in that State.
Only sixteen survivors of the battle of
BslaklavR sttaaded the annual dime! lie
London yesterday.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Mr.. JEFF.
fesscn Davis, sailed from New YORK to-day
on the LIE Gascogne for Paris.
The Second AdventIats predict that as the
world did not come 10 an end yesterday IL
must come to an end to.day-or some other
day.
A naval board recommends the reopeDing
and Improvement Of League Island navy
yard, Philadelphia, at cost OF over
S14,OOOOoO
In thu trial 10 Chicago yesterday DR.. Cro-
MINIS body was positively identified, deaplte
the defence's efforts to prevent it, but the
mode of death wac not satisfactorily deter
mine6.
Attorney General Miller said yesterday
that the government has determined to press
to a speedy conclusion, and with all the
forces at command, the suit foT fraud against
the Bell Telephone Company.
1t was reported yesterday that the Presi-
dents private secretary, Helford. had ten
dered hi- resignation, and that F. @. Alex
euder. Of Buffalo, would be his successor,
but subsequently the report was denied.
The greatest game Of baseball of the sea.
son was played at New York yesterday be.
tween The New York and Brooklyn clubs.
The former won after q scientific battle of
eleven innings by o score of to l. The
two teams are now tied, with three victories
each.
The Polish faction still hold the fort at
the Church and parsonage at Plymouth, Pa.
Everything is quiet at present, but it is not
known al what moment trouble will begin.
The Poles have locked themselves in the
parsonage aud are fully armed. They are
determined to hold the property at all hez-
ards.
Admiral Howard Patterson, of the Hay.
tisn navy in q lettsr describes most inter-
estiDg phenomenon observed last week Oh
the tropical Atlantic. Two broad concen-
tric reinboWs were seen on clear morning,
reaching respectively attitudes of 80 degrees
end sc degrees, and reflected from the
ocean.
School children found bomb loaded with
dynamite near Franklin, Pa, yesterday
They attempted to open it with o knife,
when it exploded. Two of the children,
named Fitzgerald and Rogers, are fatally
hurt, while eight others are in q serious con.
dition Fizgerald's arm was blown off and
his face was terribly iacerated.
There was launched to-day at Camden,
Me-, the four mssted schooner Mile O..
Browne, the largest schooner now shoat.
The vessels length over ail is 249 feet !;
breadth, AZ feet; depth, 81! feet net tom
mage, 1861 HeT appointments are the
most complete OF those of any vessel of her
class aaoat. Her cost was about $40 900.
The people Of Archibald, busy mining
town about nine miles north of Scranton,
Pa, we're panic stricken Thursday night by
| the caviug in of vast area of worked out
mines. The crash occurred in the White OAK
| Colliery Of the Delaware and Hudson Canal
| Company, and the work men had thrilling
escape great oaulders falling close upon
their heels as they ran for their lives, and
the force of the air current blowing the hats
| from their beads
The "nak ed man" Of Shawmont, Pa. is at
| last behind the bars He has terrified the
women OF that place and Upper Roxbo.
rough for year, by suddenly appearing on
| unfrequented street5 or jumping from thick
cts Oh the suburbs. When arrested a day or
| two ago be gave his name as Henry w.
Safer, who had been employed on farm
at Ship lane. He is about IS years old and
apparently Intelligent. He could give no
reason for his outrageous conduct. He was
held in $500 bail.
The U. S. wershp Galena arrived at Bal,
timore yesterday with nine prisoners from
Navssss. Some ofthe men are charged with
murder, some with mutiny and assault and
the others ere held rs witnesses. All are
now in the city JAIL Amos Lee, one of the
prisoners, before going to Navassa lived In
Georgetown, Henry Jones, George Key and
James Johnson in Virginia, Albert Jones in
Baltimore, and James Phillips in Green's
boro', Pa. Witness Downes says he saw
Key kill Mahon.