Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-14
NEWS OF THE DAy

health
1t would simplify the Brown Sequard elix-
ir injections to use pony brandies.
Mrs. Manning, widow of the late Secretary
Manning, is spending the summer in Swilz
erland.
Tramps yesterday cut Reading railroad
freight train In two and robbed tho caboose
near Reading, Pa.
Mr.. 8. s. Carpenter. well-known Cincin
mali lawyer, aged sixty.seven, died of apo
pIexy yesterday morning.
Wilkie Collins, the novelist, is still in q
very feeble condition, and the doctors give
90 hope of his getting better.
Ex-Postmaster General Thos L James is
confined to his home at Ringwood, N. ] j,
with an attack of typhoid fever.
Chicago has launched its 1892 Worlds
Fair scheme by the Incorporation of a com.
psny with capital stock of IS 100000.
According to the voodoo prophets in Geor
es and elsewhere the world was to lave
come to an end to-day, but it didn't, as will
appear,
A. E. Dimmick, dentist at Barbados,
West Indies, has been made Uoited States
consu there. His wife ia niece of Gail
Hamilton, which is the source of DR.. Dina.
mick's luck.
The summit of Mount Washington was
covered with SNOW to the depth of an inch
and a half yesterday morning The guests
INDUCED in lively game ofsnow ball. The
thermometer registered so.
The physicians in attendance on Morris
Adler, who was shot by Frank Ward in
Washington recently, have had q consults-
ton upon the question of administering to
him the Brown Sequard "elixir of life," and
have decided against the use of the elixir in
his Gaze.
The records of the New York police courts
preeent some remarkable facts as showing
tue increase of crime in the city during the
past year. An army OF So 900 persons were
arrested during the last twelve months, or
SD increase in the number over the preced-
ing year Of about three per cent,
New York's victory at Cleveland and
Boston's defeat at Pittsburg yesterday put
the champions at the head Of the race for
the League pennant. The only other change
was that Plttsburg secured sixth place from
Indianapolis. No change occurred in the
positions of the Association clubs.
Miss Stella Cox, young lady of Wash
lnklOD, WuO I6SlUtu uuilI q SDOIt CluJO uRO
with her mother on New Jersey avenue
soulheasl was married on July "a at Yer
sallles, N. Y, 10 full blooded Seneca 1n'
disu, who has In some manner or other got
hold of the name of Nathaniel Patterson and
appropriated it to his own use.
DR.. Samuel s. McCoud has been arrested
in Boston, charged with performing sD IN
lawful operation upon Nellie Martin, a beau.
tiful woman of 90. causing her death. a
young man has been arrested as an acces.
sory, aud another arrest ia expected. The
house has been suspected for some time on
account of the frequency with which ladies'
carriages went there.
George Fuller, jr.. president OF the New
York clearing house and stock broker
and member of the firm of Fuller & Whit
ney, iuformed the police yesterday morning
that his colored bookkeeper, Edward Leb-
lom, has been missing since Thursday and
that be had robbsd him of some $1,000.
Four years ago Lsblom was bootblack
and Mr.. Fuller helped him along By taking
him into his Office.
The negroes 10 Atlanta are still talking Of
the burning in effigy of Gen. Lewis, the post
master who appointed colored man to a
position 10 the registry department. The
more they consider the matter the more In.
e .med they seem to be, The Defiance, the
organ of the negroes in Atlanta, is doiog
great deal to excite them concerning the
burning, and it is feared that there will be
trouble over the matter.
heavy wind storm, accompanied by tor
rents of rain, unroofed large number of
houses at Atchson, Kan, yesterday after
noon, including the Arlington Hotel. Miss
Kate Sheehau had thrilling experience.
She was blown from the sidewalk into the
gutter and the torrent of water carried her
away toward the sewer. She was rescued
within three feet of the manhole E. Wank.
Ter, merchant, was fata ly injured by fall
ing porch.
The Auburn, N. Y board Of trade held
meeting Monday night to take measures
against the spreading of diphtheria, which
it is feared will become epidemic. Within
the last three weeks twenty-one cases have
been reported to the heath officer. and of
these twelve have resulted in death. lswns
decided to keep strict quarantine On
houses where diphtheretic patients are con.
fined and enforce the rules OF the State
Board of Health in tho matter of disinfect-
ants.
Deputy Sheriff p. J. Sinclair and bis
brother, ID. a. Sinclair, day or TWO ago
went to the farm Of Amel Goch, in Kent
county, Mich, to arrest him and Charles
Bradley, his hired man, for stealing sheep.
AS they drove up to the house shot was
fired through the door FROM the inside, and
d. A. Sinclair fell morally wounded. and
afterwards died. The deputy sheriff re-
turned the fire. killing the hired man.
Goch escaped, and has not yet been cap
tured.
A dsstardly attempt was made in Lexing.
ton, KY. Monday, to assassinate D. l.. Bax-
ter, we'll known newspaper correspondent,
by an explosion of deadly machine which
was left at the Lead.r Office, directs to that
gentleman. There was sufficient dynamite
in the parcel to have blown up any building
in the city, and it only failed to accomplish
it's deadly purpose because the percussion
matches did not ignite. The parcel was
taken to the Office by negro boy. There
being no suspicious look to the parcel ne
paid no attention to the appearance of the
lad. 1t is believed by some it was the in