Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Queen of the Tonga Islands is dead.
Maletoa has been quietly restored to pow
er in Samoa.
In the British grain market, foreign wheat
is sixpeDce lower.
The independence OF Bulgaria will be pro-
claimed on Friday next.
The life-saving crew at Lewes, Del, saved
200 lives during the storm.
Gen, Warner is understood to have de-
clined the commissionership of pensions.
1t is estimated that about $40 900 will be
lost on the Baltimore celebration.
Fourteen hundred and ninety.one immi-
grants landed yesterday at Castle Garden.
It ia proposed to supplant the B. & O..
bridge at Hsrper's Ferry with stronger
structure.
Smith and Slavin signed articles yester-
day 10 London to fight Oh the continent for
1900, open to 900 side in December
next.
A famine prevails throughout Tigre,
State of Abyesinis, and bands of starving
peasants are ravagipg the country around
Sokots.
Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw, died
of consumption at Saltwater, last night, at
the age of 81 years, after an imprisonment
OF Is years.
Bishop Fowler of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. warps the United States that their
best blood will pay for the violation of trea-
ties with China.
The engagement Of Mr.. Henry Toutant
Beauregard, son of Gen. 2. G. T. Bsaure-
gard, aud Miss Nettie Harvey, Of California,
ia announced, the wedding to take place In
December
s story is now told in Chicago that the
conspirators In the CroDin case had arranged
to have muiilated corpse arrayed in the
doctor's clothing, to be found in the Thames
river, near London.
Woodruff Ives fellow couspirator In the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton swindle,
went on the witness stand in New York
Yesterday as States evidence, and told the
whole story Of the scheme.
About 7O5 last night the train from
Elmira. south, carrying seven coaches, ran
into Fall Brook engine at Tioga Junction,
Pa, causirg fearful wreck, killing and in.
turing in all about twenty FIVE persons.
The coroner's Jury in the case of the tun-
mel accident on Friday night near Wash
lnpton, Yesterday brought in verdict hold
log EGory 81. Kramer, the telegram opera
tor. responsible for the death OF Engineer
Jameson.
The victory the New York baseball club
gained over Washington yesterday, and the
defeat Boston sustained at the hands Of
Pniadelphs, caused the two to change
places and gave the champions the lead
Indianapolis strengthened its position b2
defeating Chicago.
The storm of the past week has damaged
the oyster beds in the vicinity of New York
| 20 the amount of nearly 50 0l0 600. The
beds in the Great Kills, in Oyster Bay. in
Jamaica Bay and at Rockawsy are said to
be almost totally destroyed.
The cyclone reported yesterday is now
central in the East Gulf, moving west
northwest, Maximum veocties OF thirty
four to thirty elk miles are reported on the
Florida coast. Vessels sailing southeast
from the gulf ports will encounter heavy
gales.
1t ls reported that during the recent cy
clone both of tn, tranaatla ntic cables of the
Yves ern Union Telegraph Company parted.
The break occurred in twenty fathoms OF
water off Flemish Capes. near the American
shore. Ii is said that the cables cannot be
repaired in less than month, and even then
it will have to be und,r the most fay orable
conditions.
Gov. Bnckner, OF Kentucky. has issued
proclamation to the people Of Harlan county
urging them ito respond promptly to the
summons Of the civil authorities; to obey
them implicitly in their attempts to arrest
and bring to speedy lsl ice, or, II resisted by
force, 10 shoot down, under the orders of the
authorities, the assas ions who threaten, in
your midst, the peace and welfare OF
society,""
10 San Francisco yesterday Judge Saw
yer rendered decision in The habeas cor
pus case of Deputy Marshal David Nagle,
charged with killing Judge Terry, and dis
charged Naele from custody. A bill Of ex
captions fled by counsel for the State vas
allowed by the court, and pending an ap-
peal to the United States Supreme Court,
Nage was ordered released on his oW n rec
ognizance, with bonds fixed at $1,000.
Az Deputy Sheriff McMilep, of Somerset,
Pa. opened the Jail door yesterday, the
Nicely brothers, convicted Of murder rushed
towards him while Lsight and Shorty, two
prisoners, covered the day watchnan with
revolvers. Joe Nicely shot the deputy twice.
and all escaped. A few miles north of the
town the murderers were surrounded and
the crowd threatened TO lynch them, but