Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Car is having serious attack OF in
tluenzs.
Fire yesterday destroyed property valued
at 100000 in Vicksburg, Miss.
The old mau.of- war Minnesota has been
given for State naval militia uses to New
| York.
G. A. Dixon & Co., cIothiers and furnish
/ ers. of Charlotte, N. G, have made 40 as.
sigument. The liabilities are nearly S25 600
The statement that the Washburn -four
| ing mills of Minneapolis had been sold Is
contradioted.
Edward J. Phelps, OK minister to Eog-
land, is to resume his connection with the
Yale Law School.
Mr.. Annibal Price, the new Haytian min.
lister to the United States. was presented to
the President on Monday.
The National Jockey Club of Washington
will hold no more races, and its grounds
aud buildings are to be sold.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria are raging in
Campbell county, South Dakota, twenty
eight cases having resulted fatally.
General Benjamin i. Butler Is named ss
the Grand Army of Massachusetts for the
year 1890.
The steamship Amsterdam at New York
Yesterday experienced terrific gales and an
electric storm at sea and narrowly escaped
being wrecked.
On Tuesday W. Ford, OF Ottawa, Ont,
killed his wife, attempted to murder bis
daughter and sister-in- law, then hred the
house and cut his throat.
Madame Bopnemain, an enthusiastic sup
porter of General Boulanger, has just in
herited 81 500 600, the bulk of which she will
devote to the Generals cause.
Many of the most intelligent and thrifty
colored men in Washington are faVorably
inclined to Senator Buffers proposition to
assist the negroes TO emigrate to the West
ern States.
Karl Kunst, the son of the president of
| the Camden system of railroads, accidental
ly wounded an infant child of Henry Davis,
at Weston, w. Va, yesterday, while clean
ing revolver.
Ex-Goy. Cornell is quoted as saying that
work on the Grant monument at Riverside
Park, New York, will begin next spring.
and that ".he association will spend one
million dollars"
At hardwood Iowa, Tuesday, Dr. Abel
Monroe during fit of jealousy shot his
wife, walked TO looking glass and, taking
physcan's lance, severed bic jlgulsr vein,
diving almost instantly.
Charles Msckay. LII. D the we'll known
author and journalist. died In London on
Tuesday, aged rs During The civil war in
this country he resided In New York as
correspondent of the London Times.
Private kilograms received at Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic, from Montevldeo
COD a rm the reports of rioting and disorder
In Brazil. and state that the situation OF the
present Brazilian government is critical.
A riot occurred yesterday at Jessup. Ga,
during which two white men were Killed,
and two others seriously wounded, and sew
era! negroes are reported killed. petsch-
ments of troops have been sent to the scene
Washington detectives have pursued DR..
BeaIl. charged with violating the grave OF
Mrs. Cheek, into Montgomery county, Md.
The doctor promised to give himself up to-
day and declares his innocence OF the
charge.
About daylight Tuesdaa morning the store
of John CartrIght & Co., 10 Camden county,
N. G. about forty miles from Norfolk, was
totally CeStTOySO ny HIc eoSOeuoi "'so VIZ
contents and clubhouse. The property was
insured.
The remains of Henry Woodfn Grady
were laid to rest in Oakland Cemetery,
Atlanta, Ga, yesterday. There was no os-
tentation, or display, all was simplicity, but
the funeral procession was the largest ever
seen In Georgia.
While Milton o. Myers, merchant OF
Keysville, Carroll county. Md, was walking
along the road yesterday he was attack
ed by bull dog. who sprang on him tearing
his abdomen so that his bowels protruded.
Fears are that he will not recover.
David Edgar, brakeman on the Penn
-sylvenis Railroad, while engaged With
number of others In making up train at the
corner of Third street and Virginia avenue,
Washington, on Tuesday night, was struck
by one of the cars and Instantly killed.
Christmas day all over the country WAS
characterized by exceedingly warm, pleasant
weather. The day in Nav York was the
wsrmest on record and the heat ecipsed
the highest temperature ever recorded 10 De.
cember since the establishment of the Signal
OGsas.
At Augusts, Ga. yesterday, q party of