Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

on Saturday and yesterday.
Louis Cherier, cashier of the bank at
Houghtou, Wis, has disappeared With
about $4,000.
Henry Hage went to Minneapolis to be
married, and was waylaid yesterday and
robbed of $40 ,0cO
The French Senate Committee has ap-
proved the bill for the relief of the Panama
Canal Company.
1t is eaid that Gen. Rosecrans, register OF
the treasury, will be displaced to make room
for ex-senator Bruce.
Charles W. Sanders, the author of San
der's Series of School Books" died on Sat
urday in New York.
Prof. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, n. Y,
discovered new comet Saturday morning
in the northwestern heavens.
Ia fight between strikers and police at
Duluth, Minnesota, on Saturday thirty i've
persons were wounded and two were Killed.
VIM. F. Cody Buffalo Billy has been en-
gagged by the French government to teach
100 cavalry officers to ride in the American
style.
Twelve attempts have recently been
made to burn the town of Danbury, Conn,
the last one, Saturday, causing considerable
damage.
Thomas z ring Sherman, son of General
Sherman, received the final orders oil the
priesthood from Archbishop Ryan In the
Philadelphia Cathedral yesterday.
Every business house and about forty
dwellings in Bakersfield, CAL, were destroy
ed by fire yesterday evening, mourning
loss of over a million dollars
Eight lives we're lost on the railway near
Rochrmoss, Germany, on Saturday, by the
Frankfort express dashing into an emply
train through the blunder of switchman
The 500 former employees of the Read
lug Iron Works have been notified that the
works will soon resume, but that none
will be re.employed who belong to labor or
carnations.
1t is stated that the indictment against
the Boulargsts advises the arrsignment OF
Gen. Bouanger, Count Dillon and NJ. Roche.
fort before the high court of justice for con-
spring sgainst the safety of the State.
Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter. of Brooklyn,
while preaching in the New York Avenue
PRESBYTERIAN church, in Washington yester.
day, tainted in the pulpit causing much ex-
element, during which one lady also
| tainted.
Friends of the late Capt Dawson, who
was killed by DR.. Mellow in Charleston, say
that the real name of the dead man was
Reeks, and that he called himself Dawson,
his mothers maiden name, when be ran
away from England to join the forces OF the
Southern Coufederacy.
A blanket mortgage for SO. 100000 was
placed on record in Baltimore on Saturday
| from the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Company to the Safe Deposit and Trust
Company of Baltimore, to cover an issue OF
bonds to this amount, to be used in the pay
ment of all hitherto existing mortgages and
all outstanding obligations of the railroad
company of every description.
Prince Bismarck's letters to the German
minister at Berne are regarded as serious
menace to the neutrality of Switzerland,
| and it now appears that an exchange of com.
munications has resulted in an Identical
policy being adopted by the Austrian aRd
Italian governments to compel Switzerland
| to comply with the demands for revision
of the laws affecting refugees.
The Secretary of the Interior has accepted
the resignation of Joseph E. Johnston, COM
| missioner of railroads, and he has been
granted ten days leave OF absence. Gen,
Johnston rendered his resignation early in
March, but action upon it has been deferred
up to the present time. Gen. Sherman and
others interested themselves in an effort to
have him remain as commissioner OF rail.
roads.
The coroner's jury at Jamestown on Sat
urday night returned the following verdict {:
That the drowning was caused by
the breaking of the South Fork dam. We
further fud that there were not sufficient
waste weirs, nor was the dam constructed
strong enough, nor the proper material used
to Withstand the overflow, and hence we
find that the owners of said dam were cul-
pable in not making it as secure az it should
have been, especially in view of the fact that
population of many thousands we're In the
valley below, and We hold that the owners
are responsible for the fearful loss of life and
property resulting from the breaking of the
dam.