Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-21

The JohnsloWn reHel committees uns ie-
fused to accept sum of money raised by q
Sunday picnic.
The total amount of gold engaged to 90
from New York by to.morrOw's steamers
to Europe is s. 100000
Il is aaid that there is movement on foot
10 Vermont to defeat the re- election Of Mr..
Edmunds to the q. S Senate.
Gen. A c. Myers, late quartermaster gen.
eral OF the Confederate army, diec yesterday
at his resi- !ence in Washington.
The damage to the United States ship
Constellation, which was aground near Cape
Henry light, was not serious
Mr.. Albert F nix, chairman of the Trunk
Line Association, who recently resigned, in.
sists that his resignation shall take effect
July TO-
Gen. Simon Cameron is Frustrated at
his home, Donegal Springs, Pa, with paraly.
sis of the right arm and side, and his condi.
ton is critical.
A New Yorker, who refused to give his
name, and who arrived at Toronto yes
terday, has deposited $4,000 to back Sui
lvan against Klrain in the coming fight.
President Harrison said Yesterday to a
delegation of New Workers who called upon
him mo man who is traitor to his party
or to any solemn obligation can be appoint
ed to Office with my permission.
The sugar trust cleared $14 900 600 in
1855, and in the five months preceding June
OF this year SC 100000 The price of sugar
has been made so much higher that profits
during the rest of the year will be larger
Martin Burke, held at Winnipeg upon a
charge of completely in the Cronn murder,
was fully identified yesterday by Detective
Collins, who arrived there from Cbioago,
! and made the Identification of Burke posi-.
| tive.
Samuel w. Lincoln, of Ltcy's Springs,
Rockingham county, is on trial in the United
States District Court in Baltimore on the
charge OF forging the name OF Bryan A
Giles to a money order for S25 and taking
the money.
Pennsylvania coal company operators
and and an official cay an advance in Goa
prices July / Ia unlikely, while President
Sloan, of the LackawanDa company, says an
advance will undoubtedly take place in the
near future.
Rhode Island prohibiting the manufacture
0Uu ekle Vi lubbAlChlluR WHlOu Wnf
adopted in 1866, was yesterday repealed by
popular vote, the mej orlty in favor OF repea
being Is 500, 5, 469 more than the necessary
three tifths.
The whole of the letter mail for the soutf
from Nashville on May has disappeared
It's loss has just been revealed. The mail wal
locked in pouch and delivered at the dool
of the postoflice to the driver of wagon
which carries the mai to depot, aud locked
up in the wagon. This is the last that was
ever heard of 1t. Government detectives
are working on the case. 1t is not known
yet how much money was lost.
The President yesterday evening made
the following consular appointments: Oil
YER n. Simons, of Colorado, consul to Hong
Kong; William Monaghan, of Ohio, consul
to Chatham, Ontario VIM. I. Rice, of Mas
sachusetts, consul to LeghorD; Lyel T. AID
ans, of New York, consul to Horgen, Switz
erland Henry w. Diedrich, of Indiana, con-
sui to Nurembure; Roland J. Hemmick, Of
Pennsylvania, consul to Geneva, Swlzsr.
land.
A dispatch from Tucson, Ariz INA, says
Friends of the men who robbed Paymaster
Wham, some of whom are rich and influen
tiaI, are making secret Efforts tn procure the
appointment of a successor to United States
Marshal w. X. Meade. who has pushed the
pursuit and capture of seven of the robbers
Three yet at large have been located and
will be taken in few days. Marshal
Meade is In possession OF important clews
fixing the crime, and they regard the prompt
appointment Of his successor as necessary to
save thieves from conviction.
The steamer Saginaw. which left Hayti
June -, arrived at New York yesterday,
bringing news that General Hyppo!ite's ar
nv of Is 600 men were within four miles of
Port an Prince, with strong probability
that the city would he captured soon. LIE
gitime's forces we're in the forts just outside
of the city, and were believed to be dlsor.
ganized Among the passengers on the
Saginaw was Mason II. Cooper, son of AID
miral Cooper, U 8. N. and until recently
an admiral in HiPpolyte's navy. Mr.. Coop
er resigned because his flagship, the Caron
delet, nearly sank from the etlacts of firing a
salute.
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