Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

I0e ". a. Ii. enCampmenC al MllRaukee
has ended. Tanner's speech on the widows
pension bill is condemned.
John Grass, the great chief of the Black
feet Sioux. is seriously i'll and is not ex-
pected to live.
MIR. Wanamaker has big scheme. He
proposes, In consideration for reduced tele
graph rates, that the Postofiice Department
will undertake TO deliver messages.
Mrs Catherine Sullivan, mother of John
l. Sullivan. the pugilist, died at her resi-.
dence, Ro1bury, Mass, yesterday evening,
from water on the heart.
John Turner, colored, charged with the
murder of Charles Walker, was taken from
the Jail of Fayette county, W. Va. last
night by mob and hanged.
Gov. Hill proposes to accept Sheriff
Fiack's resignation at a date to prevent an
election by the people in the fall 30 as to
give the executive tbs appointment of q
successor.
At the meeting of the American Bar AS.
sociation in Chicago, yesterday, Edward
Hitchcock. of st. Louis. was chosen presi-
dent. Hon. ]. Randolph Tucker, of Vir-
GINA, was chosen one of the executive com
mittee.
The President yesterday pardoned Jarrett
Citcher, sentenced in the District of Colum
ba for rape to thirty years in the peniten-
tiary. He had served nine years. and was
dying of consumption ut the Buffalo peni-
tertiary.
BY the legislative recount Fleming, dem
ocrat, for Governor of West Virginia, gained
1876 votes in Mercer county. Gen. Golf
states that he will contest the governorship
as long as he has dollar
Two men were killed and seven were ter
ribly burned at the Homestead Steel Works
of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at Homestead.
Pa, yesterday afternoon by the boiling over
of adle containing ten tons of molten
steel. Three OF tbs Injured will die.
The forty five miners imprisoned by
food in mine near Frostburg, Md. yes.
terday. en- account of which was published
in the GAZETTE, were piloted out by II. G
Meen, a young mining engineer, who cour.
ageously braved the rushing waters.
Two strands of cable attached to the ele
Vator ct the Philadelphia Lying in-Charity
broke yesterday afternoon, precipitating the
car from the third floor TO the basement
The elevator contained six nurses and the
elevator boy, oil Of whom were more or lees
hurt.
Farewell addres secs have been sent to the
Marquis of Londonderry, the retiring lord
lieutenant of Ireland. In replying to them
he says he is pleased to be able to assert
that the state of the country has improved,
and rejoices that he 10 on y parting officially
from his friendp.
The New York baseball club gained con
sderably yesterday by it's victory over Boz
ION Philadelphia played tie game with
Washington and tho two games between
Chicago and Pittsburg resulted in the for
mer losing one point and the latter gaining
one, while Indianapolis did but little harm
10 defeating Cleveland.
Mr.. Eben Appleton, of New York, wrote
to the War Department yesterday formally
declining to lend the old Star.spangled
Banner to the Baltimore exposition. Widow
Mcpherson, of Baltimore, claims that Mr..
Appleton has not the original flag, as it be-
ionged to her husband. and was buried with
him in Greenmount Cemetery.
A Shanghai Dispatch saya: Intense ex.
element prevails among the Americans re-
siding here in consequence of news received
from Pekin that prominent Chinese officials
have petitioned the government for the ex
pulsion OF all Americans from the country.
1t is reported that Prince Chun, the father
of the Emperor. is advocating the expulsion
of Americans"