Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Red Cloud, an Indian chief. is III Wash
ington.
The President has appointed Jas. A. Sexton
postmaster at Chicago.
Mr.. Meyer says he will not retire from
the presidency of the 3. & o. r. r.
Mr.. Parnel has Instituted suit against
the London Times for libel, claiming 100000
damages.
The bears at the Washington Zoo had q
battle yesterday, but none of them were
much hurt
Ex-President Cleveland has declined the
appointment es commissioners of the High
Bridge park. New York.
Mr. William Havemeyer says the sugar
trust changes, ETC., are no concern OF the
public. Yet sugar famine is possible.
Twenty one hotels in the Catskill noun
tains have announced that they will refuse
40 receive Hebrew boarders during the com.
ing season.
H.. Bagessen, Giadstonian candidate, de-
feated MIR Davies, the liberal unonist CAP
ddate, in parliamentary election held In
Rochester, England, yesterday.
Lake Emerson, horse dealer from Bowl:
ing Green. Mo, was yesterday acquitted OF
charge of murder, in killing man named
Robinson, who attempted TO rob him on TX
ford street, London.
The Committee on Ways and Means OF
the Baltimore City Council yesterday de-
cided TO recommend a tax of 81 SO Oh every
one hundred dollars Of sssessable property,
on taxable basis of 1912, 900, 600.
DR.. Samuel W. Gross. one OF the most EN-.
| ;.n,I ot;i;onor- Of iIo6alnhia died vna-
terday, aged 90 years. He was son of the
late Prof. Samuel D. Gross and succeeded
his father in the chair of surgery In Jefferson
College.
All the democratic partisan bills ir the
| Neg jersey Legislature have been passed
| aud the Calendars are clear of this class OF
legislation All caucus measures will be
coma law Final adjournment is expected
on Friday
The Beet Sugar Company was ncorpora-
ted ut San Francisco yesterday, with CAPT
tai of IS 100000, with Louis Schloss, A. H.
Cults, T. Ehrmann, Claus Spreckels and
John D. Spreckels as directors, the last two
holding half of the stock.
The baseball season of 1889 virtually
opens to day, when the clubs OF the Ameri'
can Association begin their battle for the
cham pionship. The League season will
open next Wednesday. Each club will
play 40 games-70 at home and 70 away
The suit OF Frank j Primrose to recover
heavy damsges from the Western Union
Telegraph Company, arising from an exces
sive purchase of wool in June, 1887. owing
to mistake made by receiving operator
in cipher message, ended in favor of the
defendant in the United States Circuit Court
at Philadelphia yesterday.
Gen. Segel has resigned as pension agent
OF New York, and says he will make good
the frauds committed by his son who has
been sent to the penitentiafy, go the dis.
patches from Washington sav. Per contra
! General Siegel said in New York last night
that the report to the effect that he had re-
signed was not true. He had not resigned
and did nat intend to at present.
A sensation has been caused at Camden
NJ, by Mr.. Frank Adams charging ex
United States Senator Cattell with improper
intimacy with Mrs. Adams Il is said that
Adams found his wife and Cattell in a com
promising situation and that he struck Cat
| tell and drove him from the house at the
point of revolver. Divorce proceedings
are likely to be commenced. Cattel is x
years of age.