Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A case of sporadic cholera has appeared
in New York.
In the great Harvard-Yale rowing race at
New London, Conn.,, Yale beat Harvard five
lengths.
The British bark Ecuador. f, ON Buenos
Ayres for Bar BADGES, has been lost with all
of her crew.
Queen Christine of Spain assembled dis.
lance of one thousand feet in an army bal
loon yesterday.
In Baltimore yesterday evening, colored
man snatched pocketbook from Mrs. Hart.
man, and escaped by jumping into the falls.
The express companies will sue the au-
tborities of Leaven worth, Kansas, for SELF
ing packages of liquor under the prohibition
law
Thunder storms have never been 30 fire.
quent In Paris, as since the E;ffsl Tower has
| been there and it is becoming recognized az
the cause.
Rev. David ]. Bea,e, chairman of the
Jamestown morgue committee, Issued his
report yesterday. He has a record of about
800 bodies.
The French government has ordered an
inquiry to be made into the causes for the
purchases snd shipments OF cattle from Sa.
voy to Germany.
The Producers Oil. which has caused go
much concern to the speculative trade, was
sold to the Standard Oil Company in New
York yesterday.
Rev. w Douglas, assistant rector of Trim
ity Church, New York, will succeed De
William Leonard Bs rector of ST. johns
church, Washington.
The French Chamber of Deputies yester-
day voted urgency for the Panama canal
relief bill, and later in the session passed ii
by vote of 3SS to So.
John Gottfreund, an old and dissipated
German, of Paterson, N. j., and four women
who lodged in his apartments we're fatally
a7phyxiated by gas last night.
In Washington yesterday in the criminal
cour. nolle prosequi was entered In all OF
ne cases known a5 the Star Route cases,
some of which were tried in 1882 and 1888.
The U. S. treasurer to-day mailed 50, 1876
checks. representing $7,727, $3.50 in payment
of the interest due July 1st next on regis
tered per cent. bonds and on bonds Issued
in aid OF Pacific railroad companies.
The President yesterday appointed Dan
lei N. Ransdell, OF Indianapolis, to be mar
shall of the United States for the District Of
Columbia, and Frederick Douglass, of the
District of Columbia, to he minister reslden;
and consul general OF the United States to
Hayti.
Whales are reported unusually mum
erous along the Maine coast. Oae of the
Boston steamer captains says That on late
trip 1t looked % if the boat was running
into bed of rocks, which proved to be
| whales, over which the sea was breaking
Two men with an order purporting to
come from Gen. HASTINGS, appeared at the
home of Mrs. Moses Kelly, in Morrellville,
near Johnstown Pa, yesterday, and asked
for Leona, the II year old daughter of G
A. Smith. They said they would take her
10 the Orphans Home. in Pittsburg. 1t now
DEVELOPS that Gen. Hastings never signed
such an order, and it is feared the young
girl was kidnapped
bud" Remand, vino has charge of the
arrangements for the Sullivan -Kirain prize
fight, took p trip over the Louisville and
Nashville road yesterday to look at num-
Der Of localities on that line that have been
suggested as good places for the fight to take
place. The Attorney General of Louisiana,
after examining statutes, reports that there
il no law against prizs fighting in that State,
and that no proceeding would lie against
pr'zs fighters except for breach of the
peace.