Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UF LIE UdY.
Count Won Moltke's brother, Louis, an
ex postmaster of Denmark, Is dead. aged So
years.
Messrs. Gooderham & Worts Lave sod
their distillery in Toronto, Dat, to an EGG
lish syndicate for Sc 600, 900.
It is reported that Mr.. Wanamsker's dry
goods store. in Philadelphia, is to be boy
cotted in the South if he appoints colored
postmasters.
Mariners are warned of hurricane in the
Bahamas and cyclone in the Gulfof Next
co, which may join forces off the Atlantic
coast shortly.
Jim McCoy,a noted desperate of south
western Texas, was yesterday hanged at San
Antonio for the murder of Sheriff Mckinney
December &c, 1883.
Ex-senator Davis. of West Virginia, will
disappointed delegate to the Three Ameri-
cas- Congress, 10 place of Hon. w. Pinkney
Wbyte, declined.
Jimmy Hope, bank burglar discharged
Yesterday from Auburn, n. Y. prison, was
rearrested Tor alleged completely in the Man.
haitian Bank robbery in 1878
The captain and crew of the schooner
Nellie Pickup, which was lost in cyclone
in the Caribbean sea, arrived in New York
on the steamer Santiago yesterday.
The London Press Association says the
English government has intima.ed to the
United States its willingness to negotiate a
settlement of the Bshring sea matter.
An epileptlc in hospital in Ghent, Be-
GUM, yesterday, made an attack with o
fz,r upon other patients and gashed the
throats OF twenty -four of them before he was
secured.
President Harrison presided yesterday at
The annual reunion of his cid regiment, the
SEVENTEEN Indiana, at Indianapolis, and
in response to an address Of welcome made
a speech,
II Is said at the Slate Department that
no more diplomatic or consular appoint
ments may be expected until about the mid.
die of September. By that time, it is calcu-
lated, both the President end Secretary
Blaine will have returned to Washington.
Dispatches from Hayti state that Port gu
Prince s surrounded by Hyppolite's forces.
Petionville has been burned by order of
Legitime, and a million dollars worth of
property destroyed Port au Prince is
flooded with paper money and business is
paralyze
A collision occurred yesterday on the
Parkefsburg division of the B. ard 0. rail
road, near Petroleum. Engineer Lsyman,
fireman Baily and engineer Fletcher were
killed; Road Master A. Hunter was hurt
TO some extent. and a number Of passengers
we're slightly injured.
An affair of honor between Mr.. Rudolph
| Wilhelm, an artiot OF Madison avenue, and
| Dir. Ritterhsus, salesman for the biggest
! hop establishment in New York, ia creating
much talk there. 1t Is the current belief
/ that these gentlemen are preparing to meet
in a lonely part Of Staten Island to settle
their differences arising from dispute
about the veracity of Mr.. Ritterhaus.
Nellie Boswell, woman Of the town. dtd
at the Providence Hospital 10 Washington
Yesterday afternoon from injuries received
in iumping from the baci, window OF q room
occupied by Jim Noris st 1911 E greet.
The woman, befUre dying. charged that she
had been forced to leap from the window to
escape from Norris, with whom she had
been out walking, and with whom SIZE had a
fight,
Fred Schaffer the white boy who killed
Halsie Holmes, colored, at Mount Pleasant,
s. c., yesterday morning, was taken to
Charleston yesterday evening By detach
ment of soldiers and lodged at the station
house for safety After the military reached
Mount Pleasant, the Sheriff of Barley
county arrested seven of the riogleadeTs of
the negro mob and lodged them ip Jail. The
negro women were particularly violent in
their threats, but no serious trouble Is anti
cipated.
Yesterday was big day for fees. The
burning of the Empire and Pl o1ix Touring
mills, at St. Catharine'l, Oatario, mentioned
in the GAZETTE caused loes of 5000 600.
By the burning of Ssmmons. Clark & Co.'s
picture factory, Chicago, $50 600 damage
was done. The west side Of Farmont, Hi
nois, was destroyed by fire; loss $50 600.
The boiler shops of the Bigelow Company,
manufacturers of boilers, ST., at New
Haven, Conn, were burned; loss, $40 600;
partly insured.