Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Five men have heen sentenced to be hang.
ed at the Tombs, New York, on April %.
Thomas A. Edison says an alternating
electric current of 900 volts will cause sure,
instant and painless death.
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt has purchased
dwellings adjoining his Fifth avenue resi-.
dence and will construct great ball room.
Saares in the North American Salt Com
pany we're dealt in yesterday at the Stock
Exchange at II shillings pence premium.
Forty. seven boards of trade will be repre-
sented at the October meeting In Washing.
to to promote the Three Americas exposition
in 1892.
1t is said that the s46S 900 paid to the
representatives of the Creek Indians two
months ago has not yet been received by
the Indians.
1t is said in Washington that 1t would not
be surprising If the treaty agreed on at Ber-
lin regarding the islands of Samoa should be
rejected when it is considered by the Senate.
CoI.Robert Pages prominent lawyer and
editor, was shot and instantly killed at Mar
ion, n. c., Monday night, as he aighted
from train. The assassin mounted horse
and rode rapidly away.
Queen Victoria has waived her claim to
grants for the children of her daughters and
younger sons, but in the report to the CON
mittee on royal grants retains her right to
ask such grants should occasion require.
Mrs. Mary Brady, Of Lafayette, N. j., who
WIS convicted as common scold under an
old law which imposed a penalty of duck
Ing, was fined $25 aud costs, amounting in
all to over 5000, and thus escapes the duck
Ing.
Secretary Blaine, M. Roustan, the French
Minister, and party, spent yesterday with
Senator Hale ut Ellsworth, returning to Bar
Harbor in the evening. The fireman on the
train on which the Secretary returned WIS
his son, James G.. Blaine, jr.
A dispatch from Cleveland, O., says :
&c eveland opponents of the Standard Oil
Company in the Ohio oil and gas fields say
that the big trust is certainly engaged in an
effort to buy up control of the natural gas
landz of Ohio and Indiana
Marie Rosie Bablich, young woman of
Jersey City, lacked wedding fnery, and on
Monday night broke into former employ.
er's house and stole three dresses. She then
set fire to the house. The girl was arrested
before the wedding and confessed to the
robbery.
A recent fire at Lu Chow, China, burned
% houra, destroying 81 COG dwellings. Over
l 200 persons persisted in the flames and 400
were killed. Nearly 10000 people we're
obliged to camp out without shelter, and
we're dying at the rate of 100 day from
want and exposure.
The Boston baseball club strengthened
their grip on first place in the League yes
terday by defeating tbs Washingtons. aided
by Philadelphia victory over New York.
In the Association the only important
change was the Baltimores going ahead Of
the Athletics into third place.
The $4,000 stakes won in the recent
prizs-fght we're paid over to John L. Sulli-
van in New York yesterday, and the "tig
fellown started out to celebrate mis- victory
over Jake Kilrain, announcing that he would
distribute the diamonds in the famous belt
to his friends aud melt "the collar" into a
solid mass.
At Stoneham, Mass, Monday, Eddie Muir
ply, a deaf mute 10 years old, who with
two companions had built fire in wood
shed was burned to death. His comrades
ran out when they found the ehed had been
act on fire and shut the door, w hich fastened
with a spring, and before Mnrphy's tHsho'
could break in the door the child was Dura'
O. ]. Langdon, combined with the Van
derbilts, has purchased the interests OF Al
exander Fulton. Andrew Robertson, George
W. Marshall, Holden Chester and the entire
stock of the Beech Creek Ccal Company.
The purchase money was paid at Shamokin.
Pa, yesterday. The entire property trans
ferred involves in the neighborhood OF
So 100000.