Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-01-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.


96 coo. against $1,000 in 1887. Ire bulk OF
the emigration was 10 America.
Ths hotel keepers arc to have q trust. i
is 10 be called the Hotel Mutual Association,
and is almost world. wide in its scope.
1t is said that soon after his term Of office
expires Mr.. Bayard will go back to VIII.
mington and renew the practice OF law.
The President naa directed the removal OF
Of Alfred L. Lewis, deputy Fifth Auditor OF
the Treasury, for neglect and ins!tentlon TO
mis- official duties.
In Mercer county, W. va, on Saturday,
the boiler of VIM. Carter's steam grist mill
exploded, killing FIVE men and seriously
wounding several others.
A passenger train was blown from the
rails near Fiume, Hungary, Saturday, dur
ing violent storm. Three persons were
killed and many injured.
The theory that the Whfsechapel murder
ar is Vassilyeff, the Russian lunstic. is dis.
proved By the fact that Vassilyetf has been
found to be an inmate of a Swi5s hospital.
The London Tablet asserts that since Mr..
Gladstone has been in Italy he has been
communing with Roman Catholic leaders on
plan to ameliorate the condition OF the
Baine's friends in Washington announce
that the long.looked for intimation has come
from IndiaDapolis-tha Blaine can be Sec
relary of State in Rarrison's Cabinet if ne go
desires, They do not say how il has come
VIM. Mann, an artist, shot aud killed mis-
niece, Carrie Jones, and committed suicide
in an uptown tenement in New York yes
| .erday. She was married woman aud bad
BEEN living with Mann as his wife for sever
g. years.
Il IS reported from Port az Prince. Hsyti,
thu; President Legitime's forces have been
defeated, and that fearing the capture OF
Por. au Prince by Hyppolte' army, he has
cabed to the French government to send
war ships to sustain him in power
A collection was taken up in the pew
Sumner Avenue Methodist Church in Brook
lyn yesterday, to pay oil the indebtedness
for building the church. Bishop N.wmen
preached end Rev. c. H PAYNE made few
rematks, after which $4,000 was collected.
The steamboat Paris G. Brown, from New
O.esns for Cincinnati, struck snag at
Hermitage Landing, Pointe Coupe Parish,
TT 9 o'clock Saturday night, and sank to
the hurricane deck. Five Of the cabin crew,
two firemen and one passenger are missing.
The members OF the Columbia Tura Yer
Elm, of Lake, IL, on Saturday presented a
petition, through Senator Cullom, recon-
meuaiug Cor gyess to make an appropria
ton au!liaicnt 20 pay Tutors to Instruct MIR.
Blair in the Iudiments Of history and other
branches taught outside of Sunday schools.
Pauama Canal bondholders have I'D
dressed a letter to NJ. de Lesseps Offering
him the Craftsmanship of q new canal com
pany to be formed by shareholders in the
present company. The new company will
bsy capital of several million francs and
will take the concern frem the old Paunma
company.
A suit for damages was begun against
Circus Proprietor Adam Forepaugh 10 Phil
edelphia on Saturday on behalf OF Buffalo
Bill, who claims that business with his Wild
West Show has been injured by Mr. Fore
paugh Initiating and trying to appropriate
the success" which TIE plaintiffs show hes
attained.
Lewis FuehIer, 6 new hand at the bnsi
ness, pulled the wrong throttle and sent the
cage crashing down the 600-foot shaft of the
mine of the Connel5vil!e Coke and Iron
Company, at West Leisenring, Pa, Satut-
dav. The blunderer and VIM. McFerran
and VIM. Shearer, who we're in the cage,
were mangled beyond recognition at the
bottom of the shaft.
Cora Belle Pagan, girl of Ii has applied
to the chief of police at New Albany, Ky,
for protection She said that seven years
ago, when but seven years OF age, while
PLAYING on 2 street in New York, where she
lived, she was kidnapped by negro. She
remembered nothing more until she found
herself in Nashville, where she was confined
10 an old diapidated shanty until last July,
when she made her escape.
Rev. Frederick: Bell. pastor OF The Contra!
Christian Church of Columbus, Oaio, who is
under cloud with his congregation and
who recently appiied for divorce from hs
wife, who is in England, is getting deeper
into the nre. On Wednesday Eight, after
tbs usual prayer meeting, be had ii 8ht
with an aged member of his church named
Finn, who denounced him as a rascal. The
tunbed over the pews in the church and
were liaaly parted.
Michael Rtzllo, an ITALIAN laborer,
known as "Red-No Mike" who was ar
rested near Wikesbarre. Pa, Saturday, has
confessed to his partc patton in the murder
of paymasters J. B. Mcclure and Hugh
Flanagan, on the m curtains. near Wilkes.
barre. in October laat. He Gays there we're
four men connected with tha crime. He
told the detectives where the riffs, revo :
vers and satchel used were secreted, and
they were recovered.
The North German Lloyd steamer Main,
while coming into the port OF Baltimore on
Saturday evening, ran into the steamer
Montana which was lying at the mouth OF
the Patapsco river, striking her and cutting
her nearly through. r. NJ Young. chief engi-
neer of the Montana. was crushed to death
Two hundred and fifty cattle on the Mon
tana were drowned The total loss is plsc-
ed at 500 600 The Montana will, if posi-
bic. be raised ct cnce.
At diplomatic dinner given by BIN in
Berlin Saturday Count Herbert Bismarck,
speaking to Count Von Haizfeldt, the Ger
man minister to Eaglsnd, promised, under
request of the Emperor, to exonerate Sir
Robert Morier, the British ambassador TO
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