Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UF HE Od1.
A slight earthquake shock was felt at
9:47 last night at Charleston, s. c.
A shark sixteen feet long was caught near
the iron pier at Long Branch yesterday.
The great Minneapolis -four mills are
likely to be gobbled up by English capital
lists.
Roof parties" are the latest novelties In
some of the tall structures on Manhattan
Island
An incoming shipmaster reports at New
York tc have seen twenty five icebergs on
his voyage.
The Snowdon Mountain, the loftiest
mountain in Wales, has been sold for 80, 100
1t forms part of freehold estate.
The plumbers and kindred trades unions
of New York, with $1,000 members, have
broken with the knights of labor.
George Wbitmcre, of Rochester, N. Y,
has complained to the police that he was
robbed of 81 OTIS by the girl he was about 10
marry.
AT Ballston, N. Y, yesterday the iary for
the trial of Doodle Alderman Arthur J. NC
Quade, of New York, was completed al
last, and it cost 81 900 to complete it.
George Law, the wealthy New Yorker 10
said to have been duped out OF s9O,ooO al
Daly's gambling house few days ago, nav
ing been induced to play while drunk.
It is said that the stories sent out from
Charleston. s. O., regarding the alleged
advances of DR.. Mellow to the Swiss maid
are wholly without foundation in fact.
Five persons were seriously Injured at
fire at Pearl and Front streets, Brooklyn,
last night by being trampled under foot by
runaway horses attached to fire engine.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has sur
prised the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany by reducing the rate for government
service from one cent word to one mill
word.
The Journal des Debats says that the
committee of the High Court recommends
that Boulapper, Dillon and Rochefort be ar
raigued on the charge of conspiracy against
the State.
A pair of swallows have built their nests
on the very summit of the Eifel tower.
right under the vast and Tapping folds oil
the great tri.color. The tower is more than
| 1000 feet high.
Don Fernando Cruz, the new minister
| from Guatemala, was presented to the Pfes-
ident Yesterday and made an address, IN
which he paid a glowing tribute TO the
United States.
Although be had an income of $3.50 900 q
wear, in addition to couple of palaces kept
up without cost to him, tine late Crown
Prince of Austria left debts amounting to
81 600, 900, all of which the Emperor has
paid.
M. Laguerre caused stir in the French
Chamber of Deputies yesterday, denouncing
the High Court and the government in gen.
| eral. He was censured and the Chamber
adjourned several times to get rid of him,
but he held the fort.
Thirteen per cent. of all the men married
in Pennsylvania last year married women
older than themselves. Seven per cent
took wives of their own ages, and the re-
| naming so per cent. married women young
or than themselves.
A vicious monkey on the rampage created
panic in West Philadelphia yesterday, So
riously wounding 5.year old Frank O'Don'
nell, and concluding by cleaning out Magis'
trate Clarke's Office. The monkey was
playing its pranks In the neighborhood.
while it's italian master ground out doleful
tunes on consumptive hand-organ.
The employees of Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'s
steel mill near Pittsburg have absolutely re
fused to accept the firms sliding scale Of
wages, and Carnegie will employ non-nnion
men. When thirty. one non .nnion men ar
rived at Homestead yesterday to work in
the Carnegie steel plant they were SO badly
frightened BY the strikers that only three
made their way inside the mill. The others
ran away, closely followed by the strikers,
crying "scab," but no stones were thrown
or blows etruck, and no one was Injured.
One hundred Pinkerton men have been en-.
ployed to guard the company property.
Col. VIM. P. Z,lllnger. a we'll known bus
mess man, gallant ez Confederate soldier
and the commaudant of the Fifth Mary.
land Regiment during the railroad riots,
shot and killed himself at his home In Bal.
timore yesterday while preparing to clean
gun with which he intended to go out
shooting. Colone. Z ,lllnger had suffered
for some time from dyspepsia. "Wednesday
night and yesterday he seemed depressed,
but the family strenuously repudiate the
theory of suicide. The coroner issued
certificate of accidental death.
Yesterday evening Frank Phillips. one OF
the Hattie Id Mccoy gang, of West Vir2inia,
for whom there ia large reward offered,
was at Grundy, Va, handling Winchester
rife and revolver, with remarks that he
would "don the people. He WAS uumolest-
ed. and during his wild career he struck
VIM. Keiser, an attorney, on the head with
revolver, dangerously wounding him.
While he was furnishing Keaer young
man sprang and caught his arm as ne nred