Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-24
NEWS OF THE Day.

Hamburg.
Every ruling manarch in Europe is Ger.
man or has German blood flowing through
his veins.
Tramps ia Hackensack, n. j.. on satur.
| day robbed the tin box In the cornerstone
of the new Catholic Church.
General Longstreet has quite disappeared
from public sight. He is now keeping ho-
tel in the little town of Gainesville, Ga.
Cardinal Gibbons says that by proper re
igious and Christian instruction the negro
will become a useful element in the COM
mnnity.
The recent German elections show that
the government party was completely
showed under and that Bismarck was badly
] defeated.
The Rev. DR.. Talmage in Brooklyn yes
terday devoted his sermon to a eulogy of
the late Henry W. Grady, whom he knew
intimately.
President CARROT, of France, finds it i'm,
possible to pardon the Due d'Orlesns as be
intended, as Cabinet crisis would result
from such action.
Dom Pedro H., late Emperor of Brazil
and now an exile in Portugal, it is reported,
has decided to write letter to his former
subjects resigning his sovereignty.
Mr.. Ruahton, ex assistant cashier Of the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Philadel.
phia, com mitted suicide In house of Ill re.
pute in that city on Saturday night
Later details of the Russian brutality al
Kara, Siberia, state that the women were
assaulted before being logged to death.
Thirty of the male exiles took poison.
GzkL LII; ,S
| Newark, n. j., threatens parents with ex
children from the public schools, which as
yet they have failed to do.
A family consisting of husband and wife
and FIVE children were seriously bnrned by
the explosion OF an oil lamp in the cabin OF
q canal boat in New York yesterday. One
of the children has since died.
The various American, British, and Do.
minioan schooners that have been recently
seized by the Colombian authorities at Car
thagena for contraventon of the customs
laws have all been duly released.
john Jacob Astor, who died on Saturday,
inherited vast fortune from his father, and
managed bis estate In such way that it IT,
creased at an unprecedented rate. Ii has
reached the enormous sum of $3.50 100000.
Rudolphe Dubois murdered his wife, his
mother in-law and two children at the viii
lage of st. Albans, Canada, yesterday. Du-
bois for some time has been on bad terms
with his mother-in law and quarrels With
her were frequent.
Mining operations in Montgomery county,
Md , are now being carried On by no less
that ten different companies and individ-
uas. Four mills are In full blast, and
quartz is being mined at the rate of seven
hundred tons day.
George Dowell, of Sriug Hill. Mo-, last
night set shotgun trap for q thief in his
barn 80 that the gun would be discharged
| when the barn door was opened. Mrs
Dowell, not knowing of the trap, opened the
door and received the whole charge full in
the breast. She died instantly.
The large storage dam at Prescott, Ariz.,
gave way before midnight Saturday, oaus-
ing great damage and the loss Of about forty
| lives. The first intmation of the appalling
disaster was a sound resembling thunder,
and at the same Instant perpendicular wall
OF water fully fifty fest high came rushing
down the valley with Incredible force, carry
ing everything before it.
1t is reported that the experts have deci
ded that 1t ia possible to construct the Pan
anna canal only with locks. Some engineers
favor plan at of operation embodying two
locks which might possibly be com pleted in
four years at cost of f2S.000,000. 1t is
also stated that seven tenths of the work
yet remains to be done, and that the canal
ia beginning to fill with sand.
Charles Robblng spent an hour on Wed
nesday evening teaching his little nephew
how to handle revolver near Winslow,
Pike county, Ind. The weapon used was
empty. After the lesson the boy was put to
bed and the uncle loaded the weapon and
went to sleep himself The boy awoke early
next morning, procured the pistol, cooked
it, aimed at his sleeping tutor and pulled
the trigger. The bullet pierced the heart
of the sleeping man, killing him instantly.
Mr.. James E. Cooper. of Philadelphia,
has Just purchased the Forepaugh show and
ever thing connected with it. Mr.. Cooper,
the new proprietor, was 70 merly partner
of James A. Bailey the present equal owner
| with Z. T. BarDum), and was more recently
a member of the firm of P. T Barnum & 90.
| The price paid is not stated. Mr.. Adam
Forepaugh, IT,, and Mr.. Julian A. Forepaugh
will be interested in the management OF the
show during its trovels There will be no OPP
position now with Barnum & Bailey.
Reports from China state that the storm
of Jan. 24 swept about a Thousand boat7,
containing over $500 people, from the Boshu
coast. Nine hundred of these boats, with
all on board, were lost. On the came dae
eleven boats were wrecked of Tobishima.
and fifty fishermen were drowned. On Jan.
25 tweni y-three fishermen we're drowned
off the coast of Maschawa. Further news
Of the storm on the Chinese coast Is to the
effect that on Jan. 26 the storm swept to sea
800 fishing boats from the Toukomo and
Chosie Kadsusa districts. Funeral services
we're held for about six hundred fishermen
supposed to have been drowned.
at the recent semi annual examination at
the Naval Academy there were 81 failnres,
among them being John Curlett, and r. B.