Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-17
NEWS OF TEE pkY.
Efforts are to be ioade to exclude lh'
Louisiana lotteIy from the msi!s.

EOGnEtOI Y nUEc VIII I'AH''sp'J $3.50
bate on tie tariff bill f0r the democrats.
Sir Adrian Dingli is reported to be AZ
pointed British negotiator to the Vatioan.
The report that case of Chinese lepFosy
Ia barbored In Mott street, New York, Is C.
MED.
John NJ. Allen was renominsied for Coz
gress by reclamation at Tupelo, M'ss.' yes
terday.
Cornelia Ward Whipple, wife OF Bishop
Whipple, OF Minnesota, died ct FsgibauIt,
MINI, yesterday.
The President yesterday nominated Al
Iured B. Nettleton, of Minnesota, to be an
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
l. Ia reported that Judge montgomery, CT
the District of Columbia Judiciary, will re-
sign and form law partnership with hon,
Dan M. Dickinson.
The present outlook is that Congress will
be 10 session until late in the fsi. Il issug
gested thet it may be the middle CT October
bafore adjournment.
The people Of Leland, Iowa, yesterday
held meeting and resolved to tar, feather
and cowbide every man attempting to sell
Intoxicating liquors in that place.
Frederick Faber. OF Ho5okeo, N. j., an
old man, yesterday attempted 10 kill HIM
self because his niece refused to marry him,
having fist threatened to kill her.
TIL, Maryland Republican Association
have resolved that al! the ex-Confederate
appclntees of Mr.. Cleveland in Washington
be dismissed and that their places be filed
by ex Uaion soldiers who ere republicans.
B. Shepherd White, the young society
man of Washington WHO wss arressed 10
Kentucky charged with forgsrl ard rot-
berry, has been brought back to Washington
ard put in iai He denies that he is O ne
gro.
An evening paper Of Halifax, N. s, states
inst private cablegram from ST. Johns N
F., says The Newfoundland bait cruiser
Fiona fred on Ffepch vessel which was
taking bait" No particulars nave bsen re-
ceived
The so called trace war" In Barnwel
county, g. c., was nothing more than 6
skirmsh between few white men and
some negroes, in which three or four msn
were either killed or fatally wounded. No
more trouble Is apprehcnded.
Gov. Hill, of New York. yesterday COM
nuted the death sentence OF Joseph Chap
eau, convicted OF murder, to one OF impfis-
onmeut for life, thus leaving kemmler to be
the frat person 10 be e!ectrocuted. Chap
ieau was TO have been executed some time
next week.
1t IS said that another prominent member
of the cabinet besides Mr.. Blaine is opposed
to thu election force bill. IL is believed that
the set Of the bill will be to make the
South more solid than ever by preventing
tina farmers alliances in that section f5om
separating from the democratic party.
The democratic State central committee
OF Maryland met in Baltimore yesterday and
Endorsed the appointment of Mr. Barnes
Compton as chairman and fixed the dates
for holding the Elk congressional nominating
conventions Marty all the ms mbeEs Of the
S ste central committee are for Cleveland
for President.
Arrangements for the establishment of a
new national bauk-the American-in Bos-
ton are about completed, g very consider
able portion of the capital of one million
having been placed. The bank will have
prominent New England ard southern cap
taliss in its directory, and will make spt-
cialty of southern business.
Ex-Secretary Whitney predicts that Mr.,
Roswell =. Flower will be nominated by SC
c'emstion rs the democratic candidate for
Governor CT New York next year, and that
Mr. Cleveland will be the democratic can
didate for the Presidency in 1892. He en-
phatically repeats his former declaration
that be 10 not candidate either for GubeI-
Material or Presidential honors.
The Ohio republican convention, "a sta
ted in the GAZETTE, met yesterday at
Cleveland and nominated Daniel ]. Ryan
for secretary OF State, Judge Thaddeus &.
Minshall fol judge of the Supreme Court,
and Frank j. McCuiioch for member of the
board of public works. ES-Goyornor John
B. Foraker, rs Temporary chairman in his
address, took upou himself the responsibill-
ty for the defeat ot the partg lsst fall. a
platform was adopted indorsing the nation
al republican policy, President Harrison,
the compromise silver bill, the fed
era election measure, expressing confidence
in ex-Gov. Foraker, thsnking thu repnbl!-
can congress and Speaker Reed for amend
ing the rules OF the House, aud warmly
commanding tho Mckinley tariff bill, es
p s,ed by the House.