Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-01
ERws OF THE DAY.

81 u;ll 81 Nav York, sent TO the Sen
~ iost niaht veto of the Saxton ballot re.
form bill.
A fire at the Washington Orphan Asylum
Yesterday was extiuguished without Injury
to the inmates.
Over four thousand immigrants were land
ed az New York yesterday and many more
are on the way.
Hon. W. L. Wilson, of West Virginia. has
decided not to accept the presidency OF Inc
State University of Missouri.
There-are over twenty-eight bundred sa-
looms in Baltimore, and 1t is estimated tnae
two.thirds of them will apply for the SOU
license.
The republican Tariff bill presented by
the Ways and Means Committee, will cause
reduction Of forty.6ve million dollars In
the revenues.
The first official act of Gen. Sickles, the
new sheriff of New York city, was to take
into custody his immediate predecessor in
office-ex-Sherif Flack.
Samuel Strong and ]. Humphrey Brooke
were arrested in Washington yesterday, on
charges of conspiracy, etc. 10 connection
with the famous Butler Strong litigation.
Charles Kinkel, of Washington has been
awarded the honor of having furnished the
hast design for tower to be erected in Lon.
don which ia to exceed the Eiffel Tower IN
height.
Three families yesterday made narrow
escape from fire in Schenectady, n. Y. the
wife OF aaloon-keeper being lowered from
window with rope made of twisted oeo
coverings.
A serious explosion occurred yesterday at
the Coaburg mines of the Sloss Iron ana
Steel Company, eleven miles from Brmng'
ham. on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, kill
log four men and iDjuring eight others. Con
victs are worked at the mines.
Ed. Myers, Isadore Lowenstein, A. Marks
and Ike Edelmap, Russian Jews, are IN Jail
in Louisville, charged with arson. Ihey
were caught building a large ire In the
midst of the shattered district, The lire
was extir guished before it had made much
Roadway.
Jerome Baker, aged 65 years, was found
murdered, with his head nearly severed
from his body, in his house at Homer, N. &
Yesterday. His son Charles, who was asleer
in the house, was arrested, being unable to
give any account of the affair. The elder
Baker recently lost $50, 600 in speculation.
The United States Senate yesterday pass
ed the dependent pension bill, after voting
down the Mr.. Plumb's amendment remov
ing the limitation as to arrears of pensions
etc. The Montana senatorial election con
test was then taken up 30 es to make it the
"unfnished business" The House, after
amending the army appropriation bill
passed it.
The Maryland Legislature adjourned laei
night sine die. Before the adjournment MIR
: Meoy offered resolution declaring MIR: Ar
cher, the State Treasurer, guilty of malfeas
ance in Office. and calling for his impeach
meut and removal, but it was defeated. The
important measures adopted during the ses'
were: The bill redistrcting the State so a;
TO make FIVE of the six Congressional dis
tricts surely democratic; the high-license
liquor law forBaltimore; the "Auatralan-bal.
lot" system for Baltimore city and several
of the counties; registration law for the
whole State, and the bill authorizing the
lease of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal to
the Cumberland and Washington Railroad
Company,