Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There are fresh rumOI Vi hu aPPionS"hS
general election in England.
The reported engagement OF MIR. Jay
Gould to Mrs Nj. B. Flynn Is denied.
A father in Philadelphia. while intoxica'
ted Yesterday, fill on his infant and killed 1t.
A cvclone struck the village of Excelsior,
Ark Yesterday and blew down every house
In the place.
Republicans in Congress are doubtful
about their ability to redeem the pledge to
abolish the tobacco tax.
U. S. Senator Jos. E. Brown, of Georgia,
says he will retire from public lie at the
close of his present Senatorial term.
Nelly Bly, was among the callers at the
White House yesterday. She met the
President and he rendered her his congratu.
lations.
The Mississippi river continues to rise
rapidly and experienced river men say that
disastrous break in the levee5 ia almost
inevitable.
Mr.. Charles H. Reed, who was counsel
for Guiteau, has been living for two years
past In Baltimore, where he has very
pleasant home.
The Legislative Assembly of Arizona
wants to acquire enough Mexican land 10
secure to that territory deep water harooF.
Secretary Blaine is opposed to the request.
The coroner's Jury in Washington yester-
dav returned verdict that ex Congressman
w. p. Taulbee came to his death from shot
fred by Chas. E. Kincad, who was commit
ted to Jail.
The trustees OF Broadus College, w: va.
have unanimously elected Professors barns
and Powell, of the Virginia Midland Acad-
envy. to the positions of president anu vice
president of that institution.
"Tlppecanoe," one of the herd OF ele-
plants in the menagerie OF the fore,
paugh circus, in Philadelphia. WAS found
| dead Yesterday. He is the hrst elephan6
| known to have met with sudden death IN
this country.
The trial of the thirty persons arrested for
ynching Jacob Olsen on the night OF NO
vember "a, 1889, is in progress at Wnite
Hall, Wis Peter Loga, who was implicated
in the affair, hanged himself yesterday from
the fear that he would be convicted.
Last night in Baltimore q colored man
named William 81. Burke suddenly became
frantic and climbed outside of the windo"
of the second story OF his house and let the
window down. He then made spring and
| fell amid the crowd OF spectators, VINO scat
tered in all directions. Burke received no In
iuries other than slight bruises.
When Jake Kilrain reached Hot Springs,
Ark, to give an exhibition he found little or
no preparation had been made for his com
pany, and large percentage OF the people
left in disgust. AS the performance began
there was crash and the floor gave way,
falling distance of over one foot, but the
crowdgot out without serious damage.
The U. S. Senate yesterday adopted a
resolution defining the status OF the Presi-
dent pro tempore of that body. Senators
George and Hoar spoke in favor Of the Blair
educational bill, but they engaged in dis
cusaion which assumed sectional turn.
vote on the bill is to be taken next Thurs
day. The House wss engaged on the Okla
homa bill and made some progress.
In San Francisco yesterday the jury In
the case of Sarah AIthea Terry-widow OF
ex Judge David Terry, who was killed by
United States Marshal Nagle-on charge
of contempt in resisting the United States
marshal in the Circuit Court room in 1883,
when that officer had been ordered to re-
move her from the room for creating dis.
turbance during the reading OF decision in
the Sharon case by Justice Field, OF the
United States Supreme Court, fsiie1 to
| agree.