Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Austiu Corbin has resigned from the Phil
adelphia and Reading coal and iron comps'
ny.
The victory of the democrats at the AL
bsny IN. Y. election is considered tarin
reform triumph in that city.
George Fields, bright mulatto, sged 26
was hanged at Scranton, Miss, yesterday
for the murder of Jennie Moslsy.
Frederick Kimbal, teller of the Peoples
Savings Bank of Worcester, Mass. has abb
seconded with S43 500 of the banks funds.
A bill was introduced in Congress provid-
ing for the building of new custom-house
at New York not to cost over i've million
dollars.
Sheriff Sickles, of New York, has appoint
ed new warden for Ludlow street jail.
and has asked the Legislature to pass bill
increasing the fees OF the sheriff's office.
John ]. Flynn, thrteen-year-old boy, Of
New York, died yesterday from alcoholic
poisoning. His father Gays he has drunk
Whskey almost daily since he was baby.
Speaker Reed was the chief guest at the
banquet of the Young Republican Club in
Philadelphia last night, and made re-
spouse to the toast The Republican Par
| ty."
George Nicholson, of South Omaha, be
came involved in o quarrel with his daugh
ter Yesterday, when she shot him in the
right leg and thigh inhicting probably fatal
wounds.
A cave in occurred at Mayville, Pc, yes
terday, which swallowed up two houses
in the heart OF the village, and there are
fears that it will continue and do great dam
age to the place.
In Chicago yesterday the jury in the case
! of Henry Lyons, aged 10 years, charged
with the murder of Per Peterson, found
him guilty of murder in the first degree,
and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment.
Many officers in the German army desire
/ to retire from the service owing to their dis
satisfaction with the recent order OF Emper-
or William reducing the scale OF private 10
comes necessary for securing commission
in the army.
The 25th anniversary of General Lees
surrender was celebrated in New YORK,
Brooklyn and Baltimore yesterday. In the
latter city the Union Veterans of Maryland
arraigned the legislature for voting money
for the aid of the Confederate Home OF the
State.
10 Floyd county. KY, on Saturday last.
Talt Hall. aged 81 years, eloped with the 10
year old daughter Of Cannes Turner, con-
stable at Goodloe. The couple were follow.
ed by the father and overtaken, but Hall
refused to deliver up the girl. Firing com
menced Immediately, and Turner was killed.
Hall escaped and is still at large.
At. West Greenwich, r. 1 after the polls
closed Tuesday afternoon and the vote had
been counted disclosing no election, the
democrats organized another meeting and
, elected two members of the Legislature.
The complexion of the next general assem-
bly, now stands forty nine democrats and hf
ty-two republicans, with pine members to be
elected.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, says
"Tnis is the centre of the worst flood on the
Mississippi River between Memphis and
| Vicksburg. The town ia completely under
water, and about half of the population has
deserted it. The houses all stand In water
from four to six feet deep. Merchants are
doing business on scaffJlds built with false
floors on the levee."
Intelligence of Il horrible murder comes
from Hibernia, small town in New Jersey.
On Monday night party of Hungarian
miners were drinking 10 saloon, when
quarrel broke out between three OF the
party. Two OF the men iZ3d the otner ana
smashed his skull, then beat and kicked him
until life was almost extinct, and wound up
by hanging him to tree.
In the U. S. Senate yesterday the Chi
nese census enumeration bill was further
discussed. In the House bill was report
ed from the committee on war claims APP
propriatiDg SIS 447 ,945 for the payment Of
damages sustained by citiZons of Psnnsy
vania from Union and Confederate troops
during the late war. The House insisted
on its amendment saddlDg the District Of
Columbia with half the cost of the zoolog-
cal park.