Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-30
NEWS OF TIE Da7.

Jacob Astor, of New York, ia engaged TO
Miss Alva Willing, of Philadelphia.
Il has bsen found out that Manuel Gar
ratus, thought to be suffering from leprosy
In New YORK, has disease known as peae'
Representative Oats, OF Alabama, wants
the House to Investigate the charge that the
silver bill was gotten through Congress By
corrupt means.
An explosion of FIRE damp occurred in the
PelIissier pit at St. E.ienne, France, yester,
day. Il is reported that 100 man were kllieo
and So injured.
Congressman Elliott has made arrange
ment for government survey OF the South
Carolina oyster beds with a view to develop
ment of the oyster industry.
A fire that started in lumber yard at
East Saginaw, Mich, yesterday. spread over
five acres, destroying mills lumber, &9., TO
the extent of over 100000.
Four hundred Of the Armanlans who took
mart in the riotous demonstration against
the patriarch in the Armenian Cathedral,
Constantinople, Sunday, have been arrested.
During TIE past fiscal year the internal
revenue collected amounted to Sl42 OH 90
an increase of S11 700 262. OF this amount
Virginia paid So SIG. 195 and West Virginia
1901 ego.
Thirteen lives are believed to have been
lost by the collision in Baltimore harbor on
Monday Dght between tho steamers VIZ
oinia and Louise. The missing are believed
to have been drowned.
A home will be built on Eutaw street.
above Madison, 10 Baltimore, for the Protes.
ant Episcopal order OF "Al Saints Sisters OF
the Poor" 1t will be the mother house oil
the order In this country.
Oae of the most dlaboiical plots ever
planned to burn building was frustrated
in New York yesterday afternoon, and
hundred lives were thereby saved from
death By sufIocation and lire.
Hon. Leonard Rhone, master of the Penn
sylyania Grange, has Issued an address to
| the farmers of that State, 10 which he urges
them TO vote for Hon. Robert E. Pattison
| the democratic nominee for Governor
The train between Washington aud New
York, over the Baltimore and Ohio and
Reading Railroads, made the run the other
day of the last % miles between Trenton
i junction end Bound Book, in IS minutes, or
ut the rate Of over 50 miles an hour.
The Peoples Independent party OF Ne
breska met in State convention at Lincoln
Yesterday. An attempt to adopt the stand.
| ing platform Of the Farmers alliance proved
a failure. J. II. Powers was nominated for
Governor, defeating ex-senator Van Wyck.
General Master Workman Powdcrly, at q
Knights of Labor meeting at Scranton, Pa,
Monday evening, denounced the Lodge cleo
ton bill In most severe terms. He declared
that 1t would not only effect the people CT
the South, but the people OF the entire
c)untry.
Mrs. Margaret Geek burn ConklDg Steele
daughter of the late Judge Alfred Cork
ling aud sister of the late Roscoe Conk-
ling, died at her home in Jersey City Mon
day. She was On inspector at the custom
house. She was born In Albany county in
| 1914.
President Harrison, 10 message sent to
Congress- yesterday, urges strongly the en-.
actment of legislation that will enable the
United States postal authorities to exclude
from the mails all letters, circulars and
newspapers relating to the business Of the
Louisiana Lottery Company.
Miss Jennie Hartman, pretty aud ac-
compllshed girl, shot herself dead early yes
te7day morning. al Mertztown, near Sum-
NIT, Pa. Ten days ago Miss Hartman.
while playing in the garden, was bitten in
the cheek By her pet dog, and dTeadng
dydrphobia she committed suicide.
James E. Neal, chairman of the Ohio DEM
ocratc executive committee, predicts the
success Of the democratic ticket this year
and the election Of fifteen Of the twenty-one
Congressman. lie expresses the opinion
that the maiu Issue will be tartfreform, and
that the democrats will make gains Ia all the
rural districts.
10 the Mississippi election yesterday there
was no opposition to the fourteen democrat
ic nominees to the constitutional convention
for the State at large, aud the democratic
nominees were not opposed in as many az
half dozen counties ExGov. Alcorn and
ex-Chie; Justice Simroll, two leading repub
licans of the State, were placed on the dem
ocratc ticket and elected.
10 the U. S. Senate yesterday the debate
on the tariff bill vas participated in by Sen
atoIs Mcpherson, AidriCh, German, Hit
cock, VOORHEES, and others. Senator Cor
man stated that his views OF 1883 have been
modified BY 1855 and 1890, but that he stands
Nth the democratic party. He attacked
the republicans, aud drew out vigorous
speech from Senator Hiscock. 1t was the
liyiiest day of the tariff debate.
Mrs. Julia Mcclellan and her daughter,
Mrs. Charles f York, who live on a little
farm near BENCHES Station, on the 2. w. &
B. Railroad, while aslcop eacly yesterday
morning, were murderousiy assaulted with
an axe by James Meeks, weak-minded
fellow, who worked on the farm, and who
is distant cousin of Mr.. York. Meeks wss
arrested as be boarded train for Baltimore,
and is row locked up at the Central Station.
A Washington dispatch to the Philade!-
phia Record aye: Looking upon Blaine as
possible competitor for Presidential honors
In 1892, Harrison, Reed and Mckinley, who
have concluded 8 temporary alliance, are
ready to oppose every scheme he suggests
Harrison intstferred with his BebriDg Sea
negotiations; Harrison refused to ndorse his
Pan American reciprocity report. and Reed
and Mckinley refused to allow it to be con-
sidered in the ways and means COMMITTEES