Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-25
NKWs M THE DAY.

soldier who had his back sprained while
PLAYING during the war has just peen pen
stoned.
The President has Issued proclamation
uorninp persons against entering the waters
of BehriDg sea.
The democrats carried the municipal cleo
ton at Hagerstown, Md, yesterday, gain
ing the mayor and the control OF the city
council.
Gov. Jackson, of Maryland, inspected the
courthouse at Port Tobacco yesterday ard
afterwards vetoed the bill to remove the
court to La Plata.
The bill to transfer the weather bureau
from the War to the Agricultural Depart.
ment will be favorably reported in the
House of Representatives.
The firm of Ross Campbell & Co., former
y of Baltimore, made an assignment IN
New York for the benefit of creditors yes
terday. The liabilities are over S125,OO
The chances for the pardon of Mrs. Eva
Hamilton, whose petition, numerously sign
ed. has been presented to the New Jersey
Board of Pardons, are said to be excellent.
Mr.. John 8. Harden, for many years
treasurer of the Western Maryland Railroad,
fell dead of heart disease in the Merchants
and Farmers Bank, in Baltimore yesterday.
Mr.. Pendleton, of West Virginia, who
was ousted by minority of the House, Is
comforting with the democratic leaders
about the course to be pursued to bring his
case before the courts.
Farmer Frank Genther, of ,Merchantville,
| n. j., was yesterday convicted ard SEN
fenced to ten years. imprisonment for tor
turing his wife by cutting her about the face
and body and choppiDg off her fingers.
Governor Hill, of New York, has sum
moned Sheriff James A. Fiack, convicted
with his son William Flack and Lawyer
Joseph Meeks of conspiracy, to show cause
why he should not be removed from Office
The trial of ex-Priest Boyle has been set for
Thursday in Raleigh, N. c., and the sheriff
has been ordered to summon Especial venlre
of one hundred men. Boyle appeared In
court yesterday and seemed in good spirits
He has turned out full beard and whis-
kerr, and is much changed in appearance.
Cecil M. English, discharged street-cal
conductor, yesterday shot and killed Jas
Fitzgerald who was the conductor In charge
of car on street line 10 st. Louis. The
murder was due to jealousy. English anc
his wife had separated on account OF titZ
gerald, and the latter was boarding witt
Mrs. English.
A deputation of the Paris Chamber o
Commerce waited upon the Minister fol
Foreign Affairs In Paris yesterday morning
TO make formal protest against the pro
visions of the Mckinley bill. Were thi;
measure to pass the Washington Senate. the
deputation said, French manufacturers
would find it very difficult. not to say i'm
possible, to export into the United States.
Ia the British House of Commons last
night Mr. Balfour, chief secretary for Ire
land, introduced bill for the purchase o.
land in Ireland and for the improvement o.
the poor and more congested districts. The
bill provides for the establishment of an
Irish land department; the establishment
of department to regulate the valuation
and sale of land provides for government
aid to tenants who desire to become owners
of estates and the protection of the guaran
Tee fund.