Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-09-29
NEWS OF TEE DAT.

Conn.,, having suffered from her husDand's
brutality found en- end to her woes by suicide
yesterday.
The Standard Manufacturing Company
building in Allegheny City, Pa. caved In
Saturday afternoon. One man @as killed
and four seriously Injured.
During the morning service at st. Psul's
Cathedral, London, yesterday, man named
Easton, who was in the congregation. took
MS own life by shooting himself twice.
Il is rumored in Cincinnati that three
members of the board of pubic improve
msuts jp that city will be removed from
Office by Governor Campbell for irreguari-
ties,
A Young man named Madison, son OF q
Quaker Gap, Pa. millionaire, after squander-
ing fortune 10 dissipation, shot himself
| few minutes before he WAS to have been
married on Saturday.
The rush to get cousignmsnts of French
goods to the United SAFES before the Nc
Kinley bill goes into effect has caused sew
ersl extra steamers to De engaged TO take
cargoes from Bordeaux and hayre.
1t ia reported that ex-President Ruiher.
ford B. Hayes, is to DE married to a Vii
| pinia lady whom be met few months ago
while she was on visit to Ohio. She Is
widow and remarkably handsome woman
The wrecked war ships Trenton and Van
dalia, which were presented to the Samoan
government some time ago, have been sei1
| to San Francisco wreckipg firm, and the
WORK of removing the wrecks has already
| begun.
The House on Saturday evening as pre-
arranged adopted the conference report on
the tariff bill. All the democrats and three
| pubIicaus-Colemsn, OF Louisiana; Featf-
e!store, of Arkansas, and Kelley, OF kansas
voted against it.
At St. Chrysostom's, Trinity parish New
York, Bishop Potter yesterday baptized
four OF tbs children of Edwin L. Osbaldes-
ton, the infdel writer and lecturer. Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher performed the cere-
mony which united the parents to the
children.
At Rich Woods, Nicholas county, w. Va,
Saturday, a sevep-yesr-old son of Allie Hin
kIe took down his fathers rifle, when his
| five sear-old sister said, "Pl tell papa "
This angered the boy, who leveled the gun
at her and fred. The ball struck the girl
In the forehead, killing her instantly.
A gathering of Poles and others for the
discussion of religion, socialism and atheism.
held at Canmaker's Hall, Baltimore. last
night broke up In noisy row, the police
takiog @ hand and arresting about dozen
OF the dsturbers of the peace. They were
fined by Justice Hobbs.
A man named E7eus got such shock
while drinking a glass of soda In drug
store In williamsburg, New York, last night
that 1t isn't likely he will ever touch soda
again. He had just raised his glass when o
horse attached TO cab and driven by o
negro, plunged through the window aud
knocked him head over heels through the
side door.
II. G. Kemp, rear brakeman Of the coal
| train which caused the disastrous wreck OF
the Reading Railroad near Shoemaker5ville,
Pa, September 49, in which twenty-one per
sons were killed and Utility wounded, was
arrested Saturday at Reynolds Station
Schuylkill county, Pa, charged with man
slaughter. Kemp was found working on
farm, and be was held In 81 600 ball for
court.
On Saturday Postmaster Wheat, of the
House of Representatives, acknowledged
| before the committee investigating him thai
be had received regularly $3.50 month
fire. m the contractor for carrying the mails
Of the House posto flee. Mr.. Culbertsor,
the contractor, testified that 1t was on the
condition of paying Wheat $3.50 a month
that he received the contract Wheat al
first demanded 5000 q month.
Eight men were killed By collision OF
freight traits on The Baltimore aud Ohio
Railroad yesterday, near GAINESVILLE, Oaio.
The wreck was caused by the failure OF
telegraph operator to deliver an order. La
Ter he saw fis mistake and telegrephed the
operator at Y snesvilIe that there would De a
wreck pretty soon aud left his post. he is
8 mere boy. Both engines and q number OF
| cars filled with cats, coke, end merchandise
we're piled up in the greatest confusion,
causing loss OF 100000.
reformation recsived in Berlin from the
German embassy In Paris that the French
| minister of foreign sff4irs has negotiated
| with Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, the Anne min
later, for reciprocity arrangement between
France and the United States has summnTi-
~ settled the project of Count Kalnoky, the
Austro Hungarian prime minister. for CON-
biped repreals against the Uoited States ID
retaliation of the Mckinley tariff bill. Ad-
vices from Vienna indicate that the Aue-
| trian government also accepts the principle
of reciprocity.