Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

charters OF all iot'e'5
State.
The new French cabinet has Nj. de Frey
Gin ct as president ofthe council and minister
OF war.
It is now said that it ia E die Gould, and
not his father, Jay Gould, who is to marry
Mrs. Maurice Flynn.
Over 1000 men were yesterday cutting
ice near. Pittsfeld, Mass. for the knickel-
booker Company OF New York.
The latest slate in New York is Cleve.
land for President, Hill for the United States
Senate, and Chaplin for Governor.
The bill for the admission of Wyoming
and Idaho a. States has been recommended
for Immediate consideration by the House.
Harry W. King, project of the Pennsylva.
mia Institution for the Instruction of the
Blind, was arrested yesterday, charged With
sodomy.
revolt has broken opt in Afghanistan.
The Amer has been killed, and many OF his
oourticrs we're compelled to fee into Russian
territory.
Mr.. Lodge, of Massachusetts, introduced
in the House on Saturday bill to regulate
congressional elections By the Federal gov
eminent.
Negroes from the Arkansas side were dis
covered cutting the levee near Koseda'e,
Miss, Friday night, and were shot and
killed by the guard.
In Washington on Saturday Kate Friday
and Sarah l.. Lewess. the sbopllfters, con-
victed in three cases Of grand larceny were
sentenced to TIE Albany penitentiary.
Sufficient opposition has been shown to
the McComas bill. which proposes to put
the Congressional elections in the hands OF
federal officers, to foreshadow is defeat in
Congress.
The Pope has announced the formation OF
q hierarchy in Japan, with sees at Toxic,
Kioto. Nagasaki aud Snday, and an apos
tolic prefecture has been formed in the Ger
man Cameroonu.
The City of Mexico is to have the finest
hotel on the American continent. 1t Is TO
be erected by a syndicate of Mexican capt.
tolists and it's cost at the lowest estimate
will exceed 100000.
Charles Howard, painter, twenty-seven
years old, was arrested in Henry county,
Ala, q few days ago on charge OF Dlgamy.
He has four wives and married all OF them
10 less than four months.
All show of opposition to the reelection
; of Senator Vance. by the North Carolina
General Assembly, seems to have vanished,
,, and it is now conceded that be will certainly
succeed hmselfif be go desires.
A farmer named Amos Stanton, living
! near Brom6eld, Neb., shot and Instantly
killed W. w. Lewis, in hia store, in that
place. on Saturday, and was lynched In
thirty minutes after committing the crime.
John Garland, an Irishman, forty years
Of age, was arrested in Newberry, o, on
Saturday on a charge of having felonously
assaultipc his mother, who is seventy years
! Of age. An attempt was made TO lynch
him.
man at Winborne, England, sixty-sx
years old. married his twenty fVe-year old
servant week after his first wife died, and
on their way from the registers office the
couple were pelted with rice, -four and peas
by mob.
William Hunt, the sculptor, who for many
years has been engaged in designing interi-
or decorations for many prominent houses
of New York, has recently been wandering
about the country insane, and has been
taken in charge by his friends.
It is calculated by the republican politi
clans in Congress that with the aid of their
new election machinery they can obtain con
troll of every State south of the Potomac ex-
cept Virginia, Georgia and Texas, and they
do not by any means despair as to Virginia
1t is said that Mr.. Kin!ey rather likes be-
ing redistricted out of Congress, because he
thinks it will make bim the republican can
d date for Governor OF Ohio next year and
get him the republican Presidential nomina-
ton in 1892
The creditors OF Ives and Stayner, the
| L.. bou RI IN
FIVE cents on the dollar. The bail bond was
reduced from S250000 to So 000 and both
were released from Jail. The question arises
is failure success.
In Manchester, n H., yesterday morning
Mrs. Cheney. wife of ex Governor P. G.
! Cheney. while 10 q communicable state.
Yesterday, fell over the railing Of the stairs
to landing beneath, distance of nearly
twenty feet, and was very seriously in-
jured.
The President on Saturday issued a pro
clam alton ordering intruders on the Chero-
kse strip to leave, as the lands still belong
to the Indians and not to the United States.
The Oklahoma bill now pending N Con-
eress does not affect The status of these
lands.
The Louisiana Lottery COMPANY offered
the Governor Of Louisiana 100000 to be
used 10 protect the people of Louisiana
against the inundation in eqnence OF the
threatening condition of the Mississippi, but
the Governor refused the money because the
legislature meets shortly and bill for the
renewal or extension of The charter of the
company will be brought before it.
The dwelling honse occupied by the famI-
" OF John Nadon and Thomas LcZon, in Bay
CITY. Mich was discovered on fire early
Saturday morning. Mrs. Lozon in tryiugto
sacepe tainted away, tut was discovered by
her husband, VINO. in his excited condition,
threw Der out OF the window to the sidewalk
below, fatally ipjurine her. The 7-year.old
daughter of Nadop was overlooked and per-
ished in the flames.
On the Wisconsin Central train from Chi
cago Saturday night WAS pretty and we'll
/ dressed pitl of five years At Hurley. Wis,