Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-18
NEWS OF TIE DaT.

A number of prominent residents of Fez
have been arrested for en- attempt on Tue
life OF the Sultan Of Morocco.
President Harrison has made several IL
vestments in the name OF his wife, on TIE
Potomac, in Montgomery county, Nd.
Chicago's new Masonic Temple will be the
highest bulldog in the world. II will have
Is stories, and the roof will be 24O feet from
the pavement.
The schooner May, from Fortune Bay, N.
F., with eeven hundred quintais OF couhsh
On board, has been sezAu by the French 10
the harbor OF S.. Pierre, Miquelon.
TIE office holding friends Of PFtslder t
Harrison received set back in the ouating
of tie administration delegates from the
Maryland State Central Committee.
A correspondent at Washington OF the N.
Y. Herald shows how three republican FAC
tions under the respective leadership OF
Blaine, Harrison and Reed are wrecklng the
G. o. P.
A tickle woman In Susquehenna, Pa, sic ,
ed bv d hired man, tied her husband ana
then eloped with her companion. recon
Citation occurred. which was followed by
shooting ARRAY and arrests.
The President yesterday nominated J.
Lewis S!ackpole, of Massachusetts; HendeE
son w. Somerviile of Alabama, and terci-
pand N. Shurtief, of Oregon, 10 be general
appraisers of merchandise.
Mr.. Jas. Gordon Bennett will remove the
New York Herald establishment to hand
some building to be soon erected on the lot
bounded by Broadway, Sixth avenue Thit-
IS fifth and Tbirly-sixth street.
Last night the steamer st. Lawrence ran
down the steam pleasure yacht Cathiane
about @ mile below Alexandria Bay. There
were several passengers on the Cathlene be.
sides the crew. Ali but FIVE were picked up
The U. S House of Representatives yes
terday passed the land grant forfeiture bill.
The bill, which is Senate bill with House
substitute therefor, forfeits all lands granted
to aid In ;he construction of railroad oppc-
site to and coterminous with the portion OF
any such railroad not now completed.
Speaker Reed has grown weary of the alb
solute waste of time in the House, and yes
terday ordered Sergeant-at-Arms Holmes to
notify ell the absent republicans that they
must be present next week. He is deter
mined to have quorum ofrepublicans prss-
ent, and will then proceed to business.
Ia the United States Senate yesterday MIR.
GIDaOD Cuereu reSoiutlOn ulreCtinE lbe Csc'
rotary of War to report upon the practice
| blity and probable cost of laying out and
constructing an avenue along the Pt-
! tcmac river as far as Rock creek, and thence
| aorg Rock creek to Columbia Park, and
thence to the Soldiers Home.
TIE body of Maggie Mcguire, the yonng
married woman who IVES drowned oil Glou-
cester on Tuesday while bathing. according
10 the story of her companions, was recov
cred yesterday of Silver Lane boat-house.
The Gloucester police have theory that
| the woman was choked to death and thrown
overheard by one Of her companions, man
canned Thomas Bryan, who mas not been
arrested.
The Farmers Alliance and Uui;ed Labor
Party convention at St. Paul. Milan yestel
day sdopted the report of the committee On
resolutions II demands that the war tar
G'' be radically revived, especially de-
bouncing the Mckinley bill SO the GROWN
ing infamy Of protection" The convention
got Into hot debate over the nomination
for Governor, Ignatius Dounely and r. J.
Hall being the leading candidates, but 5 Nj.
Ovens wss finally chosen as compromise
man.