Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OE THE UdY.
Nine men have been saud bagged in New
York since Ootcber.
It is claimed that more than half the COM
MERGE of the country passes through the
port of New York.
Joseph Kane, while resisting arrest. shot
snd probably fatally Injured Two Chicago po'
licemen last night.
It ia shown By the fish commissions report
that New York sewage is concentrating the
waters of Long Island sound.
The appraiser in New York has fixed the
Inheritance tax on the legacies of Mrs. Cor.
pelia NJ. Stewart at $3.50 900.
By the cayng in of an old mine at Ply
mouth, Pa, yesterday, houses were shaken
and the occupants terror stricken.
A consolidation of southern coal and iron
companies is. the latest big financial scheme
on foot among Wall street inancers.
The direct tax bill was reported back to
the House from the Judiciary Committee
yesterday. II has passed the Senate.
The Baltimore N. E. Conference. In seq.
sion at Cumberland, Nd, yesterday heard
the Rsv. Mr. GLENN preach his jubilee ser.
mon.
1t Is expected that the Lafayette monn-
msnt will reach Washington from Paris in
April II will be erected In Lafayette
Square, opposite toe White House.
A pump runner named Michael Malta fell
distance of four hundred feet down the
Cayuga shaft 10 Scranton, Pa, last night,
and was killed. His body was literally
smashed.
A party of capitalists have employed men
to sink a shaft at Berlin, in Frederick
county, Nd, in search of coal, and it is be
lieved rich vein of bituminous coal has
been struck.
In the Maryland House OF Delegates yes
terday the bill to secure decision of the
pact of 1885 between Maryland and Virginia
was passed.
Thos. Redy, the Washington fireman,
who was charged with stealing some of
Mrs. Tracy's jewelry on the day OF the
burning of Secretary Tracy's house, has
been acquitted.
1t is generally believed in Savannah that
Ward McAllister, JIG, Of New York, is soon
to be married to Miss Jennie Carmen, o.
Savannah, although no formal announce
ment OF tho event has yet besl made.
The conference at the Emanuel Evangeli
cell Church, at Chicago, has found Bishop
Bowman guilty of unchristian conduct and
dept sad him from his Office as bishop and
the ministry until the next general confer
eDce.
The cold weather 10 said to have killed the
peach crop in Delaware. In Kent county.
Nd, the Indications are that fair crop still
renaina. La Somerset county the peach and
early pea crops are reported killed. The
outlook in Caroline county is very unfavor'
able.
Ia the Senate yesterday Mr.. Blair said
be was unable to say when vote would
be taken on his educational bill. He said
other Senators besides himself wanted to
spesk on the BILL Mr.. Hale spoke in oppc-
sition to the bill and Mr.. Blair replied to
his criticism.
Edward Planter, of Nebraska City, Neb,
q follower of Iogersoll, died last week. "a
his death bed he ordered every inhdel book
in his house to be burned. and then called
his family to him and warned them from
the way he had led them saying that he a.
last reaIizsd the great mistake he had made
duriug his llfe
Mr. William Dudley Foulke, president OF
the Indiana Civil Service Reform As5ocia
ton. In the New York Times charges that
the President and his Cabinet have entered
into conspiracy to break down the civil
service reform system, and that the investi.
cation now in progress was the outgrowth
of the alleged plot or conspiracy.
At Cleveland, O., on Thursday, John n.
Hodgson, who for seven years had been en-
gagged to AddIe May Bishop, went to Miss
Bishops home and proposed that the mar
riage take place at once. She compiled and
they we're married. Hodeson then went TO
his room aud shot himself and died. The
| bride did not hear Of the suicide u1til yes.
terday, and when she went after the body,
learned that Hodgeon's relativ were 10
possession of it. NJ one knows why Hodg-
son suicided.
While Mrs. Mary Peterson was sitting at
her supper table 10 Chicago yesterday, the
door was thrown open, and q strange man,
with ferocious glare, suddenly entered tie
room, drew a revolver and, leveing 1t at
her head. fred. She sprang 10 one side,
and then, with bound like tiger, clutch
ed him by the throat. Chairs were over.
turned, and the table, set for supper, was
upset. At last the blood spurted from bis
nosris, when she re'axed her hold and fed
from the house. The police we're called and
the man, who had escaped from an insane
as lum, was arrested.
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