Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Count Andrassy. formerly prime minister
of Austria, Ia dying.
The charity ball 10 Washington last night
was brilliant affairs.
1t Ia deemed pretty certain that Senator
Germans harbor bill will not pass.
The great statue of William Penn, 81 feet
four inches high is about to be cast in broIz re
at the Tacony Works, Philadelphia.
Cardinal Gibbons yesterday entertai med
at dinner Bishop Keane and other members
OF the faculty of the Catholic University.
Mr.. Richard II. Edelen has declined Gov.
Jackson's offer to appoint him as Chief
Judge of the Southern Maryland circuit.
A trust, which includes the absorption OF
all the cracker bakeries in and around New
York, has been practically completed.
The trial of the English cotton buyers for
import pg under contract English cotton
graders is 10 progress in the United States
Circuit Court at Norfolk.
Sister Rose Gertrude, of England, who
will take Father Damien's place in attend.
log the unfortunate people stil!c with
leprosy on the island of Molokai, has arrived
in New York.
The hearing in the Marquis Lampson con-
test case for the lieutenant governorship
was concluded in the Ohio senate yesterday
evening, and Lampson republican, ousted
by strict party VOTE
The captain of steamer which arrived at
Bremen yesterday from New Orleans picked
up on the Atlantic life boat and number
of articles supposed to belong to the steamer
Erin, reported "a lost.
Arthur Blake, the alleged adopted. son OF
Arthur Gorham, the millionaire cattle deal
or of Kinsley, Kansas, on trial at Kinsley
for attempting TO blackmail Mr.. Gorham,
pleaded guilty to the charge yesterday.
On Thursday Lucia u .rate, the Mexican
midget, said to be the smallest human be-.
ing In the world, who was passenger on
one of the snow bockaded trains in the
west, died at Truckee from grastric fever.
Since the death of her son Rudolph the
condition of the Empress of Austria has
been very sad. She Is subject to great de-
preston of mind and eettIed melancholy,
and gives undoubted evidence of insanity,
hereditary in her family.
In New York yesterday the Sixth Nation
al Bank was closed and thrown out of the
Clearing House the Equitable Banks checks
went TO ptOlesi, bDu Iuo AcuOA LII OanA
suspended Depositors will lose no money
probably, but stockholders will.
Richard Goodwin. an old negro, cut his
throat In court while on trial at Holly Hill,
8. c., yesterday. One of his daughters
swore out an affidavit against him for as.
saulting her. At the conclusion of his
daughters evidence he drew his knife and
cut his throat.
Al attempt was made last night to blow
up the residence of Rev. Father Fieckinger,
of ct. Joseph's Catholic Church, of Mans.
field, Pa, with dynamite. 1t is supposed
the object was to kill Father Fleckinger,
and he says he believes the attempt was the
work of anarchists.
Assunta Porccuto. an Italian woman, who
Is on trial 10 New York for killing another
woman, while giving her testimony yesser-
day suddenly threw up her hands and
screamed In Italian: ION, my sister Anne.
lie, come down from heaven and tell all
that am innocent" The wretched woman
waved her hands In dalrious way, and
finally swooned. Her action created some
thing of panic 10 the court room and Judge
Fitzgerald at once suspended the proceed
ings OF the trial.