Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-01

neer Bunker Hill, five miles west OF Oswego'
n Y.
The public debt statement will show an
crease in ho public deb for November
of 81 900 000.
L is said !nat Eva Hamilton Will go On
The stare es soon as the suit In her hns-
bands will case is settled.
BIZ the Il ,oding of the Anna pit Of the
Biuex Mining Company, In Belgium, eighty
seven miners were drowned.
8 stay OF execution has been secured in
the case Of sbe negro murderer Wood, VINO
was to have beau eectrocused at Sing SinS
this week.
The revised list OF members Of Congress
shows 81 republicans, 2l7 democratic fu-
sion democrats end alliance. 81. Democrats
over all, 1903
George Francis Train c0ers to fast LOO
days with 6ucci. the New York faster, at
the Worlds Fair. Succ is much weaker
but losing less hosh.
The Bessemer plant of the Bsthieheu,
Pa Iron Company has shut down for an IL
definite time. Twelve hundred men arc
thrown out Of employment.
Burglars or Saturday night scaled the
walls of tne West Virginia penitentiary ct
Moundspille. blew open the cafe, secured a
sum of mcnsy aud made their escape.
l. is reported that the New York World
newspaper has been purchased from Joseph
Pull q r by a:PnIadelphia syndicate consist
ne OF Meesrs Chiids, Dfexel, and others, for
81 O00000.
q U S. sanitary inspector who boarded g
SnsuIsh schooner in Charlotte Harbor, Fla,
ss week, was thrown overheard and With
much cliff III ty reached shore. The schoon-
er sa.lsd eff spc her name could not ce
learn d.
John Towns.ad. wealthy man,
committed suicide at E1se,wood, n,
J.. On Sa urtiay afternoon by jumping over
the Paiisad. s, fsl ing distance Of l75 feet
afser Fl st ahoo lag himself. His head Wss
crushed spd LEFT arm broken.
Goverror.eleo; Tlliman, Of South Caroline,
aays in card that Senator Hampton Will
on defeated for reelection to the SeDate on
account of his osGu acte-that ia, his COM
mediation CT lhe Haskell movement, and
his interference with the family fight" dur
lug the campaign.
TIE Psntiu1 Appropriation bill for the
neg. f cei year b S been agreed upon ny
the euh-com Gittee having it in charge.
For the payment of pensions Sl33 173 OS5 is
aopropriet,d end fer examiog surgaoss,
81 500 900, sc increase of 5000 900 over the
current fiscal year.
President Polk, of the Farmers Alliance,
wuicb meets at Ocale, Fla, tomorrow, says
the farmers want iasucai reform and will
make war or the money kings; that the
people sill rule the country instead Of being
led bg putooracy; that. national banks
must go, eGd that seoionslism 10 longer de-
celves toe voters.
TIE Rev Mr. Brown, temporarily in
charge OF The Episcopal Church ut Middle
town, Nova Scotia, assaulted G. ID. King.
q divinity pdens, Gu railroad train at
Wolisyite NoVaScojis, Saturday. braaf.ir <
Ms noe cad backing both his ewes. bf-
csuso Me-. King sat on his hRt. The Car
foar was covered with b.ood from Mi.
King - wJ1nds.
Tba snuuai report of the civil service
oom5nie5lou, shnws that the classified ser
vice hos grown 90 as 30 include over 10000
persons Tho report states that political
CO, S, s,at!ors have practically disappeared
as factora III maSing removals. 10 the c,a5si'
fed sefvies CT the departments at WASH
ington As whole, the lazy has been faith
fuliV ana DCDsoJS I UioCVtQ III tEo dCys-ie v
ments fer thu past seven years.
The wheat crop OF the State OF Washing
ton is the larqest in its history, being esii-
mated az Is 600 900 bushels. The elevators,
warehouses ard box ;ars sl,ng the rail-
WAYS arc f d srd stacks of sacked wheat
do; TIE 6alds. The Inability of the rail-
roads TO move the enormous crop TO mar
ket is axsspsra:ing the farmera, WHO arc
charging them With coljusion with the
warehoraeuen 10 lower the price OF wheat.
Joseph and David N,celv, who were
uudsr sentence Of death !or the murder OF
Herman Umberger, a. Somerset, Pa, in
Juoe. 1885, broke j.. at o'cl 1ck Saturday
evening aud escaped, With two her prison.
ers. The escape ass effsc'ed by saving
locks from tae cell door aud from door
leading from the ATTIC, where hole was
made through he brick well. Tbs prlsoL-
ers reached the ground by means of a rope
taken from hagu moek in their cell. They
had been gone fifteen minutes before the
alarm was givap. David wAe rc-captured
to-day.
Buffalo Bill has been sent to arrest Sitting
Bull and remove him from the reservation.
Trouble is anticipated If the arrest ia a.
TEMPTED. The military ere surrounding all
the IuCian agencies where trouble ia likely
to occur. Gen D ]. Morgan, U. s. Com
mission of Indian effars has just returned
from "a extended tour over the reservation
OF the various Tribes of Indians IN Iodisn
Territory. eud says the ghost dancing has
entirely closed IN the territory, and that
there is absolutely DO hint of possibility OF
an outbreak or of any other trouble.
VIRGINIA NEWS.