Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-22
NEWS OF THE Day.
The total pumber of licensed drinking 81

The total DumDer OF llceneeu uFthBtne 81
looms in New York at present is $3.50.
The amount of State Treasurer Nolan's
defalcatiop will be made good TO the State
of Missouri.
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught ar
rived ct Victoria, B. O., yesterday, end we're
enthusiastically welcomed.
The Senate Naval Committee yesterday
reported fsvorebly bill to provide for
dry dock at Alg!ers, La, to cost $500 600.
Andrew Carnegie is engineering a COZ
vention Of iron aud s:eel manufacturers OF
the world to be held in New York next fall.
Two transatlantic steamers brought 10
New York yesterday 2093 passengers, and
Oh the voyage man killed himself on each
of the vessels.
The Wsddell collery, in the vicinity of
Luzarna, Pa, has bsen flooded and eleven
men who were working 10 the mine we're
shat in, but were rescued with much dill
Guilty.
The Virginia Athletic Club has offered
S25 coo for meeting between John l.. Su'-
livan and Peter Jackson and purse OF
$4,000 for se!-to between Sullivan and
McAuliffe.
The British proposals for settlement Of
the zeal question havs been rejected, and
the Bsar has been ordered to sea snd dis
mantle British vessels engaged IN scaling in
BshriDg Sec.
The San Francisco Chronicle yesterday dc
voted four columns to giving detaile Of an
alleged conspiracy TO capture Lower Caiifoi-
nis and to found an independent republic,
to be followed by annexation to the United
States.
By the recant decision OF the Supreme
Court of the United States against Cornell
University in the Fiske- McGraw will casa,
hat university lost 81 800 900 aud. 1t is said,
Governor Hill and partner mada fee OF
| $4,000
The House Of Representatives. IS antic-
pated yesterday, peased the Mckinley tarh
| bill by vote OF 1Gt yeas to AZ ma: s, Iessts
Coleman, Of Louisiana, and Featherston, Of
Arkansas, being the only republicans voting
against tbs bill.
The police of HavsDa have captured the
| Frenchman, Miguel Eyraud, who in the
monlh of July last murdered notary Goufle
10 Paris. When he was placed 10 jail he a;
tempted to commit suicide by cutting The
! veins 10 his leg and arm with piece OF
| glass.
A mob In which there were 500 women
yesterday tried to force an entrance into the
town hall of Conselice, Italy, crying, I'VE
are starving" and stoned the soldiers guard
lag the building, who in turn fred on the
mob, killing several persons end wounding a
number of others.
Giuseppe Carus alias" Count Monterco'e, y
oleadsd guilty in Philadelphia Yesterday to
LIBEL. The defendant on the 18th Of April
l.et issued circulars which contained defsci-
q .cry statements regarding bis vie, Virginia
Knox Carusi Of pittsburg. The Count"
w,5 senti need to six months Imprisonment.
Mrs Florence r. MastersoD, the wife OF
ax-Judga Murat Master4on, OF Prescott Ari,,
| fell dead ia the hallway of the Grand Uuion
Hotel, in New York, last evening. Ex-
| Judge Masterson is the mine owner who,
With Miss Alice Hopkinson, figured in a
| shooting affrey in the Grand Central fats
asst Monday week.
L. is stated in Norfolk tina. Rev. DR.. R. N
Sledd will be elected general secretary OF
Vanderbilt University. at Nashville, Tenn,
With salary Of 81 900 per annum, aud will
become editor Of the Nashville Christian Id
uocate, made vacant by the election Of DR.. o.,
! 2. Fl zgerad to the office OF bishop.
MIR. ]. D. Abrahans. U. S. deputy comp
troller of the currency yesterday rendered
his resignation in order to accept the posi-
tion of cashier OF the Southern National
Bank. OF New York city. Mr.. Abrebams
was appointed TO his present Office from
Virginia, January 9th, 1887, by Mr.. Cleve-
land.
The case of The Commonweel h against
Dr.. Horace Wagner, for the institution OF
his illegal suits against the Adams Express
| Company liz the County Court Of Stafford,
| involving nearly two million dollars, came
up 10 the court of that county yesterday.
After eeyerel hours of discussion, the taking
of evidence for Wagner began. The case
will continue probably for several Gays
| Waener's counsel will put in plea of it,
sanity.
Tuesday at Firdley, Ohio. Jacob Igsley, D
freight conductor, came in off his run quito
| i'll aud that evening, apparently, he died.
He was prepared for burial. Some NAM
bers of The family insisted that be YVES not
Dead and the physlcians, to prove that he
was, opened vein in tbs back of Ingley's
neck, when. to the establishment of all, he
got up, said be felt perfectly well, and is at
work to-day. He rsmem oered nothing Of
| the affair and thought he had been ssleer.
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