Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-22
NEws OF THE DAY.

The Washington baseball CLUB Will, 1t ID
thought, Join the Atlantic Association.
VIM. Loughridge, inventor OF the air brake
hoorino his name, died in Philadelphia yes.
terday.
In many parts of Switzerland villagers
are rushing from the valleys to higher
ground to avoid avalanches.
The Mississippi near GreenvlIe is still
beyond control and the water is washing
away fences and buildings.
A rich old bachelor called Lucky" Nor
gan, of Dodeville, Mo-, was murdered re-
Gently and robbed and his body thrown in.
to well.
Charles II. Mallory, founder of the steam.
ship firm OF G. II. Mallory & Co., died OF
heart failure in Brooklyn yesterday at the
age of seventy six.
A party of masked men at Plainfeld, n.
j., last night. gave man who was impli-
Gated In a scandal with married woman
notice to leave the town in hurry, which
he did.
Captain Haddaway Moore, who was sup
posed to have been murdered and for whose
murder James Hastings and Orlando john
son were arrested, turned up in Cambridge,
Md, yesterday.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Blair renew
ed his motion to reconsider the vote OF
Thursday by which the educational bill was
rejected, and Mr.. Ingalls, moved to lay that
motion on the table. No action was taken.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie. the Pennsylvania
iron founder, ia fifty FIVE years of age. de
had less than 500 twenty-six years ago. but
since that time be has made $50 900, OF
which he now holds about $50 00O, 600 in his
own right.
A dispatch from London says: "At the
sale of the late Abraham Haywsrd's famous
collection of autographs, &C., yesterday, the
original draft, with autographs corrections,
of General Lees last address to the Confed
crate army was knocked down for S65.
The Rev. Duncan MacGregor, lately the
pastor of the Carroll Park Methodist
church. Brooklyn, was received into the
| Baptist fold last night at the Hanson Place
r ,ntjst Church, which is now pastorless
and to which, it is rumored, Dr.. MacGregor
Is soon 10 be called.
Or. Bamberger, leader of the German
Liberals. saws that Emperor Williams idea
is not merely to reign, but to govern. 1t is
said that the Emperor declines to accept
the designations Of the Pfussian Ministers
a Id that the rumors of a revision CT the am
uassadorship appointments are premature
Robert Moseley, colored, was hanged yes
terday afternoon near Huntsville, Ala, ior
an attempted assault on Miss Ellen Austin
He met bis death within few feet of pit
in which he had lain in wait for the lady
and was buried therein. About 500 men
were in the mob, among them fifty colored
| H. no ho
Gen. Geo. II. Crook, U. S. A., whose
death 10 Chicago was mentioned in yester
days GAZETTE, married a bliss Daily, o.
western Maryland who will be remember
ed by many ex-Confederates, whom che
succored while they languished in federal
prisons during the war. Gen. Crooks re
mains will be inferred at Frostbnrg, Md Il
the bone of his wife's family.
The committee of ministers Of the Evan,
pelical denomination, at Reading, Pa yes
ierday found Bishop ]. ]. E her, of Chica'
go, guilty of the charges of fasehood, elan
der and creating discussions in the church.
They recommend that Bishl p Esher be sus-
nended az bishop and as minister of the
Evangelical denomination until the general
conference in 1891. Bishops Dubs, ot
Cleveland, and Bowman, of Allentown,
nave aireany Deen ueposeu'
A dispatch from Ashland, Wis, says: The
suspicion grows daily that the Germania
Mine FIRE was Of incendiary origin, and that
the mysterious strangers who entered the
mine half an hour before the alarm was
given, and who have not since been found,
started it. The fire has so far subsidized that
searching party yesterday found the bodies
of Sullivan. Banks and Waller. They were
clasped tightly in each others arms. Banks
had stuffed his handkerchief in his mouth to
keep out the fumes of the fire.
Miss Kate A Donovan, whose body was
picked up In the river, at Baltimore, on
Thursday, had called upon the physician in
charge of the University Of Maryland and
offered her body to him after death for the
benz fit of science. He refused to listen to
her, and she then hesought him to kill her
then and there, and TO make an autopsy of
her body for the advantage of all future
womankiod. Getting no sympathy from
the doctor, she left him and went direct to
the river and drowned herself.
Congressman Mills, of Texas, Gays the
minority Of the ways and means COMMITTEES
have not yet had an opportunity to zee an
official copy of the Mckinley tariff bill, and
the only information they have on the sub
sct is what they have CLEANED from the
newspapers. 1t is thought in Washington
that if the republican tariff bill ia forced
through Congress there will be heavy dem
ocratc gains in New Eogland, especially in
Massachusetts, as the bill discfimipates
against the E stern manufacturer.
Death of Gen Francis Il Smith.
Dan Francis Fl Smith for ffty wears The