Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-21
NEWS OF THg Day.

The Italian government is buying large
number of cavalry horses In Germany ana
Austria.
Congressman ]. P. Walker, democrat, of
Missouri, died at his home, in Dexter, CT
apoplexy, on Saturday.
A cyclone struck Pacific Junction, Iowa,
Saturday, and wrecked two business BLOCKS
and several residences.
It ia given cut unofically in Washington
that President Harrison expects 10 be re-
nominated for the Presidency
Col. Thomas G. Morrow, for many years
the publisher OF the Sunday Gazette In
Washington, died yesterday after a bFlef
illness.
Commissioner Roosevelt says with the
exception of Maryland and Virginia the
southern stes are backward IN applying
for civil service places.
John Whitaker Watson, author Of the
poem Beautiful Snow" died Saturday
in New York, where he had bsen living IN
obscurity and poverty.
Nine men were sentenced to death IN
the Federal Court in Paris, Texas. Thurs
day, by Judge Bryant, who has been on the
bench scarcely Elk weeks.
tis rumored in Rome that a convention
has been signed by England which grants
Italy the sole authority in the northern Ju-
ba territory in East Africa.
1t ia now said that Assistant Postmaster
General Clarkson will reconsider his deter
mination to resign, as he has been unable to
secure more lucrative position.
The Uoited States Senate on Saturday
passed the civil sundry appropriation Dill,
after having amended il In many particulars
and then took up the tariff bill IS unfinished
business.
A cupola in Cassidy and Adlet's iron
foundry New York exploded On Saturday
afternoon, scattering molten metal in all
directions. Sixteen men in ell were serl-
ously burned.
Oae horse was knocked down and many
others we're frightened by electrical shocks
10 New York on Saturday. & wire In the
Ellison Compauy's subway was grounded
aud the current leaked through the cobbe-
stones.
The Secretary of the Treasury gives nc
| tice that on Thursday, July q. hs will re-
ceive proposals for the sale OF Uoited States
bonds to the government for The sinking
furd The circular for April II, 1883, un
! U6T WuiCu uduy UOuu PURCHASES He'o oNSA
made Is rescinded.
Leary's gigantic raft of losa, bound fol
New York, which was reported to bavs
been lost, like it's predecessor three years
ago, has only lost its tall, which constitutes
but three seventeenth Off and the mighty
log boat. 10 better condition than when i
fl lated out of New Brunswick, will star
anew from Portland for New York today
DR.. Parker, the eloquent but eccentric
pulpit orator of the City Temple, in Lon
don, announced yesterday that he had With
drawn from membership in the Peace Sec!
ETY. on account of the refusal Of TIE receD
congress Of the society to opsn its srssior
with prayer The congress, over ~hicf
Hon. David Dudley Field, OF New York
presided, closed On Saturday after five
days. meeting
Representative Mills, of Texas, has wri
ten to friend in Washington that while The
federal election bill was the issue uppermos
in the minds of the people OF tie South WHIT
understood it fully. yet in the West The
tariff issue was of all others the one mos
talked of. He says that 10 his judgment, The
West would ultimately go democratic or
the tariff issue, and that many democratic
congressional gains would be made in Tx
| Northwes. this fall.