Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The board of agriculture yesterday con-
sidered the new fertilizer law.
The MARYLAND oyster navy reports that
dredpers are becoming more troublesome.
The o. 8. Senate yesterday appropriated
500 OCO for a public building at Salem.
The Bostons, the league baseball team,
will play at the University of Virginia Mon
day.
The steamer Mason L. Weems was sold
in Baltimore yesterday to MIR. Samuel
Holmes, of New York.
The snow along the Rio Grande Railroad,
in the mountain passes Of Colorado, is from
forty to sixty feet deep.
Dirty Foot, drunken Sioux, was burned
to death in South Dakota yesterday for at
tempting to murder an old squaw.
The Mi. Careme ball, given by Mrs. White,
Senator Sawyer's daughter, in Washington
last night, was brilliant social event.
By the mistake of drug clerk in New
York city yesterday, Mrs. ]. B. Mcclure
was nearly killed, receiving digtalis for lie.
orice powder.
} Lydia Strahler, three years old, the
daughter of Edward Strahler, was burned to
death by setting fire to her clothing in Baltl
more yesterday.
The Finance Commissioners Of Baltimore
Yesterday received only an aggregate OF
S137, 900 bids for 100000 of the City I'm
provement loan at figure over 1O2.
MIR. Joshua Hood, an old citizen OF Mary
f land and one of the committee appointed to
receive Lafayette on his visit to this country
in 1924, died in Baltimore yesterday.
3 Two maiden sisters. aged thirty-three and
thirtv-6ve. respectively, were found dead in
their home, near Concordia, Kan, yesterday
having, it Is supposed, committed suicide.
Brief Masonic funeral ceremonies were
? held in Washington last night over the re-
mains of Mr.. Taulbse, and the body was
: taken to Mount Sterling, KY, for interment
; The Mormon missionaries who have been
: operating In the mountain counties OF Weat
r Virginia have departed after collecting @
considerable sum in tithes from the con.
y verts.
The Pope has chosen a design for his
: tomb. 1t will be of white marble, with a
:. figure of himself leaning on sepulchral
= urn, and colossal statues of religion and JUS
: tce on either side.
The q. s. Senate in secret session yester-
# day confirmed the nominations of J. ID. Bra
g dy, collector of internal revenue for the sec
}. ond district OF Virginia ; and ?. H.McCaul
y sixth dist let of Virginia.
e From Puno, southern Peru, comes hor'
o rible story of an encounter between
II two political factions, in which drunken In.
dians piaged many houses aud murdered
d one hundred men and women.
l. i, The levee at New Orleans was broken
- - Yesterday afternoon and water from the
d Mississippi river rapidly ovetflowed the
10 lower section of the city. A large fire also
d broke out and destroyed eeveral buildings.
Il is said that Eva Hamilton, the wife oil
:. Ray Hamilton, who palmed of q bogus
'. child on her husband, and who stabbed her
n maid, Mrs. DonDely, will be released. by
e pardon, within week, from the New Jer-
sey State prison.
A diamond stud belonging to ]. Frank
. Armstrong. which he pawned and which
y closely resembled one stolen from Balti'
,, MORGAN, lead to Armstrong g arrest In Phila-
e delphia yesterday to answer charge OF
embezzng ten thousand dollars.
Josiah w. Johns, who three years ago was
3, buried for three days and two nights and
u survived, died in Baltimore yesterday from
g consumption, caused by cold contracted at
e that time. He was SIS years DID, Johns,
9 with other laborers, were at work in an iron
u ore bank in Baltimore county when the
: earth above them caved In, burying them.
!, The trial of the Blair lynchers was fin
. ished at Whitehall, Wis, yesterday, and
the Jury laet night returned a verdict of
!, guilty of murder in the first degree against
Mrs. Oleson, Oiehausen, and Oesletto. The
two first named were the wife and son, re.
spectivey, of Oleson, who was dragged
!, from his bed and hanged by mob last No
vember. About thirty other persons who
took part in the outrage pleaded guilty to
riot, and were fined 800 each.
The charity ball given Wednesday even
ing In the great dining hall of the Hotel
Ponce De Leon. at st. Augustine, Fla in
aid of the new hospital. was a brilliant sue
cess. Between four and FIVE hundred peo-
! pie from all parts of the country were pres.
. emit. The palace hotel, dszz'ingly illumi
mated with it's beautiful court and garden
glowing with myriad of colored lights,
! looked like slice of fairyland. Two or.
chestras stationed in acove balconies over
the ballroom floor furnished continuous
music for dancing. A sumptuous supper
f was served during the evening.
, In the Uoted States Senate, yesterday,
Mr.. Eustis corrected some statements made
the previous day by Mr.. Hoar in regard to
] Louisiana. Mr.. Sherman then asked MIR.
t Eustis some questions, and the result was
: nealeu polUlcal contIoVeleS Oh VIC
treatment of the negroes in the South, in
, which Senators Sherman, Eustis aud Butler
were the leading participants. Mr.. Eusts
charged with Hoar with recklessness and
| restitution of all sense of responsibility in
speaking of southern affairs. The House
{ passed the bill for the organization of Okla
3 homa into territory by vote OF 16O to 25.
THE CULPEPER SCHOOL AFFAIR From
information obtained from an entirely relia.
= hla annrne the GAZETTE Of the 6;h instant