Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-23
NEWS OF E Day.

The immense freight business on eastern
railroads has created q great demand for new
locomotives and freight cara.
A mob of Poles invaded the cemetery at
Plymouth, Pa, yesterday, and. tearing open
the graves Of tbs Lithuanian children, threw
the bodies in the street.
The finest of the entertainments that have
been given in honor OF the Pan American
delegates was the ball given in Washington
last night at the Mexican legation. l. Wasa
superb affair in every respect.
The immense lumber and planning mill on
Albany street, owned by ]. F. Paul & Co.,
Boston, aud occupied by that firm and
about twenty-one woodworking firms, was
burned this morning. Toe loss was heavy
Judge Newman, of the United States
court at Atlanta, yesterday eDjoined the
comptroller general of Georgia from further
proceeding against the Pullman Sleeping
Ger Company in the effort to collect taxes
on the cars of that company.
Two of the crew Of the bark Jennie Hark.
ness, which Is expected to arrive at Pnila
delphla to day from the PHILIPPINE Islands,
will bs arrested on the charge of having
been at the head of an organized gang
whose purpose was to set fire to ard destroy
every vessel loading at Manila.
One of the finest private balls known to
Nav Workers. was given last evening by
Mrs. William Aston, at her home, No. $50
Fifth avenue. Mrs. Astor, as an acknow-
lodged leader of fashionable society, hat
given many elegant entertainments, but the
ball given last evening surpassed them all
There were elk hundred invitations cut, and
but few regrets were sent.
The shipbuilders of the Delaware river
turned out from their yards last year no less
than $40. 900 ,0C0 worth of.vessels. These in
Guided war-ships, large passenger anc
freight steamships, sailing vessels, tugs,
| yachts and a host of smaller craft. Great al
| was the work done on these vessels, how
| ever, 1t did not represent the entire labor Of
the %shipyards, as many vessels remain still
unfinished,
The action OF the Philadelphia Central
Presbytery on Tuesday in voting against
| the revision of the Westminster Confession
| of Faith increases to AZ the number OF the
presbyteries that have acted upon the over
ture OF the General Assembly. There ere
211 pre.byteriee in the United States, and OF
the AZ whose action has thus far been re
ported, 35 have voted In favor of revision
and II have taken q negative vote.
An Associated Press reporter, just arrived
at Chicago from the northwest, reports that
in nineteen counties Of South Dakota the
successive failure of four years crops has
reduced many thousands of families to &C
tual want the stores refuse to sell 90 credit,
farms are mortgaged for more than they
would bring, live stock is starving and al.
most yaluelesa, and the people are barely
living on course cornmeal.
The argumentin the West Virginia guber-
material contest case was begun before the
Joint Assembly yesterday, Judge 0key john
con making the opening al argument for Elem
irg, democrat. A dispatch from Wheeling
says "Siuce his discovery of the weakness
of COTS case Colonel John A. Hutchinson,
Gifts leading counsel, and the ablest repub-
lican lawyer in West Virginia, has thrown
up hia brief and refuses TO have anything
more to do With the contest"
In the U. g. Senate yesterday, after q
long debate, the bill to require the superin-
tsndent of the census to ascertain what per.
centags of the people " their farms, ETC.,
was recommitted to the census committee.
The Blair educational bill was reached on
the calendar and made the unfinished bust.
ness for Monday week. During the debate
in the House on the bill TO purchase sites Cd
which to erect buildings for the confinement
of United States prisoners, Speaker Reed
made another of his arbitrary decisions
which was sustained by the republican ma
jority after two hours flibnstering on the
part of the democrats. a large number Of
democrats we're again absent.
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