Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Kansas farmers ara Opposed 70 oena'
tor Ingalls' re election.
IT. stated that General Won OapTivl Ia
only temporary Prussian foreign minister.
The levee at Skipwitb. Issaquena county,
Miss broke Tuesday night, and the town
is under water.
Arch bishop Michael Heiss, of the Catho-
lie diocese of Milwaukee, died at La Gross,
Wis, last night.
All the Parnellite members Of the British
Parliament are opposed to Mr.. Baifonr's
land purchase bill.
The civil service commissioners very ur.
gently ask an increased appropriation OF
$37 900 for expenses.
Il ia reported that the majority of the
WAYS and means committee will STAND Dy
their tariff bill substantially as reported.
Mother Mary Joseph O'Leary, anperioress
of the House of the Good Shepherd, Baltl-
more. died in that institution yesterday.
The ex Conf .derate soldiers of New York
CITY propose to inagurate a camp OF eX-
members of the Confederate army ana navy
Herr Won Alvensleben has declined the
office of imperial secretary Tor foreign affairs
to which he was recently appointed py tne
Emperor of Germany.
In San Francisco yesterday, Lee CHUCK,
the notorious highlander, was sentenced 10
Gfy years. Imprisonment for killing
fellow countrymar four years ago.
Suit has been entered in Washington to
prevent the commissioners for organizing
the Washington and Sandy Spring RAILROAD
Company from spending the funds IN hano'
Cantoni. the Italiant giant, who has just
died, sold his skeleton last week TO an ana
tomy museum in Rome for 81 900. The
money has been paid over to his heirs.
W.. Webb, grand chief ruler of Rscha.
bites in Washington, has been suspended
and it is said that he ia short from S4OO TO
| $500 in his accounts which be refuses 10
show.
A clerical paper of Meran announces the
betrothal of Archduchess Stephanie. widow
of Crown Prince Rudolph, to ArchduEe
Franz, a victim of epilepsy and the heir to
the Austrian throne.
Sister Leo, who escaped from the Villa
Maria Convent, at West Chester, "a, on
Tuesday, and was recaptured short dis
lance from the institution, died yesterday
of paralysis of the heart.
Emperor William has permitted Prince
Bismarck to retain the title OF Prince, With
the title Ct Duke of Lauenburg, as q second
distinction, The Prince will still be ad-
dressed as Serene Hghness.
Henry Johnson, formerly an employee at
the British legation, attempted suicide last
night in Washington by cutting bls throat
with razor Lack of employment Is sup
posed to have been the cause
Dilworth Choate, the reporter who SNUG
pled himself in the jury room where the
Fsck Jury were celebrating in New York,
has been called upon to show cause why be
should not be punished for contempt OF
court.
Count di Montercole was yesterday fined
500 and required to give bond to keep the
peace, in consequence OF his having created
q disturbance In Philadelphia the dav before
by distributing circulars concerning MS
wife. who was Miss Virginia Knox, oil Pitts
burg.
Jacob Anderson, German shoemaker, on
his way from Atlantic, Iowa, to Hamburg,
committed suicide while insane by hanging
himself at the European Hotel. In New
York, yesterday afternoon. He was sixty
eight years old and imagined he WAS pursue d
| by devils 10 human form.
Gov. Hill, OF New York, has received the
resignation of Sheriff Flack, of New YORK
city. Mr.. Fiack protests that he has com.
mitted no crime, but admits that person
under conviction of criminal offense, no
matter how innocent he may be, ought not
to continue to hold public office.
The most radical step 1t has yet taken
will be made this week by the Boston Com
mittee of One Hundred. 1t will send out
Immediately a pamphlet in which the last
epcyclical letter of the Pope is reviewed,
and in which the position is affirmed with
emphasis that. according to this encyollcaI,
no man can be- an obedent aud loyal Cath
Ollie and at the same time be loyal citizen
of the United States.
At GAINESVILLE, Tenn. yesterday, au un-
usual accident happened while the driver
of heerse was crossing creek much sWol'
len BY the high water. The hearse con-
tanned the corpse of colored person, and
In crossing the creek the water came up
so high that it caused the doors of the We
hicle to come open, and the coffia and body
of the negro foated down the stream, and
were lost.
Alfred D. Moulton, superintendent of the
SteiDway and Hunters Point horse railroad,
was shot in New York yesterday by John
Rohan, discharged driver, who says that
the wounded man ruined his domestic hap
piness. Elk Alderman William II. Della.
hanty eoop after Rohan's arrest attempted
10 shoot William H. Williams, brother of
Inspector Williams, who had aided in TAX
ing Mr.. Moulton TO his residence.
ROYAL ARCANUM-At yesterdays ses
zion of the Grand Lodge Royal Arcanum in
Richmond the following officers were elect
ed and installed for the ensGing year: jag.
B. Blanks, Grand Regent, Petersburg; W.