Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-05
NEWS or THE DAY.

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A Paris journal thinks Europeans will
NOT go to Chicago if the worlds fair Is held
there.
NC. Lee, who killed Jerry Hatfield at
Logan G. H., West Virginia, has been ar
rested,
It ia now surmised that Tammany Hall
is looking to ex-SecretaIy Whitney as a
presidential possibility.
Dueling has been forbidden in the German
army except in cases where council of men
of honor decide that circumstances warrant
duel.
| Lawlessnees and violence have again
made their appearance in Rowan county,
Kentucky, and o number of men have been
killed.
The Senate committee on the worlds fair
evinces a disposition to make Chicago show
how much money can actually be secured
for the exposition.
Cable dispatches from London and St.
Petersburg indicate the existence of very
serious trouble in Russia and confirm the
reports of the Cars illness.
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew, who has just
returned from trip through the South says
be was delighted with the South and the
hospitality of the Southern people.
The sheriff of Atlantic county. n. j., has
ia the last few days, sold two hun ired farms
TO satisfy mortgages which had been lore
closed, and forty families are homeless.
Capt. O'Brien, of the ship A. McCallum,
which arrived in Baltimore yesterday, re-
ports that three of his crew died of yellow
lever on the way from Rio Janeiro.
An interested audience assembled yester
day in New York TO hear Senator Sherman
speak in q phonograph resolutions to be
sent to Right Hon. William E~arJ Glad
stone.
The fire in the Cameron colliery at Sham
okln, Pa. is beyond control, and the entire
mine, comprising $50 miles of galleries, will
have to be flooded. The loss is estimated at
100000.
Latest returns from Rhode Island show
that the democrats must elect seventeen
members of the Grand committee, and the
republicans twelve in order to secure the
t State Offices.
: The police at Gatschina, Russia, have dis
> covered explosives on the grounds OF the I'M
perial palace. The imperial family has IL
, conseq uence renounced the Idea of going
, there TO finish Lent.
The disappearance of Lord Boyle in Brit
ish Columbia or Alaska mas LED 10 su5plclor
of foul play. it being feared that he has me-
a similar fate to Benwell, the young Englleh
, man murdered at Woodstock, Dat.
: 1t is reported in Bozton on good authority
that syndicate is being organized there fol-
the purpose of building 20 iron steamships
r to engage in general coastwise and foreign
trade as soon as the Farquhar tonnage bill
is passed by Congress.
The graves $500 dead Cinnamon in New
; York cemeteries were decorated with beau
t tlfu paper wives and paper biouses, which
were burned on the sod in the belief that in
3 the celestial home they were changed tc
| real wives and silken garments.
In the House of Representatives yester
day the majority of the committee on the
alcoholic liquor traffic reported bill favor.
ing the appointment of scommission on that
subject. A minority report was also made
An evening session was held for the consid-
GRAFTON of pension bills.
Ga March % a man named Belanger tried
/, to elope with Mrs. Laframbcise, another
mans wife. Both were residents of the
town of Lancaster, Qle. While they were
trying to cross over TO Port Louis, on the
ice, they broke through and were drowned
in the south channel of ST. Lawrence river.