Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-04
NEWS OF TIE D AY.

said to be seriously ill. Dom Pedro is also
reported seriously ill.
A United States secret service agent and
the Buffalo police captured gang OF count
erfeiters in that city yesterday.
Services in memory of Hon. S. S. Cox
have been postponed by the House of Rep
resentatives until the evening of April 18Th.
First Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son, of Iowa, says the prob ibition law has
proved a failure in the large cities OF his
State.
They all do 1.-THE State Treasurer of
the canton of Ticino, in Switzerland, has
been arrested on the charge of embeZzng
one million francs.
Senator Beck emphatically denies the
truth of the rumor circulated that he In
tended resigning shortly and that he would
suggest the election of Mr.. Carlisle as his
successor.
The olympic Club, Of San Francisco, of
which Jim Corbett is one OF the professors
of boxing, has agreed to let the Californian
meet John L. Sullivan in four-round con.
test with gloves.
A large bald eagle was shot near Yellow
Springs, Frederick county, Nd, yesterday
by David Crsmer. 1t measured i've feet
from WlDR w WluSs nAo wien NHiSA "~N
carrying ell pig.
DR.. Frederick Burdet Merrill, q Chicago
dentist, who was married five weeks ago to
the daughter of North Side millionaire,
was sued for $25 900 for breach of promise
yesterday by Cora D. Davis
Among the hundreds of presents sent
Prince Bismarck on the 10th anniversary OF
his birthday were two mastitf5, 43 drinking
| nf
bacon, pipes and cure for rheumatism.
The death is announced is London OF the
MARQUIS of Normandy 10 his seventy -second
wear. At different times he held the COVER
norships of Nova Scotia, Queensland. New
u aland, and Victoria. He died al Brlgn
| ton.
The arrest of the murderers OF the railroad
station agent at Poseyvile, Inh., yesterday
led to revelations that gang OF murderers
contemplated the destruction of the town by
fire and the murder of several OF Its inhaols-
ants.
Gov. David II. Goodell, of New Hamp
shire, has been declared by the Governors
council of the State to be incapaciated by
Ill health for the discharge of his duties as
chief magistrate, and Senator Taggart has
been requested to fill the vacancy.
/ At last nights session of the New York
Conference in Calvary Church, Harlem, ap.
prehenson was aroused by the information
that pickpockets had been operating in the
church during the day, and that several del
epates had been relieved of their purses by
emineutly respectable looking persons, who
hai occupied seats next to them io tae BODY
of the church.
The Horace Greeley homestead at Chap.
paqua, n. Y, was burned yesterday. The
trunks full of Mr.. Greeley's private cores
pondence in the store room OF the small one
story addition at the rear OF the house were
destroyed. They included all the letters
which Mr.. Greeley received from his friends
and political allies during the war and the
days of his struggle for the Presidency,
Horace Greeley's old gold watch, &c.
After chase of two years Detective Pink
ertou has arrested in Spanish Honduras Ed
mund Sturps Crawford, who stole pack
age of S41 600 in bills sent by the American
Exchange Bank of New York to the Adams
Express Office The package was di-
rected to the United States Treasurer at
Washington. A large portion of the money
was found in Crawford's possession. Craw'
ford has confessed and implica! es two others
George Lang, aged forty three, of Egg
] Y, ",
| his home yesterday and perished in the
| flames, his wife and children narrowly es
| GAPING similar fate He surprised his fam
ily by stating that he would set fire to the
| house and wished them to remain quiet.
The crazy man set fire to bed in which
his Eve year old daughter was asleep and
on being driven of went down stairs and
| red the house.
Glib Williams is clerk in book store In
Memphis and his niece is Mrs. Ann
Godsby, the wife Of farmer living at Lucy,
| Tenn, She entered the store yesterday
closely yelled. and as Williams came for
ward she placed revolver to his head and
| fred Williams escaped with bad scare
and slight scratch. Mira. Gold5by is Il
years old, and her uncle is %. She claims
that he wronged her when she was but .
years of age, and Williams says she is crazy.
She was locked up.
In the United States Senate yesterday,
Mr. Gray concluded his speech against the
seating o! the republican claimants from
Montana for seats as Senators. resou-
ton was adopted declaring Mr.. Ingalls,
elected President pro tempore of the Senate.
By vote of 129 to the bill for the admis.
sion of Idaho as State was declared passed
by Speaker Reed The democrats refused
to vote A test of the Speakers power in
this respect under the constitution will be
made by the democrats on this bill.
The town OF Helena. Arkansas, ia again
overflowed. Mayersyille. Mississippi, aud
surrounding country, has been ovelflowed
by sudden rise in the Steel bayou. The
people are moving out of their residences
and taking refuge n gin houses. The le-
wees about Greenville Miss, are not seri.
ously damaged. The Red river is reported
rising. Grave fears are felt for the Louisiana
levees, owing to the WIND and rain last
night, but no other break is reported yet.
Dispatches from the lower Mississippi re-
port the dangers from the flood greatly ex-
aggerated.
A Young man who registered at Chicago