Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-28
VIEWS OF The Day.

cza-h has been discovered at st. Petersburg.
Governor Hill has accepted the resigna-
tion of Sheriff James a Finck OF New York
city.
Ra on Be5eFstein, minister OF Baden,
has been nominated to succeed Count Her
bert Bismarck.
Secretary Noble gave dinner in honor
of President and Mrs. Harrison in Washing
ton last night.
The low lands of Mississippi and Arkansas
are completely inundated, and the floods
are practically beyond control.
The New Jersey board of pardons has ad.
iourned to April II without having acted
upon the case of Mrs. Eva Hamilton.
Ex.President Cleveland is prime mover
in plan to celebrate the next birthday OF
Hon. Allen G. Thurman on November 18th,
in grand style.
A cave in in the vicinity of Conyngham
mine In the northern part OF Wilkesoarre,
Pa, and in the interior near that city yes
terday. caused great damage.
Little Prairie, Illinois, was wiped away
by cyclone yesterday. a terrific tornado
and blizzard has caused fearful loss Of life
and damage to property in the Northwest.
A rumor from Rome gives an account OF
the unfounded arrest OF party of American
ladies charged with petty larceny from
stores and the after apology of their false
| accuser.
Alfred Herrin gton. member OF the Geor.
gia legislature from Emmanuel county, ana
leading democrat, has broken the matri-
monial record in that State by marrying
three sisters.
It is said tina! Gen. Adam E. King will be
appointed consul general to Paris. Inc
rumors concerning Gen. Mahone's selection
for that place were never substantlated Dy
any authoritative statement.
The garrison of Rio Janeiro recently be.
came desfiected and was ordered to the
South. The troops refused to go, and the
government Cancelled the order. There is
much discomfort throughout the city.
Mr.. T. B. Anderson, OF New York, has
written q letter to Detective Murray, OF
Toronto, asking him to ascertain if possible
what has become OF two young Engllshnen
Who. he fears, have shared the fate OF Fred
erick Benwell.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, has just
uuearthed deep laid plot, as he believes,
to reveal his secrets to the sugar trust, and
with the assistance of Pinkerton's detectives
has discovered the leak and discharged two
confidential clerks
Three brothers named Bakefeld, of New
York city, were instantly killed at Red
Rock yesterday by an express train on the
Erie railroad. They were struck by the
passenger train and hurled against freight
train which was passing.
Messrs. Henry c. Thatcher and William
Lloyd Garrison appeared before the ii assa.
chusetts legislative committee on federal
relations yesterday ard urged the passage
of resolutions asking Congress TO abolish
The duty on raw wool. There were no re
monstrants.
While several children were a. psy yes.
ter0ay in Woodstock, Md, a six-year-old
boy pointed ri1e at his three-year-old
sister. At the same time he told her that
she mad better try to catch the ball. The
child did as directed, and she lost a finger
and was fatally shot in the head.
The Standard Oil Company has perfected
the urohase of al the property of the Lima
Oil Company, which is its strongest compe-
ttor. The exact consideration cannot be
learned. but was not lesa than 81 600 600.
The Lima company has been paying . cents
per barrel more for oil than the Standard.
The sales agents. CT the big coaI-producing
railroad companies met in New York yes
terday. and. as had been expected, decided
| to make no change in the present schedule
prices. TIE policy of restriction Will De
continued, and the production for April was
| fixed at 3 100000 tons, making the output
from January first to May first 8 200 600 tons.
State Treasurer Archer's dedication 10
still the sensation of the hour in Maryland.
| TIE amount of money Incorporated is,
az vet, unknown. but an eno will be made
to day TO obtain ,ssesfion of the box con-
| tanning The State securities, an order TO that
effect having passed the House OF Dele.
pates The amount OF the defalcstion ia va
riously estimated at from So coo 10 $50 CO.
Jssse Williams, colored, was yesterday ar
rested in Wheeling for abducting young
girls f,r immoral purposes, and while belng
i taken to police station cut his throat. de
| is now lying at the point of death. The
eyents leading up to the time of Williams
arrest disclose that the wounded man and
white man named John Dickey were en-
gagged in the business Of running yourg girls
and finding homes for their victimsin houses
of i'll fame.
A convention representing the farmers OF
South Carolina who are opposed to the ex-
| is ing form of government. and whose cry
has been down with bourbon or aristo.
cratic rule, lower taxes, and adjustment of
eupsfhuous Offices" met at Columbia yes
terday evening. The convention nominated
B. r Tilman fer Governor, and @. Colt for
Lieutenant Governor, but its followers will
support the regular democratic nominesa
for other State offices.
There Is war in the parish of st Stanislsus
Koska Of Polish Catholics, in East Bati
more. A stranger priest, Rev. Konstand
Markslowiiz came there. took possession of
the parsonage, and ousted the former pastor
Rev. John Rodoior disturbing the peace.
The stranger was arrested yesterday and re-
leased for hearing on the charge of disor-
derly conduct. Rumor hes it that the new
conner said he had the authority to suspend
Cardinal Gibbons and control the priests
and hiahnn, IF nnarina and that ha had