Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-26
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Earthquake shocks were felt yesterday IN
Canada and northern New York.
Paris was visited yesterday bg enc Of the
most violent and destructive storms on re-
cord.
Chicago and New York capitalists will
construct steel tower 800 feet high in
Chicago.
Saloon keepers have been notified to
leave the Grand Lodge Of Odd Follows OF
Missouri.
Brooklyn toughe en- Friday poured alec.
hoi into the ear ola United States marine
and act fire to it.
In New York Saturday night Frederick
Romano, on Italian, shot bis wife, hls motn
ev.in-,aw and himself during family quat-
rel.
By the explosion OF blast furnace ct the
Illinois Steel Works, In Chicago, yesterday,
five workmen were horribly burned aud
crushed.
The chenne! span of the Union Railroad
bridge over the Ohio river 81 Wheeling, w.
Va. was carried away By the food yester-
day afternoon.
disastrous fire, sst by tramps. has de-
atroyed every house in The city OF Cooiridge,
n. NJ, except the railroad eating house hDo
the depot buildings.
HRS. Emily A. McLaSs, vita OF aen. La
fay cite McLaws. Of Savannah, Ca, died ID
that city Friday night. She was niece OF
Gen. Zachary Taylor.
Council for Kemmler, the New York
murderer, may still further delay his execc-
ton by electricity by applying to The Su-
preme Court fer writ of hebees corpus.
Mcpherson Post of Brooklyn, n. Y, yes
terday adopted resolution Condemning the
display of the Confederate flag IN connection
with thu dedication CT tho Lee statue at Ricd-
mond.
The steamer Auranie, Of the Cunard line,
ran down the yacht YYnda nenr Bedioe's
I.lsna yesterday, drowning Charles and
Henry Bel. brothers, who were on the
yacht.
A dispatch from London says girl named
Hunter wss found dead yesterday morning
neer Altenberg, and the pody bas been mu.
tilsted as we're those OF Jack the Ripper 81
victims.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad company
will Issue from ten to fifteen millions more
of COMMON stock for improvement of the
road. An effort to retire the State and city
interest may ALEC be made.
George Frapcis Train completed his trip
around the world Saturday evening, arliv-
ing at Tacoma, Washington, at o'clock.
The time from start to finish wss 67 days 10
holrs minutes and 8 seconds.
!: Il is stated that thu CARROTS, themselves
represented by President Mayer, are the
leaders in tbs movement to buy the stock.
holdings of Baltimore City snG the Stste.
This object ia to relieve the directory of the
political element
While party of twelve were out rowing
at Fall River, Mass, yesterday, the boet
cnpsizsi when within 20 feet Of the shore
and eight persons were drowned, Including
a father, mother and two children and u
father and three sons.
The French minister of the interior has
forwarded to o. s. Minister Reid al apology
for the lawyer from Georgia and his friends
who we're roughly handled in Paris by the
police on the night OF May during the Ia
Dor day parade excitement.
James s. Curran. passenger on the An
cbor line steamer City OF Rome, ran amuck
with knife on board the steamer shortly
after her arrival at New York YESTERDAY
and seriously cut Michael Brennan and
John Jones, fremen on the steamer.
In the House of Representatives on Sat
urday during the debate on the river and
harbor BILL motion to strike out the ep.
preparation for the Hennepn canal WAS de-
ieated. The appropriation for the Missls-
sippi improvement was reduced from two to
one million dollars.
Mansfield King, the sel'-confessed muir
derer, horse thief aud all-arouud criminal,
now III In jail at Clayton, the county coat
OF ST. Louie, has been Identified ss Wells,
the Denver bank robber, who commanded
Cashier Moffatt, Of the First National Bank
OF Denver to hand over $21 900 in cash In
March, 1889, at the point OF revolver.
During storm early yesterday morning
lightning struck the john Charles block, IN
Lucas, 0. The block took fire and was ep-
tirely consumed. together with two dwell
iugs adjoining. While men were removing
the goods about fifty pounds of dynamite,
vVbich was kept In the store, exploded with
disastrous effect Two inen were killed aud
about twenty-five persons in ali were more
or less injured.
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