Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-26
NEWS OF TIE Fay.
Emperor William met Queen Victoria q
Darmstadt yesterday.


Darmstadt yesterday.
So far this year there have been 303
strikes, involving &C., 42 employees.
If the silver bill is passed new mint will
have to be built in Philadelphia
Prince Bismarck will not appear in the
upper house OF the Prussian Diet until poll
tics assume their normal condition.
The earthquake shock in California
Thursday, caused great CONSERVATION
among the Doom Seslers" OF San Francis
co and Oakland.
The steamer Gotheuberry which arrived
at Boston on Thursday reports that on The
u she sighted several iceoergs, on one o.
which were two polar bears.
The celebrated stations Luke Blackburn
and Iroquois were sold at Bell Meade, near
Nashville yesterday, to General w. II. Jack
son for $4,000 and S34 900, respectively.
A movement is now on foot in the Graz
ton, w. Va. district TO nominate Stephen
B. Ekins as the republican candidate for
Congress against Hon. w. L. Wilson, the
democratic incumbent.
The Archer investigating committee Ia
Maryland, have accounted for S29 ,OOO OF the
treasury relief bonds. Attorney General
suits against Archer's suretie5.
Rumors have prevailed for several days
that the Senate Committee on Finance
would proceed to make up tariff bill on
formula of its own, irrespective CT any &c
tion that the House might take.
The secretary of the State OF Ohio issued
license yesterday TO the John Brown Liberty
Museum at Chicago to purchase and remove
to Chicago the building known as John
Bfowus fort, at Harpar's Ferry.
A clerk who was in the employ of GGain
Bey has made sworn deposition to the ell
feet that the revolt OF Emin's forces was er-
irely due to the discovery OF ENNIS plans
to surrender the provinces of Wadclei TO the
Mahdi.
The appointment of W. e. Thompson as
| postmaster at Mckeeeport, Pa, has Deeh
| defeeted by Wansmaker, because some enc
wrote him that Thompson played poker
drank hisky and swore. A democrat con-
| tiuues to handle the mails.
At Spencer, Roane county, W. Va, Louie
King, iustica of the peace, shot and fatally
wounded Lille Hall on the evening of the
231. Hall and another man wete engaged
in row and King tried to stop the light.
| Hall ohiscted to the interference, when
| left breast over the heart
The House committee on claims yesterday
made favorable report on Senator Batler's
| bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury
tn ro-sxamiDe aud reaettle the accounts OF
| New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware Viz
GINA, South Carolina and the city of Balt-
more on account of advances and exDend-
tn .es by said States in the war oil 1872.
There is a sensation at Salem, n. O., oc
casioned by the attempt of young man
| named Gibson to elope with young lady
etu lent named Rogers. She disguised hee-
self as servant and tried 10 elude the night
| watchman at the schools, but was detected
last as she entered the vehicle which her
lover had provided. The young lady was
taken home By her relatives.
Thinking that she was compelled to
choose between insanity and death, Miss
Bertha Wittgenstein killed herself Thursday
right at the homo of her mother in Louis
vile. XIV. Mics Wettgenstein was pretty,
we'll educated, had a pleasant home and
considerable money in her own right. She
was thirty years old. For some weeks she
had been troubled with insomnia.
The United States Senate spent most Of
Yesterdays session in debate on the land for
fixture bill. The death Ct the late Congress
man Edward G. Gay. of Louisiana was
formally announced in The Senate aud Gu
logies delivered. In the House, the Senate
anti-trust bill was reported from the judi
ciary committee The House further coz
sidered the legislative appropriation bill.
1t is now said that the young man whom
Miss Winnie Davis is to wed is not a scion
OF hoTiug aboitioni5t and South-hater, as
has been alleged. The young man s him
self States rights democrat and his father
and grandfather were of the came political
faith. He is grandson of Judge Wilkin-
SOD, the founder Of Syracuse, New York,
and a man universally beloved and hon
ored.