Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-11
NEWS OF The DAY.

The Pennsylvania Railroad is arranging
to make artificial ice for nss on its trains &c.
Six steamships landed at Nsw York yes
terday 1881 immigrants. Of whom more than
half were Italian laborers.
A New York syndicate to buy and set
apart game preserve of 100, 600 acres in the
Adirondacks has been formed.
Maryland Commandery, No. 1, Knights
Templar, will celebrate it's centennial next
May. It is the oldest commaDdery in the
United States.
Stanley does not think Emin will make
any effort to conquer the equatorial prov
ince he formerly governed. He is astound-
ed at German pretensions in Africa.
Prince Bismarck has been granted per-
sion of $6,750. He has disposed of the dia-
monds in his ST. Andrews cross and his
Russian decorations to 3 jeweler for $50 COO.
At meeting of the Union League Club
of New York held last evening resolutions
we're adopted which preclude tins election
of democrats to the membership of the club.
Miss Annie Heaslitt Gould, of Auburn, n.
Y, q noted young society woman, and
friend of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, has run
away and married George L Winters, her
coechman.
The national fast telegraphic tournament
held in New York yesterday aroused the
enthusiasm of telegrapbers oil over the coun'
try. Edison sent phonograph to record
the transmissions.
During an alteration ct the Capitol yes
terday with an Office seeker namei NcNally,
vino had recently been discharged from The
navy yard, Congressman Mudd struck the
latter in the face for using abusive language
Congressman L. Z. Houk, republican, Of
! Tennessee, was nominated Tor his seventh
term. Yesterday. Congressman Taylor, o.
Tennessee, democrat, was also renomlnated
bus a faction bolted and nominated exCon
gresham Butler.
John Phillips, the plucky young Scotch
man who for several days has been engaged
in the hazardous work of addering the 33i
foot chimney of the Clark o. n. I. mills, al
Kearny. N. J., successfully accomplished hi'
task yesterday.
at Yelvington, q town OF 800 population
near Greensboro, KY, disastrous hre DC
Cured yesterday. T. z. Taylor's TOBACCO
factory and seventeen other buildings
mostly residences, were burned. LOSE
100000; insurance, $4,000.
Several deputy sheriHs, Win Juuenen'
amounting to nearly $4,000, are still search
ing the city for ex Gov. Alonzo B. Cornell
of New York, but in vain. l. has trans
PRED that for several months he bal deal
ing with James A. Simmons, who was miXet
up in the recent bank wreckiDg.
10 the House Of Representatives yesterday
Mr.. Cheadle introduced bill to reclassfJ
and fix the salaries of railroad postal clerks
The consideration ofthe Daval appropriation
bill was concluded in committee of th'
whole, and it was favorablv reported to tn:
House. By a vote OF 9S to 70 the paragraph
was stricken from the bill providing To-
three battle ships, but leaving the provision
for an armored cruiser.
The city of Valencia, Spair, is in posses
sion of the military authorities owing to The
riotous demonstrations of anti-Cariist5, who
took exception to visit of Marquis Cefra /
DO, the Carlist leader. Thousands OF anti
Carists met at the station and followed the
Marquis to the hotel. They smashed many
windows of the hotel and tried to get fire to
the building, when detachment of troop;
charged and dispersed the mob. Many per-
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