Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-15
NEWS OF TIE DAT.

The Secretary Of War decides that army
officers cannot hold appointments in State
Militia.
Assistant Postmaster General C!srksoD in
an interview strongly opposed the civil
service law.
Rev. Sam Small will be candidate for
the next Georgia House on strsightout
prohibition platform.
The Massachusetts Senate yesterday
passed the amendment to the constitution
ebolishing the pcl-tax as prerequisite to
voting.
During heavy rain storm at Reading,
Pa, yesterday the streets became Hooded
and ter -ysar-old boy was swept away into
sewer.
The Health Department of Chicago has
instituted search for two Chinese lepers
who are in the city and liable to impart The
maIady to any one with whom they come In
contact.
While c-year-od boy was sitting in
its mothers lap in railroad car which was
running rapidly out of Philadelphia yester-
day, the child leaped through the window,
but sustained no serious Injury.
John NJ. Glaze and ]. R. GaZe, while rid
ing on freight train at Cumberland, Md
Yesterday, were fired upon by the police,
uuder mistake that they were jail breakers
ftom Martiusburg, W. Va, and the first
PANIED wa5 wounded.
Madame Diss Debar OF New York, who
became notorious through her spook pie
lures, has been arrested in Rome for RulllDg
hotel keeper. Sac is also charged with
| trying to procure money from many prom
cent persons by false pretensss.
Mr.. Augustus st. Gsudens, the well
known sculptor, yesterday resigned bis pc
siton az teacher in the Now York Art Stu
dents League, owing to the action OF the
governing board in compelling him to re-
tire his nude models from the mixed classes.
Daring the debate in the House yesterday
on one of the amendments to the tariff bill
Messfs. Wilson, of West Virginia. and By.
mug. of Iuiena, declared that Mr.. Camp
b.li, a Pitts5urg glass manufacturer, had
committed perjury in an affidavit preterG-
| ing to quote an interview with them.
| At the democratic caucus In Frankfort,
| Ky.. last night the balloting for United
States Senator resulted as follows: First
ballot Carlisle 81, Lindsay 26. Knott 81,
McCreary 10, Moore -. Settle Second
ballot Carlisle 80, Knott 81, Moore is
Lindsay IS, McCreary - Settle 6
A number of Virpinans had an informal
celebration in New York Tuesday night, OF
the settlement of Jamestown by Captain
John Smith, 2S3 years ago, at Delmonico's.
F. r Rives presided, and General +
Pryor, General Wager Swayne, Capt. FL. +
Garden, Rev. Dr.. Greer and others made
speeches.
The result of the forthcoming meeting os
the Consiatory at Rome, which conveDe5 in
few days, may serve to explain the re
Gently revived rumors of trouble between
Archbishop CorrigaD and the Vatican. l.
is now asserted in certain quarters that 6
new Cardinal is to be appointed, who will
be assigned by the Pore to preside over the
Arch diocese o. New York.
At Bentleysville,P Pc. John Crouch. aged 10
years hs wife, aged 20. and his son Andrew,
aged So years, the wealthiest people in
that section, were found by neighbors early
Yesterday morning in their beds with their
throats cut from eBr to ear. To secure
money, which the elder Crouch was gener-
ally supposed to have kept in the house, is
given as the cause for the murder.
| A waterspout struck Mammoth Springs,
Ark, Tuesday afternoon and entirely wash
ed away he Mammoth Springs fish farm.
| 1t became as dark as night, and the fright
ened inhabitants shut themselves indoors.
Suddenly, with sound like the bursting of
volcano, a huge volume OF water WAS hut
ed with terrific force upon the town.