Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-19
NEWS OF THE Day.

Pone Leo offers to act as mediator IN uis-
banding the armies OF Earope.
Iohn O,Brien. the noted New York repub-
);can leader. is reported TO be dying.
The Snnreme Court of Wisconsin has de-.
cided that the Bible has no place in the pub
lie schools.
Secretary Proctor has authorized he expen.
diture of 500 600 on the levees of the Missis-
sippi river.
G. E. Kincaid was indicted in Washing
ton Yesterday for the murder Of ex Congress.
man Tsulbee.
The rumor that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad will change owners is said to be
without foundation.
The bill providing fer inspectors of west
ern meat was defeated in the Maryland
House yesterday by vote ofyeas %, nays as
President Harrison subscribed 5000 to a
fund started in Washington for relief of the
families of the victims of the Indianapolis
FIRE.
1t is announced that photographer
named Verse;, of K!ausenburg, Austria,
has succeeded in photogrsphing natural
colors.
George Francis Train started from Taco
mo, Washington, yesterday on his trip
around the world, which be says be Will
make in 60 days.
Henry Leggett and hia wife and daughter
were arrested at Bedford, lowe, yesterday
for killing his father four years ago for 500, q
gold watch and span of mules.
While President Harrison was out driving
in Washington yesterday his horse fell and
broke the shaft of his buggy but neither the
President nor the lady with him was hurt.
TIE three condemned Navassa murderers
will not hang in Baltimore on March 18th.
Their counsel has filed writs OF error in the
cases. which will now 60 to the Supreme
Court.
An indignation meeting was held at Port
Tobacco, Md, yesterday, to protest against
the passage of the bill for the removal OF the
county seat to La Plata, and a delegation oil
Charles oountians saw the Governor yeater'
day on the subject.
Mrs. Jennie Bingham, formerly of Mil
waukee, was found uncor scious with her
skull fractured in Chicago Sunday night and
she died at hospital on Monday. Tue
police are looking for her husband, Major
George G. Bingham.
At Garsdep, Tenn, Sunday night Henry
Williams, colored, was taken from jail by 9
mob and shot to death for attempted assault
upon Miss Tieder, an aged white woman
living near that place, last February. Will
iiams, after beating her nearly to death
was frightened away.
The tongues OF Germantown, Pa, gossip;
are all agog over report that member Of
the school board had been indiscreet enough
to attempt to embrace one of the lady schoo
teachers as he was about leaving the schoo
after the completion of one of his ofiicla
visits. The Alexandria school trustees are
not required to visit the schools.
News has been received of q murder in Q
school house in Clay county, Ky. Perry
Golf, 16-year old boy, quarreled with hi
teacher, Morgan Rose, and was expelled
In the af ernoon Gof, with his father and
two companions, returned and assaulted
Rose Young Gofl knocked Rose down with
a club, and when the teacher regained his
feet be drew knife and stabbed Gotf to the
heart. A general fight followed, in which
both Rose and the older Gcff were seriously
injured. Rose will probably die.
A slimly attended conference of republic
can Senators was held last night at the
house of Senator E1munds. A resolution
was passed for the appointment OF com.
mIttee of seven Senators to formulate an or.
der OF business to govern the Senate in the
near future. The report of Senator Hoar
on the Montana senatorial election contest
was laid before the conference, the object
being to have the report meet the views OF
the republican side of the chamber before Its
presentation in the Senate.