Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-12
HEWs OF TIE DAY.

The WORK or counting the populatlou VI
the United States will be finish I'd within ten
days.
Two well-known ci.iza,.s OF Kent county,
Md, have been arrested, charged with horse
stealing.
The price ofleether is quietly advancing,
and so advance in the price OF SHOES Will
probably follow.
Senator Teller disappointed hia republican
colleagues by advocating the fullest discus-
sicn of the tariff bill.
The brick manufacturers of New York
yesterday subscribed half million dollars
to sustain four boycctted firms.
Some sanguine people in New York are
expecting the transfer to that city ct the
control of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
Rutherford College, N. c., together with
the libraries and notes and accounts to the
amount OF 20 900, was destroyed By fire last
week.
at Crefeld, Germany, house oontai DiDg
fifty persons fell to the ground during q
storm yesterday, and thirteen persons we're
killed.
Congress has pledged itself in the sundry
civil bill to the erection Of another building
for the government printing Office In Wash
ington.
Il Is reported that an unknown white
man was shot and killed at Campbell Court
House Saturday nighs while trying to break
into store.
The police last night made raid on the
Pelican Club. in Washington, and arrested
the proprietor, w. II. Syle, for keeping q
gambling house.
The conference of American consuli- ger
! eral, in Paris, has adopted resolution lsV-
oring leniency in enforcing the provisions OF
the Mckinley tariff bill.
Mrs. Maria M, wife of Msjor John R
Ludlow, died Sunday night in New York
sged 81 years, after lingering illness. The
deceased was native OF this city.
Two negroes on crowded excursion train
from Lynchburg yesterday, fred several
shots at each other. Both of them were
wounded, but nobody elee was hurt.
Cardinal John Henry Newman, one of the
greatest of English writer's Of this century
whose illness was mentioned in the GAZETTE
died at Birmingham, England, yesterday,
eyed So year,
Thomas F. Williams. OF Atchieon, Kan.
has Just received notice that treasury draft
Tor 800, QUO Will DS lOIWhTueu W Dim III u lev
days. Williams was lieutenant in Kan
sas cavalry regiment, end by soma over
1 Ugh, was not mustered cut of service until
aoous year ego. Williams is already OF
the pension roll at S72 mouth on account
Of wound.
II is said that before he left for Bosi or
| President Harrison said to q republican
Senator: Before the session of Congress ad
| ;urps it should pass the arif bill, the fed
5ra election bill and reaprortiopment bill
T. must be so Senator Quay thinks il
would bs folly for tho Senate 10 ATTEMPT to
pes5 the Force bill at this session. TIE
democrats, he says, could obstruct its ras-
cage until it would be too late to enforce ii
1T the coming election.
Ia the Senate yesterday resolution was
offered by Senator Edmunds to limit tbs
lime for debate. This created sensation,
MIR. Eimunds having hitherto opposed any
such restriction. The tiu-plate paragraph
in the tariff bill was reached. and Mr.. Vest
moved to reduce the duty from the proposed
rate of two and two-senths centa per pound
to one cent, and speeches were made by
Senator Wilson, of Maryland, and others.
Senator Wilson made forcible argument
against the proposed increase in the duty on
tin plate as a burdensome tsx on one OF the
great Industries of the country.