Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-05-21
ERWs OF THE Day.

EBWs OF THE Day.
John L. Sullivan has been forc!b'y ex-
PEELED from the order OF Elke.
Elk. Mayor Cregier, of Chicago, says be
does not see how the Worlds Fair Can be
opened 10 1893
Nearly all the cigar factories in Key West
have closed down, and 1000 cigar makers
are out of work.
Reports from consuls In Italy and Spain
show that Thousands OF Italians and Span
ards are coming to America.
The Belgian Chamber OF Deputies voted
| Ia favcr OF the revision OF the Belgian COD
stitulon, which will result in universal SUI
frage.
Canada last year imported $50 051 dozen
| of eggs from the United States, and the Do
| mipion egg dealers now want duty placed
| on them.
TIE standing committee Of the Episcopal
diocese ofIowe yesterday refused to consent
| to tbs conservation of Rev. Phillips Brooks
as bishop OF Massachusetts.
! During the past twelve days five old
ladies have died at the Hebrew Hospital
/ and Asylum Ia Baltimore, whose ages ag-
gregate 433 years, an average of eighty-six
year,.
The Reading RAilroe d Company has made
q contract with Coke Bros. q Co., TO run for
thirty years, by which the Reading secures
all their anthracite tonnage, amounting 10
about one end halt million tons year.
II Ia probable President Fl. rtson will Is
cue proclamation in regard to the recipro-
city treaty recently negotiated with Spain
without waiting for the return CT Secretary
Bsine to Washington.
The servisn government has ordered that
all trains coming into SsrVia be stopped and
searched at the frontier, as the government
| f-aTs that Queen Natalie may attempt to re-
turn and place herself Of the head of her
| supporters.
Col. Elliott F. Shepard gave dinner 10
| New York last night t, the Chinese Minis
| ter, sud is trying TO induce the Chinese gov
eminent to withdraw its objections to TIE
appointment OF Senator Bait as q. 8. MIC
| lister to that country.
james J. Corbett, the pngllistc sonder Of
the Occidental State, aud Peter Jackson, the
colored champion of the Antipodes, will
meet tonight 10 the rooms Of the California
Club, In San Francisco, and fight to finish
for purse OF $40 1000.
4 diapstcb to the Vienna Political Core
spondence from s.. Petersburg states that
the Czarewitch's cutie is composed OF recS-
| less youths. who indulge In boxing and
ishting end copdacs likely to lead The
Pdnce into trouble
! At the annual meeting OF the trustees OF
the John T. Slater Fund In New York, yes
| terday, Dr. Haygood retired. Il was voted
to distribute $50 900 for freedmen'5 schools
1 {: Rinh.
mond, was elected chairman OF the commit.
| tee of education.
! A change has been made In the Uoited
States customs service on the Iathmus OF
Panama, and hereafter Inspector Popham,
| of the Treasury Department on the 1sthmus.
| His associate. Inspector Curtis, has been
t apsferred to duty at New Orleans.
A sensational story was printed In Ss.
Paul last night which says that Aiexsnder
Ramsey. Governor OF Minnesota from 1861
to 1866, United States 1nstor for II years
and Secretary of Wa under President
Hsyee, has oeen black mailed out OF nearly
500 900 BIZ hie c,echman. The nature the
| threatened exposure Is not steted.
At Doylestown, Pc, Yesterday, John E d.
ridge was sentenced to eighteen years.
y
Sturm t twelve years il the E.stero peni-
tsrilsry. and Mary Fahy, to Two years in
the Bucks county all for breaking into and
sooting cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Julia s urn, who is only nineteen years @ q
and very pre- t., was. 1t is Charged, the
leader of the gaUg.
Secretary Tracy has received no news
from the cruiser Charleston eiDce she left
Acapulco, but declares that the chaee OF the
I-ata has not been abandoned. The pursuit
may be abandoned soou'd 1t hinder The ne
gotiations for the restoration OF peace in
Chill. in which the republics of France.
Brpz!I aud the United States are co-operat-
iue. A special dispet'h from Washington
was published at San Francisco to be effect
that the United States government had in
strncted Admiral Bfovn to demand the sur
render of t,e alta when abe arrives ct any
port in the hands of Chilian insurgents.