Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-01
HRWs OF TIE Bay.

I'M Hill. well-knoWn theatrical man
oosr and restsursteur OF Nav York ard
Boston, has failed.
The President b Be determined 10 proh'oti
the appointment OF the soma CT prominent
officials as their private secretaries.
Gen. Russell a. Alger Gays the republican
of the country demand that President Harri
son should step aside for MIR. b atne 10 the
Arefiiential race Senator Pettigrew saye
Tat Blaine will accept the presidential nom-
lnation.
Chairman Calvin BElce, of the national
democratic committee, has written az ad-
drefs calling attention to the political
strength OF republican clubs and urging that
similar organizations among the democrats
be encouraged.
An officer OF the Chicago Health Depart
nsnt claims to have discovered that the
flesh OF broken-dowu, emEciated and Dis
essed horses is being made into sausage
meat and sold 10 the poorer qnartsrs OF the
city. An investigation will be made
The new tariff on tin-plase under the NC
Kin'ey bill goes into force to-day. Mr.. WIN
L. Lyon, OF Baltimore, eeVs the welsh man
afacturers have made $5,0OO,CO0 bY means OF
,hs new law, and that tne present supply IN
the Uaited .S.etes will not last ever four
nonthp.
The ladies a. the Christian Church 81
Brushto~n, II. Y, gave the first ice-cream
soc,s BILE OF the seseon on Saturday night
Forty-three people who ate the ios-cresm
we're poisoned. The pastor Of tbe church
and two ladies have died and sll tbs olhere
are In critical condition.
man BIZ the name oiSsmuel Myers, who
ia EMPLOYED by the new Adirondack and st.
Lawrence Railroad Company, one Of whose
camrs Is three miles from the Sarsnao l
N. Y, went away from the camp for little
stroll on lsst Sunday aiterooon about three
O'clock snd hes not been heard from since.
Il appears that The exhur1aticn OF the
body of James McHenry, tie Efie Railway
ltieant, with view TO examination Tor pol
son. was done for the reason that McHen
rvs life YVES insured for over So, OOO, 0OO IN
various companies ia England and America,
and the cowpsnies, or some OF them, Gus.
psct eulclde By poison, which would VOID
the policies,
Patrick Mulropey, jogeer and sword
swallower. IL lrsd. himssif fatally at Co'um-
bus, 0 Sunday, by trying to swallow VIC
lie bow instead of using the slender sword
he was accustomed 10. Twice he essayed TO
swallow the bow. but be failed and present
/ ly began vomiting blood. Ee continued to
suffer paro1s SINS Of retching. losing at each
spssm much blood, until yesterday morning
when he died.
Justice Wakefield, at Daadhsm, Mass
| Yesterday fled his report upon the irquesl
iudines In the cess OF Mics Mary Emerson
eyed TO, who was found murdered in heI
house In Deadham come time sgo. The re-
po,t showed that the victim bad been as
ssuted and had bean chokcd to death, enc
that $50 or s60 which she was accustomed tc
keep about her was missing also, that the
facts set forth implicste either of the bireC
men, Philip Hoffman or August LsDener, o,
both, In her death. Langner is ct large anc
Eoffman is under bsii SIS witness IN thf
| CAGE.
Mrs. Comstock, in whose room Darwio j
Messerole shot and killed Theodore Larbif
in Brooklyn Saturday night. was we'll known
In Washington az "Dovie" Forney and was
the daughter OF Mr.. D. O. Foruey, wall
| known newspaper man. she Was Quite
belle in Washington society about 1880, and
wes noted for her attractive personality
| Her marriage to Walter ] Crms5ock. q
wealthy yonog men of Providence, wss ore
| of the sociel events of the seseoo. The mar
risga was not = bsppy one and after9s.d
abe was divorced, after which her Washing
| ton friends lost sight OF her.