Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-06-25
NEWS OF TEE nay.

Big crops are expected in parts of the
| Northwest.
With the exception of some minor details,
the comm arcial arraDgem aDt between spain
and The United States has beeo comDietee.
Ben Ali. the alleged Jack the Ripper"
was srrsSned for the murder OF Carrie
Brown aud the work of getting jury to
try him was begun 10 New York yesterday.
The Commissioners OF the District of &C.
iumbis yesterday passed an order requesting
| Health Officer Townshend to tender his res
ignstion before the frat of July and 10 Vs.
cate his Office by the first OF August.
Alfred A. B,esee, aged 80 yeare, son OF
F. Bresee, tbs insurance agent, and himself
In the same business, died yesterday NOM
ing o! heart dieease at the family's summer
home, Paradise" near CatonsVille, Md.
Frederick Broke1, son Of Isasc V. Bro
kaw, wealthy Na~ York clothier. was
drowned st E berou, n. J yesterday, viii @
trying to cave the life of drowning girl
MIR. Broksw's parents Witnessed the drowL-
| Ing Of their son.
The case against Mr.. Depew and The other
New y ok and New Haven directors, In ref
erence to the tunuel disaster, fell fat in
New York yesterday. Judge Van Brunt
told the jury to find verdict for all the de-
fendaDts except Mr.. Clarke, the president
of the road.
Postmaster General Wauamaker has et-
tablished board OF promotions for the Post
{ flee Department by which promotions
from the lower to the higher grades are to
be made through competitive examinations.
Ee is ALEC taking steps to improve the spe-
cial delivery System.
! Senator Vest, of Missouri, says nc ,veInor
Campbell should be reelected in Ohio be,
Campbell, will be the democratic nominee
for President. Otherwise Mr.. Cleveland
will sgain get the nomination. The Senator
Sc id Gray, of Indiana, will be given second
place on the ticket.
Tests were msde yesterday on the out.
skirts Of Washington Of the feasibility of ex-
ploding balloons charged with gases st con-
siderable height in the air, with the object
Of discovering the praoticabllity of e1pi.d
ing dynamite 10 like manner and it's effec 8
in producing rain in case of droughts.
| The territorial reform school at Ogden,
| L all, and the only institution of the kind in
| Utah and one of the finest In the country,
was burned yesterday. There were about
so inmates, all of whom we're out in the
|. field The building and contents we're to-
tally destroyed. Loas, $4,000. Well ir-
sured.
| John L. Sullivan says he will fight Ffapk
p slevin for $4,000 side aud purse Of
S25 600, either ia the 0 ympic Club OF New
Orleans. or the Granite Club OF Hoboken,
n. j. the fight to be decided any time be-
tween September and February, and Richard
K. Fox, A.. Cridge or Dick Roche can hold
the stakes
The Ohio democratic State convention
will be held ct Cleveland Jaly IA and Is
This was decided By the State committee.
II slso decided that the delegates should be
elected Oh basis OF the vote Of 1890. The
is q victory for Campbell. Allen w. Thur
man will be temporary chairman, There is
bnt lit Ia Gouht hat Gov Campbell will get
| the nomination.
In the Peiladsphia CITY councils investi-
CATION of the X 'ystone Bank affairs, r bar,
NJ. Yardley. the receiver. identified the SIG
shares Of alleged oVer-lssued stock. 1t was
shown 10 the testimony that tina persons to
whom the stock was transferred we're mere
| IL "straw men" and that their names bad
been used when the stock WAS pledged to
borrow money on. Mr. Yardey showed
where 2,625 shares OF the stock had betn is-
sned in tbs name OF John Wanamaksr.
Bank Examiner Drew denies the truth o.
the charges made by Bardsley, ex-Tfesaurer
| OF = Philadelphia.