Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-03-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

A system OF drainage the most extensive
undertaken In the loHlards of Contra ! IL.
nnia is now being planned
The steamer Buckeye hat had been re-
ported lost 10 Puget Sound with twenty i've
passengers aboard arrived at Seattle yeeter
day.
Al application for receiver for the Ne
oop, Georgia, Construction company, one OF
the largest concerns in the South, has been
filed.
The Grand Rapids, Mich, Board CT Trade
has submitted to the legislature plan for
connecting Lake Michigan ard Lake huron
with ship cana.
Elmer E. Washburn, at ons time chief OF
the Uoited States Secret Service. has been
nominated for Mayor of Chicago, Oh the In
dependent citizens ticket.
a bill which provides that DO stakeholder
iu corporation shall have more than ere
VT, no matter how many shares he may
have, has become law in Indiana.
The government of New Fouudand hsa
been invited to pin Canada in negotiating
the basis Of some SORT of reciprocal trs6e
arrangement With the United States.
The funeral of the late Senator Heart
will take place at San Francisco Sunday al.
ternoon. Coz. Markham and prominent
citzans of thu State have been requested 10
act es pail bearers.
samuel NJ. RockIll, q Justice Of the Peace,
committed suicide by shooting himself tt
m: d night last night while sitting in his of
fee In Borden.own, NJ J. No cause can be
assigned for the act.
The drought in Cuba atlll prevails. The
email rivers have dried up, and the fields
asa parched and burned. Heavy losses 10
cattle have already been sustained. The
Drought will materially interfere with the
sugar crop.
Lowell Mesop, brother CT Jack" Mason,
sailed from Nsw York this morning for
Bremen. He was accompanied by the H.
year-cld daughter of Marion Manola The
child was abducted last night from her
i father's b. use and is being taken across The
ocean to her mother.
Police superintendent B5rnes SUNNI ems d
all the New York police captains this NOM
ing and gave them instructions re'stive TO
protscting peaceabls cloakmskers against
| the union men and strikers. He sad sny
outbreak on the part Of !he strikers won d
be promptly checked.
The jury in the trial OF James A. Slm
mons for helping Olasssen wreck the d
National Bank OF New York, after being ou;
all night came into court at noon to-day AND
announced that they had bsen unable to
epree upon verdict and asked to be dis
charged. Judge Benedict denied the re-
quest and the lrors we're locked up again.
J,s. Bsrondsss and the twelve Russian
cIgarmske,s who were arrested in New
York last night for having engaged in tie
attack upon Herman Green baum and his
family at Jamaica, L on Monday nigh ,
when MTa. Greenbaum was bra.ally assault
ed and her four.year-old son WIS cruelty
By Gfeenbaum ard then turned over 10 the
police of Jamaica.
Consid.rab damage was done in Bangor,
Me-, yesterday by flood. The tide to-day
was one of tbs highest known slnce 1S47
At City Point, large amount Of lumber
was hoated down the river and under the
lea. 10 many portions Of the city the sew
ers were stopped up and houses we're f,od.
60. In Brewer. aoeoss the river, all the
wharves were flooded Gad much valuable
lumber was carried away. The ferry slip
WAS taken up bodily aud carried eff, and
several boats on the wharves we're lost.
Tho post Office s. New Milford, Pa, was broken
into last night and $500 worth of stamps and
sum OF money were carried away.
1t is reported that Dr.. Won Gossler, the Plus
sian Minister of Public Worship, has resigned.