Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-03-02
Jews OF TIE Day.

General Sao.msn left no vii! snd bis es-
tate is said to Is very email.
Wall strest has raeed $1,000 for the :aie
Secretary W.udom's famny.
Ground will be broken for the Grant mon-
umept ia Riverside PARK, Rew York, on
April q.
There is ttroDg pressure fox an extra Set
aiou CT the Senate by a5plranta for the pine
new circuit judgeships just created.
A thief smashed window in Rosenthsls
Jew eiry store at Birmingham, Ala, eatur-
day night and got away With tray h'led
with diamonds.
A destructive winter thunder storm, ao-
companed by lightning, visited various
ports of Massachusetts on Saturday night
and did much damage.
Il Ia thought that the Seuate and the
Hou?e will remain 10 continuous session,
with only occasio5sl Tecess as for f=W hours
ut lime, uatil Wednesday noon.
]. A. Franciscus, of Philadelphia, COM
mtted suicide at the Hotel Johnson In
Washington on Saturday night by shooting
himself with pie.ol. lie died instantly.
A mase meeting YVES held in Vicksburg
Saturday night sud resolutions were adop;-
ed. protesting against the appointment OF
James Hill, cc!oreG, az postmaster 81 that
city.
Russell s. Thompson, 8 conductor on
cable road 10 San francisco, was shot sno
killed on Saturday By A. a. Cochran, his
father-in-law, who afietwarG committed sui
ciGe.
It is reported in Chicago tnat republican
members of the illinois Legislature intend
ofor.GanarpI Dayj1 Of thS
Worlds Fair, as their candidate for United
States Senator.
Brooklyn police are making specia! etf1sts
20 trace out the iirebugs who have created
big scale among the tenement house inas5
tans Ia the lower part OF tbs City during
the past two months.
The parents Of Ella Tica, who married the
colored coachmen in New York recently,
are brckenhearted, and the couple are talk
lag of coming to Richmond, but if they dc
they may be arrested for miscegenation.
1t is reported that the Emperor CT Ger
many will retslIate upon France for the
manner In which bis mother was treated.
As an outcome of this he will recall Count
Won Munster, the German l. nbassador 10
France.
Chancellor Won Capriva instructed The
Governor of Alsace-Lo'raine 10 restrict the
passport regulations ct Alsace Lorraine.
This order has increased the indignation of
the French people, growing out of the Visit
of the ex. Empress Frederick.
Ia Philadelphia, on Saturday Jas. @ .iun,
while under religious frerZg, &c % pen
anoe for his sins, marked cut c-oss on the
A1or of his house srd attempted TO cruelty
himself. He had nailed both fest and one
hand to the floor when discovered.
Gov. Jackson, OF Maryland, has decided
not to appoint successor to the late 5 u
ator Wilson, and the seat will remain We
cant un;il the Legislature, which meets in
Jauuary next, elects new Senator. Gov.
Jackson will then be Candidate himself.
The congregational conference commlttese
we're In session mes. all day yesterday ana
inside satisfactory progress, aud un!ess some-
thing altogether unexpected should happen
1t lie thought there will Dos be much diff
Gully in disposirg Of ell the appropriation
bills by Wednesday noon, when the session
must terminate.
Over go houses Of Yuma, A..z ma. are in
ruins from TIE q ed iu the ella river ard
l 400 people ere homeless, Not O single
business house remeus standing. 1t ls fear
ed that hundreds OF livas have been lost In
tbs Gils Valley. Thousands OF horses aud
cattle are droWned.
The republican Senatorial cauoas last
Eight nominated Mr.. Henderson, Of Ne.
bsaska, for President pro tenn Of the Ser
ate. Three Senators were nominated for
the position-Frye. OF Maine; Hosr, OF HAS
sachusstts. ard Henderson of Nebraska,
Six or seven ballots we're taken, and on the
last ballot Senator Henderson received
twsnty-one voies, which was majority of
tue votes ce5t.
The House Committee on r form in the
Civil Service has agreed 10 report, though
aot unanimously, bill making the Civil
Service Commission oonsist OF ons Commits
zioner at $4,000 year, instead OF three; be
to have one deputy, or chief examiner (of
the opposite political partly $500. and
secretary at $500. ard to prevent, By re-
porting to the President, all removals from
the civil service for purely political reaecus.