Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-04-10
eWs OF TEy DaT.

Twenty national bar ks in Kansas will de-
and reorganiz, under the new
State law.
Secretary Proctor says he is not candi.
date for Senator from Vermont In place ti
MIR. Edmunds.
Dr.. Joshua O Is of Stanton, died suddenly
Yesterday of pneumonia. superlnduced BY
the grip, after very brief illness, aged %
years.
All the necessary money having been
subscribed, sculptor St. Gaudens has been
selected to design the statue t, General
Sherman.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies COM
nittee has decided In favor OF household sui
frage, with twenty-five years the minimum
voting eye.
United S ates District Attorney Eoaor OF
Baltimore. has recommended that the sen
tence of the Nava,sa rioters be conmuted
to confinement In priscn for life.
Fire broke out on the cranberry land {. OF
dervirg Newbold, In Burlington county, N.
j., yesterday, and spread ever miles OF c:an-
berry boys doing much damage.
The attorney for the District OF Columbia
construes the "one-mile limit" law to pro.
bibit he sale of liquor within one mile Of
the exterior boundary line of Tho Soldiers
Home.
Third Assistant Secretary Of State Jot n
B. Moore has resigned, having, AZ stated yes
terday, been elected by the faculty of Colum-
bia College, of New York, as professor Of
international law.
The North German Gazette. referfiog to
the United States commercial treaty with
Brs I'll, says that the German exporters will
probably lose great portion of the South
American market.
The leading feature OF the second day oil
the patent celebration 10 Washington was the
reading by Mr.. A B. pofford of paper
on "The Copyright System of the United
States; lis Origin and Its Growth"
William Wallace, postmaster of Indianap-
oils. Ind.. died yesterday. He was con OF
the late CIV. David Wallace, brother OF
Gen. Law Wallace, and was President Hsr-
rison's first law partner.
At Jacksonville, lad, yesterday james
Coward and bis mother q1arreled. she
struck him with rock, and be procured q
pistol, load I'd with shot, and discharged IL
full 10 her face, woundiog her fstally.
The Swiss Court OF 1odictment has decided
| to try Gas!roui on the charge of numbering
Councillor Rossi in the revolution In the
Canton OF Ticno of September last, and q
other Ticiness who took part In the iDsur'
RECTOR.
Dominic O'MaIley was arraiged In New
Orleans yesterday for per Jury, conspiracy to
induce per jury, and being accessory to the
attempted bribery of tales Juror. DE
pleaded mot guilty" to each of the chargea
and was released on So COO ball.
A cyclone passed over Nevada. Mo-, We'd
nesdsy night, tearing down three dwelling
houses and many barns and ouibuildingr.
| 70 one of the barns horse was lett stand
| ing htched to a post In bis stall unhnrf
while the building was completely swept
away.
Georgia society swells are shocktd ouly 8
little less severely than New York's social
kings and queens will be when they learn
that the Hsrgous family, OF New York's
-Four Hundred" lays Claim to the properl
of an old shoemaker who died In Augusta,
merely on grounds of kinaaip.
At Little Rock, Ark, yesterday. James
| Sumper climbed to the top of windmill for
ths purpose of repairing it. bat neglected to
fasten It. When he reached the top gust
Of wind started the fans and Sumpler was
thrown to the ground distance ofsixty feet
and was Instantly killed.
At the Spanish cabinet council yesterday
| Premier Canovas d,l Castillo informed the
Qneen that he bad settled with Gen. Foster
the principa points of reciprocity treaty
wi America Affecting Cuba, and he hoped
that treaty of reciprocity between Spain
and America might be negotiated later.
dsid cycoR
The Msrylsrd Republican State Conven'
ton completed lis work In Baltimore yes
terdav and adjourned. L. adopted, with
amer DIN enta, The oustiution prepared by
the Commission Of Seven, harmonizsd the
dispute in the city by compromising on the
city members of the State Central Commit
tee, and had thoroughly harmonious ses-
sion.