Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-10
EEWa OF TIE DAY.

,es circulated about Emperor Williams Ill
health.
A London tramp hanged himself on the
norcb OF church In that city on SATURDAY
night.
Pres!dsn Balmsceca, OF Chill, has ap-
pealed to the Spanish government TO act as
arbitrator, and end the war.
The European triple alliance Ia not max
inc much Roadway in It's Efforts to draw
Sutherland Into the q ,llverein.
Andrew Carnegie has laid the foundation
stone Of public library at Petethead, SCOT
land. to which he had given 81, 600.
Louisyillss oldest savings institution, the
Masonic Savings Bank, has suspended.
The capital is $780, 900 and the deposits over
a million.
Thirteen miners we're burned by their ma
ked lamps, causing an explosion OF gas III
the York Colliary Tunnel, at Potssvllle, "a ,
yesterday.
at Hamilton, Ont, on Saturday, Hhnlan
and O'Oonnor won tie double sculi against
Grandeur snd Mckay By four lengths
Time--1S.263
Daring q row at camp meeting al
GAINESVILLE, Nd, yesterday. colored man
H6C06u hoWis DfOTos AtNuA AsioooANt 10y
was shot and killed..
Evangelist Moody has received petition
100 feet long, containing 2 500 signatures. re-
uuesting him to make another evaageilstio
tour in Scotland
One man WAS killed and FIVE others Injured
Yesterday by lightning striking smell house
In which tney had taken refuge from g
storm, at Vini.s, Indian Territory.
Tommy Ryan, who defeated Danny Need
hsm at Minneapolis last winter, whipped
william MoMllen, of Washington, D. O.. at
Richardson, ILL.,, yesterday, 10 three rounds
The salvador!an government has confs.
Gated the Pacific Mail steamship City OF
Panama at La Lbertad for leaving LIE Union
without Unit from the captain OF the
port.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs
will consult with M. de Giere, the Russian
Foreign Minister, regarding the formation
of sn economic entente betw cen the TWO
countries.
It Ia said that the reasons Congressman
Kelly. OF Kansas, recently withdrew from
the republican party ls that he hopes to be
elected by the new peoples party to succeed
Senator Plumb.
Proctor Knott, the famous trotter, died
ct Horsehsven, near Saratoga, Thuredey.
he was bred at or near Nashville, Tenp.,
and was at one time one Of the best race.
horses In America.
The Census Bureau has Issued bulletin,
showing that the membership OF the Roman
Catholic Church In America is 6 250,045,
with church property valued at Sis. 3Sl :
SIG and S.765 churches.
The Morgan line steamer Eldorado, which
on Tuesday night last struck an unknown
rock bearing west southwest of Hen and
Chicken Shoals, Great Bahama banks. will
probably be total wreck.
A collision occurred yesterday ct David
stedt, q station on the in'and Railway, IN
Finland, where passenger train dashed Into
military train. Two soldiers were killed
and As persons were injured.
A statement prepared at toe Pension or
flee shows that during Jaly thers we're L.
sued % 107 pensions, aggregating In fist pay
ments SO SIC .855.23, of which the average
to each psnsioner was S127. 26.
Admiral Watson, commanding the British
fset In the West Indian waters, has been
ordered to keep close watch on Hayt. aa
the latest edvices received In London from
Jamaica leave little doubt OF an early de
scent en- tee black Eepnbllo 5g the revolution
lists.
1t is said at Ottawa, Oct, that the Mani
toba and Nor hwasierD Railway Will absorb
the Manitoba q stem of The Northern Pacific,
and will Ia turn hs swallowed mp By the
Canadian Pso:fI This will give the latter
corporation every mile of rail- road 10 Mani
t,ba
William Fullerton. young American, q
graduate OF Harvard, replaces Nj. de B!owltz
as the working head OF the Paris Office of
the London Times II. &c B!owiiz continues
his special contributions. Mr.. Fullerton has
been connected with the Times steff for two
years.
Tarea cars and sr engine on the Sea
Beach road to Coney Island ran off the
track yesterday. and over 5even hundred
psople narrowly escaped being killed. The
news created panic in the waiting room
and in stampede many people we're knock
ed down.
At Boston yesterday john Bark. csrpeu
ter, hired 14-foot sailboat and took out for
q ssl his three children, Vincent. Lillian
ard James, eyed respe, lively Il, 10 end 8,
aud his niece snd nephew, Annie and James
Carmody. eyed II and Is. The boat upset
and ell were drowned.
John DGvall surveyor of Annapolia,
and very old man, committed suicide at
his home yesterday by taking dose o;strych-
biue He had become very despoudene.
fearing that he would become dependent
upon tho community. His sisters were
present when be took the poison. bat they
could not save him.
Prof Jsmss Woodrow hss basn elected
president OF The South Carolina College, et
Columbia. Several years ago Dr.. Woodrow
was tried before the Presby terian Church for
saying that the body of Adam was probably
q development from the lower forms OF ALL
NAL life end organic duet, and was depcssd
from his professorship In the Theological
Seminary In Columbia.
a young woman WHO aald her name wss
Leonore Marie, o. thss she was 81 actress,
with relatives In New York, was found la
one OF the compartments OF railway car
rage on railroad running from Lsioeater
10 Bedford, Eugland suffering from a terri
oils eunshot wound. She said man shot her