Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-03-06
KRWs OF TIE Day.


The Navg DEPARTMENT is much il want of
crews to man this ships OF the navg.
The Ohio Valley Railroad has passed Into
lha control of the Chez apeake, OHIO and
Southwestern.
The Iodiara legislature passed the coz
etss.ionsl fedistrictiag bill giving the DEM
ocfets ten Of the thirteen congressman.
Toe Monroe High Schoo. at Monroe, n.
c.. $40 600 structure, was burned yester-
day. Thomas Pemberton and Albert B1st,
two Students, persisted in the f.mes.
The bursting of three-.on fswheel In
Green & Fanton's hat factory at DAntury,
CT, caused panic, in which two girls leap
ed out window and were seriously hurt.
G. N. Steele, druggist OF Ashland, WIS.,,
was Yesterday ehot through the heart By
mis- brother-in-,aw, w. G. French. who
claimed that Steele came between him nud
his family.
Four ex-state treesurers Of Delaware yes-
tePday testifi ID before the legislative com.
mittee on investigation that they never saw
the missing certificates. and did net believe
they were ia existence.
a dinner YVES given ct Chau bs.lin's in
Washington last night to Hon. John z.
Spoouer, ex Senator from Wisconsin,, as au
expression Of es' eem and friendship on the
la.t of his late associates in the Senate.
In enowsIide. one.fourth ola mileb below
Alta, In Emery Guch, U alb, On Wednesday,
nine men were caught and two were killef
instantly. The body OF one was recovered
Two others we're badly hurt, but got out
alive. The other FIVE had narrow escape.
The two women who attempted to Kill
King Milan of SerVis, in 1882. were stranR-
isd to d cath in prison. Milan requested Ii.
Garsschsnine, who was premier at the time
Of the attempt, to institute an inquiry into
the circumstances of the killing of the pfis-
oners.
Th. annual meeting of The New York
Southern Society was held last night, when
tle election of c I'll GERS took place. Captain
Garden was reelected president and Messrs
James n. Parker, Peter MaIlet, John &. Il :
man snd Clarence Cary, vice-pEesiden:s Il
the society.
Mrs. Cethcsrt. very wealthy lady ct
Stafford, England. wto Lost suit for Gl-
vorce against her husband, and Subsequent
~ disappeared, has been found In an Insane
ssylum, from which her relatives will sesk
to obtain her release, Oh the ground shat
che is perfectly sane.
Tie elections In Canada yesterday result
ed in large decrease in the governments
msj Gritty ia the Dominion Parliament acd
CORE spending gains fer the liberals, The
government proposed limited reciprocity
with the u alted States and the liberals ed
vocsted unrestricted trads.
At meeting of the Illinois republican
State central commit 80 yesterday evening.
the action of the e.eering committee 10
throwing the party vote to Streeter was en-
dor8ed. and the party recommended to vote
as unit The recalcitrant republicans sub
s.qupntly agreed to come into lire, but
asked until Tuesday.
TIE steamboat City Of Ricnmosd wis
burned. with valuable cargo, at her pier in
New York yesterday, and the waterman
persisted. The boat is 8 total loss, with tbe
exception OF the hull, which ia not, srpsE-
emily, badly injured. The total value OF
cargo end vessel vas estimated at $3.50 600
The ste amer was fully Insured. The steam
er Was built ten ears ego aud for short time
ran between Richmond and Norfolk, Va.
The negroes who A)ckad TO Oklahoma
City brought smallpox with them and I'D
spidenic is feared. They era encamped
without the SAINTS Fe depot, and their suf-
'ariugs from the recent cole weather. In ed
ditioD 10 the pargs o.! hunger, are intense.
The race question is assuming serious
phase, and the continued agitation which
the susject is raising is more than likely to
result in coiiaion bstween the whites AID
backs
The man Gavsn, who made ferocioue
pIt ,r,;bh liz he in
rail way carriage near Cas!lsrea Dublin on
Tuesday. has been declared of uneourd
miud. Gavan has been twics 10 prison tor
s'abbiDg persons. In neither case was
there any motive for the act. The police
are impressed with the mans likeness to the
described appearance of Jack, the Ripper"
aud are making further iuqnires into bile
past history.