Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-09-03
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Three hundred thousand bushels of wheat
WAS exported yesterday from Baltimore.
Il Is reported thst England will send
At ct to The Dardanelles TO watch Russia.
Joseph L. Howard, oolored, CO otured an
alligator il sewer 10 Baltimore yesterday.
Congress 10 TO be esked so loan .heWorld's
OD!umbisn Exposition IS GOO 0C0 =t least,
and perhaps 81 100000.
Emperor William and Chancellor Won
CapriVi viii meet Emperor Francis joseph
and witness the Austrian military namely
5YB.
Il Ia now said that Gen. James ". Wads-
worth will be substituted for Prof. Andrew
D. White as the republican candidate for
Governor OF New York.
Edward Linn, well known stock broker
of Wall street, New York, committed eui-
eide in jersey City yesterday by shooting
himself through the head.
A dispatch from Shanghai says riot
broke out at Ichsng on Tuesday. Ali the
mission and foreign property was burned.
No fatalities are reported.
The National Worlds Fair Commission
discussed the Sunday opening, hut reached
no conclusion The Ledies' Board have
elected Mrs. Susan Gale Cock secretary.
Miss Ida Hewett Ia engineer on the Cairo
and Kans~he Valley Railroad In West Viz
ginia She is said TO be the only female
engineer regularly employed in the United
States.
Geo. 4. Woods, aged % years, en- assist
ant CT an seronsut, became entangled IN the
ropes a. the balloon WAS ascending as O5we'
60, N. Y, yesterday, and moment later,
falling, was killed instantly.
1t Is now shown that Turkeys action in
permitting Russian wer-ship TO pass
through the Dsrdanelles IL not such seri-
Gus breach OF the treaty as to require for
NAL protest from the powers.
M. Zoia declares that France Is now ready
to reveuge Sedan and sweep the German
Empire out of existence, and German news
paper admit that Germany must soon fight
esa,n to hold Rhst she won Ia 1901.
Henry Wilson, OF st. Louis, who gas in
Austria e. tbs time, says the Crown Prince
Rudolph did not commit suicide, but thst
Prince Aursperg Hhot him OIL hunt beoaugs
be had in7eigled bis sisteE into trouble.
In accordance with his privilege as city
councilman, Henry s. Cummings, colored
councilman OF the eleventh ward. in BalLi-
mere. has appointed Harry T. Pratt, color
ed, to three-year scholarship In the Mary
land Institute School of Art end Design.
The ST. Paul Weather Bureau has infor-
nation tha6 an a, ea OF high pressure ofgreet
magnitude mas appeared over shst portion
OF the British possessions north OF Washing
ton state. 1t will bring severe and killing
frosta over n6&r.Y ali ,be Northwest AID
ssveya. of the states cont;euoua thereto be.
tween now and Friday morning.
Daring q severe raiu storm at Grand
Island, Neb. where the State Grand Army
and Sons of Vetersns' reunion ie being held,
q lightning bolt struck The camp yesterday.
Two lieutenants and four sergeaSts OF cagsi-
~ Troop K were seated In the frat SER
geant's feet. The lightning struck the
tant, scattering the spliniera in oil directors.
Nine men we're struck and stunned.
Sister Beatrice May, or Mrs. Mary Z Oil
yer, the bogus nun, who once figured aa
complainant in $50 600 suit for breach OF
promise against Ssoator Cameron, Of Penn
sylvanis. and who was arrested for begging
Ia New York recently, was yesterday sent
to the city prison for one month, because
she could not offer substantial proof Of hsr
so.called work of charity. All persons to
whom she applied for aid repudiated her.
The feeling between the Vatican and the
QuirDaI, In Rome, is increasing In bitter
ness, and the opinion Ia gaining in eccleslss-
tical circles that the next Pope must be
foreigner. The Osservdt0re Romano. 10 an
article which Is regarded 81 written for the
purpose OF paving the way for Ehe holding
OF concleve abroad. says that the departure
of the Pope from Rome is quite possinie II
the general situation In Italy becomes
wore.
The Gear Ia said to be much lrfitased by
the appearance OF smother natural son OF his
late father, following him eveo TO his rect at
Copenhagen TheCssr mas never taken kindly
20 bis natural brothers and sisters. whoee e1-
istenoe he makes 10 oonessIment of regard
Ing ss stigma on ths imperial house Of Rus
sis, being himself a mar OF strict morality in
bis family relations. The latsss applicant
for recognition, shorafore, although no
doubt genuine. Is nos likely so get much for
his palns.