Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-21
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News Ga THS Day
Yesterday was the Presidents fifty eighth
birthday.
It is reported that the Haytien war chip
Touissant L'Ouvsrture, which was at Mar
Unique, was lsst in the hurricane at that
place.
Five hundred men engaged on govern
ment vessels, at Cramps shipyerd. in Phil
adelpbia, struck yesterday for higher
wages.
1t Ia said that Canada will have the
Target wheat crop in her hiatnry. 1t Is es-
tima,ed that there will be SO 600, coo bushels
for export.
Wall street reported that formal an
nouncemeDt will sooa be made of the trans
fer of the Spgeokea feGaefy in Philadelphia
10 :he sugar trust.
The emnunt OF wheat shpp' d from Bal
timore yesterday was 3l2,357 bushels, the
largest amount shipped on any day for
many years. Il all went to France.
Probably more peaches were received In
Baltimore yesterday Than ever before In one
day. Over rs 900 boxes we're received
which sold at from 10 cents per hox CpRard
Organs of the italian government assert
that II the next papsi oopclsve is held out
side ri Rome The government VIII occupy
the Vs,ican AND exclude the new Pope from
H.
Thomas Pace, aged sixteen, an employee
Of the Eneley Fprnsce Company, at Biz
miogham, Ala, fell into lake Of molten
alag yesterday Of ernoon and was roasted to
death.
]. Oromp,o1, Union Pacific station agent at
CARIBOU, Wyoming, yesterday. while drunk,
get fire to the station and then killed him
self. The Bsckwith Commercial Company
lost In the fire SIS 600.
The managers of the New York Produce
Exchange have suspended Mayer Gold.
smith, The millionaire exporter of cattle
from the privileges of ths floor for declining
to keep verbal contract
The convention of the Isish national
itaeua cs America will be hed 10 Chicago
next month. instead of Baltimore, as the
! national couDcil Of the organization ecreed
ppon it's meeting In Cincinnati in April
last.
The immense plant and lumber yard u!
l. Il. Mace & Co In New York, s7as iotaliy
destroyed Big fire last night. The loss Is 10
tai, and "a nearly as cau he ESTIMATED will
reach quarter of million dollars, upon
which the insurance is oompa lively email.
Because the Pope favors closer &. mpathy
pu tho part ri thu Catholic church with the
republic In France the Count OF Paris, who
resides In England, Is said to be dispeaeed
and as result has stopped the Payment of
his regular contributions to the pspsl trcss-
nry.
The 3ght express train from Macon last
night was held up vi Collins Station, Ca,
by three masked men and the express safe
robbed The highwaymen We're heavily
srmsd end secured several packages, max
Ing probably 10000 There is no clue TO
the robbers
An iron buoy belonging to the United
States lighthouse establishment recently
drifted across the Atlantic and was picked
up on the west coast OF Ireland The tight
house board oa being notified OF ths fact
presented The buoy 10 the Irish light ses-
vice, ard II was tbunklu!jy accepted.
a freight tralD on The Kansas City, g..
Joseph AID Council Bluffs roed. vas nald np
and robhed M Mnrray's s~itch. just outside
ri Harlem, Mo. Yesterday morning. The
rsar brakeman, Ell While, vas sho: ana
Killed D. ons OF zoe outlaws. The ounduc-
tog vas compelled TO give Up his watch
The Chllian insurgents hsva landed an
army of from 600 10 10000 men a. ths Bay
If Quintsrc, twenty miles aoftD OF Vsips-
raiso ,snd Ralmecsde hae cent force to give
them battle, The ipsurgent flsel ara IL the
giciusy OF Valparaiso The landing at
Qaiotero Bay wsa somplets surprise 10 the
President
As the Georgia Farmers Alliance meeting
Yesterday, a resolution Was adopted de-
uonnoipg President Hall, OF The Missouri!
Alliance The committee on cotton acreage
recon- Cd ended that convention OK cotton
growers be called. looking 10 reduction Of
Gotten acreage. The alliance reaffirmed is
endorsement of the Ocals platform.
Yesterday Queen Victoria, accompanied
by The Duke OF Edinburgh aud the Duke Of
Connaueht, viewed the French fleet In o.
borne bay. The spectacle was one OF the
most magnificent ever eeen IN Eugliah wa
tsra, the British squadron Of ESCORT, how
ever, Furnishing most of the msgnicenoe
The yessels, both British and French, were
spiendidly decorated while their ornaments
we're in the best possible order.
Il has leaked out thst the six weeks de-
lsy which resulted 10 the allure of ihs two
per cent. extension Of the D. per cent. bonds
gas tbe fsnls OF President Harrison, rot OF
seoretsry Foster The result of the opposi-
.ion Of President Harrison and the blnnder-
ing poicy OF the administration in Causing
the abandonment of the scheme will De, 10
the opinion OF the beat posted bankers In
Wall street, thai the four and half per
esnis will sel below par on September l,
ALMY CAPTURED -As stated yesterday.
Frank C. Amy. the murderer of Christie
yuoxa.n ppou annrabandad rear Fanouar