Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-06-23
NEWS OF The Day.

E1.Pres,dent Cleveland. it is thought,
will accept the invitation to visit tho South
in the fall,
Kingston beat the record at Sheepshead
Yesterday by covering the Fa.urity course
In 1908, with 139 pounds up.
TIE maintenance and transportation OF
State troope during the recent coke riots in
Penn ylyanis cost the State $50 029.
I. ia again reported that Mrs. John A.
Logan and MIR. Geo. E Lemon, the pension
claim agent, are to be married. Both have
gone to Europe.
Dr.. emith Townshend ls etiil health com-
missioner 70. the District of Columbia. AID
ir fuential friends are putting forth ettJEts
for his retention.
lit be found that The bringing o! Savin
and Mitchell to this country was violation
of the contract labor law, their MANAGER
will be prosecuted and mey be fined 81 OCO.
Masked robbers entered priests house
at Bsttenhs ,eu, Prussia, yesterday and
forced him to give up the Sunday collec'
lions and The altar vessels which be used IN
the service.
Mrs. Barbara Weidermar, the handsome
Young widow OF Chicago tobacconlst, is
under arrest on charge of having poisoned
her husband, whe died Ia May last with
symptoms Of arsenical poisoning.
It Ia understood In Washington political
circles that powerful combination, which
includes number of western republican
Senators, bas been formed to boom Mr.
Blaine for the Presidential nomination.
Cir J. E. Gorst, under secretary OF the 10.
dia office, rendered bis resignation to Lord
Salisbury yesterday because OF allualons
made to him 10 the House OF Lords By Vie
! count Gross. Secretary for 1odis.
Italisp Consul Dominic Cimoche at St.
Louis, is indignant over the attack on his
countrymen who were employed Oh the wa
ter works there and will probably enter
into correspondence with his government
Gu the affair.
Ga complaint OF Rev. 8sm. email. the
grand jury at Philadelphia found CD in6ict-
mept against Rev. J. Wesley Hill, of Ogden,
Usah. The charge Ia writing ard publish
ing letters charging MIR. Small! With crock-
edness Ia maneging tho funds of Utah Uoi-
| yersity.
Bishop Howell B. Price, formerly of he
Nazareth Methodist Episcopal Church. but
/ atterlv Baptist, died yesterday al Gam
I deu, N. J. Years ago be had church OF
/ his own In Camden, but the membership
falling Of, he renowned the Nazsrene creed
and became q Baptist.
| a Terrible explosion of dynamite occurred
at Leiper's qusrries, In Chester. Pa, yester-
dsy. Two men were working on large
rock. One put in quantity OF dynamite,
and was tsmpipg 1t when the stuff explod-
ed. His companion was hurled high Into
the air In cloud of smoke, dust end Aging
stones, and killed.
& dispstch from New York says Cover
nor Hill has not abandoned hie idea Of BE-
ing the next President OF the United States.
These who think he has done go make 3
great mistake. Hill Is in the fight, and his
friends are moving carefully over the
ground. They are now In the position TO
declare that Hill controls the party mschin-
cry In TIRES Ststes-New York, New Jer-
sey. and Indisna-and he can elect national
delegates In those States that will be for
| himself.
There are men in Washington claiming to
he Alliance leaders who predict that the Ohio
| fight will be made on the legislature, with
the ultimate view OF defeating Senator
| Sherman, Just ss In Kansas the fight was
msde-and won-cn the legislature TO de-
feat Senator Ingalls,. Mr.. Sherman has al
ways been particularly Objectionable TO the
Alliance AMI oil Who shere lis financial
ideas. He Ia to them the most formidable
aud dangerous opponent. because he is tLeir
most able antagonist. It ia useless to dis
su;se the fact that Mr.. Shermans friends
| ieel alaI III al.