Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-19
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Eugijsh capitalists, it is ssid, are DESTROYS
OF fiuding Investments II America.
The political news from both Nav York
ard Ohio Is very encouraging to the demo-
crBts.
Bishop La5aus hos accepted the cali to
the Reformed Episcopsl Church Of the Re-
deemer In Bs!tlmors.
II Mra. Parnell RECEIVERS, 1t is sa!d. she will
write book giving the ether side OF the
celebrated divorce case.
The President has Issued proclamation
regsrving from entry and settlement the
tyacsa OF timber land in the state OF Colora-
do, known SIS the White River Plateau.
| Mrs. Ann A. Dodge, 81 inmate OF the
pcc-boue5 ct Butte, Mont, and ninety years
OF ags. has received notice that she is the
heir to an estate Of IS 600, 600 in England.
The mother Of Minnie Oyerton, former
belle OF Galatin, Tenn. on Saturday blind
Ell Samuel z. ElIiot6 With vtriol, her
daughter having charged him With Feducing
nss.
Mrs. Thurman, wifs OF Judge Allen g.
Tkuf.asr, d!ed ct Columbus, Ohio. on Sat
urdey evening, aged so years. 6ha Was
siGow Wbea chs married Judge Thurman
icfty-hgsyeaEs ego.
The reports from the government. rain
makers In Texas are conflicting. Some
state iaRt the experiments on Friday and
Saturday were SUI oeesiul, while others state
thai they were entire failures
George E. Payne, prominent scnng aus-
i1o5s rcsn OF Loug Island City, n. Y, 's
eeGgchlDg for his Tife. Julie, Who, ne says,
| left Der hcme end babies because apgered
| by her isslousy, he told her the fAlsehood
| that he Was fa!thiess.
/ Whe one hundred thousand dollars paid
| for S. Beizs at Tsttersat!s, in Nav York,
or Saturday, Is the bigaest price ever paid at
an auction sale for borso. The nerVy bid
der vas the veteran turfmap, Charles Reed,
| Of Fai,vleW farD7, near Gellatin, lem.
II IL rumo.sd in official circles liz Wash
inssou that several prominent government
ofieis's have bssn marked for removal utter
the November election. The let taoiuIes
the commissioners OF pensions and Indian
affairs, ths comptroller of the treasury and
ihe commissioner Of internal revenue.
| Historic Valley Forge's original site OF fl
| lyons aores ba5 juaa been transferred py
pe-emptory seie 10 John Dunn for $40 Der
acre. 1t was Genersl George WashingGons
/ headquarters 10 1777 rs, and here the iron
wss loreeG for inpleAsnGs Of var used by
| Washington end thu Continental army.
| Thornton J. Hams, Who killed his friend,
| Nsd Hannegan, at Fort Monroe, has LETT
Washington and the Unitsd States prots-
big forever. Hie departure use kept &C.
crat, and but lew sre aware that Ia Is not
still la Washington. He is now on the
ocean, bound. it ID believed, for South Amer
lee.
The 3 &, paity In the o lie aud Missis-
slppi deal met In Cnoinnaii. Sruroay even
log. and by \ vote of $4,000 shares out OF
totsi of $40 900 declared 6tergstt McKim.
D. Fahuestcck and j s Wa!she elected di
rectors. The o. s. NJ party applied tc the
court for p restreining order, end there are
indications Of long legal battle.
The Lucy Webb Hayes Desconess Hone
and Bbls College for Horne aod Foreign
| Missionaries was dedicated In Washington
on Saturday afternoon in the presence OF an
audience 60 distinguished SO it was large,
| there peipg present souie OF the we'll known
bishops OF the Methodist Church on this side
o. the water and some OF the eminent d.
vines from the other side.
A dispatch from Ottawa. Ont. Gays: "Fol-
| the United States government Intended to
| abrogRte the agreement entersf into With
| Crest Britain Ia 1877 aud place feet OF
aunboats upon the great lekee, comes the
| report that at the request of tho British gov
eminent LORD SiaDley hos demanded an I'm
mediate report upon the iefenses OF The Do.
minion.
The steamship Danedln, wh!oh arrived In
Mao YOrty SaturCa0 NIGHT two gp6ks from
Oienfuegos, had hard battle with the sea
and wind on her long voyage. The coal
gave cut while the ten pest wos at its worst
and she began drifting. All the woodwork
OF the cabin end forecestie we're put In the
furnaces. Tken the hatohss were opened
and 30 tons OF sugar we're taken out and
pitched into the FIRE.
Charles Bowen, Charles Eagle, Wallace
Snow and Il. Fl Hollistsr robbed the Spen-
Ger pRy-1ffice, in Dnnmore, Pa, on Satur-
dsy, Of sacks containing fra hundred one
dollar silver coins. Tr9 polics had been
nun Der NJ officers followed the thieves 60 the
barn OF Eogle and caught the men dividing
the epoiis Snow made o confession 10
writing Holiister, il appeare, is an OLD
criminal, and he is charged with having
planned the robbery. L. was suppos sd the
sacks contained S13 000 but the gold had
baeu removed snt concealed and the silver
subs ituted. 1t vas one of the boldest rob-
aries ever committed In the county, the
psy-cffioe facing On one of the principal
styaste of Dunmore.
FOREIGE NEWS.
Ssrions legal difficulties are likely TO erise
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