Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-02-18
E2Ws OF TIE DAY.

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man provincial Masons, Is dead.
The Prursian council Of ministers has de.
clded against prosecuting Prince Bismarck.
William Massey, head of the William
Massey Brewing Company OF Philadelphia,
died yesterday.
The Parpelites and the McCerthyi.es hed
meetings, endorsed their leaders and fornu-
lated plans for the campaign.
Three dams in mountain strefms sbove
JohnstoHn, Pa, it is feared may break and
send acres of water and millions OF logs
crashing through the disaster stricken city.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob Aston, who
were married in Philadelphia yesterday,
stopped in Baltimore last night on their
way South. They will 80 to St. Augustine,
Fla.
SadIer, the sailor charged With ths murd or
of "Carroty Nell" in Whi!echarel, is now
believed to have besn at sea at the time
the other Whitechapsl murders were COM
mitted.
l. Ia said 10 Washington that tie Cieve-
land oliver letter defeated compromise
measure looking to the free coinage of Amer
lean silver and mintage charge for the coin-
age of foreign silver.
Three explosions caused by wafer break
Ing the pipes Of natural gas occurred yestar'
day-two in Pittsburg, Pa, and one In AL
leeheny, Pc. Several persons were injured
aud much property wa9 destroyed.
At the meeting of the National
Electric Light Association in Provi.
dence, E. l., yesterday, O paper was reed
stating that electric train lightning ia
luxury and costs ten times az much as gar.
1t is now reported that the baccaret game
in the recent card scandal belonged to the
Prince of Wales. A woman who dIsliked
Sir Gordon Cumming irst tod of the bacca-
rat scandal with which his name has been
connected.
The House appropriations committee yes
te1day completed the last of the approprie-
ton bils-the general de6ciency-and 1t
was reported to the House 10 the afternoon.
l. csrries total appropriation of 6,574,'
sos. large part of which SOS CTS 332-is
on account of pensions.
Delegate e.. B. Dyer, OF the West Vir-
pinia House Of Delegates charged that Geo.
Howard, the representative of the Van
Antwerp, Bragg & Co. Cincinnati pub
fishing house, tried TO bride him to vote for
the school books furnished by his firm. A
warrant was Issued by the House, out How
ward has not been found.
An alarm for telling when ship reaches
predetermined depth of water Ia now being
tried aboard her Msjssty's ship Rambler
in the Red Sea. This important dsvice
consists of wire sounding apparatus,
having sDker, which, on coming In contact
With the bottom, relieves the drum on board
ship and sounds bell.
The steamer Sherlock yesterday struck q
Kentucky pier of the Chesapeake and Ohio
bridge, at Cincinnati while going down the
river on a trip to New Orleans. She had Oh
board thirty passengers and an insufiiclel
crew. She went to pieces and hoate1 down
to Fifth street, where she sunk. l5 Is moi
known that more than two are lost.
The recent rains In Pennsylvania, Yves!
Virginia AID Ohio have caused great fresh
ets n the rivers of those States, doing great
damage. Iu West Virginia the railroads
ere bockaded by landslides, and Wheeling
ia without communication by rail with the
on side world. Immense quantities Of lum
Der along the Susq1ensnna have bsen car
ried down, and will be swept along to the
Chesapeake bay.
a terrible accident occurred yesterday 10
the key mill and baeket factory owned by
Schcf Id, Polk e Co.. of Pocomoke City,
Md. A coIored mau named Smith School
6ald or Smith Baston, as he was more com-
monty knowH, while trying to adjust keg
bell, caught hls slesve in pe,t erd was eud-
denly thrown among the whirling machine
~. He was beaten and torn to pieces in
the presence of all those who were at work
in the mill.