Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-09-21
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I.;s gaid tbat -Reps eeentative McComas
will be civil eerVice commissioner, in Mr..
Lyman's place.
Thousands of Immigrants from the north
of Itelv have sailed from GermsC ports for
the United States
8 dlssaas similar to Texas splsnic fever
Is playing havoc With cattle in the neighbor-
hood Of Huntington, W. We.
Senator Call, OF Florida, does not antici-
pate any trouble In securing his seat In the
Senate, in spite of the fact that the Governor
has appointed ex-Con2ressman Robert b.
Nj. Davidson 10 succeed him.
Tgo colored men were refused seats In the
diDiug-YooIn of Brawner's City Hotel, IN
Baltimore, on Saturday, and their white
cong 4nioes OF the Philadelphia Young
Mems Christian Association lett the house.
REPORTS have reached San Astonio, Tex,
shsC tne Mexicao regolutionists were over
taken near Mar, Mexico, by government
t.Qops, and that q battle ensusd. IN Wnich
several men 90 both sides were killed. Gate
rlno Gasz., leader OF the reVontionisls, was
wounded and banged.
Ez Congressman W. L. Scott, of PennsSl-
yania, died at Newport, E. l., or Saturday
night. He had long besn sufferer from
ecute gastro-in;estinsl catarrh, and two
weeks ago be was taken to Newport. WI
liam l.. Scott was horn 10 the city OF Wash
ingtoD, July Q, 1928. his parents being reai-
dents of Virginia.
at Washington, Pa, on Saturday, two
cars belonging toJ ohm RobiDson's circus we're
wrecked on sics track. The GERS were
flied With empIoyee OF the show end their
escapa FROM dsath was miracle as II Yves
On actress wGe fatally injured and four men
badly hufs. The accident Wes caused by q
broken brake beam.
The great fusllade OF eggs with which, 1t
had been threatened, Father YodSszds, tne
got0us Lithuanian priest, would % greeted
II go attempied to celebrate mess yesterday
mp..ing Ia his church ia Williamsburg, n.
Y, Was indeGaite.y postponed tg The police,
gtl atiy TO The disappointment OF large
gathering Of oitizsDs.
Mta Gertrude Whiting Potter, the eccen-
tric daughter OF the Chicago millionaire,
from whom the boy Rust obtained divorce
last week, was on Saturday remarked to J..
@. DsnieIs, of New York. whom she welded
year ego under an assumed name. 1t Ia
said that fear OF the penitentiary for bigamy
il what induced Miss Gertrus Potter to dis.
card young Bust and take Mr. Daniels.
The fret contingent of the pilgrimage of
French workmeO arranged TO visit Rome
were received By the Pope Saturday In tie
yastibule otSs. Peler's bHsliioa. There were
Q 600 pilgrims present. Twenty thoussnd
will yielt Roms before the pilgrimage Is end
ed. The Pope addressed the Eorkman for
twenty five minutes on the necessity OF reli'
eion In the solution of the labor problem.
go far as FL Paso and iiR aeigbborbood is
concerned the rsio-mak!ng experiments by
the government party fGiieG 10 produce C
eingls drop of rein. The barometer wss
| tigh when ths firing began on Friday, and
it was even higher Saturday morning Ths
relative humidity was very small and grew
less and less all day. Every one there ie
disappointed, aud nooe more SO than the
members Of the government expedition.
The excitement 2ro@s hourly greater
among tine people in Oklahoma who will
make tie race for homes In the Indian res
erystion 10 the eastern part of that Terrific
~, which will be opened for settlement
tomorrow. At Langston, the Oklahoma ne
FRO colony, hundreds Of negroes have gsthsr-
cd and intend 10 novel il body op the o.
znarrou Valley. The cowboys and Indians
ere desperately opposed to the plans Of the
eegroes and threaten 80 oppose bs force their
wholesale settlement in the valley.