Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Peter Jackson, the colored puGlllst,
who has recently arrived in New York,
is anxious to fight Corbett.
Mr.. NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the
Chesap axe and Ohio Railway Com
pany, has established his office III
Washington.
1t is thought in Washington that if
President Harrison is defeated in the
coming election he will make his home
in Boston with Mrs Mckee.
The mayor of Lembcrga, the capital
Of Galicia, has been poisoned by ignor-
ant citizens for the precautions he took
to prevent the spread Of cholera.
1t is reported that plan has been
arranged for pilgrimage OF American
Catholics to Rome next spring in cele-
bration of the Pope's episcopal jubilee.
\ small scrap of paper discovered in
an old safe, in Philadelphia, has been
admitted TO probate as the will of An
drew Sproule, who left an estate OF
100000
The British steamship Roumana i,
reported wrecked at the mouth of the
! Arelho river. near Peniche, Portugal.
1t is said 1l3 persons were drowned,
and only nine saved.
Thomas Ncill. the American convict
ed in London OF poisoning women and
sentenced 10 death is entertaining bids
for the purchase of the clothes he will
wear the day of the execution.
\ movement is on foot in London to
request the government TO endeavor 10
secure through the international none
tary conference Il compact for the UNI
restricted coinage of gold and silver.
Two fires in Cleveland, O., yesterday,
which occurred within al hour i'll the
heart of The city, caused n property loss
of at least $3.50, 900, the loss Of one life
and the serious injury Of half q dozen
persons.
The special train bearing the presi-
Dental party left indianapolis at $50
o'clock yesterday evening. after the
funeral Of Mrs. Harrison, on its return
to Washington. The train will reach
Washington this evening.
After having been imprisoned for
twenty-six hours by Il fall of coal at In
dian Ridge colliery, of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Company, Stlney
Klemovitch, Polish miner, was re-
leased from his perilous position yes
tcrday.
Two Russian generals, Rippenkampf
and Zistznon, the former over sixty
wears old and the latter liily-cight years
old, assaulted each other, to the anger
of the Car, who has ordered that Rip
penkampf be reduced to the ranks and
Zistznoil' be expelled from the army.
Rev. DIR. George w Willard: presi-
dent of Ursinus College, formerly pres
ident of Heidelberg College, Titlin,
Ohio. was married ut Lancaster. Pa, on
Thursday. to Miss Nary f. Gormley.
DIR. Willard is cigity-ihree years old
and his bride is seventy-three.
Armed with big knife. James Lang
don, a desperate convict. yesterday at
tackled Patrick Lynch, an employee at
the county Jail in Sunbury, Pa. Both
are of powerful physique, and a des-
perate battle was fought Lynch was
stabbed half dozen times, and will
die.
Among the eccentricities brought out
on Thursday in New York in the con
test over the will of Mrs. Elizabeth I.
Coles, who left half the residue of her
large fortune to the Episcopal Cattle
dral of St. John, was that she dressed a
statue of Venus in silks and put sash
on it.
The stage of water in the Ohio river
is lower than at any time for five years
and navigation has been practically
suspended from Pittsburg since July Is.
At the Pittsburg wharf there are over
POO steamboats, and tugs tied up, and
at every landing are coal fleets unable
to move.
The house of correction at Golfers
Gorf. Austria, was burned on Thursday
afternoon. The fire spread with such
rapdity that many of the 500 prisoners
had to jump for their lives. Twelve
are known to have been burned to
death and others are missing. Many Of
those who escaped are still in custody
and are severely burned.