Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

MdlSudl OcOuOid Od IOuSSS0, ehS
first president of the republic of Brazil,
is dead.
A report comes from India that Rus
STA will most likely seize the Pamirs in
spite of EDs land.
The new switclnnen at Buffalo, n.
Y, are greatly annoyed by the strikers,
and some of them have received war
nings to quit work or prepare for
death.
Mr.. Chester D. Burrows, jr., OF
Brooklyn, a republican presidential
elector in 1888, and president of a re-
publican ward league, has joined the
democratic party on the tariff issue.
Hon. Myron II. Clark, who was
elected Governor of New York in 1854
by the anti-slavery wings of the wing
and democratic parties, died yesterday
at his home in Canandaigua, aged ST
years.
1t is said that Senator Hill will make
his first speech OF the campaign in 81
mira, n. Y, and not at the coming
great Tammany ratification meeting.
He will take the ground that New
York must be democratic even if mug
wumps are allowed to live.
Rev. J. G. Fritz died last week while
watching funeral procession pass his
house, near Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
Monday afternoon Mrs. Edward Yost,
who had been q ncighbor Of Mr..
Fritz, was watching funeral corteSe
| from her window and sank to the floor
dead.
The job printers strike which has
been going on in Pittsburg for year
has taken new phase. The strikers
are be prosecuted for conspiracy in
using the boycott, and to defray the ex-
penses of the litigation the interna-
tional typotheta has 100000 at the
disposal gifts Pittsburg members.
The fleet of General Urdaneta, dicta-
tor Of the western States of Nenczulea,
has captured La Guayra. He has, it is
said, sent a peremptoly demand to
Caracas for Villega's resignation. 1t is
reported that several members of the
Venezuelan Congress were taken from
the American steamer Caracas at
| Puerto CaDellO.
A number ofcolored men of Chicago
have organized the northwestern immi-
grafton association of Chicago, for the
purpose of aiding and assisting the col
ored people to leave the southern
States and find them homes in the
northern States. Arrangements are
said to have been made by which a
large number of colored people will
leave the South this fall.
Hon. Enoch Louis Lowe, ex-Gov-
ernor of Maryland, died yesterday at
his home, in Brooklyn, N. Y, aged
seventy-two years. He was the demo
cratic Governor of Maryland, elected
for three years in 1850, when the pub
lie mind was busy with the great re-
form movement, which eliminated in
the adoption of the constitution of
1851.
The New York Sun heads its dis
patches concerning the switchmen's
Strike as follows: Getting ready to
yield. The end of the switchmens
strike expected to-day. Grand Mas
ter Sweeney, it is said, has mapped out
a shrewd plan to shift the blame for
defeat upon other shoulders. The con-
ference set down for to-day with the
heads of the other railroad labor Or
CARNATIONS the keystone of his scheme.
| With defeat staring them in the face
the strikers and their sympathizers
grow more disorderly."
Hon. Ira B. Jones, Speaker of the
South Carolina House of Repre-:
sentatives, was knocked down and
roughly handled at his home in
Lancaster, S. c., yesterday, by a
young newspaper reporter named Geo
Allison. Shortly afterward Jones's son
accosted Allison and told him he had
acted the rascal in fighting his father.
who was suffering from an attack Of
rheumatism. Allison responded by
treating the son to the same dose he
had given the father. Jones accused
Allison of making wrong report of his
speech.
The London World yesterday said
General Sir Frederick Ponsonby, the
Queens private secretary, in conveying
to MIR. Gladstone her h1ajesty's com
mand to form a ministry, stipulated
that Mr.. Labouchere should not be Sc
lected to fill any post in the govern
ment. Mr.. Labouchere, the lForld adds,
was implored to get Mr.. Gladstone out
of difficulty by writing letter declar-
ing that he would not accept office, rs
he wished to remain independent. This
Mr.. Labouchere declined to do. Over
lures have since been made to him to
accept the revived title of his uncle,
| Baron of Taunton.