Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-08
NEWS OLE TIE DAY.

tmOfe yesterday
"Plunger" Partridge was caught in
July wheat deal in Chicago yesterday
and lost 100000
The prohibitionists Of the Atlanta,
Ca, district have nominated Sam
Small for Congress.
There are now seventy-nine cases of
smallpox in the infected districts along
the Ohio near Palliersburg.
The trial of Henry F. Smooth, for the
murder of Miss Susie c. Terrll, was
begun in Shepherdtown, W. Va, yes
terday.
The bodies of the seven confederate
soldiers found on South Mountain, re-
Gently. were buried at Hagerstown yes
terday.
Judge C. Eeed, of the Wichita, Kan,
district court. has been challenged by
Nicholas Bird, well-known lawyer, to
fight a duel.
The regro prisoners charged with
killing DR.. Hill in Kent county have
been sent back from Baltimore to
Chestertown Jail.
A dispatch from Paris says that the
visit OF Grand Duke Constantine to
President Carnot means continued Rus
sian support Of France.
The Cross murder case took another
turn in Washington yesterday. Mr.
Justice Cox made an order postponing
the execution Of Cross until next NO
vembcr.-
The body ola colored man was found
yesterday morning near the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad crossing at Wisahlckon
creek. Pa, with the throat cut and the
scalp tern from the side of the head.
Two thousand nihilists were arrest.
ed in Poland, of which enc hundred
have been sent to Siberia. 1t is be,
licvcd these persons were gotten out OF
the way because Of the approaching
visit of the Gar to Warsaw.
In Baltimore yesterday in the case o.
Charles II. Abrams against Henry h.
Schneider, in which cnsc Abrams sued
Schneider for $4,000 damages for the
alienation of the affections of Mrs
Abrams, the jury gave verdict fol
500.
After three days fighting neal
Valencia, Venezuela, the government
forces were completely routed. Crcspt
is massing his men south of Puerto Ca
bcllo. Palacio's troops have gone Out
to meet the rebels An important bat
tie is imminent
Edward Porter, steeplc painter, o
New York, fell from the stecplc of the
PRESBYTERIAN church ut Oxford, Pa. yes
tcr,lay Il distance of Is feet. He land
cd upon projecting corEice and wa:
rescued by the fire department, LIZ
was terribly injured.
Chairman Cowles, from the commit
tee on mines and mining, yesterday re
ported to the House the Senate bill t.
submit to the Court of Private Lane
Claims for determination the title o
Vim. McGarrahan to the Rancho Pan
ochc Grandc, California.
Henry Long caught o sca-turtl'
weighing about one hundred and fifty
pounds. at the foot of Chester street
baltimore last night. It's supposed tina
the turtle managed to escape from cap
tivity OH one of the pineapple vessel:
that recently arrived from the Bahamas
At Forest City, Pa, on Wednesday
Stephen Shaler, boy, fell OFF a foo
bridge into a pond on his fathers farm
In irving TO save him his mother fell in
and n daughter who ca,nc TO their res
cue was also drowned lis well as Mr.
Shaler, who was dragged in by one o
his struggling family.
a frightful disaster is reported from
Genital Russia. The steamer Albior
while plying il the Ounja river, u tribu
tarv of the Yolga, took fire, and sixty
persons were drowned in endeavorins
to escape from the burning vessel
Thirty persons were saved. The ca
lamity occurred not far from Kartcn
skoi.
Fish Commission Mcdonald doubt:
the rumor that large quantities of blue
fish had been killed in Maryland waters
By the use OF dynamite. He says The
explosion of dynamite cartridges ovel
an oyster bed would kill every oyster
within considerable radius, and that
it ought to be against the law of every
State to kill fish in that way.
The demonstrations at Nancy and
the unexpected visit of the Grand Duke
Constantine. brother Of the Gar, to
President Garnet, arc looked upon as
being of the greatest Importance in
diplomatic circles in Paris, especially in
view of the fact that the Car selected
the eve Of his meeting with Emperor
William TO send the Grand Duke tc
meet President Carnot.
Searches made among the ruins o.
the twin cities of Oil City and Titus
vile in the oil regions, of Pennsylvania
that were doomed by flood and fire
show that the disaster was much great.
er than at first feared More than l0C
bodies have been recovered, and the
supposition now is that perhaps 15C
dead will be found at Oil City alone. II
is believed that a great colony of for
eien laborers was entirely wiped out o.
existence. No trace ola clearinghouse
where so foreigners are known to have
lived has yet been found. 1t is said
that $50O,000 will be needed to allay
the suffering of the flooded district,
A HERO WITH a HOOK ARM.-Geo
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