Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-31
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

MEND VI Lille OAI.
John a. Casey's refining works at
Brooklyn were burned yesterday. Loss
s125,0OO.
Betting in Baltimore on the Sullivan
Corbett prize fight is 100 to 60 in favor
OF the former.
The Marquis de Mores and other par
Elephants in the Mayer duel were acqult-
ted in Paris yesterday.
The surveys of the main line for the
proposed intercontinental railway have
been practically completed.
The Car and his family have left st.
Petersburg for Finland, the cholera get
ting too near the royal palace.
A railway train has arrived i'll Jeru-
salem from Jatla, the railway between
the two places having been COM
pleted.
Bishop Paret, of Maryland, arrived
home from Europe yesterday. he
came in a freight steamer to avoid the
cholera.
1t is proposed to purchase at least
two coaling stations for the United
States, one in the West Indies and the
other in the Hawaiian Islands.
Notwithstanding the small supply of
peaches in New York the prices are
very low, and California shippers will
stop sending them to that city.
Venezuelan revolutionists have cap
tured La Guayra. Great excitement
prevails in Caracas, and it is feared
that foreign residents of that city are III
danger.
The claim of the Sultan of Morocco
that his troops had been victorious in
the battle with the Anghera trihesmen
was false. His forces were defeated
and over two hundred of them taken
prisoners by the rebels.
The District of Columbia commits
sioners yesterday afternoon appointed
Mr.. Geo. X. French to be assistant at
torney of the municipal government
for service as prosecuting attorney i'll
the police court, vice Neil Dumont, re-
signed.
]. Sterling Morton, the most radical
tariff reformer in the State, was noml-
mated by the democrats of Nebraska
for Governor yesterday. Mr. Morton
is an avowed frec-trader, and has made
for himself Il reputation in denouncing
protection.
Having negotiated for the purchase
ofa home in Los Angeles, Cal, ex-
Secretary James G. Blaine will, his
friends say, remove there to reside
permanently. The California climate
is so much better for Mr.. Blaine's
health that he hopes to have new
lease of life there.
The United States cruiser Concord is
coaling at the Brooklyn navy-yard.
having been ordered to Venezuela to
protects the rights OF the American cit
liens, and to enforce redress, if neces-
sarv, for the recent taking of political
refugees from the decks of an Ameri-
can passenger steamer.
a statement prepared at the Treas
ury Department shows that there have
been filed 6,76S applications for Ii
censcs as sugar producers during the
fiscal year 1898, under the law paying
- DOuuty loi ll9 PiouuSeioH' 10y
were made up as follows: Cane sugar,
$40; beet, 6; sorghum, 2, and maple
6,106.
In the democratic primaries in South
Carolina yesterday the conservatives
made bic gains but not enough to de-
feat the Tillmanites. The conserva-
ives concedc the State to Tillman by
about 10000 majority, but claim three
conservative congressman-Brawley in
the First, Hemphill in the Fifth, and
tombstone in the Third District. Shell
alliance many in the Fourth District
is also reelected.
John Franklin, an old man, commit
ted suicide in Washington yesterday
evening by hanging himselfat his home
in that city. While alone in his house
he fastened rope to a hook in the cell
ing of one of the rooms, tied the other
end around his neck and jumped off a
chair. He was found by his wife about
S o'clock last night and had then been
dead about an hour, Franklin was u
years old. His wife kept small gro
Gerry store in northeast Washington.
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