Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-28
NEWS 0F TIE DAY.

John D. Rockefeller has given an
other million to the University of Chi
cago.
Timothy Dord, a Confederate vete-
ran, died in New York yes cl'iay, aged
l0l years.
Congressman Herbert, of Alabama, is
mentioned as a possibility for secretary
of the navy.
Orange Judd, the noted writer on
agricultural topics, died in Evanston,
H., yesterday.
The British authorities now seem TO
believe that The explosion in the de
tectivcs' Office, near Dublin Castle, was
the work Of the physical force faction
ofthc Irish party
The Grand Duke Sergius, brother Of
the Car, fills the role @! chief persecli-
tor Of the Jews. He has reduced the
Jewish population Of Moscow from
eighty to thirty thousand.
Steamer Ludgatc Hill. from New
York. arrived Mt London yesterday.
She encountered heavy weather on
Sunday. when her decks were swept
and several head of cattle were lost
overheard.
RENE Dubaute, French girl, who
Travelled from London TO Kansas to
marry a.man with whom she had been
corresponding, was nearly heartbroken
at receiving letter from him that he
had changed his mind.
The Berlin TageGiat publishes a dis
patch from Nice, saying that Count Pc
ter Romanoh became involved in
quarrel with Brooklyn, n. y, man at
the Casino gambling tables Monday
night, and that they fought duel with
pistols on the seashore Tuesday morn
ing, the Count being killed.
BY the bursting of water and steam
pipes. three lower floors of the five
story building at the corner of Lake
and Clarke streets, in Chicago, were
flooded with water. The loss TO the
various tenants OF the building will be
nearly $4,000. The heaviest loser is
Fred Gresheimer. dealer in clothing
and furnishing goods.
The Red Star Line steamship Noord-
land. from New York for Antwerp, was
towed into Queenstown yesterday by
the steamship Ohio. The Noordland
broke shaft during terrific storm,
and for time it seemed rs though the
vessel would sink. The pumps were
manned and the rise Of water stopped.
4 panic occurred among the passcn-
gers.
The fire discovered s;atIrdayin North
Mahanoy coliery, Pa. is still burning,
although confined 10 the Old Buck
Mountain drift, III which it originated.
Alright batteries have been built NJ
each side of the fire to cut off all
draught ana part of the mine thus en-
closed has been filled w from the sur
face with "slush," mixture of coal
dirt and water.
An engine and five freight cars on
the Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheeling
Railroad fell over Il trcstle into the
Ohio river ut Martins Ferry yesterday.
The accident was due TO the sinking of
the trestle. All the cars were wreck
ed. Engineer Ed Ong was frightfully
crushed and burned, and will die. Per-
ry Bishop, the fireman, was also ser-
ously hurt. The property loss is heavy.
Joseph Best, the evangelist, was ar
raigned before police magistrate at
Hamilton, Ont, yesterday, OH a charge
of assauliing his wife. II appears that
Best demonstrated with his wife for al
lowing Il servant TO wash potatoes on
Sunday. Mrs. Best claims that her
husband struck her, and showed her
into a closet. The magistrate fined the
defendant so, and, in default of pay
ment. committed him to prison for two
months.