Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
There is s141, O0O, 900 in the sub-treas

There is S141 100000 in the sub-treas-
ury at New York.
Mr.. Richard Croker promises $4,000
majority in New York city for Cleve-
lard.
Don Alonzo won the Junior Cham
pion stakes, $4,000, for two-year-olds
at Monmouth Park yesterday.
Associate Justice Joseph ]. Davis, of
the Supreme Court of North Carolina,
died Sunday night at his home, at
Louisburg.
Leon ]. j.. Berthelot, of the New
York Life Insurance Company died yes
terday in Vichy, France, where nc had
gone for his health.
The democratic State convention of
Tennessee yesterday nominated Chief
Justice Peter Turney, of the State SUI
preme Court, for Governor.
Mr.. Ballard Smith has resigned his
post OF editor of the New York World
in consequence Of the IVorlds attitude
toward the Homestead rioters.
Capt. Kolb claims to be elected Gov
ernor of Alabama by 1000, and says he
expects to be seated. The official vote
gave Gov. Jones II, pa majority.
Jonathan Shurk, of Glasgow, Pa,
died yesterday evening. He was %
years old and was the ninth out of a
family of ten children to die during the
past year.
The judicial bench of the House of
Lords Yesterday dismissed the appeal
against the decision of the court per
uniting the Marquis Of Silesbury to sell
his library
General James ". Denver, Of Will
mington, Ohio, died yesterday evening
in Washington, of uremic poison, aged
seventy-iive years. His death was very
sudden. General Denver was born in
Winchester, Va.
Eight persons, all negroes, were
drowned by the swapping of a ferry
sloop between Sullivan's Island and the
mainland, in South Carolina yesterday.
They were hucksters or their way to
the island with vegetables.
Cholera has appeared on the western
frontier Of Germany, and yesterday a
death was reported from q village neal
Metz. The Russo-Hebrew committees
for forwarding emigrants from Russia,
have suspended operations.
Mr.. Pierce Delacy Mahoney, the Par
nellite parliamentary candidate, who
was defeated in the North division OF
county Meath by Mr.. Michael Davitt,
anti-Parncllite, has lodged petition
against the return of Mr.. Davitt.
The indianapolis Sentinel announces
the closing out at sherifi7s sale of the
first tin-plate factory started under the
Mckinley bill, that at Anderson, Ind
This establishment was vaunted all
over the country as illustrating the wis
dom of the tin tariff.
A polecat threatened to break up the
big camp meeting at Simpson Grove
Pa, Monday night. Itambled into the
preachers tent, and but for the cool
ness of Chaplain Sayres, who warned
his brethren not to throw boots at the
malodorous beast, it would have put
every camper to flight.
The threat of President Gompers, o.
the Federation of Labor, to aid the
Homestead strikers by declaring a boy
colt of GOO. 900 men did not frighten the
Carnegie officials in the least. They
say they don't believe he will or could
do any such thing. No men deserted
the Homestead mill yesterday.
A heavy rain and thunderstorm pass
over Schenectady, n. y, Yesterday
doing considerable damage. The wall;
of the tube department of the Edison
Company, which was recently destroy
ed by fire, were blown down, killing one
man and iniuring several others, some
of whom will die. Limbs were tori
from trees and windows broken by the
wind.
In the British House of Common:
Yesterday Mr.. Gladstone declared thai
the demands of Ireland were foremost
and that home rule would occupy o
prominent position in the liberal pro
sralnme. The Irish members desire
from him assurances on the matters O.
the early suspension of the coercion
act, the relief of tenants in Ireland and
the release Of the imprisoned dyna-
miterS.