Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Archbishop Jansen, of New Orleans
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Archbishop Jansen, OF New OTleails,
yesterday celebrated his silver jubilee.
Mr.. Gladstone yesterday started for
southern France, where he will spend
his Christmas vacation.
Queen Victoria and the Prince of
Wales have declined to subscribe to
Gen. Booths fund for Il Christmas din
ner for the poor of London.
Gov. Brown. of Maryland, has par
doned Henry ]. Spencer, convicted OF
the murder of w. 5. Dawson, on condi-
ton that he leaves the State never TO
return.
Prof. Garny, who left England for the
baboon country in Africa 10 study the
language of monkeys, expects to return
in January with IL gorilla fully trained
rs n servant.
Mr.. Charles T. Mayer was yesterday
reelected president of the Is. Il 0. The
gross earnings of the company for No
vember, 1892, were $l,596S2l against
81, 505. 422 in November, 1891.
Robert Hinckley was crushed to
death in mine at Sargent, Col, and
three weeks later his two children were
burned TO death and his widow serious
" injured III fire that destroyed their
home.
The jubilee fetcs in Rome will be in
augurated on January 18th with
grand reception, to which the Pope has
invited all the children of Rome. Tie
little ones will present him with mag
niicent gift.
Gen. Adlai f. Stevenson, Nice-Presi-
dcnt-elect, WAS heartily welcomed in
Atlanta, Ga, yesterday. He said he
believed the South would bemorc pros
porous under the coming administra-
ton than ever before i'll lis history.
True bills were returned by the
grand jury of Pittsburg yesterday
against Hugh +. Dempsey, Robt. Beat
~ and J. Nj. Davidson for telonious as
sault and battery in administering pois-
on to The non-union men at the Home
stead Steel Works.
A white man named Cora recently
sued Creek Indian for unpaid wages,
and secured Il Judgment in the u. >.
court. a party of Indians called at the
mans house, bound him, and carried
him into the woods, where his body
was found hanging to Il tree yesterday.
In the L. S. Senate yesterday a joint
resolution was introduced by Mr.. Nc
Phcrson (dem.) of New Jersey, which
he will press to vote Immediately af-
ter the holidays, directing the Secretary
of the Treasury to suspend all pur-
chases of silver bullion under the Sher-
man act of July "A, 1890.
Pastor Kneipp, Of Munich, has been
decorated by the Prince Regent of Ba-
varia for his discoveries in the water
cure mode Of treating disease. The
treatment recommended by him TO the
Empress Of Austria consists of drinking
three quarts Of water Il day. running
barefoot through wet grass at daybreak
and leaving oil corscts.
4 gigantic $500, 600 distillery, the big
gest Of this country, will be established
in Milwaukee in the near future, to
fight the whisky trust. The plant OF
Faulk, jung & Bochert, which short
time ago was consolidated with the
Pabst Brewing Company, will be bought
by the syndicate to save the time neces-
arily consumed in the erection of the
plant.
Eugene Wilson and Henry Kaine,
colored BARRIERS, yesterday quarreled in
barroom in Savannah, Ga, over the
price of a shave. Wilson made bluff
AT Kainc by showing his hand into his
hip pocket and threatening the life OF
the other man. and. as Wilson turned
to leave the place, Kaine sent a bullet
clear through his head, killing him in
stantly. Kaine escaped. Both men be-
long in Macon.