Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Washington free-bathing beach will
probably be opened on the LIST of July.
1t is reported in Washington that Mr..
Depew has declined to accept the port
folio of the State Department.
Mr.. Gladstone has completed his
home-rule scheme and communicated
it to the other Ideal leaders.
Frederick Barber was convicted in
the District Criminal Court, Washing
ton, yesterday, of the murder of Agnes
Watson. This is his second conviction.
Jean de Vries Hoffman, paper
hanger in New York, claims to be q
relative of the late Father Mollinger,
and to be entitled to share in the
estate.
Prince Bismarck says that the change
Of policy by his successor has lost to
Germany its influence over Russia.
The eX-chancellor was given an en-
thusiastic reception at Munich.
The pledge of Richard Croker that
Tammany will support the ticket is re-
lied on in New York. The great Cleve-
land and Stevenson banner swung by
Tammany excites much admiration.
Lightning yesterday struck the kiln
house Of the Golden Mailing Company,
of Chicago, setting the building on fire.
Over so, GOO bushels of grain were ruin
cd by the flames and water, and the
total damage is estimated at $4,000.
Senior Don Manuel Antonio Malta,
Chili's Minister of Foreign Affairs at
the time of the attack on the sailors of
the United States war ship Baltimore
at Valparaiso. died in his coach while
on the way to his home in Santiago on
Thursday ofapoplexy.
An impartial forecast of the result Of
the approaching general election in
Great Britain and Ireland for members
Of the House of Commons is that Mr..
Gladstone will obtain no majority that
will enable him to act independently of
the Irish party.
A fire broke out in the oil room of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
in Washington yesterday afternoon,
and before it could be eXtinguished,
caused a loss of about $500 to build
ing and machinery. The fire was
by spontaneous combustion among a
lot of old rags and waste material.
Leonard James and William Wooley,
of Milford Center, Union county, Ohio,
both about twelve years old, have been
arrested for drowning George A. Nc
Donald, six years old. They are
charged with enticing the little boy to
the pool, taking him into the water and
standing him on his head in the mud
at the bottom and leaving him. The
water was about three feet deep.
Desperate fighting is reported in Mat
to Crosse, Brazil. The revolutionists
attacked the federals After a bloody
battle in which upwards of q thousand
men were killed they retired, but left
the result undecided. The revolution
airy leaders gave orders that no prison.
ers were to be taken, but that the fed
eral officers and soldiers were to be
killed. At Cuyaba the revolutionists
sacked the houses and committed all
sorts of outrages OH the inhabitants.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley, who is to con-
test Lambeth, England, in the union
list interest, made his first stump speech
to the electors yesterday. He proved
a lame and awkward speaker and sig
nally failed in making ready responses
to the "hackling" Of his audience. He
retired to allow his wife an opportun-
ity to speak She al once won the au-
dience. She declared that her husband
was the finest man in England, and
said he was as straight as die, adj
ding, "what he says he means without
fear or favor This euiogium won
Mrs. SANKEY'S hearers, who yelled,
"We will vote for SANKEY'S missus."