Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-09-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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One of the leading Hamburg life in,
sulance companies has suspended ope-
rations owing TO the heavy mota!ity.
The unfavorable condition Of Mrs. Har.
rison is Il source of great anxiety to the
President and the other member Of the
family.
Governor Brown, Of Maryland has
rendered the seat on the bench made
vacant by Judge Stewards death to Col
Albert Richie.
john Davis, aged eight, and William
Oglam, aged ten years, climbed down
an abandoned we'll at Wilkcsbane, Pa,
yesterday and were sutiocated by gas,
The a.ional democratic committee
has been investigating the matter OF
wages and can discover 10 instance
wnere the Mckinley bill has caused an
advance.
1t has become known that the villa
of actor Emmett. near Albany, \. y.
was bought by United States Senator
Hill for the purpose Of establishing
democratic headquarters IN that city.
Burglars on Monday night entered
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal.
timore Railroad station at Elkton ano
took from it Il / ,500-pound safe, Whicl
was afterward foundin tieldu unopened
II. Willot, government inspector O
telegraphs in Paris, has, it is claimed
invented an instrument whereby mes
.ges NAV be sent across the ocean ca
bic with the facility as betweep Balti
more and New York.
At a conference in Philadelphia yes
terday between Chief Arthur, of the
Locomotive Engineers, and President
Mcleod, ofthe RcadingRaiiroad system
= compromise was effected and all dan
.ee. OF strike avertcd.
an immense crowd at the Academy
Of Music in Baltimore last night saw
champion Corbett spar three rounds
with jim Daily. When asked if he
would fight jackson again, Corbett
said Il fought him when | was climb
ing the ladder,a and it would be churlish,
now ! am champion, 10 reffsc on 70.
count of his color. 1t is Il .aiNed ltes
ton ai.d hard one for me to answer.
Thomas Allison was taken from tho
Surgy county, \. C., Jail Monday night
and lyncheG. On ZIG. 20. Allison &c
cused w. II. Brown on the streets @
Mt. Airy. \. G., of backing out OF .
foot-racc with Allison. Brown denie1
the charge. Hot words followed, and
Allison shot Brown twice. Citizen:
pursued and caught Allison. 1t i,
thought the lynching occurred because
Allison's trial was postponed, and his
ultimate escape from justice was feared
At Char OWE, W. Va, yesterday
the state supreme Court refused The
petition tor Il writ OF error to a ludg
ment Of the Circuit Court of jefferson
county in the case of Harry F. Smooth
convicted of the murder Of Hiss Susie
c. Terrell. This decision consign;
Smooth to the gallows, and the day Sc
for his execution is Friday. October I
next. Smooth is resigned to his fate
and was not at all excited when h'
learned of the action of the court.
The Great Council of Red Men Of th,
United States met at Atlanta, Ga, yes
tcrday. Nincty-siX delegates were
present. The order has grown stcadl
ly, and is now more prosperous thai
ever. 4 proposition to reduce the ag'
of admission to eighteen years was re
lected, as was also another to reduce i
to twenty years. An invitation to tn
Great Council to meet in Des Moines
Ia, next year will be accepted. Thurs
day afternoon the Great Council vii
be given Georgia barbecue on top o
Kennesaw mountain.
The New Jersey republican Stat
convention at Trenton yesterday nomi
mated X-Congressman John Kcan TO
Governor. Judge Iuzan b. Morris. o
New Haven, was yesterday selected a
candidate for Governor by the demo
cratic State convention of Connecticut
The Texas republican State convention
met at Fort Worth yesterday with CO.
delegates in attendance. The republi
can plurality in Maine will probabl,
not exceed 1900, and may he consid
erably less Ex-Speal;er Reeds plu
rality will not exceed l $50 i'll the Firs
district.
IT WAS BRIDES TRUNK.-Tw,
trunks arrived at the Union Depot yes
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