Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
1t is said that the fall of the French
Ministry is imminent.

Inc survey OIS 'tic iHdhiii5
ory progress with the surveys Tor the
proposed intercontinental railway.
The republican national commltto G
has sent a messenger to Maine to try
! TO induce Mr.. Blaine to take the stump
in the campaign.
Emperor Williams military bill may
be defeated. This would necessitate 4
dissolution of the Releasing. Emperor
William is said to be in need OF money
Miss Alice Granger, of Chatham,
Ont, school teacher, committed SUI
eide or Saturday, leaving, note IN
which she stated that she was Urea o.
trying to teach bad boys.
Capt. Symonds, who has been dredg'
ing oil Port Morris, y. j., for the MIL
lions sunk more than hundred years
AGO in the British ship Hussar, says
there is no gold there.
Mr.. :. s. Gregory, a prominent Chi
cago de,oocrat who Is now III Washing
ton. PLACES Illinois and Wisconsin IN
the list of doubtful States, with the
chances apparently in favor OF the dem
ocrais.
1t is seid that Mr. Cleveland has
sent his check for $4,000 TO the ma
tiona! democratic committee. 1t Is
also reported that Mr. Cleveland's per-
sonal friends. L. c. Benedict, Mr..
Whiting and Mr.. Dickinson, have each
contributed $4,000.
Mrs. Thomas Kunznan, Il widow,
aged eighty-one years. OF Hoclltown,
near Bethlehem, Pa, was fatally
burned on Saturday by stove polish,
with which she was polishing Il hot
stove. catching fire. The polish was a
patent liquid containing benzine.
Special Columbian services were
held in most of the churches in New
York yesterday. The choirs in some
of the churches were assisted by or
chcstras. and elaborate musical pro-
grammes were given. The pulpits and
affairs were adorned with flowers.
Nearly every Protestant Episcopal
pulpit in Baltimore was yesterday fill
ed by bishop of the church, now in
attendance npon the general conven-
ton in that city Bishop Randolph, OF
Virginia, preached in the Church of the
Messiah in the morning and Christ
Church in the evening.
The body of Archie Locke, a child
buied GO years ago, was exhumed from
country graveyard five miles from
Louisville, KY, on Friday. 1t was
found to be in perfect state of preser-
walton. The face appeared like that OF
one sleeping and flower on the breast
was bat slightly withercd.
Judge Newman. in the United States
District Court at Atlanta, Ga, has
granted writ of habeas corpus in the
case of Lord Beresford, the alleged
forger, which prevents the States au-
thorities from taking Beresford to the
penitentiary before he has hearing
before the United States Court.
Comptroller of the Treasury Mat
thews, who is a close personal friend OF
President Harrison, expresses the hope
that the overwhelming democratic VIC
tory in Georgia will put an end to re-
publican rainbow chasing" in the
south. He admits that the republicans
have a hard fight before them.
The Canadian Pacific Navigation
Company's steamer Premier collided
with steam collier in fog off Port
Townsend Saturday evening, and four
men were killed and seventeen injured.
The vessels were so tightly locked that
they could not even separate after one
had been driven ashore. and both were
stranded.
4 terrible accident occurred at New
Brunswick, \. j., about eleven o'clock
Saturday night which resulted i'll the
death sof Michael Furlong, aged fifty
years. and his wife, Jane, forty-three
wears old Furlong and his wife had
stepped from an east-bound track to
avoid freight train, and were struck
by the Pennsylvania Western express.
Senator ingalls,, in his speech at To-
peka, Kas., on Saturday night, advo-
Gated the election ofHarrison and said :
Il would thousandfold rather that
the electoral vote of this State went for
Grover Cleveland than for James B.
Weaver. That would be mistake
that we could rectify hereafter. The
other would be an indelible stigma, and
disgrace that would rest upon us for a
century"
General Weaver spoke at Pulaski,
Tenn, on Saturday and denied the
charges made against him of his con-
duct there during the war, though he
admitted the lcvying of money. There
was no disorder. At the conclusion OF
his speech mass meeting Of democrats
was held at the courthouse and resolu-
tionswere adopted setting forth that us a
hearing had been accorded General
Weaver they would now reaffirm the
charges heretofore made against him.
The tickle fortunes of those who sue
for large sums for lost love, while their
own affections wander, were brought
out in bold reliefin Philadelphia on Sat
urday as the concluding episode of the
5000 suit of Jacob s. Culbcrtson
against DIR. J. r. Mansfield, of German
town. for alienation Of Mrs. GILBERT
sons amours. In keeping with the
scathing charge of Judge Finletter,
characterizing the case as u vile con-
spiracv to be free from one wife that the
plaintiff might with the profits of his
freedom fly to other wives whom the
court knew not of, the jury returned a
verdict for the defendant, DR.. Mans
field, and incidentally, of course, for
Mrs. Culbertson.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The new North Capitol NJ. E. Church was