Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-18
NEWS OF, THE DAY.

Prices of canned goods are going up.
The Standard Oil Company has
bought the New Jersey Oil Company.
Part of the village of Venatura has
been destroyed by lava from Mount
Etna.
In battle between Arabs in Militia,
Morocco, recently, three bundled were
killed.
DR.. Andueza Palacio, the ex-Dictator
of Venezuela, has arrived in Bordeaux,
France.
Baron de Courcelles has been appoint
ed French arbitrator on the Behring
Sea commission.
The Census Bureau investigating
committee presented u report without
expressing any opinion.
Baltimore holders of Richmond and
Danvillc bonds favor reorganization
under Drexel, Morgan & Co.
Lord Salisbury's friends want him to
resign Immediately, and precipitate a
crisis for Mr.. Gladstone to face.
The Sunday law was enforced in New
Orleans yesterday for the first time in
four years, all the stores and bar-rooms
being closed.
In the United States Circuit Court in
New York on Saturday the Dunn Mer-
camille Agency was held responsible for
losses on account of a report it gave.
The new relic of St. Ann was exposed
in the Church of st. Jean Baptist, in
New York, yesterday, and thousands OF
worshippers assembled to veneIate it.
A number of private pension bills
were passed in the House on Saturday
evening, and 4 great many speeches
made on the worlds fair appropriation
bill.
-Four brothers, sons of Mr. Christie
pher c. Ball, Of Somerset county, Md,
ranging in age from eleven to sixteen
years. were drowned while bathing Sat
urday night.
1t is the general opinion of the Della
ware peach-growers that not more than
one-twentieth of a crop will be market
cd from the State this year, while the
crop of last year was over 1000 bushels,
The old workmen at the Homestead,
Pa, mills have determined not to UNI
dertake the repair work, and new men
will have to be employed if the com
pany expects to open the works Thurs
day. Sunday was very quiet day IN
the camp and in the town.
The Georgia Central Railroad re-
ownership has been made permanent
by an order issued by Judge Speer, OF
the United States Court of Georgia. II.
NJ. Conner was retained as receiver
There was no objection, whatever, on
the part Of the Terminal people to the
order.
Albert Mitchell, a driver for the
United States Express Company at
Havre-de- Grace, on Saturday decamp-
ed with package of $4,000, belonging
to the First National Bank of that
place, which was shipped by the
Seventh National Bank of Philadel-
phia.
At Johnst0wn, Pa, Saturday night
lightning struck John Blooms house
and going down the iluc entered Mr.
Blooms body at the head and passed
out at the knee. His beard was burn
ed Off and one eye was blinded. Ii
took several hours TO restore him tc
consciousness.
Adlai E. Stevenson, democratic can
didate for Vice President, has arrived
in New York to receive the olliciaI
notication of his nomination, which
will be made at the Madison Square
Garden Wednesday. Mr.. Stevenson
lief. New York yet r lay to visit Mr.
Cleveland at Gray Cables.
The republican national executive
committee which met in New York or
Saturday evening elected Land Com
missioner Thomas II. Carter, of Mon,
tana, chairman, after the place had been
offered to j. S. Clarkson and rejected
Mr.. Carter's place as secretary is filed
by the temporary appointment of Mr.
Chris Magee, of Pennsylvania.
The steamer Cate 'thun, which has
arrived at Sydney, N. S. W., reports
that when she touched at the Island Of
Timor there was a rumor current that
the island of San Cir, in the Malay
Archipelago, had been destroyed by q
volcanic eruption, and that the whole
population, comprising II, 900 souls, had
persisted. The Catterthun steamed fol
miles through masses Of volcanic debris.
An investigation by the coroner into
the cause of the death OF Mrs. Michael
Clemens, whose body was found in a
woods near York, Pa, shows that it
was q case of suicide and not murder,
as was at first supposed. The woman
chose a particularly unusual method to
end her life. She procured 3 stick OF
dynamite and lying down on the ex-
plosive set it on fire. When the dyna-
mite exploded she was blown nearly
fifty feet and her head was terribly
! shattered.
New MONEY ORDER OPFIcEs.-The
following are among the money order
offices which have been established in
Virginia :