Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-03
NEWS OLE Tile DAY.

feet deep has just been completed at
Crisfeld, Nd
Governor Brown, of Maryland, will
20 to Crisfield to investigate the shoot
ing of Sterling by the crew OF the Nir-
ginia police boat.
The old tavern in New York where
Washington bid farewell to his officers
has gone into the occupancy OF the
Sons of the Revolution.
NJ. Brisson has abandoned the under
taking Of forming q cabint for france
and President Carnot has charged NJ.
Perier to form cabinet.
The announcement that the Roths-
child report to the monetary confer
ence in Brussels had been adopted after
reconsideration is not yet confirmed.
J. Ross Faulkner, who committed
suicide at Bellevue hospital medical
college in New York yesterday morn
inc. was not u son of Senator Faulkner,
of West Virginia.
The Michigan Salt Company has adj
vanced the price of salt ten cents a bar
rel, fine salt being quoted at sixty,ilye
cents. The company has 100000 bar
rels on hand less than at this date one
year ago.
Mrs. Martha Lane, sister of Harriet
Lane Johnston. of Baltimore. mistress
of the White House under President
Buchanan, Of whom she was a $50
niece, died at Bellefont, Pa, suddenly
yesterday.
1t is announced that DIr. Cleveland
vii! leave Hog Island. where he has
been shooting since Wednesday, NO
vember %, and willreturn to New York
tomorrow night.
The German Reichsrath, yesterday,
by vote OF 167 to 146, refused to gran1
the credit asked for secret service pur-
poses. The majority against the credit
was made up of German liberals, Ger
man nationals and young Czechs.
Senator Gibson, who is at Hot
Springs, Ark, was very i'll last night.
There has been very little change
in his condition during the past TIVE nty-
four hours, and the doctors say his
death may be expected at any moment.
Mr.. Charles L. Shepard. Of South
Carolina, exhibited in Baltimore yes
terday y high quality oftea which he
had grown. This experiment of Mr..
Shepardss is considered Of great i'm
portarce, as il shows that fine tea can
be raised in the United States.
There will be no estimates this year
from the engineer corps for the work
on rivers and harbors throughout the
country, the engineers having evident
~ considered it useless task. 1t Is as
certain as anything can be that there
will be no river and harbor bill passed
by Congress this year.
The scheme to construct n railway
between Ottawa and Parry Sound, on
Georgian bay, is progressing favorably,
and it is stated that the signing Of the
contracts will take place as soon as the
city of Quebec grants 100000 of its
bonds toward the project. The proba-
bilities are that this will be done.
Louis Dupont aged 26 years, son Of
the late Irene Dupont, who was "A
member of the great powder firm of Z.
| |. Dupont de Nemours Il Co., commit
ted suicide in the Wilmington club
house, Delaware, yesterday afternoon.
He shot pistol bali into his head and
died within few minutes. No cause
is known for the tragedy.
The engine and six box-cars went
through the trestle on the Roanoke
and Southern Road near Winston, y.
c., Thursday night at $50 o'clock.
The trestle was POO feet long and cross
es Foraeth street, which was being re-
paired at the time of the accident The
engineer and fireman were badly
bruised, but not seriously injured. The
car fell distance of forty feet, and the
trestlc work was badly torn up.
The Nicaragua Canal convention at
New Orleans adjourned after adopting
resolutions urging the government to
aid in the construction of the canal and
to take such steps and give such linan-
cial aid as will insure the speedy com
pletion of the canal at the minimum
cost, taking proper security for any
credit pledged or money advanced for
this purpose, and retaining such CON
troll and supervision of the same as will
insure the peaceful use Of this great
enterprise to the commerce of the
world at the lowest possible rates.
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