Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

III, hOICCSlcl county >hU'I "', 49, 49,
yesterday.
The opposing factions in Congress
agree that the international monetary
conference will never come together
again.
Suit for sos, 900 damages has been
brought in New York against John |.
Davenport for false Imprisonment at
the late election.
Well-iniormed men still fear there
will be a revolution in France. The
people blame the government for the
Panama canal scandal.
II is rumored that the Prince of Wales
VIII visit the Worlds Fair, crossing the
Atlantic in the royal yacht Osborne,
under the escort of British warships.
The remains of Senator Gibson, of
Louisiana, were buried from the sub
urban residence of his br. Their, Hart
Gibson, in Lexington, Ky, yesterday.
Reports from the recent fight near
st. Ignacio show that the Mexican rev,
olutionists shot down the women and
burned the bodies of the dead soldiers.
The right of the city of Philadelphia
to tax the poles of foreign telegraph
companies has been affirmed by the SUI
preme Court of Pennsylvania, and the
city will get about $4,000.
Stocks were unsettled and lower in
New York Yesterday. a tight money
market WAS the cause. Call loans were
made as high rs forty per cent. About
100000 gold goes out by the Ger
man steamer to-day.
Hugh F. Dempsey, district master
workman of the knights of labor at
Pittsburg, was yesterday placed under
s.. 500 bail for trial on the charge of
poisoning non-union workmen at Home
stead. Warrants for others were is
sued.
Senator Redfeld Proctor, of Yer
mont, formerly Secretary of War IN
President Harrison's Cabinet, is charg-
ed With dishonesty in connection with
the management of the Vermont Mar
b Company. A stakeholder has be-
gun suit against him.
Governor Tillman, of South Caro-
lima. Yesterday signed the Wilson rail
road bill, which passed the Legislature
last week. giving to the railroad COM
mission the power to fix passenger and
freight rates and otherwise control the
.ilroads of South Carolina.
While seven painters were at work on
y scallo,d in the corridor of the govern
mcnt building, in Cincinnati, the
structure gave away and all OF them
were thrown TO the thing, a distance OF
twenty feet. -Four Of them were in
jured, and one, possibly, fatally.
Representative Wise, of Virginia, has
introduced 1 bill i'll Congress intended
TO overcome the recent decision of
Judge Gresham declaring unconstitu-
tional that part of the interstate COM
mcrce law giving the commission au-
thority to compel witnesses to answer
questions.
Dick Burgc, the English light-weight
champion, and Jack McAuliile, the
American lightweight champion, sign
ed articles yesterday to fight at the
Conev Island Athletic Club, in Febru-
arv. for $4,000 and the lightweight
championship Of the world.
There is little reason to doubt that
the President will issue an order e5-
.nding the civil-scrvice law and rules
so as to include all letter-carriers
and clerks in free delivery postoilices.
These offices now number COL, aGd give
employment to about 200 carriers
and $3.50 clerks, making 20,500 in all.
Captain Segur, ofthe Mexican troops,
and his wife were shot and their three
children burned to death in the
'.jackal" in which they had taken
refuge in the recent fight. United
States troops have arrived OH the Texas
border. Texas rangers killed two
NTexicans who fired on them Sunday.
It S slid that thousands Of mechanics
and laborcrs come TO this country every
year from Europe, earn good wages,
spen us little as possible and go home
with their savings to enrich their moth
er countries. Careful estimates show
thai ut least $25,000,000 is taken out
of the United States annually i'll this
manner.
4 Young woman of Lincoln, England.
named Jane Savage, while cleaning
house. placed her brothers small razor
between her teeth that she might have
both hands free TO fake down shelf.
As she reached for the shelf the razor
slipped half way down her throat. She
drew her breath and swallowed the
razor. Yesterday her stomach was
opened and the razor WAS removed
tightly closed, rs she swallowed it.
The woman is doing well and will
probably recover fully in three weeks.
y family tragedy occurred Sunday
near Martinsburg, in Montgomery
county, Md. Daniel Walters became
engaged in dispute with his father
james Walters, mt the home of the lat
ter, and knocked the old man down,
whereupon the latter ran upstairs and,
procuring gun, returned and shot his
son in the blck. The whole load pen
ctrated the unfortunate mans back.
He is still alive, but there is no chance
of his recovery. James Walters is
about fifty or sixty years old, and
Daniel about twenty-seven.
SUICIDE OF A DEFAULTER.-Asst stated
yesterday Edward Foerstel. first assist
ant, and son of Michael j. Foerstel, city
treasurer of st. Louis, at o'clock yes