Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF The DAY.
is proposed to bring the depart
ment OF printing under the provisions OF
the civil service law.
Severe gales and heavy seas on the
ocean are reported by transatlantic
steamships arriving in port.
The official election returns from ONO
are awaited to determine how that State
cast her electoral vote on Tuesday.
1t is reported, but not believed, that
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, contem-
plates resigning his seat in the Senate.
1t is reported that Mr.. John l. Dav-
enport will n,ske virtue of q necessi-
ty and resign his position in New \ ork
rs supervisor of elections.
Gov Brown, of Maryland. yesterday
signed the death warrants of the eight
murderers of DR.. Hill, and designated
December 80 as the day for the execu-
ton.
Hon. J. R. Tucker, OF Virginia, is
spoken of as the next L. s. Attorney
General, and Gen. Patrick 4. Collins,
of Massachusetts, is also me ntioned as
member of the next Cabin ct.
According to the latest reports from
the States where the new Legislatures
are to choose United Stat es senators
the democrats will have 4 clear ma
jority of two in the Senate zfter the Attn
of March.
The general missionary cammittee OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, IN
session in Baltimore yesterday, appro-
priated money for missions i'll India,
Bulgaria, Italy and Mexico, and dis
cussed the progress of the work IN
those countries.
George 0. Frederick, who is confined
in the Detroit, Mich, Jail for having
shot and killed George c. Meross, on
November /, yesterday attempted sui
eide by gashing his throat with jag
ged piece of glass broken from win
dow frame. His recovery is doubtful.
Henry Planz, aged TWENTY-FIVE, re-
Gently appointed manager of the Fred
ericksburg Brewery, California, was
yesterday found hanging toa tree near
Guadalupe bridge. His hands were
tied behind his back, his feet tied to-
gether, and handkerchief was over
| his mouth.
Fire in Camden, Maine, on Thursday
caused a loss of about $4,000 two
thirds covered by insurance. Twenty
families were rendered homeless. Only
one grocery store was left. All the
drug stores, jewelry shops, furniture
stores, the postotlice and telegraph Of
flee were destroyed.
A cablegram from Valparaiso to
New York says there is great rejoicing
in Chill over the election of Cleveland
rs President Flags are flying from the
residences of Americans, and CHILEAN
citizens are sending congratulatory
kilograms to their American friends
and express the hope that an American
gentleman will be sent as minister 10
Chill.
While Mr.. Weldric, the chief of the
University Printing House, Dublin,
was seated in his office at Trinity Col
lege, on Wednesday evening, a gun
shot was fired through Il closed window
into the room The window was COM
pletely shattered and Mr.. Weldrick
was badly cut, being covered with frag-
ments of the broken glass. Inquiry
has failed to reveal the culprit.
The Bandana club will give ban
quet at Leavenworth on Monday, Allen
G.. Thurman's birthday. Congressman
Jerry Simpson will respond to the toast,
.Stand up for Kansas" his first public
talk since the election. Governor
Francis, of Missouri Governor-elect
Lewelling, Congressman Tarsney and
Congressmen-elect Burnes, Harris and
Hudson are expected to speak.
The admission of New Mexico and
Arizona, and possibly Utah, as new
States, is regarded as one Of the logical
results OF Tuesdays election, which
will be promptly carried out by the
next Congress. These territories have
been kept out of the Union, so far as
the republican party was concerned,
chiefly because they were supposed to
be democratic in their political belief.
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