Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Cholera is making Roadway in Rus
sin. Roumania and France.

Ten thousand laborerS are wanted to
harvest the great wheat crop in Da-
lloia.
Today Wesley Grove camp-meeting
held its formal exercises and will con-
tinue thirteen days.
There was killing frost in Montana
Wednesday night and the cold wave is
said to be coming this way.
Col. James H. Rice proposes to invent
an india rubber naval vessel. from the
sides of which, he says, cannon ball
would rebound.
The democrats of the End Congress
SIGNAL district of Arkansas have nomi-
mated c. r. Breckenridge for Congress
without opposition.
The four anarchists on trial in Paris
for stealing explosives were sentenced
to terms OF Imprisonment ranging from
five TO twenty years.
1t is said the estate of Myra Clark
Gaines, amounting to nearly q million
dollars, will be consumed in lawyers
fees after the debts, amountingt to about
100000, are paid.
Mr.. Harrity, chairman of the national
democratic committee, was engaged
Yesterday in New York in arranging his
committees, but has not yet indicated
what they will be.
William C. Whitney plainly init
mates that the organization of the
Syracuse democrats cannot be allowed
to interfere with the regular demo-
cratic State committee.
The Winter Quarter Inlet will soon
be cut by Worcester county, Md, oys-
termen. so as to permit the flow of sea
water from the Atlantic ocean into Sine
puxent bay for the benefit of oyster
planters.
In Baltimore yesterday there were
seven deaths from sunstroke reported
and thirty prostrations. In four days
this week there have been twenty-cight
deaths from sunstroke reported, outside
of children.
The President has approved the act
granting pensions to the supervisors OF
the Indian wars of 1882 to lS42, known
as the Blackhawk, Creek, Cherokee
and Seminole wars, and large number
of private relief bills.
II. C. Frick is practically beyond the
danger line now and is on a fair way to
rapid and complete recovery. He rests
well, suffers but little pain, sleeps first
rate, eats heartily and keeps sharp
eye upon Homestead.
Judge Jackson, of Tennessee, yestcr-
day overruleda petition for habeas cor
pus made by attorneys for II. Clay
King. the condemned murderer of
David II. Poster. The case will prob
ably be carried to the Supreme Court.
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, was
overcome by the heat in Washington
Oh Wednesday while visiting some of
the downtown departments. He was
taken to his residence, where he sub
sequcntly rallied, but is still confined
to his home.
The police authorities of Pittsburg
and Allegheny say the anarchists have
thrown up their hands and are frighten-
ed almost to death. Those who were
loudest in their claims about being an
archists have shut up and they all pre-
tend to be law-abiding citizens.
It is said that President Harrison will
contribute $25 900 toward the fund be-
inc raised to endeavor to secure his re-
election also that Mr.. Whitclaw Reid
contribute 100000, and Mr.. Levi 7.
Morton. Secretaries Ellins and Foster
and Postmaster General Wanamaker
So. 900 each.
The Crane Chemical Works, at
Springfield, n. j., blew up at about S
o'clock last night, and several Of the
buildings which composed the plant
were shattered. \ number ofhouscs i'll
the vicinity were blown down and a
number ofpersons slightly injured. One
man is missing.
In the u. S. Senate yesterday the
House resolution that Congress should
adjourn on Saturday was referred to
the appropriations committee. In the
House most of the evening session was
spent in lilibustcring against the Senate
amendment to the civil sundry bill ap-
propriating s5,oOO,OO0 to the Worlds
fair.
The trotting stallion Green River, be-
longing to Robert Dixon, ofHenderson,
KY, and valued at $4,000, died yes
terday at Sturgis, Mich. Green River
was by Princeps and had record OF
2:221. He had won every race started
in this season and was entered in
So, GOO worth of the coming races at
Sturgis.
Jeptha Rucker, of Athens, has been
appointed receiver of the Macon and
Northern Railroad Company. The ap-
plication was made by Edward Van
name, New York bondholder. The
receivership is in the interest of the
Richmond and Danville, which got
ahead of its co-lcssec, the Central of
Georgia. The Macon and Northern is
l05 miles long.
The latest combine in the mercantile
world was formed ut Newark, n. j.,
when pool in fur was consumatcd at
the offices of Rikcr & Riker, tho we'll
known lawyers. The new combine has
capital of Sl0,000,000, and will be
known as the George G. Treadwell
Company. 1t is expected by the pro
motors to have considerable control
over the Behring Sea arbitration.
At the instance of Mrs. Borde, of Bal
timorc, who thought her pocketbook
had been stolen, Mr.. Georg, an attache
of the Swiss legation ut Washington,
was yesterday arrested at Bay
Ridge and taken to Annapolis
and discharged. He made COM
nlaint hefora the State Department