Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-03-16
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Cougressnea Chaplin, of New York. has
been appointed railroad commissioners of that
State by Governor t'!aWeF.
Gov. Brown, o! Kentucky, has signed the
bill making dealing In lottery tickets
felony.
The President and nearly ell the MEM
bers OF his cabinet wiI attend the care.
monies at the Grant monument in New
York OF the 9th proxlmo.
Toe GreenbrIer Military Academy at
Lswisbusg, W. Va, vas destroyed by ire
yesterday morning, eDtaiing loss on
buil6ings, farpitare and accounts OF about
s35 900
Nine British ironclads arrived at Ale1an,
dria, Egypt, TO receive the Sntan's envoy,
gbo Is the bssrer of the 6rman OF in.
valtl,urs OF Princs Abbas as Khedive OF
Egypt.
Articles were slgaed in Nsg York yeater-
day for Sullivan and Oo.hast to fight for
$4,000 side and purse ri S25. 600 before
tue o 5mnio Clu5 OF New Orleans On We'd
nesday, SEPTEMBER Z.
The President yesterday issCed procla-
| nation of retaliation against Colombia,
Hayti and Velezusls fhase countries haV-
Jag refused to enser IL t. ec!prccsl relations
With the Uaited States under the terms OIL
| The Mckinley act.
The tweivs-yesr.oid sea OF Capt. Fssnk
strsusser was found hale-fFczsn on the cut
skirts Of Shamokin, Pa, on Monday night.
He wss kidnapped By tgaupa few HsesE
ego end suffer cd ii-treatmcnt aG thtir baa5s
he escaped from their mountain cave on
Monday and reached Shsmokin entirely ox.
hausted.
The Dill providing for 8 submission
to tse popular vote OF the Deopie Of Nav
York, Brooklyn, Staten Is.snd, and parts Of
Westchss.er and QoeeEs ccua.ies the que5.
ton OF whether Or not they 1Rat 10 De form.
I'D into consolidated city was defeated In
the New York Assembly ;eetsrday.
While Mss. Msrg. E. Bfeh:cr, of Washing.
| ton. WISE preparing a lunch ABOUT noon yes.
| .erday fol- her tates ycuog children whom
she expected homo from schGol, her dress
caught Gre iToc t1o stove over which she
wss standing and she Tas so severely burn.
] ed thLt she died lest evening.
! II 70 reported from the town OF Racco
Psrais, that an Gttsmpt has bssn made by
j tee populaoe to burn an aged foreigner on
the grcu1d that he vas harlt 0. 1t ep-
psars inst ne pasted an almanac on the wall
OF G house he rented and covered u the pic
ture of ssiDt Tee mob was headed by
ths local magistrate.
Hon. J. s. Ciarkson, who 's OF Ashevllie,
J N. O., uader treat nett for iphammatory
/ rheumatism, says hs is not candidate for
tns presidency. Ia Gays Mr.. Blsiue ia The
! only sure republican winner Mr. Hsrrl-
sens denomination he regarda Rs probable,
but there is stfoug popular movement to-
ward Secretary Ruak.
General Green B Rsun, Commissioner OF
Pensions, was yesterday examined By tle
special committee which Is investigating the
administration Of The Pension Burear, but
refused t, tell hcw much money he borrow.
ed from Lemon. the penson attorney who
was benefited oy the completed files" order,
and 10 response 10 other queations he MAIDS
admissions which indicated that tbs invss-
tigsson had nos bsen begun too soon.
The news that a. Absille has left his prop
| erty to tie youo2est child OF Mrs. Deacon
mas considerably strengthened BIZ. Dsscon's
case In public opinion, IS tb;d is consldsTsd
q virtual scknowl, dgmeat Of guilt on tho
| part OF Aoelle. MF. Deacon has asserted
hat the youngest Child was ha own, but
these who hsva Ften it ever that is appear
ance folly eus.a.ns t;s provision for ia sup
port which IL. A5siiis saw f to make.