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

1t is stated that the stocks owned by
Mr.. JAY Could are now worth $2o,ooo,rc
O90 more than they were at the time Oh
his death.
Miss Julia Hall, who has several
times disappeared from her home, at
New Canaan, Conn, has again returned
to her home.
The House committee appointed to
codify the pension laws has been hard
at work. and gone far towards the com
pletion Of the report.
A professor in a medical college in
budapest was assassinated on Saturday
by the students for alleged cruelty to
pauper inmates of the hospital.
Senator Teller declares himself OPP
posed to the Hill bill or any repeal OF
the Sherman law until some means pro-
yiding for more enlarged use of silver
is found.
The bodies of two infants were found
in collins in a stable at Hayerhill, Mass,
where they had been kept by l.. Il. In
calls. an undertaken, rs security for the
payment of his bill.
The democratic chieftains arc very
well satisfied with the steps taken thus
far to prevent the consummatlon OF the
republican scheme to steal the Senator
ships OF several western States.
1t is alleged plan has been discov-
cred for the wholesale poisoning OF the
non union men Mt Homestead. and
Robert ]. Beatty was arrested i'll Louis
vile, Ky, Friday, charged with com
plicity in the affair.
A little boy seven years old named
Eddie Parker, who was arrested in
Chicago or Il triiIing charge, was
frightened to death by the police who,
in fun. threatened him with the gal
lows and penitentiary.
Evidence is accommodating of the at
tempt OF the republican leaders to re-
tain control Of the United States Sen
ate, if possible, by thwarting the YER
diet of five western States rendered at
The Nvocmbcr election.
4 colored boy who has not eaten any
food for sixty-live days is pulling the
physicians at the Jamesburg, y. y, Re
form School The only nourishment the
lad receives is little sweet oil rubbed
into his body twice 4 day.
Bishop Paret. of Maryland, will soon
have built for him Il steamer, the inside
of which will be fitted as church. The
steamer will carry the bishop and his
assistants to the oyster dredging
grounds on Sunday, where services will
be held.
Mamie Sweet, young colored girl,
aged twelve years, jumped from Il
seven-story window Of her home in
Scranton, Pa, Saturday. She feared
being chastised by her father. She was
carefully examined and her only in
jury was found to be y dislocation Of
the shoulder.
Representative Savers. of Texas.
chairman of the subcommittee Oh the
Sundry civil appropriation bill, began
the examination Of various government
officers ON the estimates submitted by
them. The chiefs Of the light house,
life-saving, revenue cutter and engrav-
ing and printing services were exam
incd. Their estimates all called for
more money than appropriated in the
current law.
The South Carolina House of Rep
reSentatives has killed n bill to allow
divorces for marital infdelity by n vote
o. rs To 81. The divorce bill is annual
" introduced in the general assembly,
but always meets with the same fate.
\ bill was introduced in the South
Carolina Senate on Saturday by Sena-
or Hemphill proposing to amend the
Constitution so as to give women right
to vote and hold Office.