Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-27
NEWS OF TIE DAY.


stored to his functions.
Henry Foster, tie slayer of Judge
Morgan, at Memphis, Tenn, has been
found guilty OF murder and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life.
Congressman jeremiah Simpson an
nounced Yesterday that he was q can
didate for the United States Senate be-
fore The Kansas Legislature.
Masses were celebrated, consers
swung and other ritualistic innovations
made at the Episcopal Church Of the
Redeencr in New York Oh Sunday.
The republicans won in the Box
Elder, Montana precinct controversy.
With this precinct counted in. it elects
republican and gives them the Legis-
lature
The United States troops Saturday
routed a party of Mexican revolution
lists in camp near Roma. Texas, and
captured several overcoats and other
property.
,Ir Frank Ward, well-known
Washingtonian. Is Row i'll Providence
Hospital. that city, suffering from inju-
ries he sustained by falling OF slippery
sidewalk in New York.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
six stores and seven dwellings III
Wyoming, n. y, were burned yester-
day. The fire was stopped by blowing
W. buildings with powder.
Il is stated that Mr.. Cleveland will
appoint one member Of his cabinet OF
the understanding that he shall! retire
in two years and make way for Govern
or laItison, of Pennsylvania.
The unprecedented drain Of gold
from this country to Europe caInot be
satisfactorily explained by treasury OF
ticials. 1t is conceded That the stua
ton as to gold is complicated by the
silver question.
John l.. Sullivan claims to have dis
covered that he was not fairly treated
in his fight with Corbctt, and proposes
TO pet into training for another fight.
Corbett SAYS he will give Sullivan q
chance in October.
The President has issued proclama
ton reserying for timber and fish cul
;ure purposes the island Of Afognak,
Alaska, and its adjacent rocks and ter
ritorial waters, including the Sea Lion
rocks and Sea Otter island.
The call for congress OF the Catho
lies OF the United States, to be held in
Chicago during the Worlds Fair was
issued Saturday from Chicago. 1t is
signed by Archbishop Fechan, chairman
ofthe committee on organization, and
VIM J. 0nahan, secretary.
An internal machine placed outside
detective headquarters III Dublin OK
ploded late Saturday night. Detective
Synnott, who was passing At the Sine,
receive! injuries which resulted i'll his
death. There is no clue yet to the pei
petrator Of The explosion.
Henry c. Varnum, his wife and
adopted daughter were killed in their
home in Worcester, Mass, Sunday, by
an unknown person. Mrs. FarnWn's
mother, eighty years OLD, was badly
wounded, hut may live 10 tell the
story.
George f. Jones, editor of the Elec-
trical Message, New York, and & mem
Der of the executive committee of Tam
many Hall from the first assembly dis
trict, died suddenly Christmas night at
ten O'Clock, of Bright's disease. Mr.
Jones was native OF Gordonsyille, Va
The large knitting mills of John P.
Sheppard, on Walnut street, Salem, n.
j., were burned yesterday. Loss esti-
mated at about $4,000, with 5000 in
surance. The mills were running full
time, and about one hundred girls will
be thrown out Of work by their destruc-
ton.
A placard bearing the inscription
Scarlet fever within was tackled on
one Of the doors of the White House
This was on account Of the illness of
little Marthena Harrison, the Presi-
dents granddaughter, who was report
cd as doing as well az could be ex-
pected.
At Huntington, W. Va, Saturday, the
jury in the case of Thomas Collins, one
Of the men charged with killing Oscar
Dick, while attempting TO hold up .
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way, returned verdict Of murder in
the first degree, recommending that
the prisoner be sent to the peniycntiary
for life
During mass at St. Aloysius' Catho-
lie Church, Cincinnati, on Sunday
Bernard Schwalen, a young priest hut
recently ordained, committed suicide in
his room in the church residence, by
shooting himself with revolver He
had been an assistant pastor OF 81. A!oy-
sius' and was about to be transferred.
The cause of his protracted despond-
ency was hereditary tendency TO in
sanity. The act interrupted the mass
and for time stopped the ceremonies.
There exists plot to destroy w. s.
Patterson, the leader Of the mob that
lynchcd the Italians in New Orleans,
March ii. 1891, for the murder of po-
liceman Hennesscy. He also headed
the Young democracy in the famous po-
litical fight of 1855. Last spring Par
kerson's house was burned and he
built new and handsome residence.
Sunday night incendiaries again touch
ed a match to the dwelling aud it was
ruined and the family barely escaped
with their lives. 1t is believed to be
the work of the Malta.
Chancellor Won Caprivi's organs re-
iterate that the German army bill must
be passed intact or the Reichstag will
he dissolved. This menace is the
stongest weapon of the government.
Many members Of the Reichstag are
quaking at the prospect of a general
election. through which the socialists
and members of the Freissinige party
alone are likely to benefit. Herr Rich