Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-28
TELEGRAPHIC BAEFITIES.

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Tho elegant new court house at Man
Gle. Ind, valued nj 100000, was rum
ed by fire this morning.
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln. Z. ; Miiils-
ter 10 England. started from New ofk
to-day on his return to his post
The Hon. VIM. Potter, the newly ap-
pointed American minister to Italy,
presented his credentials to King Hum
bert in Rome today.
AlIthcstreet work, in Baltimore, has
been suspended until the weather mod
crates. II is estimated that five thous-
and men are thus thrown out OF work
4 movemcnt~is on foot among the
coal dealers in the Hooking Valley to
effect Il combination which will be a
formidable rival to the Reading sys-
TEN.
Grand Master T. Y. Powderly, of
the knights of labor, has bought a farm
of II acres on the edge of the town OF
Hyattsville. Nd, for syndicate OF
workingmen with view TO establish
ing group of factories aud 4 co-ope-
rate workingmen's town.
At halfpast one o'clock nothing had
been heard of the steamer Umbria
which is now ten and one-half days ut
sea from Queenstown tor New York.
the longest she has ever spent on the
passage. She had on board when she
left Queenstown 375 passengers and
80 men.
The cause of Archbishop Ireland and
his educational IDEAS received public
support at St. Louis yesterday in the
form of series of resolutions signed by
II priests of that city. which were sent
to Monsignor Satoli. The resolutions Dc
clare adherence to Ireland, Satolli and
the Faribault plan.
4 dispatch from Chicago, says AN
effort is being made by prominent Chi
cagoans to buy Independence Hall i'll
Philadelphia, the house where Abra-
ham Lincoln died in Washington and
the Surratt Tavern in Maryland where
the conspiracy to assassinatc Lincoln
was hatchcd with Il view of transport
ing them to Chicago for exhibition pur-
poses.
a new tin-plate plant is to be put in
operation in Baltimore by the Balti-
more Iron, steel and Tin-Platc Com
pany. The Baltimore plant is reallya
branch ofthe Cwmpein tin-plate COM
pany of s aansea, one of the largest
lin manufactures Of Wales. 1t is not
intended just at present to roll tin
plate at the Baltimore works, but TO
put the coating oftin OIL the black or
steel-plate by dipping it into molten
tin. The object Of this is to escape the
heavy duty on the tin plate.
Speaker Crisp arrived i'll New York
this morning and registered at the
Hoffman House. Considerable inter-
est attaches to bis visit to New York
ac this time, as it has been publicly an
nounccd that he WAS coming to confer
with Presidcnt-clect Cleveland in refer
cncc to Mr. Crisp's reelection as
Speaker Of The House and other mat
tiers of national Importance. Politicians
say that the Mills men are making so
open fight against Mr.. Crisp's re-elec
ton that the latter has come to New
York TO assure himself OF Mr.. Clcye-
lands support. Mr.. Cleveland said to-
day: 81 know nothing of any conference
to take place between Mr.. Crisp and
myself beyond what have read in the
newspapers"
Edward Parker Deacon, who shot Emile
Abeillc, in the Hotel Splcndidc, Cannes
France because OF alleged intimacy with his
wife, has brought action in the Supreme
Court of New York, for an absolute divorce
from his wife, Florence Deacon.
Baron Won Puttkamer, Il nephew Of the
Princess Won Bismarck, isin u New York hos
pital suffering from injuries received while
trying to prevent burglars breaking into the
house where he lived.
In the billiard match of 400 points, single
cushion carroms, for 81 600. played in Paris
yesterday, Schacflcr defeated vignaux, the
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