Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Irish education bill passed It's
third reading i'll the British House of
Commons yesterday.
The brig Douglas II. Thomas brought
100000 pineappies from the Bahamas to
Baltimore yesterday.
A meeting of Preshyterians at Bel
fast. Ireland, implorcd the Presby-
terians of Great Britain to oppose home
rule.
The Russian farmers are suffering
from drouth, grain and other crops
being seriously affected by the dry
weather.
lir. Archibald Stirling, wcll-known
member OF the Baltimore bar, died sud-
denly yesterday in that city ut his resi-
dence, in The Glst year o. his age.
Four persons were killed and thirty
injured Yesterday by the explosion of Il
boiler IN Dar5i;:i's mill at Cosneil, De-
partinemr Of -Cise, France.
Breves Major General David Sloan
Stanley. Brigadicr General, U. S. ~,
the present commander of the Depart
ment of Texas, Will be retired on June
lst on account OF age.
Mr.. John Philip Sousa, the leader OF
the United States Marine Band, will
probably leave Washington soon and
90 to Chicago, where he has been Of
tered i $1,000 position.
Tie funeral OF Miss Dcnikc, who died
III Ter home near &um Spring, Fairfax
county. last Saturday took place from
the Friend, Meeting House nj Wood
lawn yesterday evening.
A mob of several hundred socialists
yesterday tried TO prevent the German
police taking a socialist writer named
Peti.; 20 jail, and iii Il fight that cnsucG
several rictcrs were wounded.
Col. Charles Marshall, of Baltimore,
delivered the Grafton al the exercises
at Grants tomb. in Riverside Park. in
New York, yesterday. The fund for
the monument has been completed.
Mrs. Matthews, mother Of the wife Of
Bishop c. X. Nelson, Of Georgia, died
at her hcne Ecar Port Tobacco, Md.
last Thursday night Neither the bish-
OPP nor his wife was present at the
time.
Secretary Foster declares that the
anti-Halrison movement had its inccp-
ton with disappointed men, who took
up Blaine on account of his popularity
and because they could not unite on
any other man.
Cardinal LedociiowsEi, project Of the
Propaganda, has written letter to tie
priests and people Of the Catholic
Church in America to the effect that
the Pope is firm in his decision to sup
press Cahenslyism or the nationaliza-
ton Of Catholics in this country.
VIM. s. Boyd, a retired wholesale
grocer, committed suicide a. Whining
ton. Del, Yesterday by shooting him
self in the head Boyd stood in front
of a looking glass III his room, and de-
liberately fired Brooding over con-
slant illness is supposed to have been
the cause.
A fire about eleven o'clock last night
in the livery stable of Charles Smock
situated in the fashionable summer re-
sort of Loeb Arbour, adjacent to AS
bury Park, totally destroyed the stock
and building Seven valuable horses
the property oc summer residents, were
burned to death.
The title Of Barren Barnard, the only
one held by the Duke of Cleveland thai
did no: become extinct at his death, /:
claimed by Godolphin Henry Vane Mil
bank. of Stutten, near Ipurch, England
and the committee on privileges of th9
House of Lords has decided to hear hi:
case. The vast Raby estates, worth
several millions pounds sterling, are
involved.
Captain John Kavanah, of Baltimore
after serving a gun on the Merrimac il
her contest in Hampton Roads with
out injury. met his death yesterday
while painting the smol;e-stack of tht
electric powcr-house at Brooklyn
Anne Arundel county, Md, by falling
distance Of SO feet Captain Kavanal
was born in London in 1880, aid welt
to Norfolk in 1858, and worked as 6
rigger in the navy yard. At the out
break OF the war he joined the Confed
crate service. and was detailed to the
Menimac, with which vessel he served
until she was destroyed.
SINGERS Voices OVER A TELE
PHONE WIRE.-A correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette last summer gave q
graphic and suggestive description o.
the telephone transfer of an operate
performance from Munich to Frankfort
distance OF about go miles. He com.
pared the general impression to the
sensation enc imagines he would have
on seeing spectres, or of music heard in
l.O..,. az tl,n nrnhn actual inct,n