Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UF HE DAY.
The Gambrill -four mill was destroy
ed by fire in Frederick, Md, yesterday
The American SundaySGhool insti-
tute began its sessions in CHRIST Church,
Baltimore yesterday.
The civil service commission has is
sued q warning to government EN-,
ployees against engaging in political
service.
The eight hundred employees Of the
Crescent Steel Mill in Pittsburg have
received notice of a ten per cent. re-
duction in wages.
The democrats carried Chattanooga
yesterday, electipg seven of the eight
aldermen. The city has been repubh-
can for many years.
Emmett Dalton, the surviving mem
Der of the gang of outlaws, was taken
to jail at Coffeyville, Kan, yesterday,
and it is now thought he will recover
1t is announced that Governor Nc
Kinley, of Ohio, will not be q candi-
date for reelection. He finds that the
patronage Of Office is hurting his popu-
larity.
The Rock River Conference of Meth
odists in Illinois yesterday passed reso-
buttons denouncing Catholicism as .
menace to the American public school
system.
The business mems clubs of New
York which favor the election of Mr..
Cleveland have issued an address de
claring the Mckinley tariff Il long step
backward.
The statue of Christopher Columbus
given to the city of Baltimore by ital-
ian residents, was unveiled in Druid
Hill Park today. Cardinal Gibbons
delivered an address.
Mr. Richard Croker announced IN
New York yesterday that Senator Hill
has promised to speak at the Tammany
wigwam on October %. Mr.. Cleveland
is expected to be present.
The democrats have perfected fine
and effective organization in Illinois,
such one as was never before known
in the history of democratic politics,
and expect to carry the State.
A party of steel workers yesterday
arrived at Homestead from Knoxville,
Tenn, and it is said that most of the
steel workers who went South after the
strike in the Carnegie millsare anxious
to return to the Western mills.
At Chicago yesterday wheat was Int
hard in the speculative markets, and a
decline of 2 cents per bushel was scored.
Corn dropped 2a1} and oats II cents.
Pork declined % cents, ribs 10 cents
and lard ) cents. Closing prices were
at slight recovery from the bottom
The grand jury at Pittsburg, Penn.
Yesterday returned true bills against
the members of the Homestead advis-
DRY committee, charged with treason,
and also against H. c. Prick, manager,
and other officials of the Carnegie
Works, and the Pinkertons, charged
with murder and conspiracy.
More than hundred thousand citi-
zens qualified for voting in New York
Yesterday. 1t was the first day of regis
tration, and the number Of Dames re-
corded was larger than on any other
previous first Gay in the city's history.
Among those who registered were Mr..
Grover Cleveland and Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid.
Workmen digging in the garden of a
man ion in the most fashionable part
of Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday UNI
earthed the dismembered and disem-
boweled body of a woman. The fami-
ly who occupied the house were absent,
and young gardener, named Nc
Even, in whose care the place had
been left, was missing. An examina-
ton of his room showed the floor and
walls marked with blood stains. Nc
Even, who had spent Monday night
with the woman, was arrested to-day.
Detectives found him lying beside the
road half way between Glasgow and
Paisley. He evidently found the chase
becoming too hot for him and, fearing
arrest, had attempted to kill himself.
He had cut his throat, but the wound
is not fatal.