Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The King of Ashantee was stoned to
death recently in the streets ofCoomas-
sic, his capital.
Senator Ruy Barbosa, of Brazil, de
MES that the Brazilian revolutionists
are in favor OF rc establishing a mon
archy.
A decree was n cred in the Supreme
Court yesterday restoring to the Nor
mon Church the property taken from
the corporation.
A riot was precipitated in Marsellies,
France, yesterday, by striking tram
way men who poured oil on the cars
aud set fire to it.
A little son of James w. Brown, OF
New Park, York county, Pa, was
drowned on Sunday by falling head
foremost into a jar Of water.
With the exception Of the kearsarge
and Hartford, it i: expected that every
wooden ship in the United States navy
will be retired from the service within
the next year or two.
The President has appointed Col.
George ID. Isuggles 10 be adluiant-Sen,
sral. United States Army, TO succeed
Gen, Robert Williams. General VIII
liams. is native of Culpeper county,
Va. where number OF his relatives re-
side.
Half block of business and tene-
ment houses at Union Square, Eliza
beth, n. j., were destroyed by fire last
night. The homes of seven families
we're burned completely out, and the
occupants barely escaped with their
lives
The Sultan of Johore, an East Indian
prince. who has been living incognito III
London, was sued for breach of promise
of marriage by Miss Jennie Mighell,
young English woman, but the court
decided that it had no jurisdiction over
a sovereign prince.
Emperor William has issued the ex-
pected edict against gambling in the
army. BY il he forbids games of haz-
ard of any kind among men in active
service, and directs the chief officers to
report and punish severely all trans
gressors OF the order.
Lewis e. Wright, aged eighteen
wears, now in an insane asylum, who
fired his employers building in Boston
last March, has confessed that he start
ed the Ere that destroyed S4,000,000
worth of property in that city last
spring.
After the ways and means committee
of the House of Representatives has
completed its tariff bill the measure
will be submitted TO Secretary Carlisle
for his criticism. 1t is believed that
the friends oC The administration who
secured the passage of the silver repeal
bill can also put the tariff bill through
Congress
Alderman Geo. r. Swift, republican.
was last night elected Mayor pro TEN.
of Chicago to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Mayor Harrison. The
democratic minority of the council sur
rendered Internationally 10 their. op-
ponents Just before the opening OF The
regular meeting last night. The sec
ond and decisive ballot resulted as fol-
lows: Swift, 81; McGillen, .; blank l.
Agents in New York of the rebel
Brazilian Admiral Mello are negotiat-
ing for the purchase of two large tugs,
to be used in attacking the vessels now
being fitted out in New York for the
Brazilian government after their de
parture from New York. Charles Il.
Flint & Co. have bought the steam
Yacht NADIA, and are negotiating for
the Boston yacht Pilgrim. The inten-
ton is to use them as torpedo boats.
The artesian well at Schncidemuhl,
Prussia, which required the efforts OF
several engineers TO check its flow,
which threatedcd to inundate the town,
has broken out again, and is throwing
fourth enormous quantities of water.
The foundations of the houses in the "
entity of the well have been Slapped.
and great rents have appeared in their
walls. Portions of the Kirchgasse are
sinking, and the people are greatly
alarmed.