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


James ]. Corbett will be matched
to fight Peter Jackson in November II
Mitchell fails to sign articles.
Charles Brenuel1e, who built the old
long bridge at Harper's Ferry, died IN
Marshalltown, Iowa, yesterday, aged -
years.
The GriIin-Smith fight for $4,000
took place at Roby, Ind, last night.
Griffin was knocked out in the fourth
round.
The tioable in Rio Grande do Sui,
Brazil, has broken out afresh, and the
insurgents have captured steamer
and taken possession of the city OF kio
Grande.
Col. John NJ. Wilson, in charge OF
public buildings and grounds in Wash
ington, in an annual report urges the
abandonment of the White House as
the office of the President.
District Attorney Cole intends to
prosecute those indicted by the grand
Jury in Washington for perjury in the
Howard Schneider murder case, VINO,
he thinks, deliberately violated the law.
Advices from Santos, Brazil, state
that thousands of people in that section
have been stricken with yellow fever,
large numbers of whom have died.
Business is at a standstill and many
vessels are in port without crews.
Scventy-five convicts in the Michi-
gan House of Correction, at lonia, re-
volted Yesterday and attempted to es-
cape. a fight ensued, in which one
convict was killed and several convicts
and guards wounded. The mutineers
were overpowered.
In the debate in the House of Com
mons on clause O. relating to Irish rep
resentation in Parliament, John Red
mond, Parnellite, yesterday offered an
amendment to retain the Irish repre-
sentation at its present number, which
was defeated by II votes.
A movement has been inaugurated in
Washington, which has met with the
sanction of Commissioner Parker, in ia
vor of an application to Congress for
legislation authorizing the issue of for
ty-year bonds of the District at 3 or 4
per cent. interest to the extent of SlO,-
100000 on pledge of the revenues of
the District, the amount to be used in
street and sewer Improvements.
DR.. Walter Kempster has submitted
to the Marine Hospital Service his vol
luminous report upon the investigations
of himself and Surgeon Irwin Fairfax,
made during the past several months,
upon the prevalence and extent OF
cholera in Europe, and the channels
through which the disease might reach
this country The report shows how
the cholera was spread throughout Eu-
rope by inadequate quarantine and lack
OF sanitation.
Two brothers, Luther and John Vip-
man, aged respectively II and Is, were
killed by lightning five miles west of
Winston, n. c., yesterday. They were
working with their father in meadow
when storm came up. The brothers,
with sister, ran under large tree.
Just as Luther leaned against it keen
fash of lightning struck the tree. The
boys were killed instantly and their Sis
ter seriously injured.
According to the stories told by the
Egyptian medical delegate to Mecca,
who arrived in Alexandria from that
place yesterday, the scenes where the
ravages of cholera have taken place are
horrible beyond comprehension. Pill
grims have died by the thousand in
stead of by hundreds, rs the official ac-
counts have stated. So FAST did the dis
ease claim the unfortul S Il at tlty
could not be buried and hundreds OF
bodies were left to decomposc in the