Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

William w. Carr was yesterday APP
pointed postmaster at Philadelphia.
A tornado in South Carolina yester-
day destroyed barns and houses and
killed white woman.
The Governor General of Cuba has
declared the province of St. Jago dc
Cuba in state ofsiege.
The paid attendance at the Chicago
fair Yesterday was 1875, an increase
of 975 over that of the day before.
Prof. Samuel C. Chew has been APP
pointed secretary of the Maryland State
board of health in place OF DR.. Chan
cellor, resigned.
With regard to the lower Mississippi
river, there is no apprehension that the
leyees will be overlooked from the
water at present in sight in the upper
rivers.
III, announcement is officially made
that the Duke of York has been be-
trothed to the Princess May of Teck,
and that the Queen has consented to
the match.
The whole of Sicily was shaken by
an earthquake yesterday. 1t is feared
that great damage to property and
some loss of life vas caused by the
earthquake.
The Massachusetts Diocesan Conven-
ton of the Episcopal Church met in
Boston yesterday. Bishop Potter, OF
New York, preached a memorial SER
mon on Bishop Brooks.
Much damage was done by the break
ing of the reservoir at Lewiston, Ohio,
Yesterday, but no lives were lost. This
reservoir was the second largest artifi-
cial body of water in the world.
The Chinese government has served
notice on the United States that in
demnity would be asked in case any
Cinnamon were killed. Hence the warn
ing sent out by Secretary Gresham.
At Kingston, n. Y, Tuesday night
August Wilmon, q German, placed a
dynamite cap in his mouth, and then
bit on it. His lifeless body, with the
head blown of, was found yesterday
morning.
Gov. Brown, of Maryland, has signed
the death warrants of Daniel Barber
and William Pinkney, the colored
murderers of Francis NJ. Bowie, and
they will be hanged at Upper Marlboro
on June 80.
Counsel for the dowager Duchess
of Sutherland will apply to court foi
her release from the London Jail be-
cause of her ill-health. The Duchess
was imprisoned for destroying court
document.
Mrs. Stevenson, wife Of the vice
President, was taken i'll in Chicago
Yesterday and Cancelled all her en-
gagements and returned to her home
in Bloomington, III. The vice-Presl
dent accompanied her.
Cholera is raging in Malacca, Japan
Three hundred houses and several pub
lie buildings were burned at Kanda
near Toxic recently. Floods along the
River Hoangho, China, destroyed foul
hundred villages and caused great loss
of life.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tibes, who, with hel
son, beat out Samuel McCloud's brain:
in drunken row at their home in Ben
wood, w. Va, Sunday morning, hang
ed herself in her cell at the Marshal
county Jail, at Moundsville, some time
during Tuesday night, the body being
discovered early yesterday morning.
A dispatch from New York says Mr.
VIM. C. Whitney himself is responsible
for the statement that he has not en-
dorsed the application of any one TO
office, and that he does not intend t
do so. In fact. the ex-Secretary of the
Navy is not asking any more favors o
President Cleveland, and threatens tt
join the colony of those who think MIR
Cleveland an migrate in politics.