Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.


ington has resigned.
The condition of the Philadelphia
banks improved during last week.
Another case of yellow fever has been
reported at Brunswick, Ga, the city
where Surgeon Branham died.
Delegate Marcus A. Smith, of Ari-
IONA, is seriously i'll at the Hotel Coch-
ran in Washington of typhoid fever.
Numerous large iron mills about
Pittsburg, Pa, resumed operations yes
terday, giving work to thousands OF
men.
DR.. Wyman of the marine hospital
service, has been notified that cholera
is present in st. Petersburg in epidemic
| foam.
Numbers of banks in different por-
tons of the country which have recent
ly suspended are preparing to resume
business.
The Duke of Coburg is not expected
to live. He is in q comatose condition
and bis death may be announced at any
moment.
The will of DIR. Hamilton Griffin, Of
Louisville, KY, step-father of Mary
Anderson, makes DO bequest to the dis
tinguished actress.
Paul Smith fired into a clump OF
bushes near Oleopolis, Pa, yesterday,
and killed his younger brother, Albert,
who was lying there.
The King of Siam, in an interview
with special envoy from the French
government yesterday, renewed his
assurance Of friendship.
The proprietors Of the Fall River cot
ton mills are said to be carrying i'm
mense stocks, and cuts in the wages Of
employees are contemplated.
A resolution by Mr.. Gladstone in the
House of Commons yesterday to apply
closure to the report stage of the home
rule bill, Friday, was adopted.
A statue of Abraham Lincoln, erect
ed in Edinburgh as a memorial to the
Scottish-American soldiers in the Amer
lean civil war, was unveiled with in
teresting ceremonies yesterday.
Representative Shell, of South Caro-
lima, was knocked down by cable car
in Washington yesterday and severely
injured. He is the third member OF
Congress to be injured recently in the
same way.
The military preparations made to
suppress the Welsh coal-mine strikers.
who intended to invade the Ebbro Vale
10000 strong to intimidate non-strikers,
have prevented the movement being
attempted.
A private telegram has been received
from Suitepec stating that the celebrat-
ed German mining engineer, Frederick
Roth, who left lately for Mexico to eX-
anime gold mines, has been killed by
his companion, Swiss called Neil.
The choice 81 900 pews in the new
Obeb Shalom synagogue, Eutaw Place
and Lanvale street, Baltimore, were
sold at auction yesterday. The first
choice was purchased by Mr.. A. Colts
chalk for 50, 100, making the total cost
of the pew S3,100.
Miss Eliza De Haas, the last surviv-
ing niece of Benedict Arnold, died in
Bellefonte, Pa, and was buried yester-
day evening. She was eighty-seven
years of age, and was granddaughter
of General John Philip De Haas, OF
Revolutionary fame.
George A. Daily, the well-known
American, who, while employed on the
Mexican Central Railroad as locomo-
tive engineer, accidentally ran over and
killed man near the City of Mexico
four months ago, has been released
from prison by the Supreme Court.
Senator Hill has been quite i'll at the
Hotel Normandie, Washington, for
several days, but is reported considera-
bly, improved. The Senator was fever
ish on Saturday and was unable to
leave his bed. His ailment is an out
growth of stomach trouble, which was
made worse by the failure of the Sen
ator to diet himselfproperly.
A young merchant of Clermont-F Fer
rand, NJ. Camille Journiac, was getting
his gun ready for the opening of the
shooting season. He had himself made
some cartridges, but had made them
rather too large. He was attempting
to force one of these cartridges into the
barrel of the gun when it burst, infict-
ing on the young man wound which
killed him at once.
E. NJ. Donaldson, of Marion, Kan, is
missing. He was president of the Union
Trust Company of Sioux City, Ia,
which failed on June IS, and of the
First National Bank of Marion, which
was closed by special examiner last
week. Developments show that DON
aldson has fled the country and is prob
ably in Mexico, a defaulter to the
amount of at least 100000.
President and Mrs. Cleveland, it is
understood, will return to the White
House the last day of this month. The
work which has been in progress about
the Mansion for some weeks past has
been nearly completed, and, excepting
the Red Parlor, the house will be in
perfect trim for the return of the fam
lily. The Red Room will not be finish
ed until about the middle of Septem-
Der.
In Wall street yesterday call money
was easy at to per cent. The tend
ency of affairs in the stock market was
in the direction Of Improvement and a
general advance setin, speculation leav-
ing off strong in tone. The railway and
miscellaneous bond market was more
active. The gold import movement
continues at New York. Sterling ex-
change advanced and closed firm.