Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30
NEWS OLE THE DAY.

Six blocks of buildings at Oakesdale,
Washington, were burned yesterday.
Loss 100000
Bishop Brooks's will was filed for
probate in Boston on Saturday. The
reports as to the Bishops wealth are
said to be without foundation.
Bcemic and Tom Conley, brothers,
quarreled at dance near Hot Springs,
Ark, on Saturday. Both drew knives.
Tom was Killed and Beemie badly
wounded.
The Wyoming Senate on Saturday
unseated John \. Tisdale. elected by
the republicans, and refused to seat
Robert Foote, elected By the democrats
and popalists.
Billy Mccarthy, the Australian
champion middle-weight, having failed
to arrange fight with Ted Prltchard,
has sailed on the steamer Servia for
the United States.
A dispatch from Buda-Pesth says
about one hundred men lost their lives
in the coal mine disaster at Tokod
Grau. Fifty-seven of the entombed
miners were rescued on Saturday.
Rev. VIM. e. Bartlett, Of st. Anne's
Catholic Church, Baltimore, yesterday
told his congregation that marriage
should take place in the morning and
not in the afternoon and evening.
DR.. O'Gorman, a member ofthe facul-
ty of the Catholic University at Wash
ington. in response to a telegraphic in
auirv from St. Louis, "Did Blaine re-
ceive the last sacraments?' replied
No"
The residence of James Malone, in
Mineral CO., W. Va, was destroyed by
fire yesterday, and Louis Malone and
Edward Mccarthy were burned to
death. Mrs. Malone is not expected to
recover.
Senator German on Saturday sent a
private message to the Governor of Kan
sas, regarding the seating of Senator
Martin. and giving instructions as to
the manner in which the certificate OF
election should be made out.
Experts at the Koch Institute report
that the water used at the Nietleben
Lunatic Asylum, after it was passed
through tiIter-beds, disclosed the pres
ence ofthe comma bacillus, proving that
the river Saale is strongly infected.
DR. Scheele. archaeological expert, OF
New York, will endeavor to save the
life of Carlyle w. Harris by presenting
evidence to Recorder Smyth that insult
ficient proof of morphine poisoning was
procured in the case of Harris's wife.
Ellen Potts.
During the ceremony of filing past
the throne at the marriage festivities OF
the Princess Margaret in Berlin, last
week. lady in waiting, in bowling,
leaned over so far that she lost her bal
ancc and fell into the basin of a foun-
tain. She was speedily helped to rise
and was found to be uninjured.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie made public
statement in Pittsburg yesterday in re-
gard to his connection with the great
steel works, declaring that he was only
stakeholder in the company and no
longer took an active part in its man
agement. He said that he came to
Pittsburg to try and bury the past.
which should be banished as a horrid
dream.
Sheriff Jenner, ofChautauqua county,
y. y, has found the work of uphold
ing law and order in Dunkirk at the
present state of the strike in the Brooks
Locomotive Works too great for the
forces at his command, and at o'clock
Yesterday morning called on Brig. Gen.
Peter c. Doyle, of Buffalo, command
ing the third brigade of the National
Guard of the State of New York, for
military assistance.
In the Senate on Saturday Senator
Proctor introduced bill to incorporate
the American University in the District
of Columbia. In the House the sundry
civil bill was considered in committee
with the whole, and several amend
ments looking to an increase of appro-
priations were rejected, and eulogies
were delivered to the memory Of the
late Representative E. S. Stackhouse,
of South Carolina,