Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.


night and there were several conflicts
between the police and the rioters.
A Commercial Cable dispatch from
Brussels reports the suicide of a young
Polish lady in that city who fell in
love with Prince Victor Bonaparte, but
whose affection was not returned by
the exiled French pretender.
Herr Liebnect raised storm in the
Reichstag yesterday by declaring that
the military bill was not intended to
protect the Fatherland against France
and Russia, but to arm the government
against the people of Germany.
Something short of miraculous is the
escape from instant death OF the two
year-old baby of James Dougherty, llv-
ing in Wilmington, Del. The little tot
fell from a second-foor window at his
home Yesterday, falling on brick
pavement without injuring himself in
the least.
The new army bill which was intro
duced in the Reichstag yesterday fol-
lows the lines of the old Huene COM
promise bill, which was defeated in the
previous Reichstag, and which in
creases the peace effective by $4,000
men. The increased taxation made
necessary by the bill is to be placed
upon the wealthy class.
Associate Justice Samuel Blatchford,
who had been ill for some time at Prov
idence, r. l., died there yesterday
evening. He was born in New York
in 1920 and in 1882 he was appointed
an associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. He was
republican and his successor will be APP
pointed by Mr.. Cleveland.
There is to be no more convict labor
on the public buildings of the United
States. The new supervising architect,
Mr.. O'Rourke, has brought about this
innovation by the order directing that
the following words shall appear in all
advertisements for contracts on govern
ment buildings mo convict labor or
the product Of convict labor shall be
used"
New Rochelle, little town on the
Sound, north of New York, was busy
Yesterday discussing the particulars OF
the wedding of Miss Mary Teft, the
daughter of the wealthy DR.. E. B. Teft,
and his coachman, Lundgren, who has
been employed in the Teft family for
some time. Lundgren was discharged
about two weeks ago in order to pre-
vent an elopement, but it was too late.
The couple went to New York quietly
| the other day and were married.
Archbishop Corrigan has practically
deied the authority of Mgr. Satolli,
upon whom, qs Apostolic Delegate in
the United States, the Pope has con-
conferred extraordinary powers. The
Archbishop when instructed by Mgr.
Satoll to restore DR.. Burtsell to the
Church of the Epiphany, New York,
declined to act on the ground that the
case had been decided by the Propa-
ganda and that his orders should come
from that body.
Over one hundred lives are reported
to have been loss in the tornado on
Thursday night The greatest de-
struction was at Pomeroy, the southern
portion of that town being razed.
Nearly every living thing in the path
of the storm was mutilated. The
damage done to buildings and crops is
immense. At Storm Lake four
churches were wrecked and number
of residences literally reduced to splin-
tiers. Fires were started in three To-
calities by lightning.
Miss Edith Drake, the wealthy New
York bankers daughter, who loved a
poor carpenter, in spite of the ohjec-
lions of her parents, has married the
man of her choice. Miss brakes infat-
uation for young McGibney is said not
to have been her first love affair. If
one of the stories told in New York OF
a previous affair is true, there would
appear to be some basis for the bank
er's contention that his daughter is daft.
According to this story, which has not
been denied by the brakes, Miss Edith
was the author of the gushing letters
found on the person of the French muir
derer, Pranzini, before his execution in
Paris, six years ago.
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