Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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arrested in Philadelphia for stealing
gold bars, was yesterday held in the
sum of $50, 900 bond.
The national banks of New York are
receiving so much money at present
from country banks that they are in a
quandary as to its disposition.
Mr.. Thos. B. Roy started yesterday
to Chicago to attend the Worlds Fair.
He will spend several days there and
return by way of Buffalo to visit one OF
the worlds fairest.
The Red Gross Society has taken
charge of the work of relief of the suf-
ferers by the storm on the Sea islands
of South Carolina. Thirty thousand
people must be fed until April.
In the maneuvers at Guens yesterday
Emperor William led the attack by the
army of the South upon the army of
the North under Emperor Francis
Joseph, driving the Austrians from
their position.
Emperor William declares the Wur-
temburg troops to be the flower of the
German army. The Emperor was re-
ceived with great cordiality Sunday at
Guens, where the maneuvers Of the
Austrian army are to be held.
In the presence of Sir John Thomp-
son, the premier, nearly all the mem
bers of the dominion cabinet, and a
large and brilliant assemblage, the
Earl of Aberdeen was yesterday at
Quebec sworn in as governor general OF
Canada.
A dispatch from Marquette, Mich,
SAYS. Last night practically all the
men who had anything to do with the
robbery of the Mineral Range express
last Friday ofS70, 900 are in Jail or un-
der espionage, and up to date $50, 900
Of their booty ha sheen recovered.
Mr.. John C. Leib, treasurer of the
Northern Central Railroad Company
and of the Baltimore and Potomac,
dropped dead on Calvert street, near
Chase, Baltimore, yesterday afternoon,
at half-past four o'clock, from paraly-
sig of the brain. He was 50 years old.
The warm contest over the selection
of delegates to the democratic State
convention of New York will result in
the continued control of Senator Hill
and his friends 1t is regarded as GER
tain that Judge Maynard will be nomi-
mated, with the chances in favor of his
election.
Having beaten his wife, thrown her
out of second-story window, and then
beaten his mother-in-law so terribly
that the latter may die, John Mcknight,
80 years old, Of River road, West Man
syunk, Pa, was locked up in Norris
town Sunday night. His mother-in-
law, Mrs. Margaret Keenan,. is SO years
of age, and she has slight prospects OF
being able TO recover.
At Cincinnati yesterday before the
game between the Baltimore and Gin
cinnati clubs wedding took place at
the ball grounds. Louis Rapp, the as,
sistant ground-keeper, was married to
Miss Rosie Smith at the home plate at
3 o'clock. After the bride and groom
had driven out of the park amid the
cheers of the spectators the umpire
called "play."
The great rally of the peers against
the home-rule bill has caused the liber-
ais to take the aggressive, and the first
movements in the battle against the
House of Lords will soon be started. 1t
is Mr.. Gladstone's purpose to carry out
a series of sweeping radical reforms on
a new line Of policy, which he will an,
nounce in an address to the Midlothian
committee in Edinburgh on Sept. q.
In paroxysm of grief at the death
of a beloved aunt. Pasquale Iacolucci,
aged Ii, of Woodbridge, n. j., was
stricken with a remarkable cataleptic
torpor about 10 days ago. He has re-
NAMED unconscious and immobile ever
since, save at intervals of so or GO hours,
when he revives for few minutes only.
He is now at the Italian Home in New
York, and his case puzzles all the doc,
| tors.