Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Anarchists attempted to set fire to
the workshops in the arsenal at Toulon
yesterday.
A wild cat invaded New York bar
Der shop yesterday, wrecking $1,000
worth of property and creating panic.
Senator German called at the White
House yesterday evening and had o
conference with President Cleveland
on the tariff situation.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton
states that the denuding of forests of
the United States is progressing at the
rate of $4,000 acres per day.
Two fremen were killed and five
injured in fire in Philadelphia yester-
day which destroyed the mill building
at Randolph and Jefferson streets. The
loss will aggregate $4,000, fully in
sured.
Partial returns from principal counties
in Tennessee show that the democratic
nominees for judges of the Supreme
Court have defeated the republican.
populist fusion ticket for judges by ma
jorities greater than in 1892.
One fireman was killed and five were
injured yesterday afternoon in fire
which destroyed the planning mill and
lumber yards of T. G.. Richards & Co.
and Huuton, Myles and Weeks, in De-
troit. The property loss will aggregate
close to 100000.
A sealing shin has arrived ut from
coe, Norway, with news from the Well
man polar expedition. At last reports
explorer Wellman was pushing north
with his sledge party. The Norwegian
steamer which carried the party to
the Arctic was wrecked in the ice foes.
In the Senate yesterday the sundry
civil appropriation bill was passed
after amendments had been adopted
increasing the quarantine fund from
1924 900 to 100000 and donating
100000 acres of desert lands to States
to which the desert-land laws apply, as
well as to other States.
The Eigilant has been thoroughly
cleaned inside and out in preparation
for to-morrow's race. A strip of can
vas foot in width has been cut from
the bottom OF her mainsail and two
stringers, having q combined weight OF
several hundred pounds, which were
inserted for her Atlantic voyage, have
been removed.
The American Railway Union will
not officially declare the railroad strike
oil, neither will it advise the continu-
ance of the struggle. The members OF
the organization on each road will be
allowed to return separately, if they so
decide, or remain out, but they will re-
ceive neither orders nor advice from the
union as whole.
Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, and his close
political friends are at work with the
intention of electing few members of
The Legislature, who will control the
balance of power, and it is announced
by the politicians that the Governors
idea is to secure the U. S. Senatorship
despite Franklin MacVeagh's indorse-
ment by the democratic State conven-
ton.
Rev. w. S. Birch, now and for many
years presiding elder of the North In
diana NJ. f. Conference, was married in
Kokomo Wednesday evening to Miss
Angeline Cherry, of Elkhart. Elder
Birch has been alarmingly i'll for some
weeks, and Miss Cherry came down to
become the bride of the venerable di-
vine, who was too i'll to leave his bed for
the ceremony.
Sylvan Beach, an excursion grove on
Staten Island Sound, eight miles below
Elizabethport, n. j., was the scene
Wednesday evening of desperate riot,
the contestants being the boat crews OF
the tug Idlewild and the excursion
barges Coxsackie and Columbia. of the
Myers Excursion Company, and more
than a thousand excursionists from
Brooklyn. The weapons used were
beer glasses, bottles and pistols by the
excursionists, and q stream of boiling
water from the tugs boiler AS a re-
suit twenty or thirty of the excursion
lists were badly scalded, and the fire.
man of the tug boat seriously wounded
by pistol shots in the head and leg.
Unable to Hnne Giin ttne ln1uriated
crowd the tug captain finally steamed
away, leaving the eXcursionists in the
mosquito Infested Jersey meadows.