Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-20
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

start up August u.
Robert Greer, manager of the Wash
ington News Company, died suddenly
in that city Saturday.
Congress is said to be ready to adj
iourn, ana is only awaiting the Presi-
dents signature TO the tariff bill.
George Bull, collector for the Ebbitt
House, Washington, is held by the po-
! ce on charge Of embezzlement.
Representative Wilson has been en-
dorsed for United States Senator by the
democrats OF Martinsburg, w. Va.
Governor Brown, of Maryland, has
sent 100 members of Coxey:s army to
Ohio over the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road.
Senator Vest has written to Col. J.
w. Polk, of Kansas City, that he has
not made up his mind TO retire from
public life.
Employees OF the Pullman Company
testified Saturday TO paying more than
fifty per cent. Of wages for house rent
in Pullman.
A reception was given to Emma
Goldman, the anarchist, at the Inalla
Theater, New York. Saturday, which
nearly 5000 persons attended.
A few individuals are said TO own a
third of Manhattan Island. One hun
Gred aud seventeen men are said TO
own realty worth Il half billion.
Mrs. Eunice Conrad, the Oldest
woman west of the Alleghanies, died
Saturday at her home in Gilmore
county, w. Va, at the age of III years.
Several far-seeing Californians have
lately taken steps to form wine syn
dictate, to control and regulate the price
of the product of the California Vine
yards.
4 number of railroad men of St.
Paul, Mimi, who can obtain no en-
ployment by reason of their action in
the late strike, are preparing to leave
the country.
Jacob B. Miller, of Hagerstown, who
had been an excessive cigarette smoker,
Yesterday cut his throat with razor,
and it is thought hardly possible for
MIN 10 recover.
Eight persons were attended Satur-
day night at the Emergency Hospital.
Washington, for wounds received at the
hands of others. The rows were be-
tween negroes.
Senator MCPHERSON, of New Jersey,
was On the point of rendering his res
lgnation as Senator a day or two ago,
but his friends succeeded in persuading
him to forego his resolution.
Advices from NIcKeesport, Pa, Will
mington, Del, Newark, y. j., and 9th
or places announce the revival of bust
ness. Mills have started up and tide
OF prosperity has again set in.
Captain E. ". Nicholson, superin-
tendent of the Treasury Department
stables in Washington, shot himself in
the stomach yesterday and died after
being removed to the Emergency Hos
pital.
The officials Of the Providence, r. l.,
fire department decided yesterday that
the city is practically at the mercy Of
unknown firebugs. In the last two
weeks there have been twelve incen-
diary fires.
District Assembly No. l of the
Knights OF Labor,ot Philadelphia, held
meeting last night. from which it is
said Master Workman Sovereign was
elected. Mr.. Sovereign denies that this
was the case.
John Verdon, a penitentiary convict
from Cincinnati, who dropped dead
from heart disease in Columbus, Ohio,
Saturday, predicted the day aud hour
of his death. When be was received at
the prison he wrote this prediction on a
slip of paper, which was given to
another convict to keep. The paper
was examined and found to be exactly
true.
The river and harbor bill, carrying
las, $50, has become law without
President Cleveland's signature, the
legal limit of ten days having expired
within which he could sign or veto it.
1t is the third time during Mr.. Cleve-
lands two terms that a river and har-
Dor bill has become q law without his
approval, the only other bill of this
kind submitted to him having been We
t)ed.
The decision of Judge Aldrich in the
case of the State of South Carolina VS..
the City Council of Aiken decides the
dispensary act in its main features un-
constitutional. Regarding the writ OF
prohibition asked for by the dispensary
authorities, enjoining the Council from
interfering with the dispensary, he de-
clares that under its charter the city
has no authority to grant licenses to
dealers in any liquors.