Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

During the fiscal year just ended
8 ,5SS immigrants were landed in Balti-
more, TO day.
The Commercial Traders building,
of Chicago, was Quilted by flames
early yesterday morning.
A number of titles and decorations
have been conferred upon the retiring
liberal officials by Queen Victoria.
Six couples who came over on the
steamship Weser from Iremen, were
married at Locust Point peir, Balti-
more.
Governor Brown, of Maryland, has
granted a reprieve in the case of Mar
shall e. Price, the condemned murder
er of Sallie e. Dean.
The receipts in Baltimore of new
southern wheat during the past wet K
were unusually light, and reports from
the south show the yield to he light.
A dispatch from Berlin says that the
German Emperor will write letter to
the President of the United States
thanking him forsending squadron to
Kiel.
The conference between the Presi-
dents of Nicaragua, Honduras and Sal
vador, regarding plans for the Central
American union, has ended harmoni-
ously.
John e. Mundy was arrested in st.
Louis on Saturday and confessed that
he murder his wife in Toledo, Ohio,
two years ago and hid her body under
a house.
A fire in the rig shop of the Hubley
Manufacturing Company, in Bracket
court, Worcester, Mass, early yester-
day morning, caused the death of two
iremen and injured eight others.
Charles Sunderhaft, aged thirty-fve
years, died suddenly on the street IN
Baltimore at 2:30 o'clock yesterday
morning while ON his way to summon
doctor for his wife, who was sick.
Miss Camella R. Morris, daughter Of
Mrs. Thos. III. Morris, and grand
daughter of the late Reverdy Johnson,
was married in Baltimore on Saturday
to Mr.. Clayton G. Hill, of that city.
John Chambers, of Chicago, is sup
posed to have lost his mind, and after
destroying his savings, So, 300 in cash,
drowned himself in Lake Michigan.
| TIE money was torn into bits and cast
10 the wind.
From picking oakum Oscar Wilde,
the imprisoned aesthetic, will be put to
making matches. The doctors prohibit
his being put on the treadmill. His
plays are about to reappear on the
London stage.
A woman who says her name is Mrs.
Boland was arrested in Baltimore yes
terday on the suspicion that she was
one Of the gang of forgers who have
been operating in Cincinnati and other
western cities.
The Prince of Wales cutter Britannia
defeated the Valkyrie I'LL, at Craig
more on Saturday on time allowance.
The Valkyrie apparently had the first
prize secure when she lost the wind,
while the Britannia was favored by a
slant.
Max Shinburn, notorious bank
burglar, who has been operating in this
country and abroad since 1861, was ar
rested in New York OF Friday. He is
accused of being the leader of gang Of
burglars which has robbed twenty
banks in or near New York State dur
ing the last three years.
Robert Strong, the man who hanged
Charles ]. Guiteau. who killed Presi-
dent Garfield, died at his home, in
Washington, Saturday evening. He
was Familiarity known among his con-
feres at the jail as the lord high chief
executioner. He was the official heads
man of the District of Columbia for
thirty years, and was seventy-iline
years of age at the time of his death.
Prof. Thomas Henry Huxley, the
eminent English naturalist who died at
his home in East Bourne, England, on
Saturday evening, was the father Of
agnosticism, the modern form of soien-
tifc unbelief. 1t was Professor Hux
ley who first crystallized the creed of
Darwinian skepticism and invented a
name for it, which will forever remain
in philosophical technology as an ever
lasting memorial to his intellectual
acumen anu temper.
The treasury deficit for the fiscal
year just closed will be found by to-
DAYS debt statement to be approx
mntely S43, 100000. This added to last
years deficit of nearly s70,000,000
makes the excess of expenditures over
receipts since June 80, 1898, about
$113, 100000. To days debt statement
shows an available cash balance of
about s19O,0O0,0O0 of which about
$107 100000 is gold reserve. This
reserve will include payment in
full for the last bond issue, but the
statement will show a counter debt
charge of only s31, 1877 200 in bonds, or
one-half of the whole amount issued.
WORK OF GOOD TEMpLARs.-Fifty-