Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A dispatch from Havana says that
General Weyler has Left Palecios and
gone into the hills in pursuit of tie
rebels.
Geo. Westgate, Bowery lodger, was
sent to the work house in New York
yesterday Tor "peeping" through win
dowa in Fifth avenue.
Charles Pettigrew and wife were
caught in folding bed il their apart
ments in Brooklyn last night and mar
| rowly escaped being zmothered
Seventy-fve persons have been
drowned in foods in the Island OF Mont
serrat, one Of the Leeward group, men.
ton Of which was made yesterday.
Major Mckinley yesterday in Can
ton, Ohio, conferred with Senator
Thurston and Representative Dingley,
who will be his personal representatives
| in the Senate and House.
During the progress of play in
New York theatre last night a woman
in the audience caused great excitement
when q mouse got on her skirt. 4
panic was narrowly averted.
Archbishop Martinelli, the apostolic
delegate 70 the Uoited States, has re-
ceived dispatch from Cardinal Ram
polla, at Rome, denying that the Pope
contemplated the removal of professors
at the Catholic University.
The insurgent attack on Guanabacoa,
on the outskirts OF Havana, on Tues
day night, was more serious than at
first reported. The garrison of the fort
was ambuscaded and all killed. A
large number Of houses in Guanabacoa
were burned by the insurgents.
The Eleet and snowstorm which pre-
| vailed in the South for the past two
days was OF unusual severity for that
section OF the country. Serious inter.
ruption to telegraphic communication
has resulted, and the railroads have also
been unable to send out t--..1 t-ains on
schedule time.
George s. Clark, a well.to.do Ohioan,
while in Washington yesterday, was
given drugged whisky and robbed. He
was found wandering over the COM
mons half undressed. The police at
first discredited his story, but have
made two arrests. 1t was the old story
Of new found friends.
After an absence os thirty.two years,
having travelled the world over under
an assumed name, having been SEN
fenced to be shot during the civil war,
A. c. benson, known for more than a
quarter Of a century as Thomas a.
Jones, has found his long lost relatives
in New Orleans.
Five of the eight boys who were Bit
ten by mad dog Tuesday, near Balti-
J more, are in New York receiving treat
/ ment at the Pasteur Institute. The
other three will probably be sent to-
day. The A. S. Abel Company has
started a popular subscription fund.-
! with contribution Of FIVE hundred dol
lars, to pay the expenses of the boys
A most daring robbery was perpe
trated in the office Of the Home Brew
ing Company in st. Louis yesterday
afternoon. Three men armed with re.
volvers entered the Office ct 8 o'clock
and compelled the cashier, Robert
Haverkamp, to hand over what money
he had before him. Not satisfied with
this amount, they went behind the
counter and looted the money drawer.
The total amount secured is nearly
81 900 Half a dozen clerks and sew
eral customers were in the Office when
the highwaymen entered. The leader
ordered them to hold up their hands
and compelled them to Zine up along
the wall. The order was obeyed with
alacrity, and they looked on while the
robbers were at work. The thieves es-
| caped.