Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.


number at present being 976,014.
Captain General Blanco, of Cuba, has
issued a proclamation instructing the
soldiers to act with clemency toward
the vanquished.
The government will pay the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Company $685.
500, the amount of debt alleged to
have been due by the Harrison admin
istration.
The full reply of the Spanish govern
ment to the note presented by Minister
Woodford has been received at the
Stale Department. 1t will not be made
public before the meeting of Congress.
Cecile Guimaraes, a schoolgirl, ran
away from her home in East Orange,
N. j., Thursday night, after being
scolded by her father, and shot herself
in briar patch a quarter of a mile
away.
Morgan. the triple murderer, who
narrowly escaped lynching near Park
ersburp, w. Vs., on Thursday, was
yesterday found guilty. The prisoner
asserted that he committed the act in
self defense.
Rev. Walter B. Stehl, of Wilmington,
has been appointed assistant to Rev.
Dr.. William NJ Dane, rector of Memo
rial Protestant Episcopal Church. Bslti.
more, to succeed Rev. W. W. Brander,
who has gone to Richmond, Va.
Charles F. Scott, a justice of the
peace OF Washington, was appointed
police judge by President Mckinley
yesterday evening to succeed the late
Judge Thomas F. Miller. Judge Scott
was born September Is, 1897 in Brooke
county Va, norwest Virginia.
Mrs. Anelina Mendenbal died yester-
dav at her home in Indianapolis, aged
aged eighty-one years. Forty-fye hours
hall, bad passed away at the age OF
eighty-two years. The husband and
wife were buried yesterday afternoon
in the same coffin.
Senator Plat claims that he will con.
troll the next New York legislature.
The democratic State committee claims
that he will not. The balance of pow
or, the democrats allege, is held by the
New York city and Brooklyn indepen.
dents. Senator Plat admits that he
will be unable to control the indepen-
dents, though all of them are republi-
cans.
The Baltimore and Ohio Hotel, at
New Jersey avenue and @ streets north
west, formerly Emricb's, in Washing
ton, was on fire last night, and Charles
G. Simmons, discharged employe, is
held at No. station, charged with
having caused the blaze. His arrest on
the charge of arson was the result of a
careful investigation of the case made
by Detective Hartigan.
The commissioners will probably ap-
point Mr.. E. B. Hay commissioner to
the Paris Exposition from the District
of Columbia. The position is one Of
the most important, as the commission.
er from Washington will have general
charge of the work of arranging the
exhibits of this country. Mr.. Hay hss
many friends in this city who will
be pleased to hear of his appointment.
William Payne was arrested in north
west Baltimore yesterday, charged with
cutting three girls. It is said that he is
slack the Slasher." A panic occurred
among the pupils at the colored school
on Barre street, near Eutaw street, the
children thinking that the "Slasher"
had gotten into the building. A panic
was narrowly averted at Male and Fe.
male Primary School No. IA. Exciting
chases after the "Slasher" occurred.
Tomorrow, November, Archbishop
Keane will resume his duties at St.
John Laterau, Rome. This magni6
cent church, which Hawthorne consid-
cred superior in exterior beauty to st.
Peters, takes precedence in ecclesissti-
cal rank. 1t is the church of the Pope
3 Bishop of Rome, and here his corona
ton takes place. Adjacent to the La
teraD, in small building, is the flight
of twenty eight marble-steps, called the
Scala Santa, reputed to be from the
house of Plate, and to have been trod.
den by the feet of the Saviour.