Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

John L.. Sullivan says be Will start on
the road in March with an e%xtravagan-
"a company.
Mrs. Hungerford, the novelist, whose
literary nom de plume was 1.-THE
Duchess" died in Ireland, on Sunday.
Consul General Lee informs the
State Department that Cuba will be
made 8 desolate land if the war does
not cease.
The almost complete p%aci6cation of
Havana and Matanzas provinces in the
western part of the island of Cuba is
announced in a dispatch received at the
Spanish legation in Washington late
last evening from the Spanish minister
of foreign affairs.
The first bank failure in ST. Lawrence
county, in New York, in a generation
occurred yesterday at Potsdam. The
National Bank of Potsdam closed its
doors The bank is one of the oldest
institutions in the county. It was or
| ganiZed in 1851 under the name of the
| Frontier Bank.
Mrs. Mary M. Windsor White,
| known a. 'The Escaped Num-" and
| who, as s., :Ne GAZETTE, made a
dying depos.uoA ~ 4 notary public of
Annapolis, stating she had wrongfully
accused persons connected with the
Catholic Church, died yesterday at the
residence of her brother, in Annapolis.
| She had been i'll for several weeks with
pneumonia.
The alarm caused by the nine sud-
den deaths in one street in Marseilles,
on Saturday, which was followed by
the report that they were due to the
plague which is ravaging Bombay, has
subsidized to a great extent, owing to the
firm stand taken by the government
officials. They most emphatically in
sist that all the deaths were due to in-
fictitious pneumonia.
A Madrid dispatch says ;aat snow
and rain storms threaten serious floods
in Spain. Narrowing distress prevails
at Andalusia. At Jaen the people are
plundering the bread shops, and
thousands are begging in the streets.
Similar scenes, accompanied by fights
with the police, have occurred in many
other towns. The authorities are pow
erless to cope with the restitution.
After consuming most of the time in
disposing of District of Columbia bust
ness, the House of Representatives
Yesterday took up the Indian appro-
priation bill. The bill carries $685.
791, 1866, 2294 more than the current
law and 1854, 265 more than the esti-
mates. Twenty of the 70 pages of the
bill were disposed of. The conference
report on the immigration bill was pre-
sented, and Mr.. Danford, of Ohio, who
has charge of it, gave notice that he
would call the report up on Wednes-
day.
Fifteen hundred homeless men were
given temporary shelter in the police
station in Chicago last night. With
the temperature II degrees below zero,
and a bitter wind blowing from the
lake, prolonged exposure meant death.
Fifty. three persons were listed as over
come by the terrible cold, and were
rescued in a partly frozen condition.
In Florida the temperature was about
go degrees, but it will probably fall to
freezing in the northern part of the
State to-day. Some damage will be
done to the orange plantations, though
not as much as during the freeze of two
years ago.
"The First Battle" Hon. William ].
Bryan's new book, has gone to press,
and the w. B. Conkey Company, its
Chicago publishers, expect to have the
first copy bound in a about q week.
The book embodies a story of the cam
pain of 1896, and includes the most
noteworthy incidents of Mr.. Bryan's
famous tour. 1t also contains ad-
dresses and documents relating to the
silver movement, including some OF
Mr.. Bryan's speeches. Considerable
space is given to MIR. Bryan's connec-
ton with the silver agitation while in
Congress and prior to the Chicago con-
vention and to 3 discussion Of the cleo
ton returns and an analysis of the po-
litical situation.