Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

York and all travel was impeded until
yesterday evening.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Naples
died at Naples, Italy, and Father JOS
eph, head of the Christian Brothers,
died in Paris yesterday.
The betrothal is announced of Prin.
cess Beatrice, third daughter Don
Carlos, the Spanish pretender, and
Prince Boviano, well-known legiti-
mist.
Advices received at Madrid from
Manila, Philippine Islands, report that
the rebels have been routed and Gen.
Ensebro, leader of the insurgents,
killed.
General Weyler has issued edicts pro-
hibiting the existence and sale of hard
ware, saddlery, clothing, provisions
and medicines in towns where fortifca-
tons do not exist.
Before the House ways and means
committee in Washington on Saturday
evening Mr.. ]. Crawford Lyon, of Bal
timore, pr t's'rd against higher duties
on oilclotL, ri. : loum.
At the bull fight at Havana yester.
day one hundred soldiers climbed into
the ring, cut off the tail of the animal
and killed the bull with matchetes.
The scene was narrowing.
A Mexican cable dispatch states that
much comment has been caused in
Panama, Colombia, by dispatch from
Paris, which says that the Panama
Canal Company is to be reorganized.
Col. Phillip Duncap Elkins, father of
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, died at Ell
kins, w. Va, yesterday after an illness
of few days. His death was due to
general breaking down of the system
and not to disease.
The coffee war being waped by the
sugar trust against Arbuckle Bros, the
big New York coffee roasting firm, has
broken out in Baltimore and a cut of
one cent a pound on roasted coffee is
the initial move made.
| Richard Croker, while passing
through Georgia on his way to his
stock farm in Tennessee, said that un-
less times get better Mr.. Bryan or some
one of the same political faith will be
elected President in 1900.
After being out twenty. four hours,
the jury at Boston on Saturday even
ing brought in verdict finding Mate
Thomas Bran guilty of the murder Of
Captain Nash and his wife, of the
barkentine Herbert Fuller.
Rev. DR.. Potter denounced John d.
Rockefeller from the pulpit in New
York yesterday, and charged him with
J having used his influence in the Baptist
| Mission Society to carry out threat
TO crush the Baptist Tabernacle Church.
Elections were held in France Satur-
day to replace one-third of the Sena-
tors. Sixty -four republicans, q radi-
Gals and Il reactionaries were chosen.
The socialists hopes were blighted by
the results of the elections, all of their
candidates being defeated.
The Illinois Steel Company made a
general cut in wages on Saturday. The
men were told that the amount of re-
duction had not yet been agreed upon,
but the cut, which might be anywhere
from 10 to so per cent, would 60 into
effect on February /. These men were
ell promised higher wages if Mckinley
was elected.
The two negroes who were arrested
at Raleigh, N. c., on Saturday on sus-
pcion that they were implicated in
wrecking the train on the Seaboard
Air Line near there, were that evening
released from custody. Their names
are Mike Ellerbee and Henry Coving-
ton and they are Southern Railway Sec
ton hands.
After boxing contest between James
Duffy, of Boston, and George Justice,
of Williamsburg, at the Broadway Ath-
letic Club, in New York, Saturday
night, Duffy fell unconscious. He was
carried to dressing-room and bis con-
dition became critical. DR.. Hodgson,
who was summoned, gave it as his
opinion Duffy would not recover. The
parties concerned have been arrested.
A dispatch from Chicago says:
Nearly every oatmeal and cereal mill
in the United States has just entered
in an agreement that amounts to a
trust to regulate the output and prices
of oatmeal, rolled oats and other break
fast cereals. The new trust is called
the Cereal Millers' Association. A
meeting will probably be held here
January 18th, when it is likely there
will be big advance in price,"
The new artillery bill, which will be
laid before the German Reichstag soon
after the chamber resumes its sittings,
will propose an addition to the military
budget of 100000 marks. The
news received at Berlin from Paris that
the French Council of War has ordered
large increase in the ranks of the
army, by which 145 new batallions of
infantry will be created, has thorough
ly aroused public opinion there, es-
pecally in view of the announcement
that the French artillery Is already
partly rearmed with quick-fring guns.
The flibustering steamer Commo-
dore, carrying cargo of arms and am
munition with about IS men aboard,
sunk on the rocks about eighteen
miles Off Mosquito Inlet on Saturday
morning. 1t seems that the Commo
dore was overloaded at the start, main
ly with coal, and that she came near
capsizing while crossing st. Johns Bar
on Friday, when Captain Murphy was
astounded to discover the hold full of
water. She filled rapidly and sunk.
Eight of the crew persisted. Twelve of
them reached Jacksonville Saturday
night. The Cuban sympathizers say
| the vessel was Scuttled,