Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

amounted TO 69o ,9O4, lUo pouHuS.
Hon. VIM. J Bryan presided over
the Traps-M ississippi Congress at Salt
Lake yesterday and was given three
cheers when he took the chair.
The growing demand for bicycles in
Mexico has caused large Chicago bi.
cycle manufacturer to decide to remove
his entire plant Co Monterey from Chi
cago.
The comparative figures of postal re.
ceipts at the thirty largest postoffices
in the country show a net increase of
1886 over the corresponding quarter
of last year.
A conference on the seal question
will be held in Washington in the au-
tumn, at which the United States,
Great Britain, Russia and Japan will
be represented.
There are many thousand applicants
for the one or two hundred places at the
disposal of the new librarian of Con-
gress. These applications come from
persons in every State of the union.
The exports for the past fiscal year
reached the highest figure In the his
tory of this country. The total was
81 ,051 1887 ,091, IA compared with
$685., 6O6,938 in 1896. The excess of
exports over imports was 1927, 61S, 1876.
The Gambrill steam Touring mill of
Frederick, Md, which was recently
bought at mortgagee's sale by Mrs.
Margaret M. Hood for $16,l00, was
sold yesterday at private aale to How
ard S. Brugh, of Columbia, Pa, for
$4,000.
A fete was held at Martinsburg, W.
Va, yesterday on the lawn at Boyd
vile, Senator Faulkner's home. under
the auspices of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy. 1t was great success, the
fund for the benefit of the disabled ex-
Confederates being greatly augmented.
The fete was joyful occasion to the
large crowds that attended.
DR.. Charles E. Cadwallader, head of
one of the Oldest and most exclusive
families in Pennsylvania, was married
Yesterday to Bridget Mary Ryan, his
housemaid. The wedding, which was
private, occurred at the old st. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church, of which
DR.. Cadwallader has been for many
years warden. The bride is good look
ing, intelligent, modest and young.
Standard oil is financially interested
in sugar to the extent OF millions.
There is a general belief among the
well-informed financial people of New
York and Washington that the Rookie
fellers now have the controlling inter-
est in the stock of the sugar company,
and that Mr.. Havemeyer and Mr..
Searles and the other officers of the
company are in the minority. Whether
the strength of the Standard Oil inter
ests in sugar is % great as this or not
may not be known for some time, but
there is no question that they have a
firm hold on the property.
A report comes from Paris that Spain
and Japan have arranged an offensive
alliance against the United States.
The terms of the understanding, which
is for the mutual protection of Cuba
and Hawaii, provide that in the event
of an actively aggressive movement Oh
the part of the United States tending
toward interference in Cuban affairs or
persistence in the annexation of the
Hawaiian Islands both Spain and ia.
pan shall declare war simultaneously
against the United States and shall
make hostile demonstrations along both
the Atlantic and Pacific coast lines OF
that country.
The Wilmington, Newberne and Nor
folk Railroad was sold at public auc-
ton at Wilmington yesterday by order
of the U. S. Circuit Court, in foreclo-
sure of mortgage of the properties to
the State Trust Company of New York.
The sale started at the upset price of
S250,OO0, made by 81. A. Whiting, rep
resenting bondholders, and was run up
to 100000, at which the sale was
closed to Mr.. Warren G. Elliott, Presi-
dent of the Atlantic Coast Line, and
representing corporation to be known
as the Wilmington and Newberne Rail-
road Company. The road will be oper-
ated as part of the Coast Line system,
and it is believed will ultimately be ex.
tended to Washington, N. O., thus CIV
ing the A. G. L. direct line from Will
mington to Norfolk.