Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The State Department has been mott
fed by tho Japanese ministry that
Japan has important treaty rights IN
Hawaii which must be respected in the
event of annexation by the United
States.
The eighteenth annual fest OF the
Northeastern Saengerbund began IN
Philadelphia to-day and there is every
indication that it will be the biggest
musical event ever held in this
country.
Receiver FELTON,, of the Queen and
Crescent route, has been engaged to
make az important inspection of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the in
terests of the New York reorganization
committee.
Eugene Y. Debs stated in Chicago
Oh Saturday in an interview that free
silver had receded to such an extent
that it was a dead issue. He says he
intends to encourage socialism as the
issue in 1900.
Miss Juliet Corson, Familiarity known
as the Mother of Cookery" whose
work on culinary art made her name
household word over the country, died
in New York on Friday from the ef-
fects of an operation for the removal OF
q tumor.
By 8 combination in favor of the
farmer, the democrats, free silver re-
publ!caus and populists succeeded on
Saturday 10 defeating two features OF
the tariff bill and in placing bags and
bagging on the free list, together with
floor mating.
Mrs. Julia Finn, of Wilmington,
Del, who was supposed to be dead,
suddenly revived on Saturday while
an undertaken was preparing her body
| for burial and is now believed to be on
the way to recovery.
Rev. John P. Hagan, pastor of the
Catholic Church of Our Lady of Good
Counsel, Baltimore, and wiz iof some
years was student at st. Johns Acad-
envy, in this city, died at his home
Yesterday, Brother Timothy O'Sul-
Ivan, who for over thirty. nine years
| had been identified with Loyola Col
| lege, died at the Baltimore city hos
pital yesterday.
Miss Madeline Pollard, who was
the plaintiff in the sensational suit
against former Congressman Breck-
lnridge of Lexington, Kentucky,
and who disappeared after the
trial, which resulted in verdict in her
favor for S15, 900 damages, has been liv-
ing quietly in London. She is appar-
emily in good circumstances, and is un-
derstood to be studying with the view
OF engaging in literary work. She in.
tends to make England her home.
President Mckinley has determined
to revive the abandoned treaty of gen.
erel arbitration between the United
States and Great Britain. and, under
the direction of Secretary Sherman, the
matter has progressed to the extent
that new treaty already has been
drafted to serve as the basis of negotia'
tions expected to result in the submis
sion of convention to the Senate to
replace that which was negotiated by
secretary Olney, only to fail in the
hours of the present session.
By an order of Justice Cox, issued In
Washington on Saturday, James Bayne
was appointed as expert accountant to
20 over the books of the National Life
Maturity Insurance Company which
was placed in the hands Of q receiver
March II last, upon the petition Of
Frank Hume and others. Job Barnard
was appointed receiver for the concern,
and when he submitted his report the
assets were shown to be $126, 270.S5
and the liabilities 1884, 320.63, making
a deficiency of over $500, 600, while the
stockholders were of the opinion that
there should be surplus.