Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The game of football on Saturday be-
tween Harvard and Yale resulted in a
tie.
Postmaster. General Gary, in his an.
nual report, favors the establishment of
postal savings depositaries.
John P. Smith, well-known theatri.
cal manager, who was born in Rich.
mond, died in Brooklyn yesterday.
Pennsylvania monuments on the bat.
tle6-lds in :he neighrorhood of Chatta
nooga were dedicated Saturday and
yesterday
At the Polo Athletic club in New
York on Saturday, night Oscar Gardiner,
the Omaha kid, bested Jack O'Brien in
Is round bout.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says
that President Moraes has issued de-
cree establishing martial law for Pc
Rod of thirty days.
Inspector General Breckenridge, in
his annual report, says the present al
lowauce of army officers quarters is not
sufficient for gentlemen.
DR.. Harrison Allen emeritus profes.
sor of comparative anatomy in the
medical school Of the University of
Pennsylvania, died suddenly yester-
day.
The Mexican Congress has appropri-
ated one million dollars for military i'm.
provements. Part of the money is to
be used 20 establish ratification at
the Rio Grende frontier.
Consul-General Fitzhugh Lee and
Walter B. Barker, United States consul
at Sagua Ia Grande, arrived at Havana
yesterday. They were welcomed by
the consular officials and large com.
pany of friends.
1t is stated that J. G. Porter, the
Presidents private secretary, is to re-
sign his commanding place and 60 back
to Connecticut to enter the practical
field of politics. He wants to be Gov
ernor and then to succeed Senator
Hawley.
The town of Kershaw, S. c., was
burned yesterday evening. The fire
originated in bakery and destroyed
twenty-eight stores. The loss is over
500 900; insurance about one.third.
The dispensary and original package
stores are among those burned.
The bishop of the diocese of Majorca,
Balearic Isles, who last September ex-
communicated Senior ]. Navarro Re-
verter, minister of finance in the cabi'
net of General Marcelo de Azcarrago,
for al alleged conversion of church pro-
perty to governmental use, is dead.
Marshal Blapco has issued an edic!
directing that food be supplied those
Cubans who have been made destitute
by General Weyler's policy of concen:
trating non. combatants IN fortified
towns. The Spanish troops are said to
be opposed to Marshal Blanco's policy
of kindness to the insurgents.
In Washington on Saturday evening
Chief Justice Bingham refused to grant
new trial TO james, alias Pat, Carr,
the young.white.man who was convicted
last month of assaulting little Rosa Rob-
inson last July, with intention to rape
her, and sentenced him to be;imprison-
ed in the New Jersey State prison for q
year and day.
A dispatch from Aspen, Col, says a
fire that give, promise to close down
every mine in the camp is raging in the
S0O-foot level of the Smuggler mine. In
one of the immense caverns left from
the excavation of ore large crib lie
burning. The crib is so feet wide, 1854
feet long and 300 feet high. 1t contains
mauy thousands of cords of timber.
Col. John Bradbury, the Los Angeles
millionaire, who was recently recon.
ciled to his wife who bad run of with
an Eoglishman name FL. Russell Ward,
who afterwards committed suicide,
came near losing his life recently by
being blown out to sea in an open steam
launch. He was accompanied by an
engineer and the two were nearly ex-
hausted when picked up.
Judges Pardee and Newman, of the
u. s. Court, have decided the dispen-
sary case by epjoining the Southern
Railway Company from refusing to
haul liquor into South Carolina in fu-
ture The judges decided that liquor
in bottles packed in boxes and shipped
10 carload lots were, under the law Of
South Carolina, clearly admissible, and
should be handled by any railroad COM
pany.
Alexander Coudot, Indian half
breed, Paul Holytrack and Philip Ire
land, full blooded Indians, the first OF
| whom was sentenced to death for the
murder of six members of the Spicer
family, last February, and had lust
been granted a new trial and the latter
two self confessed accessories in the
murder. were taken from the county
Jail in Emmons county. N. D., Sunday
night, and lynched by mob. The
lynching had apparently been coolly
planned, and was carried out without
9 break in the programme.
A MESSAGE FROE AROYE.-Scien.