Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-30
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

LONDON, Dec. 30.-The gales con.
tinue about the British coasts and the
anchorages are full of vessels which
have sought shelter. The channel SER
vice was suspended this morning.
HAVANA, Dec. 90.-According to a
report from Spanish sources at Esper.
ANA, province Of Santa Clara, a party
of insurgents fred into that town on
Saturday night. Bullets strucka num-
Der of residences, and one bullet went
through the sleeve of Senorita Valdes,
daughter of the mayor of the town.
CONsTANTINoPLE, Dec. 30.-The
representatives of the powers have re.
fused to permit the Turkish govern.
ment to replace 1850 time.expired
troops of the Island of Crete.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Dec. 80 -Rifaat
Bey, formerly at Washington, has been
appointed Turkish minister at Athens.
LONDON, Dec. 30.-A news agency
annonces that the British naval re-
serves will be modified.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Oficers OF the
Prinz Wilhelm w, which has arrived
here from Hayti, report that on the
afternoon of December Is, twelve riot
ers were killed and twenty seriously
wounded during an encounter at JAG.
mel, Hayti. Toe mob was hostile to
President Sam on account of his recent
submission to the demands of Germany.
The mob surrounded the government
buildings and was allowed to approach
quite close to the buildings before shot
rpoo rod Thon tha nnyarnmant trOODS
poured a volley into the rioters that
scattered them in confusion and result
ed in the sfore mentioned fatalities.
YORK, England, Dec. 30.-A largely
attended meeting of the members
of the Employers Federation to-
day unanimously passed reso-
luton endorsing the action of it's repre-
sentatives at the recent conference
with the delegates of the striking en-
gineers. reiterating the opinion that it
is mpracticable to shorten the hours OF
labor, maintaining that the proposed
arrangements for the management of
the works in no way interfere with the
proper functions of trades unions and
acknowledging the receipt of the en-
gineers' vote. The employers commit
tee will write to the engineers commit
tee, that the "truce, is therefore ex-
tended "
PARIS, Dec. 90.-All the deputies and
others who have been tried on the
charge of participation in the Panama
canal intrigues have been acquitted.
CALCUTTA, Dec. 3O.-It is officially
announced that the recent famine cost
the treasury 100000, while loans to
agricultursts aud suspensions Of
taxes. mainly repayable, absorbed an
other 100000 irrespective of charitable
contributions, approaching Fl, $780, 900.
BERLIN, Dec. 30.-Dr. Won Boetti-
cher, the former minister of the interior,
has been gazetted governor of the prov
ince of Saxony.
MADRID, Dec. 3Q.-Gen. Weyler, in
his memorial to the Queen Regent on
the subject of President McKinley's
message to Congress, says he is honor
ed by the attacks made upon him and
that his conduct as Governor General
was that of q soldier animated by honor
and patriotism. Such attacks, General
Wey Ter adds, will do him no harm,
as they are aimed at him
simply because he has done his duty.
Nevertheless, "since the message con-
tanned insulting observations on the
Spanish troops to Cuba" he believed it
to be his duty to address protest to
the crown. General Weyler affirms
that the so called pacificos whom he con.
cent.ated in the fortified districts were
the prime abettors of the rebellion. The
protest of the general is coucned in
courteous language.