Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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A big oil we'll was discovered yester-
day in Monopgalia county, W. V.
Secretary Long has decided to send
the big battleship Indiana to Halifax to
be locked and cleaned.
A new match manufacturing plant,
which will be rival to the Diamond
Match Company, will soon be establish
ed in Baltimore.
Marquis 1 o, IN an interview in Paris,
says be expects peaceful settlement of
the Hawaiian controversy between
Japan and the United States.
The London Central Railway has
awarded contracts for its electric trac.
ton plant to Americans because of the
superiority of work in that line done in
the United States.
The contractors for the battle-ships
Alabama, Wisconsin and Illinois will be
instructed to complete the ships with
out regard TO the failure of the govern
ment to provide armor.
Crookery is to be advanced in selling
price because of the new tarifflaw. This
was decided upon by resolution pass
Cd yesterday at meeting of the i'm
porters of earthenware O! New York,
held at the Crockery Board of Trade.
Mr. George j. Goschen, first lord OF
the British admiralty, yesterday an
nounced supplemental naval estimate
of 100000 for the commencement OF
four very swift armed cruisers, made
necessary by rapid additions to foreign
navies.
A Boston firm, which had large
consignment of wool on steamships
arriving at New York Saturday last, be
fore President Mckinley signed the
Dlngley tariff bill, has determined to
bring the suit testing the ruling of thu
Treasury Department as to the pay,
ment ofduties.
A special grand jury will meet a,
Parsons, w. Va, next Monday to take
up the case of Col. Robert W. Eastman
Of Davis, w. Va, formerly of Front
Royal, Va, who killed Frank E.
Thompson, OF Davis. A special panel
of the petit jury is called for the follow
ing day to try the case.
Secretary Gage, in q speech on the
money question to the business men OF
Boston yesterday evening, said there
was no pressing need for haste in the
matter of proposed financial reforms,
and that currency reform can only be
secured by the people exercising con-
slant pressure upon Congress.
At Athens, Ca. where Pink Morton,
colored, has been named for postmas.
ter, the citizens have arranged a
sys en- of boycotting the Office.
Judson Lyons, another colored man,
has been promised the posofice at Au-
custa, and large delegation of citizens,
headed by ex-senator Walsh, will per.
sonally appear before the Senate to OPP
pose his confirmation.
Several buildings in the center of the
business portion of Yonkers, n. Y,
and used for manufacturing purposes,
were destroyed by fire last night, the
damage being estimated at about $780,.
600. The loss is fully covered by in
surauce. A thousand men, women and
children were ut work when the con-
hagration began and it is believed that
two persons lost their lives in the
flames.
The coal operators of the Pittsburg
district held conference in that city
yesterday. A committee reported the
old uniformity plan, but action was de-
f.rred. Colonel Rend offered resolu-
tons favoring the speedy adjustment
of the strike by arbitration and express.
ed Willingness to advance the rate Of
wages. The resolutions in their entire
ty not meeting with favor, Col. Rend
withdrew.
William G. Whitney is about to build
fioe ballroom as an e1tention to his
residence, at the northeast corner Of
Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth street,
New York, which he purchased in No.
vember lest from AMI l.. Barhar for
So, 1000 To-day, with the outlay Of
Mr. Barber and the cost of Mr.. Whit
ney's new ballroom, the residence will
probably represent the investment of
more than 100000.
Harry A. Rucker, the oolored barber
who has been appointed internal reve-
nue collector for Georgia, will put color
ed men in the places of white men now
in the e.. vice of that Office. The ap.
pointment of Rucker has brought some
thing less than million applicants for
deputy collectorships. The entire staff
OF his Decatur barber shop has been in
cluded in the list. Business men who
have dealings with the Office are max
ing the biggest kind of protest.