Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Last night Luetgert in his cell in
Chicago made sworn statement that
he did not kill his wife and does not
know where she is.
Senator German was in Baltimore
yesterday, and expressed much conf
dence in the ultimate success of the
democratic party next month.
The President has appointed Medical
Director w. Z. Van Reypen to be Sur:
peon General of the navy to succeed
Surgeon General Bates, deceased.
George B. Anderson. of the District
of Columbia, has been appointed con-
sui at Grenoble, France. he was con-
sui at Antigua, West Inies, and was
transferred from the latter consulate.
It has been definitely decided among
Hawaiians opposing annexation
that commission of five men should
be sent to Washington to make de.
termined fght against the ratification
OF the annexation treaty.
Miss Evangelina Cisneros, who re.
Gently escaped from house of correc-
ton in Havana, and Mr.. Karl Decker
arrived in Washington last night with
party of friends from New York. A
reception will be rendered them at Con.
vention Hall on Saturday night.
Gen. Weyler denies the ridiculous re.
port that he has refused to surrender
bis command, and that General Castel'
lanos refuses to consider as paciGed the
four western provinces. In accordance
with the Queens command he will sail
from Havana on the last day of this
month"
George Westermau, aged 60, shot
his young stepdaughter at her home in
Madrid, Mo-, Wednesday night, and
then blew out his own brains out. He had
been suspected of criminal intimacy
with his step daughter for some time.
The girl would have soon become @
M ,ther.
At meeting of the Spanish Cabinet
Yesterday the minister of foreign affairs
made statement that the ministry was
| entirely in accord as to the diplomatic
relations with the United States. To
day the ministry will consider the draft
of an answer to the note of the United
States on Cuba.
Negotiations, which have been in
progress for some time for the sale o.
the Columbia and Maryland Railway te
a syndicate of Baltimore capitalists
have been completed. 1t is the pur.
pose of the new owners, who include q
number of the original projectors, te
complete the line as an electric rail
road.
Dispatches received in Madrid re
port that Carigara and Burugo, on the
eastern coast of Leyte, one of the Phil
ippine Islands, were destroyed by
cyclone October -, and that an i'm
mense wave swept inland, engulfinf
villages. Several thousand native:
perished, and immense damage was
done to property.
Harry Raisku. a young man living a
800 Four.aud a-Half street northwest
Washington, was arrested yesterday fol
administering dose of carbolic acid t.
his brother. The latter was sick ant
| Harry RalsKu, VINO Is Salu 10 have peoi
under the influence of liquor, gave hin
the acid, under the impression it Nigh
do him some good. The sick man wa
not seriously injured.
Princess Kaiulani, niece of Liliuoka
lani, the deposed Queen of Hawaii, ar
rived in Washington from New Yori
late last night. She is the latest claim
ant to the Hawaiian throne. She ii
accompanied by her father, A. S. Cleg
born, large English manufacturer
who married sister OF Queen LII
from whom she inherited her title. She
will remain in Washington until this
evening, when she will proceed on hel
journey to her native country to claim
the throne. There is movement II
Hawaii to put Princess Kaiulani on the
throne in case annexation is defeated