Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-Four French cruisers nave UeeH OI-
dered to prepare to sail for China.
Benjamin B. Jones has asked the
court in Baltimore to appoint receiver
for the Maryland and Virginia Steam
boat Company.
Prince Henry of Prussia visited
Prince Bismarck yesterday before leav'
ing to take command of German
squadron in China.
Mr.. I. S. Wilson, editor of the MARI
boro, Md, Gazette, died at his home, IN
that town, yesterday, of pyoemia, aged
forty-eight years.
The Haytien President has issued a
proclamation declaring that for the Sec
ond time Hayti had yielded to German
force contrary to its rights.
1t is now practically conceded on al
sides that there are not sufficient
affirmative votes in the Senate to ralify
the Hawaiian annexation treaty.
The New York Biscuit Company,
know as the "Cracker Trust" is now
in control of all the large cracker fac
tories in the country, with the excer-
9ion of one, and that it hopes to absorb
Mrs. Helen Harbaugh, living near
Highland Station, Prince Georges
county, Md. yesterday attempted to
commit suicide by cutting herself with
razor and throwing herselfinto well.
Grief caused by domestic troubles her
rash act.
The Cotton Manufacturers Associa-
lion met at Fall River, Mass, yester
day and by unanimous vote agreed to
make a reduction in wages. 1t is Ger
tain the amount will be at least 10 per
cent. and the date January 1. The
reduction will directly affect % 600 per-
sons.
Former Ambassador Baysrd is like
ly to be candidate for United States
Senator to succeed Senator Gray, OF
Delaware. Willard Salisbury, neph
ew of the former Senator, Eli Sauls.
bury, is also in the field. Addicks will
make hot fight to control the legisla-
ture, and secure for himself the sena.
torial seat.
The premier, Senior Sagasta, in an
interview, in Madrid. yesterday, re
garding President McKinley's message
to the Uni ed States Congress, is quoted
as saying that he thinks it satisfactory,
because the threat to intervene in
Cuba was made merely to give satisfac-
ton to portion of American opinion,
without the intention of executing it.
The New York Sun Printing and
Publishing Association yesterday filed
bill of complaint in the United States
Circuit Court in New York, in suit
against the Associated Press, to recover
1925 900. The suit is brought under
the provision of the Sherman antitrust
law of 1890. The defendant is accused
of trying to monopolize the trade of dis
tributing, vending and supplying news.
Mrs. Susan MCGEE, an elderly WON
an and an invalid, who home was at
944 F street, southwest Washington,
by some accident upset students
lamp into Der lap last night, and being
unable to rise her clothing was soon in
a light blaze and before help could
reach her she was burned to death.
Her body was taken from the house by
fremen, bnt they were unable to check
the flames, and the building was al.
most consumed.
The California supreme court yester-
day decided the appeal of Theodore
Durrant. The decision affirms the
earlier sentence of Judge Bahrs and
reverses the later one Oh the
ground that the mandate from the
United States Supreme Court had not
arrived. The court orders that re.
mittur be sent to the superior court
forthwith. This means the wiping out
of the last difficulty in the matter of
executing the murderer. Judge Bahrs,
as soon as he gets the remittur, which
may be in day or two, can sentence
Durrant to hang within fortnight.