Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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nances being placed in control of the
powers.
To meet the expense of litigation the
cigarette trust has advanced prices from
S to cents on packages of ten cigarettes
and from 10 to II cents Oh packages of
twenty.
Captain General Weyler has pardon
ed DR.. Jose Rafael Montalvo, leader, OF
the Cuban autonomist party, and forty
one other persons exiled to penal set
Elements.
Camp Malakand, in India, where the
British, short of ammunition, were be.
leaguered, was relieved by forced
march. Nineteen Sinks died from sun.
stroke on the way.
1t is reported that Chief of Police
Conlin, of New York, will offer his
resignation and ask to be retired on
pension soon after his return from his
vacation next Thursday.
The British forces in South Africa
in fight last Tuesday killed Chief
Lukajantjes, the rebel leader and many
of his followers. A general surrender
of the rebels ID expected.
The republican executive committee
OF Pickens county, Ga, has adopted
resolutions denouncing the Mckinley
administration for its partially to col
ored men in appointments to Office in
that State.
Edwin Flanagan was convicted at
Decatur, Ca, on Saturday, of killing
Mrs. Nancy Allen and Miss Ruth Slack.
J. L. Moyse, a lunatic, pslmed himself
of az lawyer and rendered valuable
aid at the trial.
A dispatch from Cape Town says a
report has reached there that the Por-
tuguese have been badly routed in the
Bileni district. north of Dalagoa bay.
The natives declare that not Portu-
guese is left alive.
Three hundred convicts in the peni-
Tertiary at Joliet, Ills. were 30 touch
ed by the remarks of Mrs. Bsllington
Booth yesterday that they signifed
their purpose of being enrolled under
the Salvation Army banner.
Rev E. E. FRANKIE, OF the Seventh
Day Adventists in Brooklyn, baptized
SO new converts yesterday, when his
strength gave out and he was COM
PEELED to inform loo more candidates iu
waiting that the work of conservation
would have to be postponed until an.
other day.
The destruction of the United States
Consulate at Piura, Peru, by the civil
authorities is now the subject of diplo-
matte correspondence between the
State Department and the Peruvian
government, and may necessitate the
sending of war vessel to that country
before satisfactory apology is obtained.
Campbell Confederate Camp OF
Springfield, Mo-, have decided to take
no part as body in the Wilson's Creek
reunion to be held there soon. The
Grand Army objected to the carrying
of Confederate flag in the parade,
and the ex. Confederates refuse to take
part if the flag is not allowed to be car
ried.
The Treasury Department estimates
that the loss of revenue to the govern
ment by anticipatory importations in
the four months preceding the passage
of the tariff law was $32, 666, 427. The
average duty rate under the Dingley
tariff act is 54.66 per cent. ad valorem,
as compared with 40.10 per cent. ad va
loren under the Wilson law.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, the
leading democratic member of the for
eign relations committee, will leave
September 1 for Hawaii as representa-
tive of the foreign relations committee
to make report on the condition of
affairs in the island. He will report
the result of his investigation to the
committee, which, in turn, will report
to the Senate.
Frank Donohue, or McDonagh, who
calls himself "the champion illuminat-
ed bicycle performer of the world" YVES
killed at Ridgeway Park, New York,
last night. In the presence of 5000
people he essayed to ride bicycle
across an electric wire strung rs feet
above the ground. He had proceeded
but short distance when he fell and
died almost instantly.
Advices by steamer from Sidney,
Australia, report that the steamer Val
letta, which arrived in Sidney on July
8, reports rescuing 125 people from the
steamer Sultan, abandoned at sea near
Colombo, Ceylon. The sea was so
rough that many we're killed and eaten
by sharks swsrming around the vessel
The sea was made red by the life. blood
OF the unfortunate passengers.
The coal miners in the Fairmont
W. Va, district are generally prosper
GUS and are disinclined to strike in or
der to held their Pennsylvania breth.
rem. VIM. Cummings, the leader of the
non-union men who were brought to
Scottdale. Pa, by the Scottdale Iron
snd Steel Company to take the places
of the strikers, was shot and instantly
killed Saturday night in front OF the
Commercial Hotel.
Yesterday morning 200 insurgents.
under command of Maj. Andres Her
nandez, entered Las Puentes, a suburb
of Havana city, and took possession Of
the place. They plundered the mill
tary station in which the Spaniards
kept money for the troops, and sacked
several stores, among them drug store
from which they took all the medicines.
Strange to say, they did not take any
provisions, and all the stock in the
grocery stores was thrown into the