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

MT. and Mrs. WnltelaW Relu ulneu
and slept last night in Windsor Castle
by invitation of the Queen.
Spanish columns are reported to be
closing in on General Gomez with a
view of capturing the Cuban leader.
The French Chamber of Deputies
yesterday adopted the credit to defray
the expenses of President Faure's visit
to the Gar.
Henri Meilbac, the noted dramatic
author and member of the French
Academy. is dead. He was born in
Paris in 1882.
Mr.. n. Skipwith Gordon, of Balti-
mord, and Miss Margaret Douglas Stew
art, of Easton, were married in Balti-
more yesterday.
The great Christian Endeavor chorus
gave grand opening concert in the
Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco,
yesterday evening.
Baron Ernest Won Thielman, German
ambassador to the United States, has
been recalled to become minister of the
imperial treasury at Berlin.
Secretary Gage suggests the advisa.
biity of putting q tax OF one cent q
mound on all refined sugars made from
stock imported prior to the passage OF
the pending tariff bill.
Dispatches from the southern por.
ton of France state that the losses by
floods there will reach $4,000, 900.
Hardly town escaped damage, and
fully 800 persons were drowned.
The proprietors of twenty-si1 brew
cries in Detroit will probably sell out
to an English syndicate. If the deal
goes into effect it will cause rise in
the price of beer from 81 to Sc per bar.
rel.
The friends of the Duke and Duchess
of Marlborough formerly Consuelo
Vanderbilt are interested in the fact
that in the early autumn the young
Duchess is expected TO Become a
mother.
Rev. George Deshon, who was a
classmate of Gen. Grant at West Point,
becomes superior of the Paulist Order
of Catholic priests in New York, to
succeed the late Rev. Augustine F.
Hewitt.
Justice Prior, of New York, has sign
ed decree directing the executors OF
the will of Daniel B. Fayerweather to
distribute between the twenty colleges
named as benefciarles in the will the
residuary estate, amounting to over
s., 100000
An affidavit by Mrs. Susan ]. Fill
more, of Oakland, CAL, in support OF
the suit of Mrs. Sarah Ann Angel, OF
Michigan, to prove that the latter was
the real wife of the late Jay Gould, ha-
been filed in the Supreme Court in
New York.
Lords Salisbury, in the House Of
Lords, yesterday said Turkey had car
ried deliberation and circumspection in
the negotiation of the terms of settle
ment with Greece to such an excess
that the delay was not without danger,
though the danger was not immediate.
The delay, he added, is entirely the
fault of Turkey.
The national conference of Mr.. Wat
sons peoples party adjourned at Nash
vile last night after perfectipg an or
ganization and issuing an address 10
the people. The address declares that
no convention, caucus or committee OF
their party shall ever again bind them
to any fusion agreement with either the
democratic or republican party.
A woman's foot, clad in black
stocking and button shoe, was picked
up off the engineers dock at Fort Ham
ilton, New York, yesterday. 1t was
neatly wrapped up in canvas, and
when the package was opened
it was seen that it had been
neatly severed above the ankle, the
knife cutting through the stocking.
There is possibility that another MUIR
der mystery may be developed from
the finding Of this foot.