Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The weather bureau preQlcCS tnaG Tue
rivers in the flooded districts in the
south and west will continue to rise for
the next ten days.
1t is said that Mr.. Daniel Lamont,
late Secretary of War in President
Cleveland's Cabinet, will be made Pres
ident of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
The report comes from Madrid that
negotiations are in progress for peace
in Cuba. Premier Canovas says the
campaign in Cuba is nearing success
full close.
Hugh Smith, who was accused of
having murdered Matilda Smith TWEEN.
ty eight years ago, was acquitted of
the charge at New Bloomfield, Pa, on
Saturday.
The House of Representatives on
Saturday disposed of five pages of the
tariff bill. A few amendments report
ed by the ways and means committee
were agreed to.
A movement, it is said, has been
started in Brooklyn to secure the re-
turn of Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage to
that city end the erection offs new Tab
erpacle for him.
Foreign nations have been invited
by President Mckinley to send war
ships to New York to take part in the
naval pageant at the Grant monument
ceremonies on April 81.
President G. Curzon Hoffman, of the
Seaboard Air Line, says that the deci-
sion of the supreme Court relative to
traffic agreements will have an import
ant bearing on the Southern rate war.
Frank w. Brown, one of the best
known young men in Washington, has
been a defendant in two law suits in
New York, which disclose the fact that
Brown has been living double life,
having two wives.
Sixteen survivors of the steamship
Vile de st. Nazaire, which f'undered
in the great storm of March of the
Virginia capes, were landed yesterday
at Greenock, Scotland, by the British
steamship Yanariva. which picked
them up at sea.
Mrs. Margaret j. Preston, the "A1i-
mosa of Southern Literature" died
yesterday at the home of her son, DIR.
George Preston, in Baltimore. Mrs.
Preston had been ailing for nearly ten
years, final dissolution being caused by
the in6rmities of old age.
Western railroad managers at Chi
cago decided on Saturday to wind up
the affairs of both the Western Freight
aud Western Passenger Associations.
In their place bureaus of information
and statistics will be organized for both
freight and passenger business.
In sermon at st. Patrick's Church,
Washington, yesterday, Archbishop
Ireland said that the Pope is progress.
sive and has adapted the human forms
of the church to new surroundings.
Those who resisted his direction in
America were declared to be in rebel
lion.
Thieves made vain attempt to en-
ter st. Dominic's Catholic Church,
Washington, shortly before - o'clock
Saturday. and in doing so smashed one
of the handsome memorial windows
and also one of the stained glass win
dows in one of the small chapels on the
south side of the edi6ce.
Mrs. Mary Ann Thompson, wife of
Smith Thompson, one of the best known
residents of Washington, died yester-
day morning at the house of her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Ohio R. Beall. She was born
in Georgetown, in 1924, her father be-
ing Darius Claggett and her mother
Providence Dorsey Brice, of Baltimore.
A dispatch from Athens says the
ministers of the powers held a confer
encs yesterday, and, it is stated, drew
up the terms of collective note to the
Greek government requesting that the
Greek troops be recalled from the from
tier. 1t is understood that similar
note will be presented to the porte and
that if either power refuses its princi-
pal ports will be blockaded.
President Mckinley attended din
ner at the Gridiron Club in Washing.
ton on Saturday night, given in his
honor and of bis Cabinet. Five mem
bers of the Cabinet and members of the
diplomatic corps, several Senators and
Representatives were among the guests.
The dinner was conducted in the usual
Gridiron style-bright speeches, good
songs, rollicking ohoruses and spark.
ling wit.