Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A violent storm ragged off the French
coast yesterday and many vessels were
compelled to seek shelter.
William R. Valentine, Brooklyn
newspaper man who wrote Casey at
the Bat" is dead.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works on
Tuesday booked al order for twenty
locomotives for Japan.
Archbishop Ireland has received
from Rome letters appointing Rev. Jas.
Trobec, of st. Paul, to be bishop of ST..
Cloud.
1t is credibly stated that the Sultan
has authorized Tewik Pasha, the
Turkish foreign minister, to sign the
peace preliminaries on Saturday next.
In an engagement at Fort Martin,
South Africa. recently, the noted chief
Mashingombi was killed and over four
hundred of his followers taken prison.
ers by The British forces.
The Spanish Minister has informed
the Washington authorities that two
6libustering expeditions, carrying arms
and supplies to the Cuban insurgents,
are preparing to leave Wilmington,
n. G.
The suI.lc" death in Washington
Yesterday of Mrs. Cross, the wife of a
machiuest in the navy yard, will be in
vestigated She died few minutes af-
ter taxing powder prescribed by a
physician.
The opposition to the governments
financial proposals in Portugal is caus.
ing a political crisis. Troops are pa
trolling Libson to keep down disturb
ances thr, aIened by the republicans.
The Greater Republic of Central
America has declared the new U. S.
Minister Merry to be persona non
grats. This is supposed to be because
of his ardent advocacy of the Nicara-
qua canal.
The British authorities ave adopted
Il policy of suppression toward the IA
natical agitators in the Swat Valley,
India. Fort Chakdara, occupied by
British India troops, has been cut of By
he rebellious tribesmen. Large forces
are being hurried forward.
The Maryland democratic State con-
vention which met in Baltimore yester.
day nominated State Senator Thomas
A. Smith, of Caroline county, for comp.
troller, and J. Frank Ford, ofSt. Mary's
county, for clerk of the Court of APP
peals Mr.. German had everything his
own way.
Charles Broadway Rouss, formerly OF
Virginia, but now OF New York, is o
grandfather. A daughter was born to
bis daughter, Mrs. Virginia Ross Lee,
on Sunday. Mr.. Lee, the happy father,
is Mr. Rouss's CASHIER aud married Miss
Rouss about year ago. MIR. Rouss Is
receiving many coogratulatory letters
The Allan Line steamer Scandinavian
rrived at Boston yesterday with four
survivors of the crew of the British
barkentine Florence, sunk in collision
with the steamer in a fog last Saturday
of the coast of Newfoundland. -Four
of the crew and the captains wife were
drowned.
A gang of genuine pirates, believed
TO be Chinese freebooters, are said &c
infest the waters of Bering sea. waiting
for the departure of the gold-laden
steamers from Yukon river region
which they propose to intercept ii
true Asiatic style, seize the treasure
and, if necessary, put the crew and
prospectors to death.
The Pittsburg district mine operator
continued their conference yesterday
and it was given out that the agree
ment whereby all operators are to
adopt similar system and are to pay
the same relative price for mining has
nothing to do with the strike. The
operators also propose to shut out the
miners union officials from taking any
part 10 conferences and to treat only
with their own men. Striking miners
have secured Hon. John J. Davis to
represent them in combating injuuc-
tons, especially the one issued by
Judge Mason, of Marion county, W. Va