Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.


gan their semi-annual meeting in Balti-
more to-day.
The Mckinley administration so far
has appointed 179 colored men to posi-
tons under the government.
1t is said that President Jefferse n
Davis's house at Beauvoir, Miss, is to
be purchased by the Daughters of the
Confederacy.
The orders have gone out that every
republican from Ohio employed in the
government service must 60 home to
vote, and he has been notified that no
excuse will be accepted.
Mass meetings in large numbers we're
held by both republicans and democra s
in Baltimore last night. Senator COL
man paid visit to the city and predict
ed democratic success.
After consultation with Minister
Hoshi it is believed the Japanese gov
eminent will send reply to Secretary
Sherman's note affirming the right OF
this country to annex Hawaii.
Discussions exist among the Spanish
sutonomist leaders in Cuba, aud the
conservatives have declared strongly
against the new ministry's autonomist
form OF government for the island.
The determination of citizsps of Ha.
vana to make the departure of General
Weyler on Saturday the occasion of an
anti.American demonstration is causing
much anxiety among American resi-
dents.
The buying and selling of little Chi
nese girls for Chinese residents of San
Francisco was described yesterday to
the Woman's Home Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
session in Baltimore.
A complimentary dinner to Mr. Kari
Decker, who secured Miss Cisneros' re.
lease from Cuba, was given in Wash.
ington last night at the Raleigh Hotel
by newspaper correspondents and other
friends of Mr.. Decker in that city.
The coffse mar1et in Baltimore on
options closed yesterday at $50 to 5:35
Fl teen to twenty points lower for o.
tober deliveries than on Monday. II
was the lowest option price recorded fol
fifteen years. Spot prices of Rio No.
dropped one.eighth to one.fourth cent
per pound.
The sale of the main line of the Union
Pacific Railroad will take place on No
vember at Omaha, as originally in
tended. The government has with
drawn its motion to postpone, the syn
dictate having agreed to bid the full
amount of the government lien. The
sale of the Kansas division, by agree
ment. has been postponed until Deem
Der 18th.
While services we're being conducted
Yesterday in church at Khnieliff, neal
Kosloh, on the west coast of the
Crimea, an alarm OF fire was given. The
worshipers became panic stricken, anC
in the rush that was made for the exits
many of them lost their footing, were
thrown down and trampled upon. AT
ter the excitement had subsidized it was
learned that filty.four persons had
been crushed to death and eighty in
jured.
NJ. L. Jordan, of West Virginia, has
been arrested in Cumberland Md.
charged with bigamy and perjury. Il
is alleged that on last Friday he de-
serted his wife and family, with whom
he had been living fourteen years, kid
mapped Anna Barr, the fifteen-year-old
niece of Harvey Barr, of New creek
and was married to the her in Cum
berland on Saturday. Jordan, it is
charged, swore that the girl, who /;
quite pretty and wears short dresses
was seventeen years old, which is the
ground for the charge of perjury.