Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| A rumor was current in Liverpool
yesterday that France is trying to buy
the CaDaries for $50, 100000.
General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, which has
been in session in Baltimore since May
5, completed its business yesterday and
adjourned.
Mr.. Gladstone's body will be taken
tomorrow to Hawarden Church and
will lie there until evening, when it
will be taken to London to lie in atate
in Westminster Abbey.
1t is probable concentrated effort
will be made by commission merchants
and business men to secure modllca-
ton of the regulations which prohibit
vessels from passing into Baltimore
harbor between sunset and sunrise.
1t was proposed to the General AS
sembly of the Northern Presbyterian
Church, at Winona Lake, Ind, yester-
day, that alconference committee be ap-
pointed to arrange plan of union with
Southern Presbyterians.
The engagement of Gen. Wesley
Merritt to Miss Florence, daughter Of
Norman Williams, Of Chicago, was an
nounced last night. No details were
given out, but the wedding will probab-
ly take place soon after the generals
return from Manila.
1t has been announced that DR.. Will
liam Osler, professor of medicine at the
rohns Hopkins University and ply
stefan in charge of the Johns Hopkins
Hospital, has been selected by COM
mittee to be recommended for member
ship in the Royal Society Of England.
cap" Hatfield, the notorious West
Virginia outlaw, who broke Jail several
months ago at Williamson, where he
was confined on the charge of murder
ing David Kinney in 1895. and who af-
ter long stay in the mountains gave
himself up to the authorities, is now
confined in the county Jail at Logan for
safekeeping.
Four Spanish prisoners, Col. Vim
cente Cortijo, DR.. 1. Judian and two
privstes. were shipped out of Fort Nc
Pherson, at Atlanta, Ga, Sunday night,
and sent to Cuba, where they will be
exchanged for two imprisoned Ameri-
can newspaper correspondents. The
removal of the Spaniards was conduct
ed secretly.
La the House yesterday the Senate
bill providing that officers of the regu-
lar army VINO may be made staff Off
GERS in the volunteer service shall not
vacate their Offices in the regular army
was called UP by Mr.. Hull, of Iowa
The bill was amended 80 as to include
army officers appointed to volunteer
engineer corps and was then passed.
Jack DAILY, of Wilmington, Del, got
decision over Kid Mcfarland, OF
New York, after having fought four
teen and half rounds in the LenoX
Athletic Club, 10 New York, last night.
The result was unlocked for, but Nc
Partland has only himself to blame, as
be lost his temper, and, after being
cautioned halfa dozen times, struck his
opponent in clinch.
In anticipation of the early occupa-
ton of the Philippine Islands by the
military AID naval forces of the United
States, the Treasury Department has
| alrSauy D6Suu buo iOILuuldllOn VI lcEu'
lations and scheme of customs tariffs
which will be collected by the military
authorities and turned into the Treas
ury of the United States as military
contribution.
The officers of one of the U. S. cruis.
ers which arrived at Key West yester-
day, say that while of Cape San An
tonic (the western extremity Of Cuba),
Sunday afternoon, a terrific explosion
was heard from the direction of the
shore, but apparently many miles
away. There was an upheaval of wa
ter all about the ship, and the cruiser
herself vibrated with the shock from
stem to stern. Many are inclined to
think that the phenomenon was an
earthquake.
Dependent because mis- salary had
been reduced from $500 to 81 200,
Clarence Crist committed suicide in
Washington last night by shooting
himself through the head with re-
volver. To make the job certain he
took large dose of morphine inter
nally and another by hypodermic injec-
ton. He was clerk in the Office Of
the sixth auditor and was forty-eight
years of age. He was recently reduce
and made strong efforts to be restored
but without avail. He leaves a wife,
but no children.
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