Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-13
NEWS OF THE DAT.

Secretary ofWar Alger yesterday des-
ignated General Ludlow to act as mill.
tary governor of Havana.
Six regiments of regulars have been
ordered to Manila to relieve volunteer
troops now stationed there.
Baron Won Bulow, in o speech in the
Rechstag yesterday on foreign affairs,
said Germany was true to the triple al
lance.
The Rasin Fertilizer Works, on the
Patapsco river, in Anne Arundel coun-
ty, Md, have been sold to the Virginia.
Carolina Chemical Company.
Sir William Jenner, the distinguish
ed pathologist and physician in ordi-
nary to the Queen and the Prince of
Wales, died in London yesterday.
Sir Edmund ]. Monson, British am.
bassador at Paris, said in an address
last night that he believed France
would unite with England and the
United States for progress and civiliza-
ton.
Receivers Cowen and Murray, of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, were au-
thorized by the court in Baltimore yes
tsrday to make contracts for leasing
eighty locomotives, 5000 box cars and
$500 coal cars.
In the opening address before the
eighteenth annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor, at Kan
sas City, yesterday, President Samuel
Gompers gave reasons for opposing the
national policy of Imperialism.
The Isla de Cuba, one of the cruisers
sunk by Admiral Dewey in the battle
OF Manila, May 1, and which he subse-
ouently caused to be raised, started Tor
Hong Kong yesterday under her own
seam. She is of 1,030 tons displace-
ment.
The old Drum Point Railroad project
has been revived under the name of the
Baltimore and Southern Railroad.
The use of this road would greatly les
sen the time from Baltimore and Wash
ington to Norfolk, and it is said the line
will be built by New York capitalists.
In the House eff Representatives yes
| terday evening, bill providing for the
requirement by the United States,
! through condemnation, of the lands
about Great Falls not already owned
by the government, in order 10 secure
the water rights, was defeated. A bill
was passed regulating the inspection
of flour in sacks.
A New York paper has made can
! vass of the democrats in Congress re-
| garding the question Of the recognized
| leader of the party and the issue on
| which the democrats will fight. Twenty
three Senators and ninety-nine Cor
gressmen agree that Mr.. Bryan is the
leader of the party ard that financial
reform is the issue.
The remains of the late General
Celixto Garcia, WHO died in Washing
ton on Sunday were to day placed in q
metallic casket and deposited in vault
at Arlington pending the removal OF
the body to Cuba by q vessel of the
United States navy. Cardinal Gibbons
was not present at the funeral nor did
any one represent him there,
Major General Miles, commanding
the army, and General Schofeld ap'
peared before the House committee on
military affairs yesterday and urged the
NEED OF an increase of the army and its
reorganization. The commanding gen.
eral explained the provisions of the bill
he prepared and gave his ideas of the
military needs of the country for gar
risoning the colonies and for home pur
poses. General Schofeld thinks the
present system permits friction between
the Secretary of War and the command
ing general.