Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Secretary of State Hay has purchased
for $4,000 lots fronting S72 feet on
Connecticut avenue in Washington.
A dozen Spanish generals, it is ru-
mored, have had meeting in Madrid
and there are hints of a military plot.
1t is reported near DEVILS Island,
where the prison of Captain Dreyfus is
situated, that Dreyfus has been remov-
ed to Paris on convict transport.
Nine deaths from the grip were re-
ported in Baltimore yesterday, the
largest number in any day since the
malady made its appearance in that
city this season.
Frank ]. Gould, youngest son of the
late Jay Gould, bought seat on the
New York Stock Exchange yesterday
for $50, 900, the highest price paid since
1888, when one brought $37 900.
The quartermaster-ge of the
army will begin next month the work
of bringing back to the United States
the bodies of American soldiers who
died in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines.
The Toronto World warns Canadians
against the United States. 1t says q
grasping spirit is rife in this country
and that England will make any sac
ri6ce to secure our support against
Europe.
James F. Brown, courier on the staff
of General ] A. Early during the war,
died at the Maryland Line Confederate
Soldiers Home. Pikesville, Nd, yes
terday, from Bright's disease, aged hi
\ ty-seven years.
Work OH the battleship Ohio has
been commenced at the Union Iron
Works, at San Francisco. The Ohio
will be the largest ship ever built on
/ the coast, and one OF the three largest
ever built for the American navy.
Mr.. VIM. J. Bryan will address the
Duckworth Club, in Cincinna att, at their
| annual Jackson banquet, Friday even
ing, January 6. He will also deliver
an address before the Cincinnati cham
Der of commerce at noon on the same
day.
President Mckinley has requested
Chairman Day and Whitelaw Reid to
be in Washington when the peace
| treaty is sent to the Senate. He wants
them to respond to any call for infor-
| nation from the Senate committee on
foreign relations.
The preliminary report of the Mica
ragua canal commission has been made
4 public by the State Department. The
T commissioners recommend the Lull
route, as preferable TO the Maritime
Company's route. Its estimated cost is
1923, 100000.
The War Department has issued q
catalogue concerning large quantity
of Spanish rifles, carbines and car
tridges captured in Cuba and Porto
Rico, which will be cold by public auc-
ton at Springfield armory, Springfield,
Mass, on Wednesday next.
1t is expected that General Miller,
who has been sent with an American
force to Iloilo, Philippine islands, will
take prompt steps to secure control OF
| that place from the insurgents Euro
pean papers advise the United States
to use firm hand in the Philippines.
Jos. Caldwell, who lived on the west
fork of Harris run, in Greene county,
Pa, yesterday had quarrel with his
wife and he worked himself into ter
rible temper. He dragged his wife cut
to woodshed on the premises, where
he picked up an axe and struck her
several times on the head. While "
ing in an unconscious condition, and
probably believing her to be dead,
Caldwell left the premises and few
minutes later lay on railroad track in
front of an approaching train and was
killed.