Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-14
NEWS OF The DAY.

Queen Victoria has arrived at Cannes.
Zacharie Topelius, Swedish poet,
historian and literateur, is dead.
There is dscord in the ranks of the
annexation party in Hawaii, and it is
believed that President Dole cannot
long avert crisis.
Ambassador White informs a Berlin
correspondent that the United Stat 8
would never enter into an alliance
with England and Japan.
Dr. Sir Richard Quain, Physician Ex-
traordiuary to Queen Victoria, is dead.
He was member Of many learned So
cieties and the author of numerous
medical works.
At a meeting OF the board on auxilia-
ry cruisers on Saturday, special board
was appointed to open an Office in New
York to examine into the availability
of vessels offered
A case which is attracting much al
tention in medical circles in Bridgetoi
n. j., is that of Mrs. Ruth Jarvis, TWEEN
ty years old, who has not eaten any
thing for nearly q month.
Marquis Ito, the japanese Premier,
intimates that Japan needs all her
cruisers and will not sell any OF them
to the United States for use against
Spain or sny other country.
The Secretary of the Navy, said yes
terdey, as representing the exact posi-
ton OF the government. "The United
States is fully prepared for war if it
comes, but still the administration SIN
cerely hopes for peace"
The Impartial, of Madrid, says the
Spanish governments momentarily ex
pecting the report of the Spanish naval
court of inquiry at Havana, which, it is
understood, will maintain that the
wreck Of the batt!eship Maine was due
to an internal explosion.
Leslie HORNE, aged nineteen years,
was shot and killed while taking part
in calatbumpian serenade rendered to
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gibbon at the
home of Jacob Gibbon, at BradGock,
Nd, on Saturday evening. Both Of
the Gibbons have been arrested.
In Little Rock, Ark, on Saturday
Mrs. Tomlinson. widow of Lieut.. Tom
linsou, of the National Fencibles, OF
Washington, who was killed at Little
Rock in July, 1894, obtained $4,000
judgment against the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Railroad Co.
A test vote may be taken in the Sen
ate this week on the Hawaiian annexa-
ton treaty. Senator Davis, in charge
of the treaty, will move to table Sena-
tor Bacon's amendment, which provides
for the submission of the question Of
annexation to the vote of the people of
Hawaii, including the natives.
Mrs. Minnie Heinzelman, wife Of
Herman Heinzelman, well-to do shoe
dealer in Sheboyean, Wis, has just
awakened from twenty-eight day
trance. Mrs HeinZelman said that she
was never unconscious during the en-.
tire time she lay in the cataleptic state
and that she suffered torments from
thirst.
Hong Kong advices received at Ia
coma, Wash, yesterday tell OF q terri
BILE disaster late in January on the
island of Amboins. The town Of that
name was totally destroyed by an
earthquake, killing 100 persons and in
juring 200 more. Amboina is one of
the Glove group of the Molucca Islands,
east of CeIebes.
The Bowery Mission Lodging House,
105 Bowery, New York, was destroyed
by fire at an early hour yesterday
morning, and eleven lives we're lost.
The property loss is $4,000. There
were $50 dodgers in the building when
the fire started, and so rapidly did the
danes spread that many of them were
unable to escape.
Cardinal Gibbons ofticisted yesterday
morning at the services held at St,
Dominic's Catholic Church. Washing.
ton. The special mission of the cardi-
nal in Washington yesterday was for
the purpose of blessing the new bell
which was recently recast by McShane 4
Co, of Baltimore, and is now ready to
be hung in the tower of the church.
A dispatch from Washington states
that the government is buying its enor-
mously increased supply of coal ex=
clusively from Ohio mines. very many
of which are owned in part by Mark
Hanna. The dispatch states that the
order for $50, 900 tons was given on Satu-
day to Mr.. Eapns's Cleveland firm for
to Key West. the price paid
being more than 81 q ton III excess OF
what similar grade of coal could have
been bought for in Alabama.
A span on the Chicago and Northwest
railroad bridge st Wipona, MIMI, collapsed