Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Hon. Thomas F. Bayard is critically
ill at Dedham, Mass, his condition hav-
ing changed for the worst.
Private Ernest Grim, of Winchester,
OF the 2nd Virginia regiment. died at
Jacksonville, Fla, on Saturday.
At least 81 100000 prize money will
be distributed among American sailors
as result of the war with Spain.
Senior Leon y Castillo, Spanish am
bassador to France, has declined to
serve on the Spanish peace commission.
Officials of the German foreign office
deny the report that Great Britain and
Germany have formed an offensive and
defensive alliance.
Owing to an open sea valve the port
engine room of the battleship Iowa was
flooded with twelve feet of water at the
Brooklyn navy yard yesterday.
A delegation of wealthy Fllipinos
have visited Consul Williams at Hong
Kong and urged that the Philippine
Islands be annexed to the United
States.
Four persons were killed Saturday
by the accidental expl, on Of q mine
or torpedo that had been placed by
army officers in the Mississippi river,
near New Orleans.
DR.. w. S McNaiiy, one of the oldest
attaches of the Navy Department, and
prominent in Washington affairs for
nearly half q century, died on Saturday
in his apartments in the Ebbitt House.
Acting Secretary of State Moore has
officially informed NJ Thiebaut, charge
d'atiaires of the French embassy, that
the American members of the peace
commission will sail for Paris on Sep
TENDER II.
Dispatches received yesterday state
that General Kitchener has defeated
the Dervishes in the Soudan and has
entered Omdurman. The British loss is
9 timated at 200 and the Dervishes lost
thousands in killed and wounded.
DR.. R. NJ. Jordan, prominent prac
titioner OF St. Louis, was found dead in
his room at Jordan's White Sulphur
Springs yesterday. He had been visit
ing the springs the entire summer and
had been in ill-health for some years
past. His death is supposed to have
resulted from heart disease, from which
be had been complaining.
Elizabeth G. Ordwsy, who is known
as Bettins Girard, daughter of the late
Gen. Ordway, OF Washington, having
spent three months in the st. Navier's
, Sanitarium On the Hudson river, de-
sires to be released. She claims that
hel loom mitment to that institution f r
more than one year was illegal. she
alleges that she is able to take care Of
herself that she has never been arrest.
ed for being intoxicated.
Margaret Rulon, who at one time
was exhibited by p. T. Barnum as the
heaviest woman in the world, was
buried at Trenton, n. j., on Saturday.
Miss Rulon was enormously fat. Wnen
| she was on exhibition she weighed
nearly 700 pounds, and at the time Of
her death, which occurred Thursday
last, she tipped the scales at 500 pounds.
An enormous coffin was made for the
remains and window of the house had
to be enlarged so that the coffin could
be passed through it.
The story from Havana that Gen.
| Pando, the former commander Of the
Spanish troops at Manzanillo, had Sc
cretly fled from Cuba for Spain with
100000 francs, was proven to be IN
founded yesterday when the steamer
Philadelphia arrived at New York with
Gen. Pando on board. Pando declared
the war was brought about by politi-
clans In this country and Spain, and
ironically suggests that America erect
a monument to Ssgasta, who, be said,
sold Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip.
pines.