Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

MUCH SQUerIuR auuUuR Luc Dool SOu-
tinues to prevail in Havana.
Many Spanish residents of Porto Rico
seek to become citizens of the United
States.
Greater New York will spend ST.
551 ,222 during the first year of its ex.
istence.
Rear Admiral Sampson will leave
Washington to-day for his home in
New Jersey.
The Corbett- Mccoy fight will, it is
said, take place without fail on October
l at Buffalo.
According to General Skaters report
81 900 Spanish prisoners were surren-
dered at Santiago.
It is said that John r. Mclean is TO
succeed General R. Alger IS Secretary
of War in McKinley's cabinet.
Information from Manila has been
received in Madrid to the effect that
the Philippine insurgents continue
hostilities against the Spaniards.
General shafter reports that he now
has sufficient transports at Santiago to
bring the the remainder of the Ameri-
can troops to the United States.
The American pilgrimage to Rome
has been postponed until October. The
state of the Pope's health will not per-
NIT him to receive pilgrims at present.
Captain General Macas is facilitating
arrangements for the evacuation Of
Porto Rico, and it is expected that al
the Spanish troops will soon leave that
island.
Signor Fesctetti, member of the
Chamber of Deputies of Italy, has been
sentenced to ten years imprisonment
for taking part in the recent riots in
that country.
A dispatch from Budapest, Hungary,
states while regiment was crossing a
pontoon bridge over the river Maros,
the bridge collapsed. 1t is feared that
80 were drowned.
Residents OF San Luis, Province OF
Santiago de Cuba, complain that mem
bers of the Eighth Illinois regiment have
been insulting women and otherwise
misbehaving there.
The Auglo-Egyptian expedition
which is advancing on Khartoum, IN
the Soudan, has arrived at Metemmeh.
The capture of Khsrtoum is expected
by the middle OF September.
The Manchester Guardian states that
Ambassador Hays promotion to the
Secretaryship of State is in pursuance
of plan of CO operation between the
Uuited States and Great Britain in the
far east.
It was said last night at Roosevelt
Hospital, New York, that Captain
Evans, of the battleship Iowa, would
bs taken to that institution early this
morning. The captain is said to be
suffering with typhoid malaria.
Gen. Miles and the members OF his
staff left Porcs last night on the steamer
Arkansas for New Orleans, the general
having decided that there was no
further occasion for his presence in
Ponce. He will proceed to Washing
ton.
D.. C. M. Hubbard, house physician
of the Planters Hotel, st. Louis, was
instantly killed yesterday afternoon by
falling down an elevator shaft from the
cond floor of the hotel. He was we'll
known to travellers all over the coun-
try.
The Carnegie Steel Company yestel'
day shipped from Pittsburg Tor Japan
2. 900 tons of steel rails for the Buno
Chow Railroad, corporation support
ed by British capitalists. 1t is one OF
the largest railroad shipments ever
sent to the Orient. The Carnegies
have also shipped for Saturki & Co., OF
Toxic, structural material for the larg-
est building ever designed for Japan.
The twenty three regiments at jack
sonville, Fla, comprising the Seventh
Corps, will be reviewed by Gen. Lee
some day this week. Every effort is
being put forth to place all the troops
there in first class condition and fully
equipped for the Cuban movement in
October. It is rumored there that the
Sxty-ninth New York will be attached
to this corps soon. Gen. Lee has ex
pressed wish to have them.
Capt. 81. Martens, of the Hamburg
American Line steamer Christiania,
which arrived at Boston yesterday from
Hamburg, reports passing two bodies
supposed to be victims of La Bourgogne
disaster on August 10, in latitude 43
deg. north, longitude 60 deg. west.
They were both floating face down
ward and were much swollen. One of
them appeared 10 be man, and upon
this body life belt was fastened. The
other was apparently the body of
woman.
During the negotiations between Italy
and Colombia in connection with the
Cerruti question siguor Canevaro, Ital.
ian minister of foreign affairs, an
nounced his intention of carrying Pres
ident Cleveland's decision as arbi-
traitor into effect and asked to be
informed whether the Cerruti affair
would in any way compromise the good
relations between Italy and the United
States. The latter's reply was that no
solution, even if it involved q recourse
to force, would in any way affect these
relations. The Italian government
therefore gave orders for immediate &C
ton. Colombia at once desisted from
further objection to settlement.
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