Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-14
NEWS OF The DAY.

The present indications are that the
regular army will be reconstructed on
the basis of $4,000 men.
The government will bring back the
dead soldiers from Cuba and bury them
in Arlington Cemetery.
The House yesterday passed the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill,
which carries $6,359,950.
The transport Pansma arrived at
Havana yesterday evening with Gen.
FItzhugh Lee and staff on board.
New York volunteers, under Gen.
Davis, occupied Pinar del Rio, Cuba,
AMI raised the American flag there yes
terday.
Philippine rebels are reported to
have inflicted terrible crueities on
friars and nuns captured recently in
North Luzon.
The War Department has issued a
proclamation establishing customs
collection districtin Cuba, with Havana
as the principal port.
Mr.. Daniel Miller, one of the most
useful citizens of Baltimore, of the firm
of Daniel Miller & Co., importers Of
dry goods and notions, died yesterday.
Argument was begun in the United
States Supreme Court yesterday IN a
case in which the consttutionality of
the stamp tax of the war revenue act
is attacked.
The warships Brooklyn, Texas, Gas.
tine and Resolute have been ordered
to Havana to act as check on disorder
expected to arise during the transfer OF
authority there.
The peace treaty between Spain ana
the United States, it is said, provides
that Spanish ships in the West Indies
are to have the advantages of Ameri.
can coastwise vessels.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Standard says: 'The Pope has ad-
dressed letter to Cardinal Gibbons on
his theories of Americanism. 1t will
| not be published until it has been com.
municated to the American episcopate. F."
Alta meeting of the House naval at
fairs committee yesterday afternoon it
was agreed to report favorably the bill
providing for reviving the grades OF
admiral and vice-admirsl. 1t is said
Dewey and Sampson will be appointed
, should the bill pass.
Mondays session of the e. S. Senate
was largely consumed in the discussion
of the Nicaragua Canal bill. Mr.. Tur-
pie made the principal speech in opposi
ton to the bill, attacking it on the
ground that it is in the interest OF the
Maritime Company, which he charac-
terized as fraud and bankrupt.
Mgr. Antonio, Count Renter, bishop,
member of an ancient family, his an
cestors Doges of Venice, and who, ac-
cordipg to his friends, was for fifteen
years secretary to Pope Plus IN, died in
New York Monday. For years he had
lived in comparative poverty, devoting
his labors to the poor Italian in New
York.
In the House yesterday on motion OF
Mr.. Hay, of Virginia, resolution was
| adopted calling upon the secretary OF
war for information as to what towns in
Porto Rico, Cuba aud the Philippines
are required to be garrisoned and how
many troops would be necessary for
that purpose and how many soldiers
will be needed for the United States
proper.
q young woman of good appearance
who gave her name was Catherine 5.
Morgan ,24 years old, of Washington, has
been arrested in New York for stealing
au umbrella aud other articles from q
Broadway department store. She is
said to be the daughter of a high army
official. The name she gave is fictitious
and if her real name was given cut
it would, it is said, cause surprise.
At the semi.annual meeting of the
trustees of the American University
held in Washington yesterday, the
board adopted plans proposed by Bish-
op McCabe for the organization OF a
ministerial alliance to consist of one
thousand preachers, each to secure
S1,000-$1, 900 900 10 all-for an endow-
ment fund, and also for a women's
guild to raise the same amount, max.
ing 100000 for endowment.
The Lafayette monument commission
having in charge the matter of the
erection of monument to Gen. Lafay-
cite in Paris in 1900, held meeting in
Washington yesterday. The report OF
the treasurer showed that approximate
ly $50, 900 already had been raised to-
ward detraying the cost of the moDu-
ment, principally from dime donations
by children of the public schools. The
Paris authorities have granted permits
sion to place the monument opposite
the principal entrance to Louvre Gal
lery, on the main axis, and in the rear
of tho DO ~