Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The total gross Indebtedness of
Greater New York is estimated at $685..
100000.
Rev. Henry M. Wharton has resign
ed as pastor of Brantly Baptist Church,
Baltimore, to take effect on March l.
China has yielded to the demand of
Germany for the dismissal of the COM
mandant OF the Chinese garrison at
Tsao. Chow,
1t Is said that the fusionsts of the
First Nebraska district will offer Mr..
VIM. ]. Bryan the nomination for Con-
gress from that district.
War between Costa Rica and Nicara.
qua is threatened as a result of the
court martialiDg of Consul Busche, of
Costa RIGA, at the Nicaraguan capital.
Colville D. Browne, for thirty years
superintendent of the Capitol grounds,
in Washington died yesterday at Prov
idence, R. l., in his eightyfourth year.
The Hudson river, near Kingston,
n. Y, is frozen solid, and on the Cats.
kill mountains the temperature has
dropped to twenty-lour degrees below
zero.
The sharp steel pillow of trolley car,
which was passing above him, cut oil
the head of James Keegap, who was at
work in conduit beneath the car track
in New York yesterday.
Democratic politicians of Brooklyn
are urging Richard Croker for his sup
port in having third bridge over the
East river connecting their city and the
borough of Manhattan.
III Hung Chang condemns Germany's
action in forcibly occupying Chinese
territory. Ii Hung Chang has been
recalled to power, the Emperor and the
inner council desiring his assistance in
the diplomatic crisis.
Mr.. David Walker, q member of the
firm of Lewis Jonuson & Co., bankers,
died at his residence in Washington on
Saturday evening, in the seventy-e eighth
year of his year. MIR. Walker was born
in that city November %, 1920.
The centenary of the Irish rebellion
of 1898 was ushered in at Dublin on
Saturday by great torcblight process
sion, which paraded the principal
streets headed by bands of music play
Jog Irish, American and French ma
tional airs.
The Y. M. G. A. building in Wash
ington was damaged to the extent of
nearly s15, 900 by fire yesterday even
ing caused by an overheated pipe.
Fire at Grace Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Washington yesterday caus-
ed damage OF $500.
I General James Longstreet, recently
appointed United States railroad COM
missioner, has become embroiled with
other republican politicians in Georgia
iD an effort to provide his democratic
son-in-law, w. E. Whelchel, with the
profitable La Grange posbofice.
DR.. H. F. Biggar, jr., performed a
remarkable operation at Huron Street
Hospital. Cleveland, o., on Thursday.
Six feet of the small intestine of ]. j.
Dodge, of Dodgeville, O., were removed.
He is still alive and may recover.
Dodge could not have lived twenty-four
hours longer.
Six members of one family were kill
ed by flames and smoke in a fire that
occurred early yesterday morning IN
Jersey City. While they were slumber-
ing their home was ablazs and iiaally
proved their tomb. The father got
out, but was lost while trying to save
his children.
At Frederick, Md, on Saturday, the
jury in the case of the State, vs. the
Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company
brought in verdict of guilty. 1t was
charged by the prosecution that the
pulp mills of the defendant company
polluted the Potomac river, from which
the city of Cumberland derives its We
ter supply.
A runaway accident near North Cap
ital street and Florida avenue, in
Washington, yesterday afternoon. re-
suited in the fatal injury of Miss o. P.
Belote, of Norfolk. William Fuller, .
baker at the Hotel Raleigh, and Miss
lola Tarrant. of Washington, were
both seriously hurt, and the latter will
be permanently dis6gured.
A terrible accident occurred at the
La Puerta coal mine near Gusnsjato,
Mex, on Thursday. In one of the low
or workings of the mine river of wa
ter was suddenly struck and before the
miners could escape from the chambers
the whole mine was flooded. Thirty
FIVE miners which were given up for
dead who were caught in the ruins
were rescued yesterday.
The result of the republican esucuses
at Columbus, o., Saturday night showed
that Senator Hsnna's nominees for ex-
ecutive Offices are short three votes in
the House and one in the Senate. aud
the opinion prevails that Hanna will be
short four votes on joint ballot foT Sen.
ator. His friends, however. claim that
he will come out successful. A dead
lock seems probable. The Legislature
convened to-day. Governor Bushnell,
of Ohio, has announced his candidacy
for the United States Senatorship, but
says that he is only candidate in the
receptive sense. Gov. Bushnell says
the people of Ohio are tired of Hanna's
rule.
DINED ON GOLD PLATEs.-The most
notable social function of the season
was dinner given at the Bellevue,
Saturday night, by Alexander Van
Rensselaer,, of New York, to Colonel