Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The proposed annexation of Jamaica
to Canada is again being agitated Wig
orously.
Owing to financial straits, Italy has
abandoned the proposed large increase
in her navy.
Cuba and the Cuban debt are under
stood to be the topics now before the
United States peace commission in
Paris.
Paris is now an armed camp, large
bodies of soldiers having been called in
to overawe the strikers and other dan
gerous elements.
A Parnellite convention at Dublin
yesterday passed resolutions approving
the Irish local government bill but in
sisting upon home rule.
Public opinion in England backs up
Lord Salisbury in the firm stand he has
taken about Fashoda. 1t is believed
that there is no danger of war.
Admiral John Carson Febger, United
States navy, retired, died on Sunday
at Londonderry: his residence near
Esston lid, in his seventy-eighth year.
The final contract for the New
Chang Railway extention loan of Co..
250: 900 sterling has been signed by the
director of railways and the Hong
Kong and Shanghai Bank.
General Lee arrived at Savannah
yesterday. With his staff he selected
u camp site for his corps, and issued or
ders that the corps should be moved
there at once from Jacksonville.
The commissioner of internal revenue
states that rulings of the Treasury De
partment in regard to the war tax
must govern the acts Of revenue collec-
tors irrespective of the decisions Of
State officers.
The Catholic archbishops of the
United States and number of tie
prominent clergy are assembling in
Washington to attend the annual meet
ing of the board OF trustees of the
Catholic University and the archbishops
| this week.
The negro brgadier' general of the
Cuban army in the vicinity Of Baracoa
| recently refused to release his men,
who were willing to work, and also
| prevented laborers on the estates from
passing his lines. A battalion of the
Third immunes arrested him and dis
armed thirty.tive of his men.
The German steam yacht Heligoland,
with the Lerner expedition, has re-
turned to Tbondrejem, Norway, from
Spitzbergen. She had reached the
! eghty-frst parallel of north latitude,
but had not seen Andree. The ex-
petition penetrated the ice within about
six hundred miles of thePole.
President and Mrs Mckinley yes
terday attended the funeral in Canton
of Mrs. McKinley's brother, George D
Sexton, who was shot and killed Fri
day night by woman. Last night
the President joined the special train
which left Washington yesterday
morning, bearing many members OF the
administration to the Omaha EXPOSE
ton. Mrs. Mckinley remained in Can
| ton.
Two companies of soldiers were
brought into Lexington KY, last night
and the county Jail is strongly guarded
by the police and county civilian officers
as the result of the attempt of the mem
bers of the Twelfth New York to get
into the city to lynch ALIVE Kitchen,
the provost guard who on Sunday night
shot and killed Private Henry Hetier-
man, of Company B, Twelfth New
York. The trouble has Quoted down.
The trial of Private Kitchen will occur
tomorrow before the county judge. He
did not know of the attempt 10 mob
him until this morning, though the Jail
was guarded all night.