Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-24
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Business is booming at Manila and
the city continues quiet.
The War Department is considering
plans for feeding the destitute in Cuba.
Martimas "a dark horse) at 40 to 1
landed the Futurity and S35, 900 yestel-
day.
Leading Spanish residents of Cuba
have recently been receiving threaten
ing letters from insurgents.
Adiutant-G General Corbin expects to
make public to-day the list of reg
ments that will be mustered out of sell
vice.
The steamer which was sunk at the
entrance to San Juan harbor has been
partly removed and vessels may now
enter.
The total number of fever cases in
the army at Santiago yesterday was
631. Four deaths occurred on Au-
gust %.
There are now 1,040,356 pensioners
on the rolls of the pension bureau Al d
63,64S original claims were granted
du,ihg the past year.
George Irwin, prize fighter, has been
shot and killed in Macon, Ga, by Ellis
Houston. The killing followed a quar-
rel over q debt Of 81 IS
Members OF the Philippine junta in
London say there will be no trouble
from the insurgents if the Americans
decide to retain the islands.
Instructions to General Merritt have
been issued. The question OF return
ing any of his troops cannot be decided
until the peace commission acts.
Ernest White, colored youth, has
been arrested in Crsfeld, Md, on the
charge of committing felonious as
sault on his sister nine years of age.
The fifth congressional district repub.
lcan convention met in La Plata, Md,
yesterday, and nominated Hon. Sydney
f. Mudd as the candidate for Congress.
Gen. Fiizhugh Lee thinks eight of
the major generals of volunteers will be
retained in the service, and that the
regular army will be increased TO one
nunurel thousand men.
4 letter has been received in Wash
, inglon from Admiral Cervera stating
hat the kind treatment Of the Spanish
prisoners in the United States will be
appreciated and recognized by Spain
The statement that Mr.. John r. Nc
Lean would not interest himself in the
Ohio democratic convention, because
be was to succeed Secretary Alger in
McKinley's Cabinet, is denied by that
gentleman.
President Mckinley and the cabinet
discussed yesterday the disposition to
be made OF the Philippine Islands. No
d, cson was reached. Three members
of the cabinet favor the retention OF
the islands by the United States.
The big feet OF transports, GOLFERS,
etc, which have been in use during the
war, are to be sold. The naval board
will appraise the auxiliary craft Some
OF them will be retained. The fleet in
cludes thirty eight cruisers and yachts,
fifteen GOLFERS, twenty-seven tugs and
eighteen other vessels.
The Cuban imbroglio continues. Cas-
tillo says Shafter is directly to blame
for the ill-feeling. He claims he broke
his word. The Island General alleges
that Garcia was promised the posses
sion of Santiago. By his report Ger
vera and six hundred sailors were cap
tured by the allies of the Americans.
A quarrel, which began early yester
day morning in Broadway Markei, Bal
timore. between John Muscolino and
Nacji Restivo, both Italians, led to
duel which was fought with knives al
Highlandtown, and in which Restivo
received stab from which he died
while being conveyed to hospital.
Muscolino WAS arrested, charged with
killing Restivo, and acknowledged the
crime, saying that he had killed his an
tagonist in self defense.
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