Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

DR.. Gill, a member of the Louisiana
State Board of Health, has arrived 81
Tampa, Fla, and is at work invesiigat.
ing the report that yellow fever had ap.
peared among the troops camped there,
The aloop Ripple, the tug Ganuie G
and the United States ship Cora have
arrived at Portsmouth, N. H., from
Portland with corps OF engineers who
will al once remove The submarine
mines in Portsmouth harbor.
1t was reported o.day that the s..
Paul, the st. Louis, the Yale and the
Harvard, of the American Line, which
are now used as aux liary tusers, w5re
to be returned 10 their owners by the
government. Clement A. Griscom, IT.,
of New York, of the American Line,
said that ne had received no iutimalioD,
official or unofficial, that this was TO be
done.
Senator Hanna said to-day ave
must go slowly on the Philippine que:-
ton. We at least want footing on
those islands. Although there may he
sentiment against keeping the ISLANDS
there is bigger sentiment against giy.
ing them back to Spain. We are con-
fronted with new conditions to-day and
we intend to work out the problem in
manner which will be for the best Of
the country.
A decree was fled in the U. s Court
at Savannah yesterday deciding TIE
British steamer Adula lawful prize o.
war and appointing appraisers to set
value on her. The appraisers will set
a value On the steamer which iseI-
pected TO be 10 the neighborhocd OF
100000 and then if the Atlas stesm'
ship company, the owner, desires TO
give bond it will be permitted TO do %
and the ship and her crew can 80 bacA
to Jamaica.
Edward Mccoy, Edward Jud:ou and Ca'
ence Neal, OF Sluncie, Ind. prisoners en- 1905,
to Cambridge City, escaped by jumping Oh
the moving rrans near Columbus yestcril{'
Mccoy was chased and caught dying sQo4
afterward The prisoners had been senicnod
at Portland from two TO fourteen yct'@
burglary.
Lieutenant Richard P. Hobson arrived 81 .
Salisbury, N. c., this morning and spen: ll'
day with his uncle. Richard Pearson. io .
night he will leave for Atlanta to yisI DE- E
mother. He received ar ovation 3, neai!
every station whore the train stopped :
Frank W. Jones, ex.state Senator and a. {
Prison Commissioner, has been missing noe +
his home in ynn, Mass, for two moaits
Men having business associations VITA ND
ale said to be concerned about his ols 'y
sence.
Thomas Weaver, negro, who ASSAULT,
Miss Jennie Gum, On the night Of Js lsp +
10Th, was hanged at Thomaston. ga. yen.
day. Weaver is the second man recent!
gally executed there for assautins women
Informatit which has reached Toledo
says August Kunz, of the 32d Michisan w.
unteers, was killed at Tampa. while W..
to desert for the purpose OF seeing De '''
mother Kunz's mother lives in Detroit
The Spanish schooner Gibers was taken ~
Key West to day by prize crew iFoM r..
Nashville. The vessel was caught hei'
bara July 9th. She carried cargo u w.
and small quantity of food.
fro shertly after midnight in 'a m
building on Oregon street, San fiaA .,tf
caused the loss of five lives aud n'e V''
persons were badly burned. .ol
man supposed to be Jesse Crosby; o. a a
timore, last night jumped into the I% $50
the high bridge at Lincoln PaFS' '1''s
snd was drowned.