Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-04
NEWS OFF THE DAY.


in the mines near Santiago, Cubans hav.
ing refused the vacant places.
Col. Amos Webster, former register
of wills for the District, died in Wash
ington yesterday, aged sixty-two years.
Work is difficult to get in Havana,
owing 70 the business uncertainty, and
there is much suffering among the poor.
A semi official note issued in London
last evening says there is good rea.
son to hope that the political situation
is ameliorating.
Rev. George b. Zimmerman, presid-
ing elder of the Baltimore district of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
died of pneumonia at his home in Balti-
more yesterday.
The city jailer at Augusta, Ga, aid
ed by policemen, last night prevented
a mob from Selling and lynching COL
ored man accused of attempted assault
upon q young white woman.
1t is understood that President Nc
Kinley will recommend to Congress
that the civil service rules be amended
so that preference be given to the SOL
diers who served in the war with Spain
as we'll as to civil war veterans.
/ The War Department has issued a
general order for the movement of
! troops to Cuba, and brigade under
the command of Brigadier General Car.
penter will leave for Nuevitas and
Puerto Principe about November %.
/ Gideon W. Marsh, president of the
Keystone National Bank, which col
lapsed in 1891, has returned to Philadel-
| phia after Z years absence and surren.
dered himself. He said he had been in
duced to return by an appeal to him by
John Wanamaker in political speech,
which be had read in the press.
Secretary Long is authority for the
statement that the plans of Lieut.. Hob
son for raising the sunken Spanish
ships off the coast of Santiago will not
be carried out by the Navy Depart
ment. Secretary Long stated yester-
day afternoon that this government
will not undertake to raise the ships
except by contract.
The Echo de Paris to. day expresses
strong approval of the speech delivered
at Worcester, Mass, November 1, by
Senator Hoar, in which he denounced
the so-called policy of American extern
sion. The paper mentioned quotes the
speech fully, and remarks that all
American political men apparently do
not agree with the policy of conquest
| Placards making announcement
that colored men are wanted for the
U. S. Infantry have been posted in
front of the recruiting depots in the
middle, eastern and southern States.
The President and Secretary of War
both agree that colored men make
good fighters, and are made of the ma.
terial which could withstand rough
knocks and uneven climatic condi-
tons.
Admiral Miller, in en- interview in
Chicago, says that the Nicaragua ca
nal is needed by this country to aid
in protecting it's long stretch of coast
on two oceans. Former Senator War.
ner Miller, of New York, president Of
the Nicaragua Canal Company, was iu
Washington yesterday on business con.
nected with the Morgan bill, which has
for its object the purchase of the stock
of the company by the United State;
government.
A romance which had its origin in
the fancies of fourteen-year-old girl in
Daisburg, Germany, some years ago
has been brought to happy ending by
the marriage of Ethel Schwann, Of
Chicago, to Carl Redlinger, of Rock
port, Ill. Redlinger came to the United
States about Elk years ago, and Ethel ar
rived recently. She sent letters to seve-
raj cities addressed to Redlinger and he
eventually received one. The couple
met and their marriage followed.