Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-26
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

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copy in the Klond,ke.
Senator Davis is opposed to the pro-
posed annexation of Jamaica.
Mr.. George o. CLAWS, q prominent
lawyer of Washington, died yesterday.
President Mckinley has accepted an
invitation to attend the Peace Jubilee
to BE- held in Chicago in October.
The day telegraphers at the Val
urge a number of alleged grievances.
The United States will demand. it is
said, the Island of LuZon, in the Philip
pines, as one of the conditions of peace.
Lieutenant Tiffany, q New York So
ciety man and q Rough Rider, died in
Boston yesterday from privation and
exposure in Cuba.
All the monitors now in West India
waters have been ordered north. The
extreme heat has told severely on the
officers and men of the floating forts.
The miners and laborers in the LIE
high and Wilkesbarre Coal Company,
at Audenreid, Pa, who went on strike
Wednesday, returned to work yester-
day morning.
There are many general charges
against the War Department. From
the widespread complaint it is thought
by the army officers that an investiga-
ton will be made.
The Santiago army is now a thing Of
the past. Gen. Shafter and all the
troops under his command, with the
| exception Of a few hundred men, who
will embark to-day. have sailed from
Cuba.
State Senator John Walter Smith, OF
Worcester county, Md, was nominated
! by reclamation Yesterday as the demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the
First Congressional District of that
State.
Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, for
mer ambassador TO Great Britain, is i'll
a. the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Samuel d. Warren. at Karlstein, near
Dedham, Mass. He vas worse last
: night.
DR.. Ernest NJ. Lieber, the great Cen
| kI.Sb ISQQCl IL luc Vel luIu 1lSlCDcldSt
| during his remarks before the German
; Catholic convention in Milwaukee
J yesterday said the best Of feeling for
; the United States prevailed in Ger
many.
John Richards, twenty years old, son
Of a prominent Parkersburg, w. Va.
merchant, while riding to q freight sta
lion on a dray load Of goods yesterday,
was jostled off, and q wheel of the dray
passed over his head, crushing his skull
and killing him instantly.
President Mckinley announced yes
| terday afternoon that he will leave
Washington for Somerset, Pa, at 8
o'clock TO morrow morning to visit his
brother, Mr.. Abner Mckinley. He
will spend Sunday there and on the
way will stop off at Camp Meade, Mid
dletown, for about half an hour.
Cardinal Gibbons arrived at Annapo.
lis from Baltimore yesterday on a visit
TO Admiral Cervera. He went to the
Naval Academy in the superintendent
carriage and sfterward the cardinal and
the Spanish admiral dined with the Re-
cupIOIls CdluSlS. 4EC C1IulUdl lC-
turned home in the evening.
Mrs. Mower, wife of w. L. Mower,
nesr Highfeld, Washington county,
Md, mad one of her eyes blown out in
a peculiar manner yesterday afternoon.
She took a bottle of ginger ale out OF q
barrel and laid it on the counter. Just
hen the bottle exploded with a loud
r port and blew out one of her eyes, a
section of the bottle striking her face.
The Pension Office yesterday g,s1tel
a pension to Alb Cum. a Chinese sub
ject ard widow of Pascal Martin, a sail
or OF the .. S. navy. The widow will
receive IS per month, aud her three
children 50 a month each. Almost
every other country furnishes one or
more pensioners for Uncle Sam but un-
til yesterday China was without a rep
resentative.
Morris D. Kane and Christopher Jur.
Gensep, privates of the Seventy-irsl
New York regiment, were killed
while skylarking near Westbury, L. L,
Wednesday. The two unfortunate pri-
Yates were in the baggage car of their
train, and one tried to take possession
of q piece of watermelon held by the
other. 10 the friendly scuffle both fell
and were cut to pieces by the wheels OF
the train.
The peace commissioners met y%ester-
day and mapped out their plan for fu-
ture operations. They will start for
Paris during September. Two mem
bers are still to be named. Judge Day
conferred with Senators Davis and
Frye, and had a general discussion of
the questions of policy that will come
before them. They have not yet de-
cided in what language the proceed
ings will be conducted. Assistant Sec.
rotary Moore will accompany the COM
m%issioners.
Bar-rooms restaurants and fruit
stands, along the wharves near South
Ferry, Brooklyn, are being put in or
der after q raid OF eight hundred hun.
cry colored immunes. The colored
troops were members of the Twenty.
third Kansas volunteer infantry, and
claimed ID have been without food for 10
hours. They were on their way to
Santiago. The troops refused to board
the transport for Santiago until fed.
and when refused food, laid down their
guns and raided all the places in the
ne;ghborhood. The police VERY pow
erless to check them.
Congressman J. W. Bailey was unani-
mously renominated at Sheman, Tex,
yesterday on a platform which declares
that the State convention has no right