Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-08
NEWS OF TIE DAY

The Cuban national assembly at
Santa Cruz has elected Domingo Men
DEE Capote president.
The Charlton Grain Elevator, at
Charlton, on the Potomac Valley Rail-
road, west of Hagerstown, Md, was
destroyed by fire yesterday, entailing a
loss of $40, 1000.
The Siamese government will re-es-
tablish its legation in the United States.
The new minister has already arrived,
and will present bis credentials to the
President in few days.
It is reported that Spain has address
ed note to the powers asking if they
will support her in protesting against
the intentions of the United States to-
ward the Philippine Islands.
Judge Grosscup, of the United States
Circuit Court at Chicago, yesterday
rendered decision upholding the con-
stitutionMlly of the war revenue act,
deciding that transactions on the Stock
Yards Exchange we're subject to tax.
Archbishop William Gross, head of
the arch diocese of Portland, Ore, is
dangerously ill at st. Joseph's Hospital
in Baltimore, with complication OF con-
sumption and heart disease, and it is
the opinion of the attending physicians
that he cannot recover.
1t is reported in New York that q
movement is on foot to consolidate all
large breweries in New York and Phila-
delphia, thus forming beer trust,
which, it is estimated, would have a
capital OF at least SS0,O00,0 900 and an
annual output of about 100000 bar
rels of beer.
Arthur Williams. negro, was lynch
ed at WeiborD, Fla, on Sunday for
assaulting young girl by the name OF
Edna Ogden and then numbering her.
The negro's body was burned in huge
log pile by the crazed citizens. Two
other negroes implicated, Bush James
and Monroe Leggett, have been ar
rested.
Three men blew open the vault OF
the Rlchford Savings Bank and Trust
Company at Richford, w., Sun
day morning and, while they
only succeeded in securing $500 In
stamps, they escaped detection by cap
turing two passers.by and holding them
prisoners until they had made FIVE sue
cessful attempts TO open the inner safe,
which conts ed large sum ofmoney.
The damage to the Capitol at Wash
ington by the explosion and fire on
Sunday evening is not as great as esti
mated. The assistant architect of the
Capitol thinks all damages to the build.
ing can be repaired for $4,000. The
library OF the Supreme Court, which,
next to the congressional library, is the
most valuable collection of books in
Washington, escaped with little dam
age.
A dispatch from Wilmington, N. c.,
dated last night says" This State stands
upon the eve of lcrisis, one of the
greatest in its history. The white peo-
pie of this section, having weighed the
question coolly and counted the coast,
have determined to carry the elections
so as to get rid OF every negro in Office
aud replace them by white men. The
whites will win"
Near Lacon, ILL.,, yesterday evening
George Stewart, colored, was lynched
after he had confessed that he had as
saulted Miss Mary O'Brien, a young
white girl, whom he attacked at night
while on her way home from store,
where she was employed. Stewart had
been out of the penitentiary at Joliet
for three months on parole. The mob
comprised five hundred friends and
neighbors of Miss O'Brien, who is the
daughter of John O'Brien, general IN
derground manager of the coal mines
at Toluca.
The President yesterday took action
in the case Of Capt. o. M Carter, En-
gineer Corps, Q. S. A., and, it is stated,
committed the sentence of the court,
martial to dismissal from the army and
S., 900 fine. The court-mertial SEN
tence was that Carter should be dis
missed from the service, imprisoned for
a period of FIVE years and fined $1,000.
The case has attracted much attention
because of the stupendous sum ST.
600,000) which it was alleged Captain
Carter. who was in charge of the river
and harbor Improvements at Savannah,
misapplied and diverted from it's proper
use.