Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Inc Hre6lQeQC expects 10 De IN JACK
sonville, Fla, on September Is and re-
view the soldiers of the Seventh Corps,
Gen. Lees command.
Rev. DR.. George Morrison, we'll
known Presbyterian clergyman, died
yesterday at his his country home in
Baltimore county, Nd, aged sixty
seven years.
Sir Thomas A. Upton, the latest
challenger for the Americas Cup, has
donated $4,000 toward relieving the
sick and wounded amorg tie Ameli'
can soldiery.
Three soldiers were killed and near
ly dozen wounded as the result of a
| wreck on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, near New Castle, Ala, tt
dark yesterday evening.
Five persons were killed Saturday
evening at Writings Crossing, Mass,
on the Boston and Maine Railroad, by
a collision between train and q wa
gon containing pleasure party Of
eleven persons.
A Washington dispatch states that in
tense feeling is exhibited over the man.
ner in which southern officers and
troops have been ignored in the war
with Spain, and the matter will be
brought up in Congress.
1t is reported at M;ddletown, n Y 7,
that e Il. Hartman. who purchased
Stamboul for $4,000, has also pur
chased John r. Gentry. He sent the
PAGER to Goshen to beat the track rec
ord without expense to the association.
Miss Annie V. Bennett, daughter Ct
Mr.. ]. B. Bennett. appointment clerk
of the Agricultural Department, died
at her home, in Washington, on Satur
day night, from burns received at q fire
| which occurred at her home shortly at.
| ter noon on that day.
President Mckinley is to have gov
eminent warship at his disposal as
pleasure craft on the Potomac. 1t has
| been decided that the Sylph, one of the
yacht purchased by the navy for the
| auxiliary fleet during the war, will be
retained and turned over to the Presi-
| dent.
officials at the War Department are
preparing for court OF inquiry with
the ultimate object of having court
martial of Major General Nelson A.
Miles. The charge against Gen. Miles
is that he violated the army regulations
in using contemptuous language re-
gardiDg his superior officers.
Senator Platt broke the news to
Governor Black in Washington on Sat-
urday evening that Col. Roosevelt
would be nominated for Governor Of
New York. Governor Black, who
has been hoping against hope that ne
might be his own successor, did not
take Senator Platt's news kindly.
Secretary Alger last night gave re-
porter an explanation of some of the
.atures of the conduct of the War De
partment during the entire war, and
emphatically declared that there would
be no investigation of any branch of the
service; that no investigation was neces-
sary. and that there was nothing to in
vestigate.
Yesterday upon the occasion of the
unwilling at Moscow OF monument to
Car Alexander II, grandfather of the
pr, sent Gar, Emperor Nicholas issued
an ukase referring to the event and
eulogizing the deeds of his grandfather,
notably the liberation of the pc isants
from bondage, which earned him the
name of 1.-THE Deliverer.n
The Philippine Islands committee in
Europe has addressed letter to Presi-
| dent Mckinley urging upon him for the
expulsion of the friars from the Philip
pines. The letter named particularly
the archbishop of Manila and the bish-
ops of Nueva Sagovia and Nueva
Caseras. 1t is thought, however, that
the Pope and Spain will induce the
United States to protect the church
property.
A dispatch from Pinkard, KY, says
Gen. Cassius Marcus Clay on Saturday
bought farm near there for his young
wife, Dora Richardson, who still re
fuses to live with him. He declares
be will provide for her as long as she
lives. A dispatch from Lexington,
KY, says there is current story that
| Cassius M. Clay has filed, at Richmond,
KY, q petition for divorce form his
young wife.
Ex-Governor Claude Matthews, of
Indiana, died at Wingate, Ind, yester-
day morning. He was surrounded by
his wife and 'all the other members of
his immediate family. Before the ex-
Governor breathed his last he profess
ed his faith in Christ by uttering the
affirmative "yes," although his aftlic-
ton was paralysis of that part of the
brain governing speech. His funeral
will be without elaborate ceremony.
The most disastrous fire which Lau
rel, Nd, has ever sustained occurred
there on Saturday, resulting in the
death of one man and the destruction
of Laurel's two principal hotels, its
chief undertaking establishment, and
livery stable, aggregating q loss of
about $4,000. After the fire had been
extinguished and while engine com.
pany No. 10, of Baltimore, was on its
way to the railway station, Charles
Francke, a member of the company,
missed his footing and fell under the
fire engine, which passed over his head,
killing him.
Ex-Governor Stone, of Missouri, the
friend and political adviser of w. j.
Bryan, and who is in New York, express
es the belief Bryan will be the choice
of the democratic party for President in
1900. He declares that unless the New
York democratic State convention at
Syracuse indorses the Chicago platform
the State will lose its standing in the
next national democratic convention.