Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Rear Admiral Sicard, having reach
ed the age of siXty-three years, will to-
day be placed on the retired list.
1t is reported that the powers yes
terday presented to the Sultan an
ultimatum on the Cretan question.
The wearing Of European clothes is
said to have been the immediate cause
of the Chinese Emperor's downfall.
1t is reported that when the bones of
Columbus in the Havana Cathedral,
were exhumed, part of them had been
stolen.
The joint nesting of the commits.
sions for the execution of Cubs, which
Was to have been held at Havana to-.
day, has been postponed.
Kang Yuwei, the Chinese reformer
whom the Dowager Empress seeks to
lmprlson, haG not been arrested at Ba-
han, Japan, as was resorted.
The sheriff at Pana, Ill.,, yesterday,
telegraphed to Governor Tanner that
he had no control over striking miners,
and several companies OF the State mi
litia were ordered out.
Fierce forest fires are raging over
hundreds of miles in Colorado, South
Dakota and Wisconsin. An appeal for
aid from the federal government was
made from the Black Hills.
Capt. A T. Mahan, of the United
States naval board of strategy, was yes
terday elected delegate from New
York to the general convent lion of
the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Capt. Gen. Blanco has issued On or.
der for the Spanish troops to concen-
trate at the ports in Cuba from which
they will sail for Spain. No date for
the evacuation is set in the order.
Ex.President Cleveland will be one
of the pallbearers at the funeral of Hon.
Thomas F. Bayard, in Wilmington.
Del, tomorrow. Mr.. Bayard's body
will be brought from Dedham, Mass,
to-day.
At 1.-THE State fair at Springfield yester-
day, in the presence of a crowd of Co.
600 people. John R. Gentry defeated
Joe Patchen with ease in the match race
for purse of s., 900. First heat was
won in 2:04 IA and second in 2:03 ID
The miners and other workman at
the Flint Hill Works, at New Haven,
West Va, have been notified that on
October they will be subject to ten
per cent. reduction. If they accept, it
will necessitate similar reduction at all
the mines in the Pomeroy Bend.
The vote on the question whether
the manufacture aud importation and
sale of liquor shall be prohibited was
taken in Canada yesterday and the re-
turns up to late hour last night 60 to
show that the prohibiiionists have Car
ried the Dominion by about 10000 ma.
jority.
Friends in Washington of Gen. Gar
cha say that be will shortly leave on
special mission to Washington from
prominent Cubans in the province of
Santiago, who favor q continuance of
American authority in Cuba. A report
is that be will propose loan to pay the
Cuban army.
The President and the War Depart
ment are preparing to reduce the Dum-
her of general and staff officers in the
volunteer service by nearly or quite
one-half. A list of officers to be mus
tered out of the service has already
been prepared in the Office of the ad-
jutaut general, but it is subject to
change and will not be made public at
once.
The first order for the movement of
United States troops looking to the &C.
cupation OF Cuba by our forces was IS
sued yesterday afternoon. 1t directs
the Fourth United States volunteer
regiment, composed of immunes and
recruited in Virginia, the Carolians and
the District Of Columbia, to proceed to
Manzanillo and report to Maj. Gen.
Wade.