Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

George Gould is about to build
superb winter palace of sports at his
Lakewood place.
The United States battleships Ore
gon and Iowa have reached Chill on
their way to Manila.
The United States cruiser Cincinnati
ran on rock while leaving Santiago
harbor yesterday, but is probably not
seriously injured.
At conference of religious denomi-
nations in London yesterday a resolu-
ton was adopted favoring the Cars
peace proposition.
e papal bull containing the appoint
ment of Father John w. Shanahsn, of
Philadelphia, as Bishop of Harrisburg,
is on its way to Philadelphia.
Rev. DR.. Crevaty, rector of the Cath
Ollie University, in an address before
the Irish Charity Society of Boston
yesterday, opposed the alliance between
America and England.
Senators who are friendly to the peace
treaty are confident it will be ratified,
aud probably at this session, leaving
the question of the final disposition Of
the Philippines to future settlement.
Members of the Spanish peace COM
mission reached Madrid yesterday and
were received without especial Incl
dent. A well-informed Spsniard says
his country has not lost much in losing
the Philippines.
Harlan z. Halsey. author OF more
than six hundred detective stories un-
der the pen name OF "Old Sleuth, "
died in Brooklyn yesterday, where he
school commissioner.
( Cubans in Cerro, suburb of Ha-
| vans, misled by report that the
Spaniards had evacuated the place, be.
gan o demonstration yesterday, which
! resulted in the killing of negro and
! the wounding of several persons.
At St. Vincent's Hospital, in New
York, on Saturday, q fashionably
dressed woman who could not remem-
Der her name was detained until her
| husband came for her. Her temporary
loss of memory was due to mental
shock.
Alfred Carrier, commercial traveller
while in fit of insanity Saturday night
, murderously assaulted his wife, Gather
inc, and their ten-months' old child, in
their home in Brooklyn, attacking them
with Ratchet. Later he hanged him
self.
. At Havana on Saturday night Gen.
Fitzhugh Lac called on Governor Gen
eral Castellauos, who, in the course OF
their conversation, said he had always
greatly admired Robert E. Lee. Gen.
Castellsnos and Gen. Lee exchanged
compliments.
The House of Representative gave
Saturday to the Indian appropriation
bill, passing it substantially as reported.
This is the third of the appropriation
bills to pass, and it clears the calen-
dar of the big supply bills, although
another, the agricultural, will be ready
to-day.
Prominent citizens have interested
themselves in behalf of Moore, the
Maine artillerymau who was the other
day in Savannah sentenced to pay q
| fine of $500 or serve sixty days on the
chain-gang, by ex-senator Judge Nor
wood for attempting on the streets to
hug the wife of prominent citizen. A
| petition to the governor for pardon Is
being circulated. Moore was hilarious
| " intoxicated at the time of his ofense.
A relic of ST. Anthony of Padua was
exposed for veneration in the Church OF
Our Lady Queen of Angels, in New
York yesterday afternoon. Crowds
surrounded the altar and kissed and
venerated the relic with the hope OF
being cured of their ailments. The
relic is portion of one of the thigh
bones of the saint, whose remains rest
in Padus, and whose intercession is
sought for by Catholic believers in all
lands.
Mrs. Mary Tut Throckmorton, who
was nearly asphyxiated Saturday
morning at her home, in Washington,
died at o'clock this morning, aged IS
years. She was the widow of Col.
John Arts Tbrockmorton, OF Loudoun
county, and daughter of Col. Chas. Pen
dleton Tut and Anne Mason Chiches-
ter. When the civil war began Col.
Throckmorton went South and joined
the ranks of the Confederacy, while his
SOD, the present Maj. Throckmorton,
was appointed to lieutenantcy in the
United States army. Father and son
were directly opposed to each other at
the first battle of Bull Run, and when
this knowledge came to the wife and
mother she went to Gen. Scott. one
OF her many friends, and had her son
transferred to the Army Of the West to
prevent repetition of such an occur
renee.
BURNED HIMSELF TO DEATH.-Gott-
leib Wagner, farmer living near Mon