Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-05
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

Many persons IN Paris DelleVe thab
an army plot to seize the supreme pow
err OF France has been formed.
The American and Spanish peace
commissioners say the peace treaty is
likely to be signed within week.
President Iglesias, of Costa RIGA, left
Washington yesterday for New York,
whence he will sail next Saturday for
Paris.
The Mexican government has &C.
credited Senior Romero, for number
of wears its minister at Washington, as
ambassador to the United States.
The War Department will send a
number of regiments Of the regular
army TO Manila, among them shree
negro regiments now on duty in the
west.
The government of Nicaragua, as a
result of the collapse of the republic of
Central America, has published decree
declaring Nicaragua to be an indie.
pendent sovereign State.
Fire 10 St. Agnes's Roman Catholic
Church in Fifty-third street, between
Third and Lexington avenues, New
York, early yesterday morning dam
aged the church to the extent of $3.50,
900.
The entire sugar crop of the Ha-
waiian islands is reported to have been
purchased by the sugar trust and IF
| teen large sailing vessels were yester-
day announced as having been charter
ed to bring the sugar to the Delaware
Breakwater for orders.
Arrangements are being completed
at Savannah, Ga, for the departure for
Cuba of the Second division of the Sew
enth corps which includes the Fourth
Virginia regiment. The movement
will begin to morrow with the depar-
ture of the provost guard.
Mrs. Samuel ]. Colgate will be mar
ried to the Earl of STAFFORD tomorrow
in quiet fashion at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. Alfred Kessler, in New York
None but Mrs. Colgate's immediate
relatives will be present. Bishop Pot
ter will perform the ceremony.
The bill for the government OF the
| Hawaiian Islands has beeen placed in
the hands of the President by the Ha-
waiian commission. The bill deals with
the islands as territorial colony" as a
government official expressed it, and
provides comprehensive and popular
form of government. which may be ap-
piled to the other possessions later.
The main pipe connecting the boilers
with the steam chest OF the Mallory
Liner Alamo, broke Saturday night just
as the steamship was about to warp out
of her dock at New York. All the men
in the fire room, six in number, were
killed by the escaping steam. One pas
seuger who was looking through the
grating over the fire room, was badly
scaded about the face and hands.
Because Mrs. Dietrich, a widow,
who is said to be sixty eight years old
and who lives in Brooklyn, refused to
marry her boarder, Louis Hutzler, yes
terday, he cut her throat with razor
and then cut his own. Hutzer is forty
years old, and has lived in the house
for nearly six years. He is a baker.
Both may die.
A committee of colored men, ap-
pointed at q recent msss-meeting of
colored people in Washington, on Sat.
urday called on the President to pre-
sent certain resolutions passed at that
meeting in regard to the race troubles
IN the Carolinas. President Mckinley
reminded the visitors that this is the
time for moderation. The committee
also urged the appointment of Captain
Ayrcs, of the Tenth cavalry to be
bricadier. general.