Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-29
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreign News.


LONDON, Dec. 29.-It is said that
Lord Salisbury will be asked TO protest
against the establishment of dferential
duties either in the case of the Philip
pines or Cuba. The subject is engag-
ing the attention of the chambers of
commerce of the manufacturing towns
in the north.
JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 29.-The situn.
ton in the Trensvaal, which was
brought about by collision between
the Beers and Englisbmen, is growing
ugIier. Both sides are in mood for
violence aud some of the newspapers
here openly discuss war with England.
BAYoNNE, Dec. 29.-Reports have
reached here from across the frontier,
that carlists who have been thrown in
TO Spanish prisons are being tortured
to procure confessions of their plot
against the government.
PARIS, Dec. 29.-There is evidence
that anti-republicans within and With
out the army are plotting coup d'etat
against the government. The prospect,
however, of anything material arising
is slight.
ROME, Dec. 29.-It is asserted that
the Popes letter to Cardinal Gibbons
expressing his views on the THEORIES
of Americanism" has already been dis
patched to that prelste and will be pub
lished in the United States prior to its
publication in Rome.
CALCUTTA, Dec. 29-According to
| advices from British East Africa party
| of 80 men, under the command of
Lieut.. Harrington, were attacked by
natives on October 10th between lakes
Albert and Kioga. Twelve of the
party were killed and Lieut.. Hanning.
ton and eight others were wounded.
Subsequently the British repulsed the
natives, killing about a hundred OF
| them.
LONDON, Dec. ga fierce storm is
still raging in the British channel, caus-
Ing serious delays in the Geographic as
veil as the steamer service between
England and the continent.
LONDON, Dec. ga dispatch from
Paris says that the French parliament
will be asked to vote the sum of $40,
| 900, 900 to the naval budget for 1899.
PARIS, Dec. % Jean CarloDe, the
most noted bandit of Corsica, and for
six years the terror of Soceia and Vico-
cantons, has been captured after
fight wherein several gendarmes and
the bandit were wounded.
ROME, Dec 29:-On advice OF the Sa-
cred College, the Pope has decided not
10 send representative to the CzaI 5
disarmament conference at s.. Peters
urg.
BERLIN, Dec. 29.-It is learned from
diplomatic sources that recent CORE
spondence between The Kaiser and the
Car has led to an approachment Of the
! governments at Berlin and st. Peters
burg. This means that in future
neither the Dreibund nor the Franco
Russian alliance have the Importance
Of formerly.
CRICcIETH, Wales, Dec. 29.-An in
quest has been held here Oh the body
of William Williams, who killed his
mitted suicide. The coroner stated
that Williams's crime was largely due
to the perusal of American police news
papers.
LONDON, Dec. ga dispatch from
! Portsmouth says there Is reason 10 De-
/ leve that the Duke of York will in
about five months commission the bat
ileship Prince George. now attached
to the channel squadron, 10 be in read
mess for the proposed visit of the
American fleet. The dispatch also
says that the Duke will be made a rear
admiral. The Prince George is the
Dukes favorite ship. the vessel having
been named for himself and christened
by the Duchess Of York.
GLASGOW, Dec. 29,-The Glasgow
Herald says it s informed that the In
dian Office authorities being unable to
obtain engines for the Indie railways
from machine shops in England, within
a reasonable time, are ordering locomo
tives built in America.
BERLIN, Dec 29-Christopher Morilz
voncgdy, the author of book entitled
Serious Thoughts in which he advocated
the rcgel Grafton OF Christianity with an en-.
tire absence of dogma, is dead.
ROME, Dec. 30 The report that party
OF American women presented the Pope with
| $4,000 and an address on Christmas is de-
| MED at the Vatican.
ZONE, Dec % The Pope is busy writing
a Latin ode on the benefits of redemption Mt
| tho end OF the century. Lorenzo Perosi, the
young priest composer, will set it to music