Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

from Santiago 10 spain.
The Sultan has yielded to the de-
maud of the British admiral at Gambia,
Crete, for disarmament Of the Turks in
that city.
S,ar Pointer on Saturday evening, in
q trial heat to beat his record of 1:59i,
paced mile, on the Belmont Phiadel-
phis tract, in 1:5944.
An army of between $4,000 and 75,-
900 men will be sent to Cuba, and the
first American troops may be sent as
early as October is.
Count Ferdinand Walsh E5terhaZy,
who is said to be in London, is quoted
as stating that about 600 documents in
the Dreyfus case were forged.
10 memory of his wife, Empress Eliza
beth, whose funeral took place in Wen
ma Saturday, Emperor Francis Joseph
has founded the order OF st. Elizabeth.
A state of gloomy apprehension pre-
walls among the people of Naples re-
garding the eruption OF VesuviuS,
which is hourly becoming more active
and menacing.
Baltimore and Ohio first preferred
stock holders have taken legal steps in
the United States Court to prevent 8
foreclosure sale of the property under
the scheme of the reorganization.
At the democratic primaries in the
eighth Alabama congressional district
on Saturday Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler
was unanimously renominated to
serve his ninth term in Congress.
The Philippine National Assembly
has unanimously resolved to reject any
proposal of a joint SpauishAmerican
protectorate over the Philippine Isl
ands, or anything of a Spanish nature.
General Blanco is reported to have
cabled strong suggestion to the gov
eminent in Madrid that he be empow-
cred to effect the release of all persons
confined in Cuban prisons for political
ofenses.
The Spanish supreme council of war
has suspended Admiral Montjo, whose
squadron was destroyed by Admiral
Dewey, in Manila Bay. and has sum
, moned him to come to Madrid as soon
as possible.
Nearly one-sixth of General Lawton's
force at Santiago, Cuba, is sick, but the
number OF deaths reported is not great.
, Major-General Brooke reports four
deaths yesterday among the American
force in Porto Rico.
1t is believed that Germany will try
to acquire an island in the Philippines
in which there are coal deposits. An
examination of the islands has been
made by the German naval commander
and an engineer under instructions
from Berlin.
The large livery stable and carriage
shed in the rear of the Corcoran Hotel
at Rockville, Md, owned by Mrs. Will
| lam Carr, was completely demolished
by fire yesterday evening. Loss 80.
900. This is the third stable Mrs. Carr
has loss by fire in.the last fifteen years,
all of which have been situated upon
the same site.
A special dispatch from Madrid says
the Spanish peace commissioners were
appointed Saturday. They are Senior
Montero Rios, president of the Senate,
who is president OF the com mission; Gen
Cerero and Seniors Abarzuza, Villar
rutia and Garnica. The Spanish COM
mission, the dispatch adds, will start
for Paris on September %.
After nearly a year of searching in
the cellars and garrets Of an old rec
tory, hoard of gold and securities, ag-
gregatiDg in value many thousand dol
lars, left by Father Alpinger, the de.
ceased pastor of the Church Of Our
Lady OF Victory, in Mount Vernon, n.
Y, was discovered yesterday by agents
of County Treasurer Carpenter.
In all probability the three battle
ships for which contracts were awarded
last week will be protected by the new
Krupp armor. This armor was tested
at the naval proving station at Indian
Head, and its superiority in toughness
and armor.resisting qualities to the
plates treated with the Harvey process
was satisfactorily demonstrated.
The Second Texas regiment was paid
of on Saturday at Jacksonville, Fla,
by Msj. Lynch, the negro paymaster.
This is the regiment that refused TO re-
ceive the pay from Lynch on account
of his color. The regiment took vote
On Saturday and decided 10 receive its
pay, this action doubtless being due to
the fact that the regiment is to leave
on Tuesday for home.
Nearly one million dollars in gold
coin was paid out of the sub-Treasury
at Philadelphia on Saturday. on the
largest check ever presented there for
sight payment. The check was drawn
to the order OF the International Navi,
CATION Company by the Treasurer of
the United States for the amount of
81, ATE, 900 and was given in payment OF
the rental for the four ocean steamers
of the American line chartered by the
government at the beginning of the
Spanish war.
Col. L. l.. Langdon, retired, formerly
of the Fourth United States artillery,
makes statement in which he clearly |
proves that had politics been cast aside
in the selection of officers for certain
posts of responsibility in the army dur
ing the war, all Of the sufferings to
which the American soldiers were sub
jected might have been avoided. The
greed for military patronage, he says,
was responsible for killing q bill in
Congress which would have prevented |
the suffering and misery in the Ameri-
can army.
The supposed victim of the Bridge
port, Conn.,, murder, Miss Marian Grace
Perkins, arrived at her bone in Middle
boro, Mass, Saturday afternoon in per
feet health to the great joy of the fam