Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-25
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The Chinese are reported to be &C,
lively aiding the Formosa rebels
against Japan.
General Merritt and Miss Williams
were married yesterday evening in tho
brides apartments at the Savoy Hotel,
London.
Charleston, S. c., began its annual
fall festival last night, a special feature
this year being the presence of four
warships.
The twenty-fourth annual convention
Of the Catholic Young Mems Union
opened to-day in Carroll Institute,
Washington.
Gen. Pho Pillar, Aguinaldo's chief
rival, has been arrested on the charge
of disregarding Aguinaldo's authority
and defying the Americans.
A woman Of Dunmow, England,
Mis-. Wilson, aged ninety-tnree years,
has purchased bicycle for physical ex-
ercise. Sue has become an adept
rider.
The business portion of Crisfeld, Md,
was last night the scene of big fire.
Eight stores, the Eastern Shore Hotel
The postof1ice and the Adams Express
office are among the buildings burned.
The Superior Court OF California has
decided that Mrs. Bolkin cannot be ex-
tradited to Delaware to be tried for
murder, as she has never been in the
sense of the law fugitive from justice.
The sherifi's posse in Scott county,
Miss, yesterday succeeded in arresting
and carrying of some OF the negroes
engaged in Sundays bloody race riot,
but the whites are still hunting down
others and shooting them.
10 his annual report Secretary Long
will recommend the addition OF more
| battleships and torpedo boats for the
navy, and will also urge that armored
cruisers, of the type OF the Spanish ves-
sells destroyed at Santiago, be provided
for.
The order restraining further pro
ceedings to foreclose B. and O. mort
cages was rescinded yesterday. Hold
ers of B. and o. first preferred stock:
who are endeavoring to block the reor-
ganization plan charge that the plan i:
fraudulent.
A dispatch from London says: Ii
, spite of the news Of warlike mobilization
which comes from France and diflerep
parts of England with the decline il
rentes and consols, there was distinctly
better feeling in diplomatic circles las
night and growing belief that the
Fashoda dispute will be arranged.
Fire broke out shortly after O'CLOCK
Yesterday afternoon at pier 80. Eas
River, Brooklyn, and did damage t.
the amount of half million dollars. \
north wind famed the flames fercely
and in few moments the water from
for four blocks extending from Nandyk'
to Walcott streets, was ablazs. The
British ship Andorenha, valued a
100000, was burned to the water;
edge.
The Spanish peace commissioner:
have confirmed the cession Of Guam
one of the Ladrone Islands, to the
United States. Details of minor i'm
| portance alone remain to be decided II
connection with the cession of Porto
Rico, the formal transfer Of which i:
practically accomplished. The chic
topic considered at yesterdays session
was the American reply TO SPANS re
vised and renewed propositions of .hf
last meeting as to the Cuban debt
There was no agreement, but the indi
cations are that the Cuban question
will be disposed of this week. The
Spaniards, il the American commission
ers decide not to assume any part o.
the Cuban debt, may announce tbeil
unwillingness to proceed further with
negotiations based upon the protocol.
The failure of CarGena * Co., mine owner:
and manufacturers of the City of Mexico, i:
is announced; liabilities $SO000O; asset:
'S350,O00.
Psdro Lucero, aged 125 years, of Los An
| gees, CAL died yesterday.