Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Many negroes are leaving Greenwood
county, S. =. to seek homes in Missis-
sippi.
The conference report on the army
and navy deficiency bill was adopted
by the House yesterday.
President Heureaux, of San Domin-
go, who was reported to have been as
sassinated, has arrivedst Jacmel in good
health.
It is said that the President may soon
reconstruct his advisory council. Mr..
Long is ready to retire and his resigna-
tion is expected to follow that of Secre-
tary Bliss.
A conference of republican leaders in
West Virginia was held in Washington
yesterday to discuss plans to secure the
control of the legislature and elect Sem
ator Faulkner's successor.
A Paris paper states that the Dreyfus
secret dossier was handed to the court
of cessation under the pledge that it
should not be communicated to the
counsel for that defense or TO any one
outside the court.
The Prince of Wales presided over 8
Injecting held at Marlborough House in
London yesterday to promote the OBJ
tjects OF the national society for the
prevention OF consumption and other
forms of tuberculosis.
| General shafter yesterday appeared
before the war investigating commits
sion and testified in regard to the Santi'
ago campaign. He said the Santiago
Eexpedition was success and that he
has no complaints to make.
I General Blanco has arrived at Ali
csnta from Havana. He landed in
Multi. The people greeted him hearth
ely. General Blanco was much affected
by his reception. He decliued absolute
| ly to speak on politics.
| News has just been received at Sc
attic, WASH, of q snowslide on the
Chilkoot Pass, in which six people Zone
woman) were killed. The slide oc.
Cured December 9, at Crater Lake,
about one mile beyond the summit on
the Lake Lindeman side.
/ 1t is still claimed by some people in
| Washington city that Brigham H..
Roberts, who has been elected to Con-
gress from Utah, is ineligible to his seat
because he has more than one wife. 1t
is said that an effort will be made by
society women in Washington to have
him disqualified.
The w. G. T. U. of Lexington, Ky,
yesterday secured the indictment OF 1O1
retail liquor dealers of that city on
charges of violating the Sabbath. They
also secured the indictment Of Mayor
J.B.Simrall and the four police commits
sionere for allowing the saloons to be
kept open on Sunday.
A dispatch from Shanghai to news
paper 10 London says powder maya
zine situated in the centre of the Chi
nese camp at Hang-Chow exploded,
leveling square mile of houses. 1t
is estimated that three thousand sol
diers were killed, including the general
commanding the forces.
Preparations are rapidly progressing
for the evacuation of Havana by the
Spaniards by January 1. With a de-
tachment of the North Carolina regi-
ment, Major Russell B. Harrison yes
terday raised the American flag over
Fort Altae, in view of the wrecked bat
tleship Maine, in Havana harbor.
Mayor a. A. Perry, of Somerville,
Mass, member of Willard G. Kins.
lev Post No. 139, G. A. R., has written
letter to the post severely condemn
log that portion of President McKin-
ley's address at Atlanta suggesting that
it would be proper for the government
to assist in the care and preservation OF
Confederate cemeteries.
The House of Representatives yes.
! terday passed the agricultural appro-
, priation bill. which carries 1886, 322.
, The provision inserted in the bill to be
used as a means of retaliating against
Germany and other countries was
passed with eight amendment, which
gives the Secretary of the Treasury
. discretion in refusing the delivery of
goods adulterated or deleterious to
health instead of making refusal to de.
liver such goods mandatory.
Of the one hundred and sixty-nine
original signers of the South Carolina
ordinance of secession, only nine are still
living. or these Col. Joseph Daniel
Pope and Rev. DR.. William Il. Camp
bell, OF Charleston, occupied seats on
the stand at Columbia, S. O., yesterday,
on the occasion of the unwilling of the
handsome mural tablet, erected by State
appropriation under the auspices of the
Daughters of the Confederacy to the
memory of the signers. The exercises
were elaborate, and much southern en-
thusiasm was displayed.
John z. Dunning, husband of the wo.
man for the alleged murder of whom
Mrs. Cordelia Botkn is on trial for her
life. in San Francisco, spent weary
night Monday in the county jail where
he was incaroerated Monday by order
OF Judge Carroll Cook because he re-.
fused to give the names ofwomen other
than Mrs. Botkin with whom he had
bsen intimate. Dunning was produced
in court when the trial was resumed
yesterday morning, and when ordered
to answer the question again declined
and was sent back to jail.
The plant of the Chrome Patent
Leather Company in Newark, N. j.,
was destroyed by fire last night. One
hundred girls and three hundred men
were at work in the works when the
flames broke out. They had not even
time to secure their street clothings
The girls screamed and jostled each
other while getting out, and the escape