Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t l5 otnclaliy announced Rt Slmla
that the bubonic plague is spreading in
India.
Malietoa Lacupepa, King of Samoa.
died on Monday, August %, of typhoid
fever.
The U. S. peace commission is con.
sidered in Madrid to be favorable 10
annexing new territories.
A corporation has been formed to
establish steamship line between Bal.
timore and the West Indies.
The Mobile board of health yester-
day quarantiped against Galveston,
Tex, and Franklin, La, on account OF
yellow fever.
The Navy Department will proceed
slowls in the matter of reducing the
navy before the peace commission has
concluded its negotiations.
Frederick g. Jaime, wealthy young
man of Brooklyn, was arrested yester-
day in the act of burglarizing store,
and his friends attribute the act to ex-
cessive smoking OF cigarettes.
Rev. Anthony Kozlowski, Of Chicago,
has sued Archbishop Feehan and Car
dinal Lodochowski for $4,000 dam
agea on account OF his excommunica
ton from the Catholic Church.
Col. John Hay, the retiring United
States ambassador to Great Britain,
dined with Queen Victoria at Osborn,
Isle of Wight, yesterday, and spent
the night there as the Queens guest.
The condition of Miss Winnie Davis,
the daughter of Jefferson Davis, who is
critically i'll with gastritis at Narragan-
sett Pier, was slightly improved yester
day evening though she passed rest
less night.
Owing to the failure OF harvests in
parts of Russia, the landed gentry are
asking for government relief, and peas,
ants are feeding the thatch roofs Of
their cottages to their horses and cattle
to save them from starvation.
Rear-Admiral Schley was yesterday
detached from the command Of the
North Atlantic fleet and ordered to
Porto Rico as member of the military
commission. He will fly his flag on the
New Orleans and will receive the high
est pay of his rank.
Governor Frank S. Black, of New
York, still is an avowed candidate for
denomination. He has not decided, as
q result Of his conference with Senator
Thomas G. Plstt, in Washington, to
withdraw from the race in favor of Col.
Roosevelt or any other republican.
There are rumors in Philadelphia of
fresh trouble in the anthracite coal
trade. 1t was stated there yesterday
that everything had been arranged for
an advancement of prices to the circu-
lar on September l, but, owing to one
of the large coal companies cutting
prices, the situation has become unset
tied, and lower prices are looked for.
A special from Glasgow says: A, j.
Drexel, of Philadelphia, has commits
stoned Watson to build the largest and
6uest steam yacht in the world to re-
place Margarita, which he recently sold
to the King OF Belgium. The new
yacht is to be 1000 tons, steam II knots
and will cost S1,000,000. She will be a
veritsble floating palace. Watson de-
clines to give the details of the plans
and specifications.
Surgeon General Sternberg gave out
statement yesterday, denying the
charge that he is hostile to the Red
Cross Society, and that he hal refused
to accept its assistance in the care Of
sick and wounded soldiers. He says
he only objected to the sending of female
nurses with troops in the field, engaged
in active operations, as he was of the
opinion that such nurses would be an
incumbrance to troops during such
times.
The forty sixth annual convention of the
American Pharmaceutical Association began
its sessions in Baltimore yesterday, after be.
ing welcomed to Baltimore By Mayor Master.
War department officials, replying to criti-
cisms, sllego that the condition OF the troops
in camps was due to the negligence on the
part Of their officers.