Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Fifth Maryland regiment yes
terday returned TO the service of the
State.
The is again talk of a great English
brewers trust to control all the brew.
cries in Washington.
Perry Belmont was elected president
of the Democratic club, in New York,
last night, to succeed Roswell P. Flower.
Soon after the treaty is signed Pre-
mier Sagasta will submit to the Queen
Regent the question of confidence in his
government.
A Panama dispatch says it is believ-
ed there that the Colombian govern
ment has an agreement with the United
States on the subject of the Panama
canal.
William T. Stead, who has returned
to London from Rome, says the Pope is
ready to cooperate with the United
States in restoring order in the Philip
pines.
The annual reports showing the
growth of the Protestant Episcopal
| Church in America shows the rate OF
growth of the COMMUNICATE list remains
8 ationary at 8 per cent, year.
| The American and Spanish peace
commissioners had o lively debaie yes
terday at their joint session in Paris, at
| the end of which they said progress was
bei2g made toward treaty.
| 1t is estimated that damage of at
least 500, 900 was causad by the storm
that swept over Baltimore Sunday al
ternoon. The item of unroofed houses
alone will amount to SIS, 600.
| The loss by fire and waterin the sky
scrapers on Broadway, New York,
{Sunday night, is now estimated at
about 100000, and insurance men are
Investigating with view 10 probable
raising of rates on supposed treprooi
buildings.
/ The trial of Mrs. Cordelia Botkiu,
charged with the murder of Mrs. John
P. Dunning by sending her box Of
poisoned candy through the mails, was
commenced yesterday in Judge Carroll
Cooks department of the superior
Court in San Francisco.
Reports fran many points on the At
lantlc coast are to the effect that Sun
lday's storm was one of the severesl
ever known. IG will require many
thousands of dollars to repair piers
houses etc., damaged. In Norfolk anG
vicinity yesterday some damage was
done by the wind.
Representative Sulzer, of New York
ranking democratic member Of the
, House committee on military affairs
introduced yesterday resolution "au
thorizing and directing the committee
on military affairs to investigate the
War Department and the conduct o
| the Spanish-American war;"
r The yacht Oneida, of New York
which was detained in Hampton
} Roads by stress of weather all day
:. Sunday, sailed yesterday, homewarC
4, bound, with former President Cleve
land and her owner, Commodore E. c
g Benedict, aboard. Before sailing, Mr.
S Cleveland paid another visit to BIZ
q friend, Joseph Jefferson, who is i'm
!; proving rapidly.
4 1t is reported in Washington that {
careful canvass of the Senate yesterday
I makes it certain that there are sutficien
votes to ratify the treaty with Spain
when it shall be laid before that body
but ct the same time the opposition il
strong enough to compel postpone
ment OF q final vote until the extra ses
sion of the Senate, if it shall decide up
on such course.
James G. Harwood, an heir OF the
Glenn estate and an artist of some
ability, either committed suicide or wa
murdered between and o'clock yes
terday morning at his home, at Ar
f butus, Baltimore county, Md. He wa:
r found by his colored man servant lying
on a bed in the second-story from
room. A bullet hole in his right TEN
pie showed where he had been shot.
Troy n. Y, was visited Sunday night
by the most severe wind storm ex
perienced in many years. The wind
blew with cyclone velocity, carrying
away roofs of buildings and causing
damage to the extent Of nearly 5000.
900 in Troy aud adjacent towns. Sev-
} eral church steeples were destroyed,
! and in Waterford St. Mary's Catholic
Church was wrecked. The steeple was
blown down and crashed through the
roof, destroying the organ and the in-
torior of the ediice.
The 18th annual convention 81
the American Federation of labor
will meet in Kansas City, Mo-, next
Monday. A strenuous effort will be
made to defeat the present officers for
reelection. Among the other ques.
tions that will be considered are: The
adoption of universal union label, re-
affirming its endorsement of the free
coinage of silver at 16 to I; and de-
handing of Congress to pass bill
abolishing the employment Of women
by the government.
THE ALABAMA LEGIsLATURE.-The
Senate of Alabama yesterday had an
exceedingly spirited debate over the