Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-17
NEWS OF THE DAT.

Turkey has notified the powers that
she assents 10 their demand for the i'm
mediate withdrawal of Turkish troops
from Crete.
Insurgents at Legaspi, Philippine is
lands, refused to allow an officer of the
cruiser Raleigh 10 land without Agui-
naldo's permission.
A Paris dispatch states that the
United States peace commissioners
will refuse to accept responsibility for
any part of the Cuban debt.
The hostile Bear Island Indians have
surrendered and the Indian troubles are
thought to be over. News to this ef-
feet came from Walker last night.
Attorneys of the Virden Coal Com
papy blame Governor Tanner for the
killing of nine men at that town Wed.
nesdsy as the result of the strike among
coal miners there.
The Dowager Empress Of China has
given assent to reform measure estab-
fishing boards of trade at Shanghai
and Hankow to control the business OF
the southern part of the empire.
President Mckinley, who arrived in
Chicago last night, took part in 3 big
demonstration which was q part Of
Chicago's peace jubilee The President
will remain in that city until We'd
Desday night.
1t is said that there is strong proba-
bility that Rev. Alexander Mackay-
Smith, rector of St. Johns Episcopal
Church, in Washington, will be asked
to take charge of the Church of the
Holy Trinity, in Philadelphia.
A special dispatch from Havana says
that serious breach is threatened be-
tween the friends of General Gomez
and the friends OF General Maso, the
latter of whom considers annexation
preferable to Cuban military govern
ment.
The national committee OF the gold
democratic party has issued an address
asking the adherents of sound money to
continue to wage strong fight against
Organism and free silver, but advising
the democrats in each State to act ac-
cording to local circumstances.
The orders for the movement OF Gen.
Graham's corps from Camp Meade TO
camps in the South have been revoked
by the Secretary of War, and the move
ment, which was to have commenced
on the 9th, will be postponed until a
later date, owing to the yellow fever
outhreRk in the South
The Alexandria correspondent OF
the London Daily Mail, telegraphing
regarding the anarchist plot against
Emperor William, which was discov-
cred on Friday, says: THE plot against
the Kaiser is hourly proven more i'm
portant, each arrest disclosing new ram
i6cations. The documents found dis
close a plot to kill King Humbert, al
ready we'll matured.
Captain-General Macias sailed from
San Juan, Porto Rico, yesterday with
most OF his staff. To morrow the United
States will take possession formally OF
the Island of Porto Rico. By that time
most of Spanish officials and troops will
have departed for spain. General f. D.
Grant will be given command OF one OF
the districts of Porto Rico and General
Guy Henry of the other.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga, says
CONSERVATION has been created among
operatives in the cotton mills operating
under the jurisdiction OF the Southern
Cotton Manufacturers Association,
which holds the same relation 10 labor
there as does the Arkwright Club to
labor in New England, by the an
nouncement on Saturday that wages
will soon be cut S to Is per cent, ac-
cording to the different grades of work.
The Duchess OF Marlborough, former
ly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, of New
York. gave birth to a son on Friday.
Mother and child are doing we'll, &C
cording to the latest reports from the
attending physicians. This is the sec
ond son of the Duke aud Duchess OF
Marlborough, the first having been
born on September is, 1897. He was
bsptised John Albert Edward William.
and took his fathers second title, the
Marquis of Bradford.
1t is the unanimous opinion at Fal-
mouth, England, that the strange
course of the Atlantic Transport Com
pany's steamer Michigan, which end
ed in disaster Friday night was due to
terrible blunder in navigation. Nine
ty-fve lives are believed to have been
lost. OF the passengers eleven have
been saved, ten bodies have been re-
covered and SO are missing. OF the
crew and cattlemen, thirty-nine have
been saved, fourteen bodies have been
recovered and fifty one are missing.
REUNION OF MosBY's MEN.-The
survivors of Mosby's battalion are pre-
pairing for their annual gathering,