Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-27
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

LII Is SAID That an lnlernaClOnal con-
ference based upon the Cars dis
armament proposals will meet at st.
Petersburg next May.
Senator Frye, one of the peace COM
missioners, declares that the peace
treaty left the United States free to
dispose of the Philippines at will.
NJ. Loew, president of the criminal
chamber Of the Frence court of casa.
tioo, yesterday took the testimony Of
Premier Dupuy in the Dreyfus case.
Il is asserted that the French police
have seized several bundles OF letters,
whose contents prove that military
plot is already in thorough working
order.
Isabel Alderdice Mallon. author CT
"Bab's Babble," and one of the editors
at the Ladies' Home Journal, died this
morning from pneumonia at her home,
in New York.
Bishop Potter's daughter was &C.
cused by store detective in New York
on Saturday of having stolen book
which she had taken into the place.
The firm apologized.
twenty-five or thirty young people
broke through the ice on Leverett
Pond, Roxbury, Mass, yesterday and
three of them, boys ranging from II to
IA, were drowned.
| Joseph W. Pearson, the man who
threw brick through window OF the
residence of the British Ambassador at
/ WASHINGTON and escaped from an in-
sane asylum there, surrendered him
self to the police in Baltimore last
night.
William Tantzer, wealthy and we'll
known resident of Oakfeld, Wis, yes
/ terday found the dead bodies of his
/ wife and six-months-old babe at his
home. The child had been killed by
its mother, who had then committed
suicide.
Two new steel plants, one at South
Chicago for the manufacture Of steel
shells and projectiles By new process
and the other at Kensington, Ill, for the
production OF patent hollow steel car
axles, will shortly be built by a syndi-
cate of Europeans.
Frank Evans, ir., son of Mayor
Evans, of Birmingham, Ala, took 9
dose OF morphine at midnight, last
night, and died early to-day. He was
% years of age, formerly an officer in
the First Alabama volunteers, and
prominent in social circles. He is said
l TO have killed himself from remorse
| over spree.
The American evacuation commits
sioners for Cuba will issue proclama
ton to-day advising moderation and
self-restraint in the critical period &C,
companying the transfer of authority IL
the island. Unrest prevails in Havana
One man has been killed and clever
have been wounded in ARRAYS there il
the last twenty-four hours.
The sanitarium of DR.. Latson, or
Franklin avenue, New Brighton, S. 1.
was entirely destroyed by fire early
yesterday morning, and the member
of his family and servants were com
PEELED to escape in their night cloth
ing. The only patient at the santa
rum, a young man, partially paralyzed
had gone to epend Christmas with hi:
relatives.
The Americal National Bank a
Lima, Ohio, was robbed Sunday nigh
of S25 900 and there is not only no clew
but no one can tell how the robbers &c
into the despoiled vaults. Vault ant
safe manufacturers are aghast, as they
realize that against the genius ii
crookedness displayed Sunday night M
bank vault or appliance Of the present
time is proof. No explosives OF any
kind were used as there is scarcely {
scratch that might indicate the use of {
tool.
The city of Banes, on the south side
of Cuba, where lived 5000 people be
fore the war, has been wiped from The
face of the earth, and the inhabitant'
are now living in the woods
During the last months of the war botf
the Spanish and the Cubans raided th'
city not once, but often, and each il
turn applied the torch. The houes
and businesses of the 5000 people were
destroyed, and there is to-day not s
church, public building, warehouse
store or home standing in the city.