Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-28
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
All the mines and torpedoes have
been removed from Havana harbor

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A conflict between Spaniards and ma
tive Por,o Ricans caused q temporary
reign Of terror at Arecibo.
The Agricultural Department has
concluded series Of successful expert
ments in the treatment of hog cholera
with serum.
The War Department has issued an
order that hereafter all enlistments in
the regular army will be for the full
period of three years.
In his annual report Secretary Alger
will urge that both Cubsns and Span
iards be enlisted in the American army
of occupation in Cuba.
In storm at Chicago yesterday the
wind blew so strongly as to vibrate tall
office buildings to such an extent that
clocks inside were stopped.
1t is redorted in Paris this evening
that the British cabinet at to-day's SEES"
sion decided to proclaim the protector
ate of Great Britain over Dgypt.
Col. George E. Warning, jr., formerly
street commissioner of New York, is
sick at his home in that city with gel
low fever, contracted at Havana.
Gen. Calixto Garcia is expected to
head the Cuban commission which will
visit Washington to consult President
Mckinley about the status of Cuba.
The peace festivities at Philadelphia
were brought to close by banquet
aud reception last night, followed by
the departure of the presidential party
at 1925 for Washington.
Four children of prominent Pitts
burgers, while crossing the Penn.
sylvania Railroad tracks at Wilkens-
burg, yesterday, were struck by the
southwestern express and ell badly
hurt. One may die.
In Washington yesterday the sum OF
s. 900 was presented by a number OF
ladies and gentlemen from Brooklyn to
the Catholic University to endow a
scholarship "a memorial of the late
Ry. James 81 Mitchell, of Brooklyn
n. Y.
Serious charges have been made by
Captain William Astor Chandler, the
democratic candidate in the Fourteenth
Ohio Congressional district, against
|, Aoner Mckinley, brother of the Presi
dent. He charges that Mckinley made
a great deal of money as attorney for q
firm which supplied poor clothing to
the army.
=, Near Canyon City, Ore, yesterday a
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nineteen white men and five
Indians, which resulted 10 the
killi1g of all the Indians and the
loss of one white man. George Cut
Ting and man named Moiser were &C.
cused by the FIVE Indians OF stealing
horses. A quarrel followed, and the
Indians opened fire with the above re.
suit.
The Spanish peace commissioners
have agreed that the United 5 ates
shall not assume the Cuban debt.
Spain has agreed to the first two arti-
cles of the protocol. The clauses that
have been agreed to are: First-That
Spain relinquishes all claim and her
sovereignty over and title to Cuba.
Second-That Porto Rico and the ISL
and in the Ladrones, Guam, be coded to
the United States.
! President Faure, OF France, yester-
day asked NJ. Dupuy to form q cabinet,
in succession to the Brisson ministry
which resigned on Tuesday. The Paris
correspondent OF the London Daily
News says that the Brisson cabinet was
overturned ostensibly because it failed
to protect the army from SANDER, but
that the real facts are that the minis
ter5 constantly but vainly urged the
slandered staff officers to take proceed
iles against their slanderers.
Lieutensnt-G Woodruff in his
speech for the republican cause at
Rochester, n. Y, last night made g
bad break when be undertook 10 de-
fend the canal ring An attempt was
made to call off the Lieutenant-Gov
ernor but it ended in q failure. The
episode will not help Roosevelts fight.
Great excitement prevailed in the hall.
The speaker was loudly Kissed and he
was eventually compelled to bring his
remarks to close. He asked leave to
print the remainder of his speech. The
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Intended to de-
liver his speech in Buffalo on Tuesday,
but was cut of at the instance of Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew and Roosevelt.
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