Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Kong ana IN Egypt Is regarded as
menace to Europe.
Hope for the establishment of q per-
mament duration board is growing
among the peace conference delegates
at The Hague.
United States Senator Turley from
Tennessee will not be a candidate for
reelection and says private life is more
congenal to him.
Emperor William and Empress Au-
gusts Victoria gave a reception at
Potsdam, yesterday to the delegates to
the tuberculosis congress.
1t is said that Senator Hanna and
the administration will use their inhu-
ence for the election of Representative
Hopkins, of Illinois, to the speakership.
The one hundred and eleventh an
nual assembly of the northern Presby-
terrain Church adjourned in Minnea-
polls yesterday to meet next year in st.
Louis.
A severe storm swept over sections
Of South Dakota and Nebraska on Sat-
urday and much damage was done. In
South Dakota seven persons were
killed.
! Efforts to float the American Line
steamer Paris, which is ashore near
Falmouth, England, will be abandoned
for the present, as her bow is impaled
on rock.
Wisconsin's delegation in Congress,
numbering ten members held confer
ence in Milwaukee on Saturday and
decided to support the candidacy OF
David B. Henderson, OF Iowa, in the
coming speakership contest.
1t is said that Great Britain has again
refused the request from the United
States that Mrs. Msybrick, the Ameri-
can woman charged with the murder
of her husband, all Englishman, be par
doned and granted her freedom.
At Canterbury, twenty miles north Of
Williamson, w. Va, Norfolk and Wes
tern passenger train from Buefelds 10
Columbus, Ohio, was wrecked yester-
day. Three persons were badly in
ijured One OF them, Mrs. F. NJ. Chat
fno, probably fatally.
The President talked over the Philip.
pine situation informally with several
members of the cabinet last night. One
of the cabinet officers said afterward
that the question OF calling out addi-
tional volunteers to meet the possib
needs OF General Otis for more troops
was mentioned, and that the question
would probably be determined at cabi-
net meeting this week.
: report comes from Rome to the eff
feet that Archbishop Keane, upon his
approaching return to the United
States, will succeed to the rectorship OF
the Catholic University of America at
| Washington, from which he was re-
moved by ,papal command about three
years ago. He is now on his way to
this country, having received u leave OF
absence from Rome for period Of two
years.
At Louisa on Saturday John G. May
and K. i. Z. Barrett, son of DR.. n. 9.
Barrett, an old physician of the place,
had fight. About shutdown on Satur.
day evening tie doctor and May met.
Words passed, and the two attacked
each other with chairs. Finally they
clinched, when young Barrett approach
ed on the scene and shot May in the
abdomen. Mays physicians do not
think the wound a mortal one. All the
parties to the trouble are highly re-
spectacle.
Colonel Fleming Gardiner chief en-
gineer OF the Atlantic Coast Line, died
suddenly on Saturday afternoon at
Denmark, S. G. He was superintend
| Jog the survey and construction OF q
branch road of the Coast Line. Al
though So years old, he continued &C
lively at work up Friday. He served
in the Mexican war and in the early
part of the war between the States was
on the staff of General J. A. Early. He
was native OF Virginia.
The through train from Chicago to
Minneapolis, over the Rock leland and
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North
ern railways, was wrecked at 1:l5
o'clock Sunday morning at the crossing
of Sink creek, about four miles south
east Of Waterloo, Iowa. The train con-
sisted of six coaches, including mail
and baggage car, smoking car, two pas
sepger coaches, and sleeper. Eight
persons were killed and twenty three
| injured. A cloudburst had washed out
the sand and gravel roadbed, leaving
the track unsupported for stretch OF
twenty feet.
Howard Kretz, & young man about
| twenty-five years OF age, who says he
is an art student Of the Academy of De-
sign, il New York, made startling
and successful jump from the Brooklyn
bridge just before dusk yesterday even
ing and came out of the river uninjured.
He was subsequently arrested and de-
tanned on the charge of attempting sui
eide. Kretz is about FIVE feet eight
inches tall, and weighs 140 pounds. He
said he had been reading a book on
Theosophy, and that he wanted to
demonstrate that man, by exercising
his will power, could do anything he
wished without injury to himself
A dispatch from Washington says
A high official of the administration
said yesterday he looked upon the
Cuban problem as probably likely to
prove the most serious of all the pend
ing questions. He could not resist the
apprehension, be said, that grave err
ror had been committed in permitting go |
long time to elapse without the slight.
est movement being made to give the !
CCbans an opportunity for the estab' |
lishment Of local self-government. He |
antorto;pa6 NJ. 1ouht that the nhaprin \