Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-24
NEWS Or TIE DAY.

1 SlR0eu, ntluiOLNIdu, W.
P. Field, vice ]. W. Jewc,t, resigned.
NEWS OF The DAY.
Mr.. William Hoy Garnett, former
commonwealth attorney of Man-
chester, died yesterday. He was SO
years old.
There are rumors that Russia, with
/ the assent OF France, is about to ac-
quire from Spain O. naval station on the
] African coast.
| Warden William Hall, of the Balti-
more city Jail, was suspended for so
days last night for permitting George
w. Carson, prisoner under sentence
for wife beating, 10 leave the pr son to
| be registered.
Thirty handsome girls from Ireland
arrived at New York on the Etruris
yesterday and started for San Antonio,
Tex, where they will be received as
postulants in the Older of the Sisters
of the Divine Providence.
| Rev. 2. NJ. McCabe, a Roman Catho.
lie priest, who assisted John Boyle
O'Reilly to escape from penal servitude
in Australia, died on Sunday of Bright's
disease, at St. Mary's, small mission
| not far from st. Paul, MINI.
The thirtieth anniversary of the in
| ception of the movement by the Cubans
| for independence was observed in Ha.
vana yesterday, the speakers at a large
meeting declaring that the struggle for
independence should be continued.
Fire yesterday afternoon destroyed
the large roller mill of the holland g.
Kidwell Milling Company at Great Ca.
pom, Morgan county, W. Va, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Besides
the mill, valued at $1,000. large
iquantity of wheat was consumed.
f, The famous stallion Star Pointer has
been taken oil the track by his owner,
w. ]. White. The great PAGERS legs
will never again be in condition for rae
ing. His trainer, D. J. McClary, has
{, been released and Star Pointer has been
put in the stud at Mr.. Whites Two
minute Villa farm.
Sir Thomas Upton, the sportsman
like owner of the vanquished yacht
Shamrock, will go to Chicago today to
look after his large business interests
there. He has expressed his intention
of challenging for the Americas cup in
1901, as he does not care to try to get
ready for next year.
| A dispatch from Colon. Colombia,
says: The revolution in the Department
of Santander is spreading. Cartagena
is now threatened with martial law
Communication with Cartagena and ia.
terror points is interrupted. The
bridges recently burned by the insurg-
ents are being rebuilt.
The lady whose room at the Savoy
Hotel, London, was robbed on Satur-
day of jewelry valued at $4,000 and
bank notes and other negotiable cur
rency to the amount of $4,000, WAS
Mrs. ckwell, of New York No
clue has been discovered as to the
whereabouts OF the burglars who stole
the ewelry and money.
George ~ Derbyshre, commandant
of cadets at Wetmore College, Mis-
souri,, was injured in a football game
there few days ago and he is paralyz-
ed as result of injury to his spine.
Ellis father, Msj. ]. H. Derbyshire, OF
Richmond, has gone to Wetmore to see
his son. Young Derbyshire was captain
of cadets at the Virginia Military Insti
;ute, and went from there upon gradu
alton to take the position at Wetmore.
A dispatch from San Isidro, Luzon,
says General Lawton is giving his
personal attention to getting Doats con-
tanning subsistence and ammunition
stores up the Rio Grande, but they are
still four miles away. 1t ia serious
problem to undertake to supply the
troops here, as the water is too shallow
for launches. Twenty American pris-
oners are reported to have been moved
north from San Isidro two days ago.
There are reports that the West
Virginia Central and Pittsburg Rail.
road may be extended through the
mountains of that State to the Virginia
line, whence it will be pushed on to a
connection with the Chesapeake and
Ohio at or near Ronceverte, W. Va.
By an arrangement with the Chesa.
peake and Ohio, it is stated, the tracks
OF the former company are TO be used
by the West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg to Newport News.
In Washington yesterday Archbishop
Chapelle, of New Orleans, apostolic
delegate to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
PHILIPPINES, gave out a statement in
answer to General Funston's state
| ment. made in An address TO the SILL
dents of Stanford University, that if
Congress would drive out the friars and
confiscate every inch of church prop.
erty the bottom would drop out of the
instruction within one week; the in
habitants of Luzon are completely un.
der the church." He takes issue with
the sentiment attributed to General
Funston and says: "This is the de-
mand Of the insurgents, who are now
torturing captured cericals, but not of
the natives" He asks justice for the
friars, and says they helped the Fill.
pnos. In bis vindication of the Catho
lie Church in the Philippines, the
Archbishop cites Protestant authorities
to show the good work done by the
| friars.
WANT TO Buy RAILROADS.&C. dis
patch from Tifin, Ohio, says: 'Dr. W
M. Starr, Richard Young, II. L. Frye
and R. w. Brown, stated to be capital
lists and representatives of capitalists, of
Washington, D. c., and Mr. Frank E..
| Anderson, of Alexandria, Va, in COM