Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

don, yesterday before the Archbishops
of Canterbury and York.
The Supreme Lodge of the Indepen-
dent Order of Mechanics will convene
in biennial session in the city of York,
Pa, this evening at o'clock and con.
tinue its sessions for several days.
The government has been notified
that the Spanish government will sell
at public auction at Havana the float.
ing dry dock of steel which was there
when the peace protocol was signed.
Orders were issued by the Navy De-
partment yesterday preparatory to the
assignment of Rear Admiral John G.
Watson to succeed Admiral Dewey in
command of the Asatic naval station.
1t is reported in Cleveland, o., that
a railroad trust is forming by which the
Baltimore and Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Vanderbilt roads will control all lines
between the Eaea and Chicago.
On account OF the demand by the
Governor of Colorado that volunteers OF
that State be sent home at once, Adjt.
Gen. Corbin says that orders have been
issued for the return of all volunteers
in the Philippines as fast as transports
can be provided.
The bill repeating the act which pro-
vided for the holding of constitution
al convention in Alabama, after having
passed the House last week, passed the
Senate yesterday evening by vote OF
10 to y, every member of the Senate
being in his seat and voting.
a dispatch from Manila says: Gen
eral Luna, commander of Aguinaldo' IS
Filipino army, has been seriously
| wounded, both in the abdomen and the
shoulder, and 5000 men, the flower OF
his army, have openly revolted saying
| they will take orders only from Aguln-
aldo himself.
Mr.. Andrew Carnage says he in
tends to spend the remainder Of his life
in distributing his millions for purpos-
Is which will do the most good. Mr..
Carnegie says no man should continue
to amass millions after he has passed
three score years and that he will rest
[ from the work and worry of making
money.
Philip Armour, the well-known pack
er of Chicago, was stricken with an
! acute attack of Bright's disease just
+ as the steamer Graf Walderse was leav-
ing her dock at Hamburg yesterday
At the request of Mr.. Armour's physi-
clan the steamer returned to Cuxhaver
and Mr.. Armour was taken bv rail tC
Hamburg.
A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba
says the rainy season has commenced
uecessitating the cessation of all out
side labor. The work on pnhlic i'm
provements, which was delayed by the
orders from Havana regarding the ex
penditures of the revenues, is now seri
ously interrupted by the rains. There
is slight increase Of sickness among
| the troops.
Bishop Potter, of New York, receiv-
ed yesterday second letter from Rev
| B. F. DeCosta, rector of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of st. John the
Evangelist, which, it is thought, may
prevent the ordination of DR.. Briggs
! without a formal investigation Of the
charges against him. DR.. DeCosta
says he is teaching contrary to stand
ards of the P. E. Church.
The bodies of Joseph Harnby and
| Mary Vlsck, daughter of farmer
were buried in the same grave at Bee.
mer, Neb., yesterday. The girl killed
herself because she was convinced she
could not be cured OF al ailment from
which she was suffering. Harnby, to
whom the girl was engaged, called at
the Ylack home and asked permission
to see the remains. He entered the
death chamber, and Immediately shot
himself, dying instantly.
Archbishop Ireland was the orator
Yesterday at the annual celebration ct
Orleans, France, of the city's deliver
ance by Joan of Arc. He declared that
there should be no surprise because q
foreigner pronounced a eulogy over
Joan of Arc, for she did not belong to
France alone, but to all humanity. He
said he rejoiced at the opportunity OF
assuring France OF his uDalterable love
and gratitude, she having been the
country Of his youth and the school OF
his soul.
a dispatch from Mount Vernon, NY,
SAYS: Coroner Archibald T. Banning,
| made an investigation into the death OF
Mrs. Charlotte NJ. Barguet, who died
while under the treatment of Mrs. Clar.
ence Fowler, a Christian Science healer.
AS result the jury found that Mrs.
Barguei came to her death by dropsy,
which could have been cured had the
patient received proper medical
treatment, and Mrs. Fowler, Liston
Barguet, jr., and Miss Ethel Barguet
were found guilty OF culpable negli.
| gence. The jury recommended that
action be taken to punish them.
William Parish, a negro, eighteen
years of age, was shot and killed yes
terday by John Myers, white. Myers,
it is said, caught the negro attempting
felonious assault upon Mrs. Kate
Haier, an aged white woman OF Sui.
phur Springs Hollow, near Cumberland,
Md. As Parish, after being discovered
started to run away, Myers fred and al
most instantly killed him. Myers says
he was informed that Parish attempted
similar assault upon Mrs. Mes
earlier in the afternoon, but was fright
ened off. The coroner's jury at II
o'clock last night returned verdict of
| justifable homicide, which is accepted
generally with satisfaction.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
The annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans will begin In