Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-04
NEWS OF TIE DAY.


The treaty for the partition of the Ss-
moan Islands was signed at the State
Department on Saturday afternoon.
There was little ceremony connected
with the signing.
Postmaster Smith in his annual re-
port has plea to Congress to stop the
abuse of second-class mail privileges
which he Gays results in an annual waste
of upwards of S20,0OO,000.
Rev. Henry NJ. Sherman, aged sixty
three years. and Mrs. Mark Leaveu-
worth, widow in the Thrift S and
worth 1000 900, were married on Sat
urday at Bridgeport, Conn.
Fearing that the spirit of disaffection
in Cuba msy cause trouble, the Ha.
vana Commercial Company is placing
armed guards on its plantations. and
will apply to General Brooke for troops.
Judge Jones, of Contra Costa, CAL,
has decided that Lucy Hite, an Indian
woman, has proved that she was the
wife of John R. Hite, the mining mil
lionaire, and allowed her counsel fees
and alimony.
The indications are that Emperor
Williams naval bill will pass the Reich
stag. German public opinion over
whelmiogIy favors it. A continued de-
crease in Germany's revenues may, how
ever, imperil the bill.
In his annual report Secretary Long
recommends an addition OF IS warships
to the navy, and urges that the thanks
OF Congress be extended to Admiral
SAMPSON and the officers and men Of
the North Atlantic squadron for their
service in Santiago.
Daniel Talon. Lord Mayor of Dub
lin; his secretary, Thomas Kennedy and
John Redmond, M. P. ssiled for home
from New York on the Campania on
Saturday. They took back with them
about 10000 in American money,
which VIII Do ussd 10 saving Parnell's
house and erecting monument to him
in Dublin.
An overheated furnace caused cor
siderable damage at the new Methodist
Protestant Church. 10 Cumberland.
Md, yesterday evening. A fireman
broke memorial widow and upon be-
ing upbrsided by a church trustee,
struck the latter in the face, knocking
him down, all happening in the church.
| This caused much indignation.
The army ard navy, represented by
the football teams of West Point aud
Annapolis, met on Franklin Field 10
] Philadelphia on Saturday evening, for
J the first game between the two acade-
mics since 1898. The army won by Il
score of II to 5, making two victories
out of the five games that the rival
| teams have played since 1890.
Lady Rose Leigh was married in Lon
don on Thursday to the Earl of Gotten
| ham, on whose account Colonel Leigh
| agreed to divorce her last May. The
decree was only made absolute on We'd
| nesday. Lady Rose is the deaghter of
the Marquis of Abergavenny and a sis
ter of L I'd William Nevill, who was
| sentenced for forgery. She is 33 years
| old and Cottenham %.
Between five and six o'clock yester-
day afternoon, six prison ers, all white,
charged with various ofIenses, from ar
son TO larceny, escaped from the coun-
ty Jail, at Towson, Nd. One prisoner,
charged with murder, declined to avail
himself of the opportunity to escape,
although his cell door WAS open and
the way of escape clear. The men are
still at-large this morning.
Rev. DR.. B. F. De Costa, until last
September rector of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of St. John the Evan
gelist, of New York, has entered the
Catholic Church. This step was pre-
dlcted by many persons when DR.. De
Costa resigned from the Episcopal miu-
istry and later from membership in the
church. Dr.. De Costa counts, among
the influences tending to his entering
the Catholic Church, the prayers of his
aunt, Sister ST. Clair, of the Ursuline
NUS, as we'll as the blessing he re-
ceived at the Vatican from Plus TX to
whom, with Mrs. De Costa, he was per-
sonally presented by Rev. DR.. Chatard,
of Baltimore, afterward Bishop of Vim
cennes. DR.. De Costa being married
man cannot look to the priesthood
but will lecture and pursue literary
work.