Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-15
NEWS OF TFK paY

Cuban agiiator= ara zr.asiug toe
people against tie : n -ric4us: snc ciI.
culsr5 intended Q cfee.- dis=eusion are
beipg distributed.
Portable mortars Will BE- sent TO Ger
eIsl Oi= for Use against IL Filipinos.
They will IRE shraI url shall and viii
BE- effective IN clear 9 ire CT :.
Tae State Department bas instructed
our Minister al Pekin 70 use his good
oSca 10 behalf .; American railroad in-
terests 10 China and TO protec. them
from Injury.
The Beer government bs- SEQ TO
Washington e petition. signed by 9 90
ouilapder=, declaring mat the govern
ment Of the Trsnsvaal IL not oppressive
or uusati5 factory.
Admiral Sanpson aud Cap 20 Chad
WICK fled 10 the Cou.; OF Claims yester'
day z claim .or pre- money FOR the
ca otnre OF the Z ins Mercedes and the
Intanta Maria Teresa.
Tnree-cen, car fare has gone into
effect il Detroit, but the newspapers
aud leading citizens still oppose Cover.
nor Pingree'= plans for municipal
ownership OF the street railways
Commissioner Wilson, OF the inter
nal revenue, mas Issued circular, so'
solutely prohibiting banks from afi1'
ing stamps to checks uustapped when
presented, and requiring them TO re-
turn the same 70 the drawers.
The national fete day il Paris was
the occasion for q ine military display,
OF which Msjor Marchsnj and MS
Sondane=a were the feature. There was
great popular demonstration in favor
OF the President aud the army.
a Canton, O., real estate dealer has
bsen ordered to buy for President Nc
Kinley the home in which he aud Mrs.
Mckinley began housekeeping. The
sane residence was used 70 receive dele
cations in the campaign OF 1896.
Its low reported that General Alger
will cease 70 be Secretary OF War Oh
Tuesday, January ,, 1900, and that
General Horace Porter, now Ambas=a-
dar 10 France, will then-unles= the
Presidents present plsr is changed
become Secretary.
Cigarettes, the doctors say, killed
James Mcdonald, OF New York, -
years old, who was found dead yester-
day 10 the bathroom at the home Of his
parents, 1875 Kent street, Greenpoint.
Nicotine poison weakened his heart
and death came in an instant.
George NJ. Valentine, cashier OF the
Middlesez county bank, OF Perth Am
boy, \ J., which was closed yesterday
"a. surrendered himself and Is low ii
Jail, on account OF shortage in the
banks funds, which mas been vsrioualy
estimated al the way to $l65 900.
The cases growing out of the murder
OF Louis Rosenstein and his wife, Dora
at Slidell, Montgomery county, on May
- last, came to az end in the Circuit
Court OF Frederick county, Nd, yester-
day afternoon at 3:25 O'Clock. a. that
hour the jury in tue case John Alfred
Brown brought in verdict OF murder
10 the first degree and Chief Judge Nc
Sherry sentenced him to death.
A dispatch from Austin, lex, Ssy=
Il is the opinion OF reliable physiciaas
and sanitary experts VINO have been in
ves;igating the condition Of affairs in
the lately Inundated region CT Texas
that an epidemic OF sickness il certain
to follow the recent disaster. 1t is now
almost impossible for human being
TO live in the blighted district owing TO
the horrible stencil that risea from de.
caying dead animals and vegetation.