Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-01
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A storm in Jamaica has caused
great damage to the crops.
Henry Adams Nicely, bishop OF tine
Pcojes AIT Episcopal diocese OF Maine,
died 1t 8 o'clock lasc night.
A French expedition of 33 men has
been attacked by natives near Lake
Chad, Africa, and extermiuated.
Letters from Virginia, North Caro-.
Ina and Tennessee indicate the plenti,
fitness OF psrtridees, rabbits, deer and
other game.
Before December l Camp Meade, Pa,
a, iii be thing OF the past, the War
DEPARTMENT having decided to re.
l!uquish control OF the place.
Ia TIE revolution in Colombia two
armed government vessels are reported
to have sunk seven insurgent vessels,
one going down with TWO hundred SOL
6iers.
Great Britain is reported to have Of
Tered Germany the Gilbert Islands and
ne British part OF the Solomon Islands
/ q return for the German interest in
samoa.
Before the Broadway Athletic Club,
New York, last night. Joe Cans, col
red. OF Baltimore, defeated George Nc
Fadden on points at the end twenty
FIVE rounds OF furious fighting.
Alfred Bit, the South African bill
lionaire is in Berlin working on plans
for the construction OF telegraph line
in German East Africa He is said to
oe the rlcnest man in the world. He
made his money at Kimberley.
Commissioned Wilson, OF the litter.
nal Revenue Bureau, has decided that
an express company which buys or sells
foreign money or exchange is subject to
the special tax of $50 year, as brok-
5r, for eacn Office at which i. transacts
such business.
a number OF coastwise sailing vessels
were driven ashore by the furious north
a., gale along the New Jersey and
Virgin coas.s yesterday and the wind
reached velocity Of sixty miles an
nour. The storm also did great damage
on the Carolina beaches.
a sensation was caused in the Span
ism Senate yesterday by the declaration
of Count d'Almenss that, owing to the
ignorance of the Spanish-American
neace treaty commissioners, three is
lands OF the Philippine group, the two
| Batanes aud Calayan Islands, both
north of Luzon, were not included in
the scope of the treaty. These islands,
be asserted, ought to be made the basis
OF negotiations for the liberation of the
Spanish prisoners.
Having officisted at the weddings OF
his three sons, the three sons, all clergy.
mep, will return the happy service by
officiating al the wedding Of the Rev.
Berjam s. Everett, at Rhode Hall,
GEAR New Brunswick, \. J., in the Sec
ond week of November. 1t will be the
clergyman's third marriage. He is six.
" years OF age. His bride, Miss Mount,
is thirty years old. Miss Mount is q
school teacher. All the wives of the
Everetts of two generations have been
school teachers.
High easterly gales prevailed yester-
day along the Middle Atlantic and
Southern New England coasts, and
aortheas:erly to northerly and north
westerly gales, diminishing in force,
we're noted along the South Atlantic
coast. The highest wind velocity re-
ported during Tuesday was 60 miles an
hour, from the northeast, at Sandy
Hook. The rain area attending this
storm has extended over New York and
Naw England, and rain has been fol.
lowed by clearing weather in the South
Atlantic States.