Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-16
NEWS OF Tie DA1.

Sixteen OF the twenty breweries OF
Baltimore are understood to have en-
tered combination 10 0e known as the
Maryland Brewery Company.
New York wholesale and retail whis-
Ky dealers are organizing a company.
with 100000 stock aud $500, 900
bonds, to fight TWO liquor trusts.
TIE disabled Ham burR-America
Line steamer Bulgaria, supposed to
have oeen lost. mas been sighted aud
her p .ssengers have been taken CT.
The graduation exercises of the first
class OF cedets took place yesterday at
West Point prematurely, in order to
supply officers for the enlarged army.
The President has given assurances
to republican leaders in Congress that
an extra session will be called if
the army reorganization bill is not
passed.
Compressed air as motive power for
street cars mas received an impetus in
New York because OF the alleged fail
ure OF the underground electric trolley
system during the storm.
Commodore John W. Philip, who
commanded the battleship Texas dur
! iug the war with Spain, was yesterday
presented SWORD aud Bible by the
school children OF Texas.
Major Charles Alexander Snowden
died yesterday afternoon in Baltimore
at the Church Home and Inirmarv.
| He was in the sixty ninth year of his
/ sge. He served in the Confederate
army.
The New York State chemist has
found that counterfeit co1ee beans are
made Of dough, that plaster of paris
and white clay are used 10 adulterate
-four, and parattine is g component part
Of q mixture sold for butter.
Bishop Christie, OF Vancouver, mas
been transferred to the archi-ep;scopal
see OF Oregon. Bishop Carlisle takes
the place OF Arcnb SHOP ". h. Gross,
OF Oregon. VINO died 10 Baltimore No
vemOer II, 1898 He recently succeed
ed Bisnop Jonu Nicholas Lemmeus IS
Bishop OF Vancouver.
President Mckinley and party left
Washington for Boston at 5:25 o'clock
yesterday afternoon over the Pennsyl-
| vania road. The party consists OF the
President, Secretaries Alger, Long, and
Bliss, Postmaster General Smith, Rep
resentative Grosvenor, Mr.. Porter, Sec
rotary 10 the President and others
The McEnergy resolution, passed re-
Gently by the Senate, was formally pre-
senred to the House yesterday. Speak
er Reed at ouc4 referred it 10 the House
mmittee on foreign affairs, OF which
Representative Hit IS chairman. 1t
| is not vet certain whether that COM
mittee will take any action in reference
to it.
Prime Minister Dupuy, OF France,
has made wager with N. Binder, u
member of the Chamber OF Deputies,
that if the governments trial revision
bill passes tue Senate the Court OF Cas-
=ation will give judgment in the Drey-
fus affair by March 80. The stake is 6
dinner Of twenty covers. 1t is stated
that the court has TO examine 1000
documents.
The temperature 10 Florida is gradu.
ually moderating. The weather now
prevailing will allow the frozen trees to
thaw out gradually, and in many cases
entire groves may be saved. Core
spondents from down the State wire
that while the orange groves are badly
damaged, yet there is hope for saving
numbers of old groves and pineapple
fields. Old growers say that the dam
age is less than at first feared.
The largest fire which has visited
Knoxville since the confagration which
came near burning up the business part
OF the city in April, 1897, occurred
Tuesday evening, when the plant Of
the Greer Machinery Company, one OF
;he largest OF its kind liz the South, and
the White Trunk Company building,
together with the contents OF each,
vent up in smoke aud flames. The
loss is estimated at between 200 and
100000