Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-14
NEWS OF The Day.
The baseball season has opened

German newspapers call for rapid
increase in the imperial navy, so IS to
be better equipped to deal with the Sa.
moan problem.
General Lawton's expedition moved
twelve miles farther along the shore OF
Laguna de Bay, near Manila, and cap
tured two towns.
The Paris Eclair states that NJ. Ira
rieux. former Minister of Justice, told
the Court OF Cessation that the person
referred to in famous Dreyfus note as
THAT dog Of a d. was named Du.
bois and not Dreyius.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has donated
1000 TO the library fund of the Vir-
GINA Mechanics Institute Mr.. Car
negie has also offered to give the last
$4,000 OF fund Of 100000 for the
erection OF a suitable building for the
institute and its school of technology.
The jury in the case of Col. G. P.
Austin, charged with criminal assault
upon Bertha Tappin, failed 10 agree
upon verdict last night at Newport
News, and the jury was discharged. An
other jury will be impaneled and a sec
ond trial begun on Monday next.
Wooster ir., the famous jumper who
won the prizes in pony classes ut Up
perviIle, Leesburg and Manassas last
season, owned by Mr.. II. O. Rogers and
Mr.. K. T. Hempstone, Of Leesburg,
was sold to a gentleman in New York
last week The price was a handsome
one.
General Joseph Wheeler was at the
White House yesterday. He said that
ne desires active duty in the Philip
pines, and, if not assigned to active du-
ty he will resign. He expects to resign
before the Fifty-sixth Congress meets,
TO take his seat in the House OF Repre-.
.sentatives.
The annual meeting Of the American
Catholic bishops, directors of the Amer
lean College of Rome, was held ar Car,
dinal Gibbons residence in Baltimore
yesterday. At its close it was stated
that only routine business bad been
transacted.
The re-establishment of peace with
Spain makes radical reduction in the
government expenses, so far as they re-
late to the pay OF the army. Under
the law enlisted men in the army re-
ceive an increase of 20 per cent. in the
time of war This additional pay
ceased on the l1th inst.
Several months ago the Governor OF
Indiana paroled number OF convicts
in the North prison who were afflicted
with tuberculosis, fearing that the dis
ease was contagious. The results have
fully justified his action, as every man
of the twelve paroled is dead.
The Samoan Commission will sail On
the L. S. naval transport Badger, leav-
ing San Francisco on the 25th instant.
This arrangement waa made yesterday
after Baron Speck Won Sternberg, FRS
Secretary OF the German Embassy, had
called on Secretary Hay and advised
him OF his appointment as the German
member OF the high commission.
Hiram Hall, a prominentand wealthy
planter, of Cumberland county, Tenn,
was hanged at Crossvile, Tenn, yes
terday morning. On August is, 1897,
Hall murdered his wife by drowning
her in a well. He was arrested and
escaped lynching, the sheriff guard
ing the prisoner in the woods, where
they remained four days. Hall walked
TO the galows with cigar in his mouth,
exhibiting wonderful nerve. He made
confession from the gallows, in which
he charged that his mother urged MIN
to commit the deed. She did not like
HALLS wife.
The reports concerning Secretary Al
GERS resignation. which nave been cur
rent for some time, now announce that
the Secretary will retire from his Office
within few days, and that he placed
his resignation in the hands OF the
President before he left for Cuba. 1t is
feared if he remains in office that
the criticisms may be such that Sc
rious effect will result in the fail cleo
tons in Ohio. Assistant Secretary OF
War Meikeljohn is mentioned IS his
successor, and there is some talk OF
General Horace Porter taking his place
and Whitelaw Reid becoming Ambas-
sador to France.