Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-06
NEWS OF TIE DAT.

The new Spanish cabinet, headed by
Senior Silvela. as premier, took the
oath of office yesterday.
General Gomez has submitted to
GovernorGeneral Brooke an estimate
that the Cuban army numbers $4,000
men.
Queen Marie Henriette, of Belgium,
who ig suffering from pneumonia, had
relapse, and it was feared last night
that she was dying.
Mrs. Edward 0. Wolcott, wife of the
United States Senator from Colorado,
has begun proceedings for divorce
from her husband, on the ground of
incompatibility Of temper.
General Miles, it is stated, will IN
dertake to prove before the court of in
quiry that canned roast meat rejected
| by the French government was brought
hack to the United States and Issued to
American soldiers as food.
West Virginia University, at Morgan
town, suffered severe loss early Sat
urday morning in the total destruction
OF Mechanical Hall. The loss will
reach $4,000 in money and that in the
| way of papers and memoranda cannot
be calculated
The Bombay correspondent of the
London Morning Post says: The bu.
bonic plague is raging here with IN
parallelled severity. According to the
official returns, there were 972 deaths
last week, but these quite underrate
the mortality"
The appointment of Prince Henry OF
| Prussia to the command OF the German
cruiser squadron over Admiral Won
Diedrichs Is said to have been an ex'
preston of Emperor Williams per-
sonal desire TO maintain friendly rela-
tions with the United States.
The omnibus claims bill was signed
by the President on Saturday. 1t ap-
propriates So 100000 for the payment
Of claims against the government
which the court Of claims had APP
proved. 1t includes French spoliation
claims, as we'll ss claims for the de
strucJion of property during the civil
| war.
The Pennsylvania newspaper flyer
which is due in Altoona, Pa, ct 7:55 a
m., was wrecked 80 miles east of that
city at O'Clock yesterday morning by
landslide at Ardenheim. Twenty
cars and three locomotives were broker
up, two of the train crew killed and two
injured. The thirty passengers on the
| dyer escaped almost without scratch
As result ofan encounter with two
burglars, whom he surprised while at
tempting to crack safe in the office O
Scannell & Wholey, in the Aver City
district, at Lowell, Mass, Saturday
; night, Reserve Officer John F. Heai1
now lies at deaths door, suffering from
three bullet wounds and terribly bat
tered. His head assailants are still a
large.
The large steel Italian bark Mar
gherita, which had finished discharg
ing her cargo at the foot Of York street
Baltimore, was capsiAed by sudder
squall yesterday evening and severa
of her crew narrowly escaped drown
ing. Six fell into the water, but were
rescued. One of the vessels yard;
crashed through the roof OF an adjoin
ing building.
The recent prophecy of Cecil Rhode;
that Mexico will be absorbed by the
United States has excited much com
ment in Mexico City. Ell TEMPO, the
organ of the clerical party, has fol-
years been predicting what it calls the
pacific conquest of Mexico by the
Americans. 1t says: This typical
English imperialst throws of the
mask and shows the real aim Of the
Anglo Saxons, who seek to conquer the
world"