Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| 70 Chou Flu, at the entrs nee OF Tout
ing Lake, China, has been opened to
foreign trade.
A German punitive expedition 10 the
Cameroons, West Africa, is said to have
recently killed 200 cannibals.
Great Britain mas acquiesced in the
American desire for assurances regard
ing the "open door" in China.
The Bank of Athens, Ga, was PLACED
in the hands of a receiver yesterday.
The stockholders say the in stitution is
solvent.
The national republican committee
will meet in Washington on December
Is ia order to fix time and place for
| holding the next national convention.
| General William Nee. Dye, minister
OF war to the King of Korea and ex-chief
of police in Washington, D. O., died in
Muskegon, Mich, last night. He re.
turned from Korea May 5 of this year.
| The Salt Lake Tribune states that
some arrangement has been made be.
tween Roberts and the republican mem.
bers OF Congress to allow him 10 be
tsworn in and then to resign without
any further action in the matter.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis. widow of the
late Confederate leader, arrived at
Princeton, N. j., from New York yes
terdsy and is now being entertained at
Princeton Inn. Mrs. Davis is visiting
her grandson, Charles Hayes, who is a
student at the Lawrenceville school.
The case of Prof. Arthur @. Nc
Giffert, of Union Theological Seminary,
who is charged with holding views that
are at variance with the doctrines of
the Presbyterian Church, came before
the New York Presbytery yesterday,
and was referred to the General AS
sembly.
Richard Croker will shortly sail for
England. He will be away several
months but will return in time to per.
sonally take charge of the New York
campaign. He is we'll satisfied with the
recent election, says that Bryan will be
(, renominated and that the democrats
will win in New York, Ohio, Kentucky,
Nebraska and Maryland.
The recent meeting of Bishops held
Lin Philadelphia, decided to create q
| new Roman Catholic diocese in Central
Pennsylvania, composed of portions OF
the Harrisburg and Pittsburg dioceses.
Schuylkill and Carbon COUNTLESS of the
Philadelphia diocese are to be added to
the Harrisburg diocese. No bishop has
yet been appointed for the new diocese.
When Congress reassembles Secre-
tary Long and Rear Admiral Charles
O'Neil, chief of the Bureau OF Ordnance,
will make determined effort to secure
the removal of the limit of cost-$300-
imposed by Congress upon armor pur.
| chased for men-of-war, and the appro.
priation of sufficient money to buy
Krupp armor for at least the three bat
tleships and three armored cruisers
projected.
Steamship people believe the rush
for the Paris Exposition has alreaey be-.
gun by way OF the Mediterranean and
that many people will look over Italy
and the south OF Europe before going
to Paris. ALI the steamship lines will
be prepared to accommodate the thou
sands of travellers who promise to visit
the show. II necessary, increased tour
ist cabins will be built within the cargo
space and on the decks of freight car.
riers.
1t is said on high authority that under
the existing conditions President Nc
Kipley cannot appoint civil governor
for Cuba or Porto Rico even if ne 30 de-
sired. There is no law, so an official
said yesterday, by which the President
could make such an appointment. The
same official contended that all the
islands are held by military power, as a
result of the war. and that until Con.
gress meets and enacts laws for the
government Of the islands they must re
main in the hands of the army.
On Friday night the Belgian steamer
Belgique, from Antwerp for Alexan-
dria, foundered off the Casquet Rocks,
near the Island Of Alderney, the scene
OF the tragic disaster which last March
bsfell the London and Southwestern
Railway Company's passenger steamer
Stella. The night was stormy. A boat
1 was launched with sixteen men, but
FIVE of these died of exhaustation and
three others were drowned in the en-
deavor of the ship Saint Kilds to rescue
them. Eighteen persons. including the
captain, out of totel crew of twenty
six, ara believed to have been drowned.
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