Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ropolitan handicap was won by Fill
Crane in 1894.
NJ. Camille Krantz has been appoint
ed French minister of war to succeed
M. de Freycinet, who resigned.
The appointment of receiver for
the Order of the Golden Chain was ask
ed for in Baltimore on Saturday.
1t is planned in New York to well
come Admiral Dewey home by an
elaborate dinner, costing 800 plate.
AS indemnity for the murder OF a
missionary France demands that China
shall give mining concessions valued at
100000.
A letter from Dawson says: THE
Yukon Sun estimates the total output
of the klondike region for the winter
OF 1S9S-99 at 100000.
1t is reported that movement is on
foot to organize combination of east
ern manufacturers of steel as an offset
to the western, or Frick combination.
Three mass-raeetings were held in
Chicago yesterday at which resolutions
were adopted endorsing the policy Of
of the national administration in the
Philippines.
1t is predicted by certain officials in
Havana that Lee will succeed Ludlow
in the control of the city while retain
ing his command in the new depart
ment of Havana and Pinar provinces.
Friends of Archbishop Ireland are
displeased at the bitter attack which
has been made upon him in France. 1t
is suggested that his sympathy with
"Americanism" is the cause Of the at
tack.
Cardinal Gibbons in his sermon at
the Cathedral in Baltimore yesterday
spoke of the recent divorce and mar
riage in New York society and said it
was crime against the law of Jesus
Christ.
The majority of Congressman in
Washington are opposed to an extra
session of Congress. They say they
will not be ready to legislate on finan-
cial or the Philippine question before
the regular session.
The village of Parkham, o., lost al
most its entire business section by fire
| Saturday afternoon. The telephone
office was burned out among the first,
so that no message for aid could be
sent out. Loss $4,000.
Prosecution of his works of phian-
! thropy will henceforth occupy all the
, time and attention of Mr.. Andrew Car
negie, and he will retire from the &C
tivities of the several gigantic indus
tries which he has founded, absorbed
and extended.
The Navy Department has made an
allotment OF the appropriation of the
funds of 100000 for the assistance of
the Daval militia of the State support
ing such organizations. Among the
States receiving appropriations is Vir-
GINA, 81, $3.50.
The United States cruiser Buffalo ar
rived at New York yesterday from Ma
Mia, after q very quick run of Al days,
which includes stops at Singapore, Port
Said and Gibraltar. The Buffalo
brought about 500 officers and men OF
Admiral Dewey's squadron.
The American advance column rest
ed at San Fernando, LuZon, yesterday.
It's next point of attack will be Bacolor.
The troops under Macarthur and Law
ton are exhausted by the campaign and
average fewer than fifty men to a COM
pany. Seven thousand insurgents are
intrenched at Bacolor, in MacArthur's
front.
At Wilmington, Del, on Saturday
Andrew G. Gray filed deed for GER
tain property in Pennsylvania, which
includes some land near DelawareCity,
from Effingham B. Morris, ct al, to
the Summit Branch Coal Company, for
81, 900, 900 and mortgage fer 81 400, 900
The deed required $500 in revenue
stamps.
About eighty fishermen and fully
three hundred women and children had
narrow escape yesterday afternoon
when a portion of the old iron pier at
Coney Island, n. Y, collapsed with a
crash. Fortunately no one was injured,
but the fishermen had many exciting
experiences before they were safe on
shore again.
The Havana owners of the principal
Cuban steamship lines met yesterday
and resolved to send two representa-.
tives to Washington with the request
that the companies be allowed to fly
the American flag, or, il that be i'm
possible, to have distinctive flag, SO
as to be able to engage in trade
with the United States and other
countries.
An attempt was made in Washington
on Saturday evening without success to
serve attachment papers on Rev. DR..
Wesley Reid Davis on account OF an
unpaid draft for $53 held by Mrs. May
Rosina Pratt, of New York. Her at
torney in Washington learned OF DR..
Davis's presence at police headquarters
Saturday and sent for a constable to
serve attachment papers upon him.
The doctor drove away in g carriage,
however, before the officer could eaten
him.
At the New England conference of
the A. NJ. E. Zion church in its session
in New Haven, Conn.,, on Saturday an
address was delivered by Bishop Wal
tiers, of Charleston, s. O., president OF
the Afro-American League on The
Condition of the Negroes in the South"
during which he said 'In spite OF all
the present lynchings. the thing for the
good negro to do is to trust in God,
make himself solid with tbs better
class of white people and await the re-
suit"
Forty thousand will be used as the