Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Inc sundry civil Dill was passed by
the Senate shortly after II O'Clock last
night.
The French Senate yesterday adopt
ed the principles of the governments
trial revision bill.
The First Maryland regiment was
mustered out OF the national service
yesterday at Augusta, Ga.
Commander Taussig, of the gunboat
Bennington, has taken charge of the
Island OF Guam as governor.
The battleship Oregon and the water
distilling ship and collier Iris sailed from
Honolulu for Manila, Via Guam, on
February 20.
Two soldiers who went to Fort Nc
Henry near Baltimore, from Indianapo-
lis, are thought to have smallpox and
have been isolated.
Senate and House conferrees yester-
day reached an agreement on ali points
of difference in the navy personnel bill.
ana it will become law.
A correspondent in Manila cables
that General Rios, according to report,
offered the Fiipinos 100000 for the
release of the Spanish prisoners, but
the offer was refused, the Insurgents
asking s. 100000.
Rear Admiral Schley was the guest
of honor at banquet given at the Ho-
tel Rennert, in Baltimore, last night,
and medal was presented to him in
the name OF the State of Maryland
commemorative Of his services in the
war with spain.
The majority report of the Senate
committee on the charges OF bribery
against Mr.. Hanna in the Ohio senator.
ial election declares that the charges
are not sustained. The minority report
recommended further investigation by
the Senate committee.
At Kansas City, Mo, last night
young Jesse James, son OF the notoTi-
Gus bandit whose name he bears, was
adiudGed not guilty of completely in
the robbery of a Missouri Pacific ex
press train at Leeds, in the outskirts Of
Kansas City, last September.
The rebels at Malabon fired upon the
cruiser Caliao from the jungle on Mon
! day while Admiral Dewey was visiting
the Monadnock. Three shells were
, dropped by the monito. into the NAL
abon Church, demolishing the struc-
ture and killing q number of rebels,
who were inside.
The Rome correspondent OF the Lon
, don Daily News says that ali signs 90
TO show that the next papal conclave
will be divided into two factions, one
| favorable TO q simply religions Pope
while the other will wholly advocate
! the election of a successor who will
strive to use and extend Pope Leo's po-
litical power.
]. Madison Wells, former governor Of
Louisiana, former president of the
Louisiana Returning Board, and the
man whose action on the Returning
Board made Rutherford y. Hayes
F.! President of the United States, died yes
terday at his old home, AT Lecompte,
La, aged ninetY.one. He was born on
the plantation where he died.
a dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa,
says: Congressman Sibley has return
ed TO the headquarters of the democrats
at the Bolton House and last night
gave out most remarkable series Of
letters from democratic United States
( Senators and Representatives advising
the re.elec ion OF Senator Quay if il Is
impossible to elect a democrat as his
successor.
The contest between Tommy West
and JACK Bonner, which took place at
the Lenox Athletic Club in New York
last night, was brought to q sudden
termination at the beginning Of the
eighth round. Bonner's seconds had
rubbed oil OF mustard over their mans
gloves, and the fumes of it almost
blinded West and White, the referee.
| The latter ordered the men TO their
corners and declared West the winner.
At the request OF the German gov
eminent, communicated to the State
! Department through Ambassador Won
i Holeben, the President has consented
to take under the protection OF the
United States the lives and property of
German subjects in the Philippines.
ALI German warships will be Withdrawn
from the Philippines. This action Is
prompted, it is believed, by desire to
prove unequivocally that Germany
has no interests or designs in the Phil
| ippines hostile to those OF the United
| States
An unsuccessful effort was made to
confirm the nominations of Admirais
Sampson and Schley in the executive
session OF the Senate yesterday. Sen
ator Butler, of North Carolina, made
vigorous attack on Admiral Sampson.
He reierreD with special emphasis to
the fact that Admiral Sampson had
himself been responsible for Admiral
Schley remaining at Cienfuegos. MIR.
Butler charged that the dispatch max
| ing this order had been suppressed,
and he asserted that it must have been
concealed in SIMPSONS behalf.
CEDED TO AMERICA.
The Spanish government had rar-
row escape from defeat in the Senate