Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

General Gomez has decided to de-
clare in favor of the American protec-
torate until Cuba is pacified.
1t is understood that General George
w. Davis is to be the military COVER
nor of Porto Rico to succeed Gen. Guy
Y. Henry
The workingmen's dinner, the third
of the big Jefferson celebrations, was
held in New York last night, with
about l 800 diners present, and speech
es by Colonel William J. Bryan and
others.
The Florida senatorial contest
closed yesterday by the election of
James p. Taliaferro, of Jacksonville,
on the first ballot taken by the legisla-
ture in joint session. The final vote
stood Taliaferro SO; Pascoe 80; Call 6;
Clark /; paired 2.
Representatives Sherman, OF New
York, and Hopkins, of Illinois, are the
leading candidates for the Speakership
OF the House. AS heretofore stated Mr..
Reed will resign his seat in Congress to
enter into business connection in New
York.
Town and village elections were held
throughout Illinois yesterday. In
nearly all cases the issues were purely
local, but the democrats made good
gains throughout the State. Pana's
mayor was elected on a platform
opposing the importation of negro
labor.
The makers of the counterfeit 500
silver certificate, the most dangerous
form of bad money ever discovered by
l the secret service officers OF the Treas
ury Department, were arrested on Fri
day in Philadelphia. Accomplices OF
the engravers were arrested in Lancas-
ter, Pa, yesterday.
The President, after consultation
with members of his Cabinet, yesterday
decided not TO organize for the present
the volunteer army authorized by Con-
gress. General Otis was instructed to
arrange for the return to the United
| states of the volunteers in the Philip
pines. General Otis will be reinforced
Immediately, however, as 10000 men
are to be sent him.
! AT Atlantic City yesterday U. S. Sen.
ator J. <. Jones denied that he intend
4 ed resigning the craftsmanship of The
{ democratic national committee. Sem
ator Joness son stated that if his father
was we'll enough he will leave for Eu-
rope some time next week. He will
1 spend a portion of the summer at Carls-
bad, Germany.
A proposition has been advanced by
certain medical men and medical
| journals recently for the creation of q
new cabinet office, the purpose of which
would be to guard more carefully the
public health. The officer would be
| designated either as the Surgeon-Gen.
eral of the United States or as the Sec
rotary of the Public Health.
! United States Senator Henry NJ.
| Teller and Congressman John f. Shat
roth, in statements published in Denver
Yesterday, emphatlcally declare ID
favor of maintaining the silver repub-
lican organization, not only in Colorado
but throughout the Union. They say
that the silver question will be the par
amount issue in 1900.
| Four designs of the $4,000 Lafayette
dollars authorized by Congress for the
/ purpose of defraying the cost OF a ped
estal and completing the work OF
erecting in the city of Paris a monu-
ment to General Lafayette have been
| received by Secretary of the Treasury
Gage from the director of the mint in
| Philadelphia.
1t is rumored that the Southern
will soon have on its hands war which
would cause its fight of former years
with the Seaboard Air Line to pale into
insigniGcance. The Louisville and
| Nashville is to be the Soutnern's new
opponent. The prize is the trade of the
far south. 1t is reported that the
Louisville and Nashville has about Sc
cured control OF the Mobile and Ohio.
To meet this movement of the Louis
Vile and Nashville the Southern has
recently bought or leased the Biru1ing-
ham and Mobile, and it is announced
that it will build from Mobile TO New
Orleans.
| Il became known in New York Tues
dav that Robert Mazet, chairman OF
tho investigating committee that is
turning tlo cearchlights on lis public
and private affairs "a Richard Croker
| and other Tammsny leaders, haa been
! divorced for three months. The testi-
monv discloses that Mrs Mazet was dis
| covered at the Ashland House on the
afternoon Ct August S, 1898, in the
company of Nelson J. Parker, of New
Brunswick, N. ]. He is widower
and a member of one of the Oldest and
most prominent families OF his city.