Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Germany is already equipped and
France will soon be equipped with
quick-fring artillery.
According to dispatch from New
York the tidewater prices of anthracite
coal have been advanced % cents ton
there.
1t is reported that Frederick D. IN
derwood, of st. Paul. will become gen.
eral manager of the Baltimore aud Ohio
railroad.
President Faure, addressing diplo-
matists who visited him yesterday,
spoke of efforts made by France to pre-
serve peace.
1t is said that Richard Croker has ar
ranged to reward colored democrats by
appointing them to the police force in
New York city.
Henry Watterson dominates Admiral
Dewey and Gen. Ftzhugh Lee for
president aud vice president on the
democratic ticket as "a platform in
themselves"
Indications are that Senator Quay
will win in the Pennsylvania repub-
lican caucus on Tuesday night, but
that the fight against him will be car
ried into the legislature.
! The Afro-American council on Sat
urday evening presented an address to
President Mckinley, urging action by
Congress in regard o the lynching Of
colored men in the South.
| An eruption of Mount Vesuvius has
/ occurred from the crater formed in
1875. Two streams of lava, each q
metres broad, have already reached the
slopes of Monte Somma, which Hanks
Mount Vesuvius on the north.
According to statistics compiled by
the Railway Age, not less than 3,0lS
miles of new railroad We're built in the
United States during 1898. The new
mileage of the year was greater than
that of any previous year since 1892.
The chief eunuch of the Sultan Of
Turkey has just died with a suddenues-
characteristic of the Golden Horn. He
left Jewels and plate worth 100000
besides 100000 in money, sil OF which
passes, under al old law, into the Sui
tan's treasure box.
| Rev. DR.. John o. Keener, president
of the Southern University, died al
Greensboro, Alabama, on Saturday
from the effects of q stroke of paralysis
| Rev. DR.. keener was a son Of Bishop
John G. Keener, the venerable senior
bishop of the Methodist EpiscopaI
Church South, who was retired at bis
own request by the general conference
which met in Baltimore last May.
The Assabet Manufacturing Compa-
nv OF Boston, with WOODEN mills at May
nard, has made an assignment. The
concern is one OF the largest WOODEN
manufacturing companies in the coun-
try. Liabilities, according to the July
statements amounted to $3,O10, l6l, IN
Guiding 81 100000 capital stock. This
statement also showed debts aggregat-
ing 81 sol ,S29.
A telegram from Bayonne, France
Gays the Carlist agitation in Spain i:
taking a new form. Agents of Don
Carlos are trying to induce the people
to engage in movement in the Spanish
Basque provinces tending toward The
reconstruction;o the ancient kingdom
oil Navarro. The inhabitants OF the
French Basque privinces, the diSpatcf
adds, regard the movement favoraoly
10 his New Years sermon st the
Cathedral in Baltimore, yesterday, Car
dinal Gibbons spoke OF the memorable
happenings of last year, using as his
theme the 'Imperishabilily of tho
Church." Ia conclusion the Cardinal
extended to the congregation the follow
ing suggestion tor the new year: Main
tain pure conscience toward God, 6
spirit of continued benevolence toward
your fellow men and cultivate habits O
self-denial for yourself"
The funeral services over the remains
OF the late Senior Don Matias Romero
the ambassador from Mexico to the
United States, who died Friday morn
ing, was held at st. Matthew's Church
10 Washington yesterday. President
| Mckinley, Vice President Hobart
nearly all the members OF the Cabinet
Representative of the entire diplomatic
corps, and officers of the army and navy
were among those present. AT the
conclusion of the services the body was
taken to Mount Olivet Cemetery and
placed temporarily in vault pending
its removal to Mexico.
A dispatch dated last Friday after
noon at Iloilo, which has been received
at Manila, stated that Gen. Miller,
American commander at Iloilo, was
preparing to land troops and move on
the city. a dispatch from Manila says:
Riots in the provinces are becoming Sc
rious and are increasing. Malcontenis
have already entered seven towns, kill
ing or taking prisoners the loyal native
authorities. The town of Psnique has
been attacked and taken by 700 NAL
contents, who disarmed Aguinaldo;s
troops. 1t is said that the dissatisfied
Filipinos now number 5000 and are in-
creasing. Gen. Otis will issue q pro-
clamation to the Filipinos, intimatir G
strongly that their future welfare de-
ponds upon their conduct now.
A FATAL GHOST JOKE