Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-30
NEWS Of THE DAY.

Puerto Plata has surrendered to the
Dominican revolutionists, who are
sweeping all before them.
W. A. Airheart, Southern Express
agent at Brunswick, Ga. bias disap-
peared with Sl5, 600 of the company 8
funds.
The Brazilian police have discovered
that a young girl dynamiter has lett
Santos to wreck buildings of the Paris
Exposition.
Prince Hohenlohe yesterday an
uoupced in the Prussian Diet that the
government adhered steadfastly TO the
canal project.
The new battleship Alabama yester-
day made III knots in her first sea
trial, exceeding the contract require
ment by II knots.
Jose E. Rapsdel), democrat, was yes
| terday elected to fill the vacancy in the
Fifth Louisiana district. caused by the
death of the late Congressman S. l..
Baird.
The Presidents proclamation rela
tive to the census in Cuba will not in
dictate that the Cubans are to be given
immediate independence by the United
States.
War Department officials say tina the
Presidents forthcoming proclamation
concerning the taking of the census in
Cuba does not mean that immediate
independence is to be given in Cuba.
Rev. II. r. Mosely, D. D., of Flor
ence, S. c., has resigned his pastorate,
and after October will take charge OF
Baptist missionary work in Cuba for
the American Home Missionary So.
! ciety.
The Russian ice breaking steamer
Ermak has just finished fortnight's
trip to the north west of Spitzbergen.
She went through 200 miles of ice, the
estimated thickness of which was four
teen feet, without the slightest inter
ruption.
Yesterday in the Eighth Missouri
district, in which an election
| was held to fill the upexpired
term in Congress of Richard P. Bland,
| deceased, Dorsey W. Shackleford (dem)
was elected over W. j. Vosholl (rep }
| by 1900 plurality.
Rioting and disorder broke out in
. Cleveland, Ohio, last night, iu connec'
ton with the strike on the lines OF the
Big Consolidated Street Railway. and
four cars were nearly demolished,
while the crews were compelled to fse
! for their lives. II was only after de-
| ternined efforts on the part Of the thir-
ty policemen that order was finally re-.
stored.
In an interview at Johannesburg yes
terday President Kruger said that the
Boer position was best described 10
Psalm lxxxiii, 1-5 and 1917, in which
| the Psalmist declares that the enemies
of the Lord have banded together
against his people to exterminate them
and calls upon him to punish them, to
ELL them with shame, and to cause them
to perish.
Jim Corbett will have another chance
to regain the prize as the champion
pugilist of the world. At meeting
| held in Corbett's place in New York
last night between the managers of
Jefferies and Sharkey. Corbett pledged
himself to put up q forfeit of 81 900 TO
make a match with the winner of this
fight. The representatives of Sharkey
and Jeffries agreed.
Sir Thomas Lipton's cup hunter, the
Shamrock, ran aground yesterday al
ternoon as she was being hauled out OF
her berth 10 Erie basin preparatory to
being towed to her old anchorage Off
the New York Yack Club station a.
Tompkinsville. She hung with her
keel imbedded in the mud for more
than 10 minutes, but was finally pulled
off the bank by q tug, which towed ner
down the bay.