Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The State election board of Kentucky
will pass upon the motion to throw out
the vote OF Louisville, claiming the in
tmidation of voters by soldiers.
A meeting of the nationalist mem.
bers of Parliament was held 10 Dublin
yesterday and resolution was adopt
ed looking to the reunion of the Irish
factions.
General Wood, military governor OF
the province of Santiago de Cuba, has
been ordered to Washington. 1t is said
that be may be made civil governor OF
the island.
Postmaster General Smith yesterday
issued an order establishing domestic
rates of postage between the United
States and Puerto Rico, Guam and the
Philippines.
Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder
and chairman of the board of directors
of the White Star Line Steamship Com
pany, died suddenly yesterday evening
in Liverpool.
The General Assembly, Knights OF
Labor, yesterday adopted resolutions
condemni combinations and trusts,
and characteriziug President Mckinley
as the "bitter enemy of labor"
Represep alive elect Brigham b.
Roberts, of Utah, arrived in Washing.
ton yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Roberts
was of the opinion that there will be
no trouble in his being seated as a
member of the next Congress.
Ground was broken at Atlantic. City,
N. j., yesterday, for the big new hotel
that is to be built on the site of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Excursion House
The hotel will be the finest structure Of
the sort on the Atlantic coast. 1t is to
be six stories high and of freproof con-
struction The building will have a
frontage of 232 feet on Atlantic avenue
and will extent 252 feet toward the
Ccein.
According to a Spanish corporal,
Aguin lido recently passed through
Dayamban hatless, his clothing torn
and spattered with mud. He stopped
only long enough to change horses, and
then hurried away toward Mayalaren
General Macarthur has returned to
Tarlac and taken up headquarters al
Aguinaldo's former residence. The
J Fillpioos are massing about San
, Mateo and it is expected they will make
stand.
The bodies of two murdered children
| were found beneath haystack q
mile north of Montgomery, Pa, yester-
, day. A searching party which last
night went over the premises discover
ed the bodies of third child and the
! mother of the three concealed in an
clubhouse. A warrant was issued for
Abraham Hummel, husband of the
woman and step. father of the children
and he was arrested today. There are
threats of lynching.
In the issue between the National
| Council of the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics and the State
Council of Pennsylvania, wherein
| the latter refused TO pay the fixed pei
| capita tax to the national organization,
The supreme judiciary Of the order II
Philadelphia yesterday rendered az
opinion sustaining the national council
and in the event of the refusal of the
State Councils hereafter to pay the
tax, ordering their expulsion.
The elevator of the Hustled Milling
and Elevating Company. of Buffalo, N
Y, with its contents, was totally de-
stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon
An explosion of dust caused the fire
There were thirty meo in the building
when the fire broke out, and many o.
them were compelled to slide down an
iron chute to save themselves. Two o.
the men, were severely burned. Aboul
10000 bushels of grain, principally
corn and oats, was stored 10 the build
ing. The loss on the building is about
S125, 900, aud on the contents abou'
$50, 900.
Near Perryville, in Cecil county
Md, yesterday, Miss Rhoda Jackson
| 16 years old, was shot and kille by
Slas White, who made his escape
Miss Jackson had gone TO the house o.
a Mrs. Winchester to deliver milk and
was returning to her home, when she
was confronted at the back gate by
White, who, without utteriDg word
caught hold of Miss Jackson with his
left arm, and drawing revolver, fred
three bullets into her head. The mo.
tive for the crime is supposed to be
jealousy, although Miss Jackson, &C.
cording to her parents, did not receive
visits from any one aud had several
times refused to have anything to do
| with White, of whom she was in con-
slant dread.