Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-04
NEWS OF THE DAT.

| The remains of Representative Gran
ford will he taken to Texas from WASH
ilgton this evening.
An attempt at revolution in Costa
RIGA has been suppressed and martial
law has been declared there.
The new reorganization act, 1t is said
at the War Department, will not per
nit Governors of States to appoint vol
unteer officers.
At Lucknow, Tenn, yesterday Mrs.
Mollie Clark, widow, while in re-
lgious fervor, poisoned her three
children and herself.
General Henry has temporarily sup
pressed the Democracia, leading pa
per at Ponce, Porto Rico, for printing
an attack on the military authorities.
The Fifty.fifth Congress, which ex-
pired today, exceeded ali previous Con-
crosses 10 its appropriations, which az
gregated more than two billion dollars.
Mrs. Cornelia, or Connie" Jackson,
a sister of Joseph Jefferson and herself
well-known as an actress, died from
cancer in New York yesterday, aged 63
years.
In Boston yesterday evening two
women were burned to death and
man was severely injured in fire which
occurred in tenement block on Dover
street.
In round numbers the river and har-
Dor bill carries an appropriation offs $751;
100000. OF this amount 81 900, 900 will
90 to the widening OF the channels in
New York harbor.
1t is reported from Pekin that the
partition of China seems imminent and
that the United States will probably
prefer the province of Pe-Chi-Li, in
which Pekin is situated.
Five men and a woman are buried
under an avalanche of snow, which
came down Granite Mountain, near the
Magma Charte mine, at White Pine,
twenty-five miles from GuDnison, Col.
The United States government has
rendered to the British government the
use OF the cruiser Brooklyn to convey
Lord Herschel's remains to England.
Rear Admiral! Schley has been directed
to accompany the body to England.
Judges Gol and Morris, Oft the United
States Circuit Court, promulgated de-
cree in Baltimore yesterday for the
foreclosure of the underlying mortgage
of July 10, 1879, on the Parkersbura
Branch of the Baltimore q Ohio Rail
road. The mortgage is for $1,000, 900.
Before going to sleep on yesterday
the Pope wrote q poem, which was q
description of his case as analogous to
an incident in the life Of Clement MI.
He read the poem in the morning 10 the
doctors They urgently advised ab3t-
nence from ali movement if he wished
to recover in five or six days.
The farm house occupied by the
family of Joshua McGee, six miles from
Onawa, Ia, burned yesterday, and his
two children. n boy, three years of age,
and baby girl, were burned TO death.
The mother was fatally burned in Of
tempting to rescue the children. The
husband and father was away from
home at the time.
Cap Hatfield, of Hstfeld.McCoy
fame, wanted in Mingo county, w. Va,
for murder, who was arrested at Mid
dIeport, o., and jailed at Pomeroy, on
! Thursday, awaiting requisition papers
from the Governor, secured his release
on habeas corpus proceedings, crossed
the Ohio into West Virginia yesterday.
and is again at large.
The Senate at an early hour this
morning confirmed the naval nomlna-
3 tions sent in yesterday. Schley and
Sampson are both now Rear Admirals,
but Schley is two points ahead OF Samp
son. They maintain the same relative
positions on the list that they had be-
fore the President nominated them last
summer to be Rear Admirais.
Admiral Montejo, who was in com-
mand OF the Spanish squadron destroy
ed by Admiral Dewey In the battle OF
Manila bay, aud was also the command
er Of the Cavite arsenal, was incarcera-
ted in Madrid last night in the military
prison there pending trial for his con
duct at Manila. The government has
ordered the prosecution of General
Linares. who was in supreme COM
mand of the Spanish forces at Santiago
at the time OF the capitulation to Gen
erai Shafter
The Queen Regent Of Spain had an
other conference with Senior Ssgasts
late yesterday afternoon and asked him
to endeavor to reconcile matters with
the actual leaders of the various parties
in Parliament. Senior Ssgasta replied
that it would be impossible for him to
continue in Office unless the Cortes was
dissolved, and as the Queen Regent
would not agree to this he insisted upon
the acceptance of his resignation. The
Queen Regent later summoned Senior
Sivela, and requested him to under
take the formation Of ministry and
he accepted.
The biggest military band festival
ever known in this country will be held
at the Seventh regiment srmory, New
York, March %, under the direction
OF Lieut.. Daniel Godfrey, the crack
English band leader. Three bands,
American, Scotch aud English, the
largest of their kind in the world,
will unite under Godfrey's baton. |
One will be the Seventh regiment band, !
of ninety eight pieces; the Fifth Royal
Scots, and the British Guards In all
something like 800 instruments of
every kind and size will help swell the |
chorus of American and English friend !
ship.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
The French Senate yesterday elected !