Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-04
NEWS OF The DAY.

China has agreed to open Manning,
on the Flu river. as treaty port.
The Fillipinos charge that the Amer
ican administration at Manila is des-
potic aud corrupt.
1t is reported that France has pro"
tested against the concession to Ger
many of a port at Halda Pasha, nearly
opposite Constantinople.
1t is reported that Commissary Cen
eral Esgan will be suspended from
rank and duty until his retirement
from active service on January 16, 1905.
The Ri. Rev. William O'Hare, Catho-
lie Bishop ofthe Scranton, Pa. diocese,
died last night. Bishop O'Hare was
born in Ireland 10 1917. He came to
this country three years Letter.
There is trouble in the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Holy Gross,
Jersey City, over the introduction OF
the confessional, and many of the mem
bers threaten to resign if the innova-
ton is made.
Rothley Temple, historic building
in Leicestershire, England, was con-
siderably damaged by fire yesterday.
The building formerly belonged to the
Knights Hospitallers and was the
birthplace of Macaulay.
The House COMMITTEES on interstate
aud foreign commerce yesterday di-
rected favorable report on the Hep
burn bill for the construction Of the
Nicaragua canal as a substitute for the
Morgan bill passed by the Senate.
The Carnegie Steel Company, Limit
ed, at Pittsburg yesterday received q
| contract from the receivers of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad for 1000 steel
| hopper and gondola cars. The con-
| tracts are worth upward of 100000
The statements of Major General
Miles in regard to the army beef was
considered at the cabinet meeting yes
ierday and it was announced that Presi-
dent Mckinley would order court o!
Inquiry or take some other decided &C.
ton.
To the executive session of the Senate
yesterday Mr.. Davis asked unanimous
consent to take vote to-day on
resolutions bearing upon the peace
treaty. The opponents of the treaty
objected and will not permit vote on
resolutions until after action on the
treaty on Monday.
During thunderstorm which visited
Dorchester county, Nd, yesterday
morning coored girl named Ruth
Moloch, eleven years of age, near
Ary's WAS struck by lightning and in
stantly killed. 1t was about IL O'Clock
and she ives returning from spring
where she had gone for bucket OF
water.
| At Sistersvile, W. Va, at 8 o'clock
yesterday, Harry Defenbaugh, aged
twenty-eight years, was shot and
instantly killed on one of the mos
prominent streets by Miss Ella Bowen
aged twenty. Miss Bowen is in Jail
and claims that Delfenbaugh pursued
her, tearing her clothing, and threaten
ing her life if she left him.
The Waterville, Me-, authorities are
doing their utmost to stamp out tht
smallpox, which has broken out IL
Waterville, and in the neighborinG
town of Wiuslow. The disease was
brought to Watervlle by Private Pom
merleau, who served ia the vo!untee
army during the war with Spain. Th'
state board of health has established
quarantine.
A dispatch from Washington aays
ITO insure the submission to the Sen
ate of an unbiased report relative t.
the promotion of Rear Admirals Samp
son and Schley, Secretary Long ba:
assembled a board of naval officers al
the department to examine all the re.
cords and obtain the facts bearing upor
the conduct Of both officers during the
war with Spain.