Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

New York republicans will nominate
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew for Senator.
He is the only candidate.
It is stated in Madrid that q thous-
and monks in the Philippines have died
of ill-treatment by Aguinaldo's forces.
Hon. Carl Schurz delivered an ad-
dress against imperialism" before the
faculty and students of the University
of Chicago yesterday.
TIE announcement is made on high
authority that Hon. Joseph II. Choate,
of New York, will be nominated amba5.
saGor to Great Britain.
At Glen Ridge, N. j., last night,
Miss Olive Sampson, daughter OF Ad-
miral Sampson, was married to Henry
Harrison Scott, of San Francisco.
Among the ushers was Ensign W. T.
Cluverius, who is well-known in this
city.
As Major General Butler was driyin 6
on Lagrena street, Havana, Monday, be
saw Chinaman shoot his mistress in
the head and run away. The General
hastily sent two American soldiers in
pursuit, but before tie Chinamau could
be captured he stabbed himself in the
heart.
Major Esterhazy, now known to be
the author of the DreYfus 6ordereau,
has been summoned to appear before
the Court of Cessation in Paris on jan
uary - 1t is understood that, though
no formal undertaking has been given,
he will be free from arrest coming and
going.
Announcement is made on the au-
thority of member of the Bonapartist
family that the Empress Eugene has
decided to make Prince Victor Ma
poleon her heir to the 100000 fund
which the late Emperor arranged with
several insurance companies to pay on
the death OF the Empress.
There is every indication that the
American steamship Catania, Captain
Furlong, which sailed from GLASGOW
Oil December II for New York, went
to the bottom OF the Atlantic with her
crew of twenty-five men on the night
Of December 30 last. The vessel sig
nailed "Don't Abandon Us" before she
was lost sight of.
The Gatling qua experimental cast
s'eel eight.inch rifle, for the construc-
ion of which Congress appropriated
100000, burst at the Sandy Hook prov
ing grounds yesterday. The gun went
to pieces under formal firing pressure
of &c, 500 pounds. Although the air
was filled with flying fragments OF steel
no one was hurt, as the officers who
conducted the tests took refuge behiad
sandhill before each firing.
The democratic State central commit
tee OF Illinois last night declared itself
unanimously for the Chicago platform
aud for William ]. Bryan. Mr.. Bryan
was present and made an address in
which he said: There is moral right
involved in the proposed acquisition OF
the Philippines" and quoted President
Mckinley as follows: Il speak not OF
forcible annexation because that is not
10 be thought of, and under our code OF
morality that would be criminal ag-
gression."
The republi can caucus of the Mair e
Legislature renominated Senator Hale
last night. The nomination was made
by grand chorus OF "ayea," not mo
having been heard Mr.. Hale appear
ed before the convention and in the
course OF his speech accepting the noni'
nation said: 81 am not an expansion
list. 1 dread the annexation of territory
thousands of miles away, and OF
foreign people with no habits and
no life like ours. I cannot, with my
views, vote for any measure that in
wolves Us in that"
The New York Telegram pub
lishes dispatch from its Ha
vana correspondent that says the
city in much excited By the
charge, made by Ell Reconcentrado, the
organ of Cuban Libre, that Z.carias
Breemes, q Spanish judge, now fugi-
tive from Havana, was actively engaged
in the plot which resulted in the destruc-
ton of the Maine Ell Reconcentrado
gives q sketch of Breemes' career pre-
vious to last February, charging him
with various crimes. Captain Sigsbee
declines to make any comment on the
matter other than the hope to see the
guilty parties justly punished.