Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Three cases OF yellow fever devel.
oped in Havana yesterday.

Three cases of yellow fever devel'
oped in Havana yesterday.
There is another hung jury in the
case of "Col." G. P. Austin, on trial at
Newport News for criminal assault.
Governor Johnson, of Alabama, has
called special session OF the legisla-
ture to repeal the act providing for q
constitutional convention.
General Otis has advised the War
Department that an army Of 10000
men will be large enough for the op-
erations in the Philippines.
Sergeant Major Albrecht, of the Ger
man army, has been arrested on the
charge of furnishing Russian agents
with German military plans.
The famous Newgate prison, in Lon
don, is to be demolished and a new
central Criminal Court building erected
on its site.
| Admiral Dewey has heard nothing to
| determine the fate of Lieutenant Gill
| more and the fourteen American sol
diers who disappeared near Baler
Llzon.
| Representative Henderson and Hep.
burn, of Iowa, are candidates for the
speakership of the next Congress, and
each one expects to get the support oil
the entire Iowa delegation in Congress
! Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, who has
been on visit to Richmond, Va, says
he is not an sspirant for the presiden
tial nomination. He thinks Vim. J
Bryan will be the democratic nominee
in 1900.
/ Henry A. Bourne, president of the
lOld Dominion Steamship Company
whose boats run from New York tC
Norfolk and Richmond, died yesterday
at his home in New York OF lung
trouble developed from an attack o
grip.
Another large cargo of bananas, d
600 punches, arrived at Baltimore from
Port Antonio yesterday in the steamer
Jamaica. Nearly 100000 punches o
bananas have so far arrived in Baltimore
this week.
| A crowd of white men, composed o
citizens of the Palmetto, Ga, vicinity
who are not away hunting for San
Hose, the murderer and ravisner, art
securing the country between Palmetto
,and Newman for negro who attempt
ed to assault Mrs. William Sewell, the
wife of white farmer.
| The Vienna Neue Freie PRESSED as
lserts that the estate left by the Baro
ness Maurice de Hirsch &c Gereuth
who died April l, has been valued al
| 1926, 0O0.0 900, of which 100000, 900 vii
be expended in carrying on the variou:
charities founded or fostered by ;ht
Baron and Baroness. The Hirsct
Foundation, in New York, receives 81
100000 and the institute at Montrea
one tenth of that sum-
A dispatch from Manila says
Spain's evacuation OF the Philippine
Islands will be practically completed by
the withdrawal of the Spanish garrison
from Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao
and from the Sulu Islands, and if the
United States assumes control OF Min
danao and the Sulu Islands on the
Spaniards withdrawing, the military
authorities at Manila must, in order &c
garrison those is lands, diminish the
forces of American troops, which are
already too small.
A hearing on the report Of the court
which investigated the conduct Of the
| Seyenty-Grst regiment of New York
city, at Santiago, was given by Govern
or Roosevelt at Albany, n. Y, yester
day. The hearing developed the fact
that the court of inquiry found that
Major smith, who was lieutenant colo
mel of the volunteer regiment; Captain
White, who was major in that com
mand, and Major Austin, of the staff O
Brigadier General Smith, and who
commanded a company in that regi-
ment, were guilty of lack of bravery
and courage, and of incompetency.