Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ambassador and Mrs. Choate dined
at Windsor Castle last evening as guests
OF Queen Victoria.
Postmaster s. Davies. Warfeld, OF
Baltimore, was yesterday reappointed
by President Mckinley.
There is reason to believe that the
President will offer the position Of IL
brarian of Congress to Mr., Herbert Put
nam, of Boston.
Madame Bisnchini, who is alleged to
have experimental oil her dog with
poison and then given it TO her husband,
is on trial III Paris.
General Otis is preparing for an ag-
gressive move against the Filipinos and
the latter are constructing inlrench-
uent5 with a view of checking him.
1t cost the United Railways and
Electric Company of Baltimore S25 COS
for revenue tax stamps to be affixed to
deeds and mortgages recorded in the
street railway consolidation plan.
Gustavus Adolphus White, of Capon
Springs, Hampshire county, W. Va,
died yesterday morning, aged sixty
nine years. He owned valuable prop
erty near Capon Springs, and also ran
a summer resort.
The United States, it is announced
on high authority, will not undertake
to seize territory 10 China, but will not
permit any discrimination against its
commerce by nations which have al
ready secured a ioothold there.
Miss Eliza Waltz, an elderly lady, re-
siding near Cavetown, in Washington
county, Md, was robbed OF $500,
which she had in her house, by mask
ed burglars, who invaded her room and
bound her hand and foot and compelled
her to tell where the money was kept.
Emperor William has received
through Herr Won Holleben, the Ger
man ambassador at Washington, mes
sage from Mrs. Rudyard Kipling ex-
pressing her heartfelt thanks Tor the
dispatch sent to her yesterday by his
Majesty, in which be expressed his So
licitude for Mr.. Kipling.
The North Carolina House yesterday
passed g strong bill directing the rail
| way commission to assess all railway,
telegraph, telephone, express, canal,
steamboat, sleeping car, trust or trans
pcrtation companies which have omit
ted or which in future shall omit to re-
turn for taxation their property.
The War Department has made an
announcement Of the appointment OF
101 second lieutenants created by the
army reorganization bill among the va
rious States and Territories. In addi-
ton there are twenty appointments at
| large. The appointment is on the
basis of population. Virginia is entitled
TO three.
A dispatch from Pekin says that ow-
ing to the insulting manner in which the
Chinese government has refused the
request of the Italian government for q
lease OF San Nun Bay, province of Che
Kiang, as q coaling station and nava
base, Signor Martina, the Italian Min.
lister, declines to hold direct commu-
nication with the Tsung Ii Yamen.
| Prof. r. w. Wood, of the University
of Wisconsin, the originator of the cleo
trical thaw, has new method OF pho
| tographing in natural colors. He re-
produces the colors by diliraction, and
although at present the production OF
the first finished picture is somewhat
tedious, it is said duplicates can be
printed as easily as ordinary photo
graphs are made.
1t isstated that General Otis has COM
plete6 his plans for grand onslaught
on the Filipinos, which is expected
to deprive them Of offensive power at
least. Ills probable that he will form
large part of his force into columns
as soon rs his re-eDforcements are al at
| hand and Will push thesein parallel lines
straight through the jungIes, clearing
out the insurgents in every direction as
the troops so forward.
A dispatch from Havana SAYS for the
month of March the various provinces,
excepting the province of Santiago,
have made requisition for two million
lations. Thus, instead Of diminishing,
the requiston mas doubled since that
of January l. This is due partly to the
fact that the Cubans use every possible
opportunity of getting rations under
| false pretenses, and partly to the fact
that the American distributors are IN
able to discriminate properly between
imDostors and the really needy.
Notwithstanding the action of the
House in refusing to consider tho re-
port of the committee on Judiciary in
the case of Representatives Wheeler,
Robbins, Colson and Campbell, Speaker
Reed still insists they were not mem
bers of the Fifty filth Congress and will
not sign the warrants for their pay.
The Speaker has steadily maintained
they were not entitled to their seats,
and on this account declined to recog-
nize General Wheeler when the latter
attempted to speak last Saturday. Gen.
Wheeler drew no pay from the sergeant
alarms of the House from the time he
entered the army. He preferred his
army pay as o maj general which is
considerably in excess Of that OF Con-
gresham.
SPANISH AFFAIRS.
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