Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-15
NEWS Of HE DAY.
The Frer ch national debt now
amounts to sc, 000,000,000


British missionaries have been driven
out of Audone province, Tnibet.
The hurricane on September S de-
stroyed two hundred houses and ren-
dered eight hundred people homeless
on the Isla1d of Auguilla.
Governor Pingree, OF Michigan made
strong speech against trusts at The
trust conference in Chicago last night.
Mr.. VIM. ]. Bryan and Mr.. Bourke
Cochran will make speeches.
Floods have caused much damage IN
southern Germany and in Austria, A
train fell through bridge over the
Issn, and five people were killed. Salz-
burg and places nearby have been
flooded.
Ex.Secretary Carlisle has reieci ed eli
overtures to take part in the political
campaign in Kentucky. He says he
has retired permanently from politics.
l. is said ne is earning $4,000 a year
from bis law practice in New York.
Governor Lowndes, of Maryland,
last night announced the appointment
of ex- Judge James a G. Bond. of West
minister, as chief judge OF the Fifth ju-
dcial circuit OF Maryland, to succeed
tina late Chief Justice Charles b. Rob-
erts.
A dispatch from Faris says: Majo!
Carriere, who was the governme
prosecutor at the Renpes court
is represented as declaring that Dreylus
will certainly not be again degrs I'd.
and that it is certain he will be psrdoc-
ed very shortly.
The Manila papers assert that Cor
poral Damhofer and Private CONNIE,
of Company B, Sixteenth infantry,
have been condemned 10 twenty-years'
Imprisonment for having criminally as
saulted native women in Manila b
month ago. The crimes, it is said,
greatly aroused the natives.
Obedient TO instructions just received
from President Mckinley Col Charlea
DENLY and Prof. Dean c. Worcester,
members of the Philippine commission,
will return to the United States al
once, leaving Hong Kong Septem 7er
26. The order recalling them is sur
prise, as the commissioners had JUS:
moved into new Offices aud had expect
ed to spend some months working on
the establishment of municipal govern
ment.
Today the average cost of the nece5-
saries of life is 10 per cent. higher than
it was twelve months ago. If the pres
ent rate OF advance in the price Of food
products is maintained, consumers will
be compelled 10 pay fully % per ceut
more for their food, as q whole, than
they paid two or three years ago. All
canned goods have advanced. Some
of the increase is due to short crops
and some to the tin trust, which has
forced up The price of tin.
James P. Watson, OF Pulaski, va
and William Adams, describing him
self as billiard hall keeper in New
York, were fined $40 each yesterday by
Magistrate Mott, in New York, on the
charge of disorderly conduct. Watson
was fined another SO for carrying d
concealed weapon. This is the sequel
to the shooting ARRAY and clubbing
match between the two men in front OF
the Broadway Theatre about 10 o'cock
Wednesday night. Neither would
made charge against the other, and
both said they had made up sheir quar-
rel.
The English edition of "La Lucia, !"
of Havana, prints a column editorial
commenting on the diversity of opinion
exisisting in Cuba regarding the form
of government to be established. After
asserting that great majority of the
Cubans want independence, the paper
says that, in the event of independence
being granted, the race question will
be gravast OF ell White supremacy
it adds, is unavoidable, and the negroes
must bear this in mind. There never
can be social equality between the two
races, and political equality will not
come to the negroes for a considerable
time. The latter, however, want re-
cognition, aud will insist upon it until
some practical method OF Cancellation
is put into effect.