Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-30
NEWS OF he DAY.

The Pope intends to address an i'm
passioned appeal to the Christian world
for peace.
Senator Hanna says: "The issue in
1900 will be full dinner buckets, pro-
lection, an unchanged currency and ex.
pansion."
Thomas j. Sharkey's career as prize
fighter is nearing its end. After his go
with Jsffries he will meet Maher and
Fitzsimmons, and then retire to private
life.
Josiah Dent, member of the first
Board of Commissioners of the District
OF Columbia, and for time president
of that board, died st his home in
Berkeley Springs, w. Va, on Saturday
night, in his S3rd year.
Ambassador White says that the ne
gotiations between Berlin and Wash
ington concerning Samoa have reached
satisfactory agreement, and that those
between Berlin and London are pro.
crossing satisfactorily.
Rev. Eustace Willoughby Speer, d.
D., father of Judge Emory Speer, OF the
United States Court for the southern
district of Georgia, died at Athens, Ga,
yesterday. He was noted man in the
Methodist Church in Georgia.
On account of his indiscreet utter.
ences at dinner party in London in
regard to the Venezuelan boundary,
the State Department has Motif Am.
bassador Choate that he must be more
careful in his utterances in public.
The civil service commission has
made public letter from ex-senator
Edmunds, declaring that the circular
sent out by Ohio republicans, solicit
ing contributions from federal employ.
es, is in violation of the civil service
law.
Because his wife found the photograph
of a pretty young girl in his pocket, and
because che brought him to task for lis
presence there, E. W. Weber, aged 45
years, ended his life in Philadelphia on
Saturday in the bath room of his home
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
The German Secretary of the Navy
has obtained the Emperor's sanction to a
project for an enormous increase in the
navy, so as to make it the equal of any
other navy, Great Britain's excepted.
Admiral Won Tirpitz will formulate a
new naval programme for Germany
which will include the building of 81
oattleships.
The Russian cruiser Variag, which is
designed to be the fastest armored yes.
sci of her class ever constructed by the
Cramp shipbuilding firm, will be
launched tomorrow. The cruiser is OF
500 tons displacement and designed to
run 23 knobs an hour for twelve hours.
The vessel is 400 feet long, so feet beam,
10 feet 6 inches draft.
After hours of continuous raiustorms,
terrific hurricane from the southeast
swept over Santiago, Cuba, yesterday,
causing much destruction. Twelve
houses were wrecked and others badly
damaged. An unprecedented raiofall
continues. Telegraph wires are down,
spd it is impossible for vessels to enter
or leave the harbor. Much damage has
also been done in Jamaica.
John H Jackson, colored, was ar.
rested at Stemmers station, Baltimore
county, Md, yesterday, and confined
in Towson Jail upon the charge OF
criminally assaulting Miss Agnes Eu-
rice. aged seventeen years, daughter of
farmer and blacksmith of Steamers
station. Jackson was removed from
Towson to Baltimore city Jail because
of threats to lynch him. The girl is
employed as domestic in the family
of Walter Townsend, whose residence
is not far distant from her home. On
Saturday evening, it is alleged, Jack
son lay in wait for his victim near her
fatber's shop. As she came along on
her way home, he stepped up behind
her and threw bag over her head and
after desperate fight assaulted her.
The girl subsequently, identified him pos
tively as the man who com mitted the
assault.