Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-15
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The water power at Great Falls is to
developed and utilized in the near fu-
ture to produce electricity.
The death of ex Governor Roswell P
Flower, which occurred Friday night,
caused a tremendous break in prices
and a wild scene on the Stock Ex-
change, in New York, on Saturday.
False rumors that ex-President
Grover Cleveland was dead were wide.
ly circulated last night. They crigi.
mated in Toledo, Ohio. Mr.. Cleveland
is on q fishing trip to Middle Bass,
Ohio.
German, British and French residents
in Cuba, whose property was damaged
during the war between Spain aud the
Cubans, will ask the United States gov.
eminent to pay claims amounting to
large sum.
Chinese Foreign Office has replied to
the Russian Minister st Picking, that
the government is unable to accede to
the Russian demand, made last Wed.
nesday, for new railway concession
connecting Picking with Russa's pres
ent system in Manchuria.
Frederick w. Schneider, who had
just returned to Chicago, ILL.,, from
Manila, where he fought with the First
South Dakota Volunteers, says that the
Filipinos inoculsted 200 Spanish pris-
Oners with leprosy and sent them TO
Manila to snr0O1 the disease.
Johann Steparacki, of the Keseanlik
district, known as the Valley OF Roses,
in Bulgaria, declares that he has sue
ceeded in producing Arose of azure blue
tint. He denies that it is the result of
chemical experiment. but declines to
reveal the secret of cultivation.
There was a failure to assign General
Joseph Wheeler any place in the
procession of Confederate veterans at
Charleston, s. O., last Wednesday, but
the incident is declared to have been
due to confusion of orders and with
no Intention to slight Gen. Wheeler.
The schooner Nelson, laden with
coal, fonndered in Lake Superior off
Grand Marais, Mich, on Saturday at.
ternoon. All hands went down, but
IuC was GU AO lhi 90 10
known the crew consisted of Captain
aghney, of Toledo; his wife and two
year, old child, Fred Hass, and six 9TH
ers, sailors.
Within few months Long Island,
n. Y, is to have al industrial colony,
made up of negroes from the South. 1t
! will be municipality in itself, conduct
ed according to its own rules, and will
start its existence with population OF
1000, all negroes, No white persons
will be permitted to acquire property
for dwelling purposes within its limits,
but the factories which will furnish the
industrial life of the town will be own
ed by whites.
At an adjourned meeting of the stock
holders Of the Wilmington and Weldon
Railroad Company. held at Wilmington
on Saturday, deal was projected be-
tween that company and the Southern
Railway Company, by which the South
ern gets that part of the Atlantic and
Yadkin road Qate the Cape Fear and
! Yadkin Valley between Sanford and
Mount Airy, the Wilmington and Wei
don retaining that portion of the road
between Sanford and Wilmington, 10.
Guiding the Bennettsville branch.
Louis Rosenstein and his wife, who
| were found at their home, at Slidell,
Montgomery county, Md, early Satur-
day morning with their heads iearfully
crushed, were taken to the Maryland
University Hospital, Baltimore, where
Rosenstein died yesterday without be-
coming conscious. The wife is expect
ed to die. Humphrey Brown, colored,
is supposed to be the murderer, but has
not been captured. Vain efforts to
track him have been made and if cap
tured in the locality of his crime he
will be lynched by the Infatuated neigh.
bors Of his victims.
Bishop Potter ordained DR.. Charles
A. Briggs, of Union Theological Semi
nary, to the priesthood of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church yesterday morn
ing before congregation which filled
the pro-cathedral,in New York, to the
doors. No one objected to the ordiua.
ton. Had any of the high churchmen
interrupted the services by accusing
DR.. Briggs of being hereto the bishop
would nave gone right on with the or
dination. To guard against any out
break the church was guarded by
squad OF policemen. Few of the clergy
witnessed the ordination. None of the
high churchmen who are fighting DR..
Briggs were there. DR.. Briggs, after
the service was over, received the con-
gratulations of his friends. He said he
would do some work at the pro cathe'
dral after his return from Europe in
the fall. He would continue his work
at Union Theological Seminary. DIR.
Briggs will sail for England on Thurs.
day.