Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ioi. Altuui Wiuiuk houioJ Voc
yesterday elected president of Yale
University to succeed Timothy Dwight,
resigned.
Queen Victoria yesterday sent dis
patch to President Mckinley, thanking
him for his message of congratulations
on her birthday.
General Wood, military governor of
Santiago province, Cuba, has restricted
the liberty of the press as result of re-
cent "incendiary editorials"
A committee of the general conven-
ton of the Episcopal Church met in
Trinity Chapel, New York y yesterday to
discuss the proposed canon on divorce.
Charles Henry James Taylor, former
minister to Liberia under Cleveland's
administration, and one of the most
prominent colored men in the country,
died in Baltimore yesterday.
Fire broke out in a building adjoin-
ing tbs general warehouse of P. Nase
& Sons, St. Johns, New Brunswick,
yesterday afternoon. and did damage
estimated at 100000. Fifteen blocks
were burned out.
Three white men, James HUMPHREYS
and his two sons, we're lynched We'd
nesday night near the village of Aley
in Henderson county, Tex. The men
had shielded a murderer and were
taken from their house by masked men
and hanged.
'Private" John Aliens bitter denun.
Citations of Governor McLaurin in the
campaign which the two are making
for the Mississippi senatorship have
almost resulted in personal conflict
between the two men, and the situation
even now is decidedly threatening.
In Washington yesterday evening
ex-Policeman George W. Horton wac
found guilty of having murdered Mrs.
Jane Nicholson, on July "a, 1898. AS
soon IS the verdict was received by JUS
tice Clabaugh, counsel for the accused
entered motion for new trial. Horton
was then remanded to await sentence
Major General Fitz Lee, military
governor of the Havana. Pinar del Rio
department, wired Governor General
Brooke at Ell Vedado yesterday that
200 Cubans, Of the command of General
Mayia Rodriguez, near Mariana, dis
persed yesterday, sitter resolving not to
| take the S75 per mau. Some of them
sold their arms, and others took them
to their homes.
The Maryland Brewing Company
has issued orders which will stop the
! brewing of beer at the breweries of the
old Oriental Brewing Company. High
landtown, and the old Baltimore Brew.
ing Company, West Baltimore, which
were among those absorbed by the
Maryland Company. Both breweries
will be permanently closed down as soon
rs the stock on hand in each brewey is
worked off.
Armistead Taylor and John Alfred
Brown, who were indicted jointly for
the murder of the Rosenstiens in Mont
gomery county, Md, were taken to
Baltimore by Sheriff Il. G. Thompson
shortly after seven o'clock last evening,
and were taken to the city Jail, where
hey will remain until transferred to
Rockville for trial, a month hence.
Taylor killed Washington policeman,
who was attempting to arrest him.
Senior Don Emilio CASTELAR,, the dis
tingushed republican orator and states
man and one of the greatest men Of
Spain, aged sixty-seven years, died yes
terdsy, at Murcia, capital OF the ancient
kingdom and province OF that name.
When King Amadeo abdicated in 1873
CASTELAR, became minister of foreign af
fairs to the republic, February y, and
President of Spain, with extraordinary
powers, September Z. On January 2,
1874, be resigned. Serrano came to the
front in the military reaction, and q
year later, when Alfonso XII was call
ed to the throne, Castelar, made
Journey to Geneva. He is said to have
been one of most brilliant men in the
world.