Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A boy with leprosv went to Bellevue
Hospital in New York yesterday for
treatment
Pope Leo, addressing the cardinals in
Rome yesterday, warmly eulogized the
Cars disarmament proposal.
Agoncillo, in an interview in Paris,
says the Fuipinos have 800 American
prisoners in their power.
The results of yesterdays elections
in the municipalities of northern New
Jersey show decided democratic gains.
A conference of educators in Roman
Catholic colleges will be commenced
today in Chicago. Mgr. Conatv says
they will bring out the ideals. not de.
fects, of college life.
Assistant District Attorney James
Lindsay Gordon, of New York, former
ly of Virginia, will be married this
month TO Miss Adele Schlichter, OF
Philadelphia.
The House of Commons Yesterday
adopted resolution "deploring the
spirit of lawlessness shown by certain
members OF TIE Church of England
This is taken u a declaration against
rituallsm.
A letter threatening to burn the
Metropolitan Opera House, ia New
York, on the night OF the ten dollar
Democratic Club dinner has been re-
ceived by the opera house manage
ment.
Charles Pursley, another of the
victims of the bridge disaster, at New
York, yesterday, died this morning,
making the list of dead five. OF the
other % men who were hurt, six are
in serious condition.
Private advices from Portland con-
firm tie recently published rumor that
Bishop Christie, Of this city, is to be APP
pointed Roman Catholic Archbishop OF
Oregon in succession to the late Arch
bishop Gross.
1t is now believed idle Hour" own
| ed by William X. Vanderbilt, at Oak
dale. Long Island, in which young Van
derbilt and bis bride Miss Virginia
Fair were spending their honeymoon
| was set on fire so that it might easily
be robbed. The loss may reach mil
ion dollars.
John Berry, the negro who brutally
I murdered Miss Amanda Clark neal
Bowie, in Prince Georges county, Nd.
recently, was yesterday taken from
Baltimore to Marlboro, where he asked
70 nave his trial removed to Baltimore
: which was granted by the court, anC
be prisoner was safely returned to the
Baltimore city jail.
An order has been prepared at the
War Department for the reorganization
Of the army on a peace basis, aud ii /;
probable will he issued today. Most o
| Jhe general officers Of the volunteer e.
Adjustment Will be mustered out, anC
radical changes will be made in TIE
staff departments of the same, inclnd
lng the discharge of about sixty pay
masters. Major Generals Lee and
Wheeler will be among the officers o
the volunteer army discharged.
The British steamer Kingswell, Capt
Humphreys, wnicn arrived at Malta
Yesterday, reports being in collision
with the Greek coaster Maria, in lati
Jude SO. longitude %, on April 8, in The
Mediterranean, OFT the coast OF Tripoli
The Maria was sunk, fortyhve person:
going down with her to death. The
Kiugswell, which left Alexandria las
month for Eupatario, was uninjured,
| The temporary superstructure of the
big Willis avenue bridge, now being
built over the Harlem river, New York
collapsed yesterday afternoon, killing
four men and seriously injuring six, one
of whom may die. Twelve or more
'~fher workmeu also received injuries o
| ~ iSas serious nature. The &C
more q ~ 2:30 o'clock, and wa;
caused by too great wels NV''s pu
| on the travelling derrick that cr0-'e'
the superstructure.
Two cowboys, with rifles, entered
the Office of the Alamo, Gordon hrp
her Company, at Alamo Gordo, n. ~
70 miles north of FL Paso on Monday
! and forced the cashier TO hand Over s
package OF money Containing Ft''oOo
aud escaped. The company had )us
! paid of their employees. s posse We;
quickly organized and is in pursuit O
the robbers, but as the country l;
rough there is small chance Of their cap
ture.
The B. & o. R. R. was yesterday re
organized without foreclosure by tht
reelection of Mr.. J. K. Cowen TO the
presidency and the choice OF a board o.
directors representing the New York,
Baltimore and Chicago capitalists no"
interested in its control. At meeting
of the directors William solomon, OF
New York, was elected chairman OF the
ooard. The Baltimore and Ohio South
western Railway reorganization is ex-
pected on or before July l. The head
quarters of the company will remain
in Baltimore.