Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

LII Is I6pOItcti luGt Nibplo'u DiN = ioo
will arrive at r 'nnes. Frnrce, tonight.
Havana physicians say they are will
ing to try the new yellow fever serum
discovered by DR.. Doty, OF New York.
Natives of the southern islands in the
Philippines group are repeated to be
preparing TO give the Amel leans des-
perate resistance.
General Lee conferred with General
Brooke yesterday in Havana in refer
ence to measures for checking thievery
10 his jurisdiction.
The Rome correspondent OF the Lon
don Mail states that the Pope is proslrat-
ed as result of his exertions in recent
religious ceremonies.
Adjutant General Corbin has issued
an order prohibiting employees OF the
War Department from giving ipforma.
ton to newspaper representatives,.
1t is stated that Sir Julian Paunce-
tote, British ambassador TO the United
States and head of the British delega
ton at the peace conference, intends 10
retire from the Washington embassy in
April next.
At Muskegon, Michigan, yesterday
Mayor James Balbirne was assassinated
by J. W. layer, disappointed Office.
seeker. layer shot Mayor Balbirnie
while the latter was standing in the
doorway of his store.
Governor Roosevelt, OF New York
says he will not be candidate for the
presidency In 1900. He favors the
choice OF Mckinley. The west, he says,
| Is strong for the Presidents renomina-
ton and supports the administration.
At Atlantic. Ca, yesterday, DR.. E.
Y. Mullins, of the Newton Centre Bsp
list Church, Boston, was elected to the
presidency of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Louisville,
KY, to succeed DR.. Whitsitt, resigned.
At New London, Conn, yesterday
Harvard won all the boat races, three
victories over Yale in three hours-and
the western sky glowed crimson yester.
| day evening when the Harvard Varsity
crew pulled over the finish line six and
half lengths ahead of Yale.
The convent building of the Church
OF The Sacred Heart in New Haven,
Conn.,, was destroyed by fire last night.
A., In the building at the time were seven
teen Sisters of Mercy. All bat one OF
the sisters made their escape from the
burning structure without injury, but
this oDe died of sufocation.
In the heavy northeast gale Wednes-
day night, the steamer Margaret o.
! will, laden with stone from Kelley's Is
land to Cleveland, foundered in Lake
Erie off Lorain. Ohio. Nine persons
were drowned. Four members of the
crew have been picked up by passing
steamers and brought into port.
Iu recent number of the American
Journal of Health, New York, DR.. ]. h.
hurry says that pure beer is one of the
most wholesale beverages that one Can
drink, especially 10 the summer season.
1t is rich in the elements of nutrition and
aids materially in keeping up strength
during the summer months when there
is very little desire to take food.
1t was announced in Wall street yes
4 UoEu6y bLRp OIL ShusodSS VI - NSoeS
q ton has been made in anthracite coal
at both eastern and western points,
taking effect on July 1. Another ad
vance is contemplated for Sept. OF
Oct. l, at the latest. The new prices
are on the basis Of 8 rs. free on board
vessels, for stove and chestnut. other
sizes in proportion.
Sixty thousand soldiers will be re-
CURED to maintain an effective fighting
force of 10000 men in the Philippines,
according to the estimates of the best
informed army officers, and Secretary
Alger admitted yesterday that the en-
tire $1,000 additional volunteers au'
tborized by the army act might be re-
cruted under the plan adopted by the
President, which will be formally ap
proved at Cabinet meeting today. Sec
rotary AIger said yesterday that the pur-
pose was to maintain at all times 8
lighting force of 10000 men under the
command OF Major General Otis.