Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Inc prosecution OF Ernest Ieran
Hooley, the noted English promoter"
on the charge of fraud will be abau-
doned.
The Presidents trip to the West this
summer to review volunteers returning
from the Philippines is believed to be
OF political character.
The Queen Regent of Spain has sign
ed decree appointing Martinez Cam
pos, former Captain General Of Cuba, to
the presidency of the Senate.
The retrial of the Potomac Pulp
Mill pollution case at Cumberland Md.
has been postponed till November
pending negotiations looking to arbitra
ton.
William J. Wood, jr., an inmate of
an insane asylum at Topeka, Kan. has
just been legally declared the rightful
owner of the famous Emma gold mine,
at Aspen, Col, valued at 100000.
Nine persons were injured, two of
them seriously, in a collision of local
passenger trains on the Louisville and
Nashville road twenty-five miles south
of Nashville Tenn. o'clock yesterday
evening.
Graves of American soldiers in the
Philippines were decorated yesterday
by their comrades and others. The
wreck of the battle ship Maine and the
graves Of the Names victims in Ha-
vana were decorated by American wo-
men.
Rev. Dr.. Pelham Williams created
sensation at the Long Island n. Y.
Church Club yesterday by an attack on
Sunday schools and Sunday school
teaching. Rituslistic Episcopal clergy
men held an important conference yes
terday to discuss their attitude on the
ordination of DR.. Briggs.
The striking OF match by specta
tor near an old we'll three miles east OF
Marion, Ind, last night caused the oil
surrounding the well to ignite, and the
flames instantly spread, consuming
everything for several squares. Six
men who were on the tank into which
the oil was pouring were terribly burn
ed.
Jack the Inkslinger" and "Jsck the
Slasher" went to Coney Island on Sun
day and, from the reports made to the
Coney Island police station, they must
have had 8 busy day of it. By night
fall no less than 20 women appeared at
the police station with slashes cut in
their best Sunday gowns and the gowns
stained with red and black ink.
The Spanish Minister and the Ouch,
ess d'Arcos, who reached New York
yesterday, are expected to arrive in
Washington tonight. While in New
York last night the new minister in re
ferring to Cuba, said: THAT is past,
we forget it," Regarding the Philip
pines, he said: That war must soon
be over. Your nation is too powerful
for the natives to keep up the war long"
Eat Louisville, KY, yesterday, Mr..
Henry Watlerson delivered the Deco
ration Day address. Speaking of the
results of the civil war, he said THE
war which began thirty. eight years ago
was an inevitable conflict, but no man
in either army need make any shame
ful repuncation of himself for taking
part 10 it; the issues OF it are dead; it
was needed to make the nation what it
is, end the radiance of the future is now
the attractive thought"
Caucuses on the speakership are now
being scheduled with frequency. The
Ohio delegation, fifteen in number, will
assemble in Columbus tomorrow and
the ten Massachusetts members will
also confer this week. The Michigan
delegation, composed of twelve repub
licans, has been called to meet at Mt.
Clemens next Wednesday, June 2.
These three delegations, comprise to-
tai of thirty. seven votes. The Hen
derson managers expect to make very
substantial gains as the result OF the
three conferences thus announced.
GENERAL WHEET .ER IN POSITION