Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-31
NFFS OF TIE DAY.

The ecclesiastical captives of the Fill
pinos are said to include one bishop
and 39S Spanish priests.
Fayne Moore, the badger game wo-
man, is considering a proposition to be
balled out of prison in New York and
go on the stage.
Twenty children are reported to
have been drowned by an ice disaster
at the village of Warpuhnen- Boirhein,
east Prussia, yesterday.
RI. Hon. Arthur ]. Balfour, in an ad-
dress at Manchester yesterday, said be
believed that Anglo-American friend
ship would be permanent.
The government, by admitting that
the Dingley tariff law did not 60 into
effect until the moment President Nc
Kinley signed it, will be obliged to re-
fund $500, 900 to importers.
President Mckinley is understood in
Havana 10 have empowered Robert P.
Porter, who is acting as his personal
representative, TO arrange for the dis
bur5ement OF $780, 1000 among the Gu
pan SOLDIERS.
The people OF Buffalo, N. Y, will
ask Congress to give them $4,000 for
their exposition to be held in 1901.
They don't want to be outdone by
Philadelphia which recently was voted
au appropriation by Congress for fair.
A bill 10 tax churches in Washing
tor which go into the business OF rent
ing their auditoriums for entertainment
purposes is now IN the hands of the
District commissioners, and will proba'
bly, be introduced into Congress within
the next few days.
L is reported that the Dowager En-
press OF China has chosen g successor
TO the present Emperor. 1t is now as
serted that the Dowager Empress now
practically ignores the Grand Council
Of State and the Tsung Ii Yamen, or
Chinese foreign office.
DR.. Francis n. Lancaster died at La
Plata, Md, yesterday, OF pneumonia
The deceased was seventy-hve years Of
age, and in former years figured active
ly in the politics of Charles county
From 1881 10 1885 DR.. Lancaster repre-.
scented that county in the State Senate
a movement is on foot in London to
put the practice Of spiritusiism very
much on the same footing ss the prac
tice Of medicine It is proposed TO es-
tabiisn a collegiate institution for the
formal instruction of mediums" and
TO provide for the authorized licensing
OF capable mediums"
The senatorial deadlock at Madison,
| Wis, was broken last nigh.. Joseph
Y. Q1afles, of Milwaukee, was Domi-
mated in the republican caucus to sue
ceed John L. Mitchell, whose term ex-
7 pires March /. This nomination is
equivseut TO an election, as the repub-
licaps are in large majariLy.
Tom Sharkey put out Jack McCor-
mick, of Philadelphia, in the second
rouud of what was to have been a
six-round 60 at the Arena in Pniladei-
phia last night. The bout lasted o.
long as it did probably because the
| sailor wanted to give the great crowd
present something for their money.
Crazed by years Of suffering FROM ner-
vous prostration, Mrs. William l. May
er, wife OF DR.. Mayer, OF Pittsburg,
leaped from the ocean pier into the surf
at Atlantic City yesterday and was
drowned before the eyes of en- attend
ant, from whose care she had escaped.
unsuccessful efforts were made to res
che Mrs. Mayer.
The board. consisting OF Gers.
Schwan, ard Boynton and Col. Carter,
which has been for some time past ar
ranging the list OF army officers to be
recommended for brevets, having COM
pleted that portion Of the work involv-
ing the Santiago campaign, it was yes
ierday forwarded to the Senate for con-
Grmation of the names.
Captain David Pugh, Of Hampshire
county, ". Va, died yesterday, aged
ufGety.two years. Captain Pueh was
one Of the mem bers of the convention OF
1861 that met in Richmond, and passed
the ordinance of secession. He was
well-known in both Virginias, having
served in the legislature of the Old
Dominion prior 10 the war between the
States, and the State Senate of West
Virginia later.
Smallpox prevails at Ponce, Porto
Rico, and the American military gov
ernment will begin compulsory vacci-
nation. Chief Surgeon Maus, OF the
Seventh Army Corps, has asked Geu.
Fizhugn Lee, its commander, to make
the vaccination OF every one in the
province of Havana compulsory. Oae
hundred and sixty-one cases of small
pox have been reported. 1t is said
that smallpox was brought to this
country from Cuba and Porto Rico
and Will spread throughout the land.