Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-03
NEWS OF THE DAY

Chicago packing house employees de-
cided not to start general strike until
their union is stronger.
Illinois troops were ordered 10 Carter
vile, ILL.,, on Saturday, to suppress a
mob of miners who were firing upon
non. union negro workers.
Loss by the food in the Brazos Valley
Tex, last Friday and Saturday, is es-
timated at $4,000 OO A number If
persons were drowned.
Mobs in Valencia, Spain, yesterday
attacked a monastery and Jesuits'
house. Many rioters were wounded in
fierce fighting with the troops.
No credence is given to the report
that President Mckinley had off ;reG
the portfolio of Secretary of War to
General Horace Porter, who declined it,.
The report of The Bureau of Naviga-
ton shows that the years output of
American shipyards has been the largest
of any year. save one, for quarter of
q century.
Rev. DR.. John Farrell Galligan, Presi-
dent of Gonzags College and rector of
St. Aloysius Church, Washington, died
in St. Francis Xavier's College, New
York, Vt sterday, of apoplexy.
The Southern Wholesale Grocers' AS.
sociation will meet in annual session at
Asheville, N. c., next Thursday and
Friday. Mr.. Charles King, of Alexan-
dria, is member of its executive COM
mittee.
Mr.. Richard Burmeister, formerly of
the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, who
obtained divorce from his wife, Dory
Burmeister Peterson, last fall, was mar
red Thursday to Miss Atkinson, at
Farmville, Va.
Late oriental advices state that twen-
ty ringleaders of the rioters who de-
stroyed and burned the electric tram
way cars at Seoul last month were ex.
ecuted in public at Corea's capital.
They met their fate bravely.
Most Rev. Francis de Paula Barpada
and Right Rev. James Hubert Blenk
were consecrsted, respectively, Arch
bishop Of Santiago, Cuba, and Bishop
of Porto Rico by Archbishop Chapelle
in New Orleans yesterday.
Joseph T. Eichberg, of Atlanta, Ga i,
assisted by number of leading women
of that city, has started movement to
raise fund of $1,000 with which to
purchase fine jsweled sword TO pre-
sent to Captain Dreyfus, the French
prisoner.
The commander of the cruiser Sfax
says Dreyfus did not know that new
court martial awaited him until the
latter part of the voyage to France.
Captain Dreyfus says he will be glad
10 re-enter the army" and that ne has
no ill.will toward any one.
President Mckinley on Saturday
presented to the French Ambassador,
NJ. Cambon, superb silver loving cup,
in recognition of the Ambassadors
friendly services in the negotiations
which restored peace between the
United States and Spain.
Prof. Mark W. Harrington, formerly
chief of the Weather Bureau, has been
dismissed from the service. 1t is said
that his actions have been somewhat pc
culiar of late, but the direct cause of bis
dismissal IS the fact OF his efusal to &C
cept the assignment made for him by
Prof. Moore in the West Indies.
A fire occurred at Summit, N. j.,
early yesterday morning which result
ed in the destruction OF $4,000 worth
of property in the very heart of the
town. The structures destroyed in.
clude the Agate block, eight other
buildings in Union avenue. grain
storage elevator and number of barns.
Fully $1,000 people journeyed to
Sheepshead Bay on Saturday to see
the one mile match race for SIS 900 be
tween the greatest of three-year-old
FLIES, Admiration and May Hemp.
stead IL was east against west, and
east wop, for Admiration came home
in gallop first by two lengths. The
time. l 40 5, was by no means what
had been expected.
Prof. Schurman, Philippine commits
sioner, Saturday returned to Manila
from q tour of the southern islands,
where, he says, he found the intelligent
citizans desirous of an American pro-
tectorate, but fearing to endorse Ameri'
can rule until Aguinaldo is beaten. The
Filipinos object to the number of mis-
sionaries coming among them, fearing
that the Americans will compel them
to give up their churches.
Gen. Horatio Gates Wright, U. s. A.,
retired. died suddenly yesterday morn
ing, at his residence, 1908 n street
northwest. He had been sick since
April with bright's disease. As CHIEF
engineer he accompanied the expedi-
ton for the destruction of the navy
yard at Norfolk, in April, 1861, and in
May crossed the Potomac with General
Heintzelman's column, and laid out
and commenced Fort Ellsworth, just
west of this city. At the first battle OF
Bull Run be was chief engineer Of
Heintzelman's division.
A reciprocity treaty with Jamaica
was concluded at the State Department
90 Saturday at a conference. The con-
vention is under section 4 of the Ding
ley tariff law. providing for reciprocity
treaties and is not a mere agreement"
as provided for by section 3 Of the act.
The concessions given to Jamaica differ
materially from those allowed the other
British West Indian colonies, mainly
because of the recent tariff law enacted
by Jamaics, which had special applica-
ton to the United States. With the
beginning of the fiscal year, on July l,
o number of changes hayebeen made