Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Five more cases of yellow fever hav
at Havana.

Inc ADVANCE 10 tne price OF peel has
been checked in New York, and in
some Instances there has been slight
reaction in prices.
Washington German-Americans yes
terday celebrated the one hundred and
fftieth anniversary of Goethe's birth
by banquet. in which $50 persons
participated.
Ambassador Choate has been press
ing the British Foreign Office for a
temporary settlement Of the Alaska
boundary dispute, but no advance has
been made in the negotiations.
The revolutionists in Santo Domingo
continue successful, and Adriauo Grul-
Ion, their representative in New York
has received a telegram stating that
the government has surrendered.
A dispatch from Cape Town says: 1t
is stated that the Transvaal has noti-
fed Great Britain that the Boer gov
1 eminent adheres to its latest offer for
I the settlement of its dispute with Eng
land, and will make no further conces.
sion.
At Newport, r. l., last night, Mrs.
| Frederick D. Grant made the formal
announcement of the date of the we'd
ding of her daughter, Mrs. Julia Dent
| Grant, to Prince CantacuZene. The
| ceremony will take place on Septem-
Der 25.
Colonel Jouast. president of the Drey-
fus court martial, has announced that
Patty de Clam, probably the most i'm
portant witness that could be summon
ed at the trial, will not appear, giving
the fimsy pretext that his health will
not permit.
| Receipts of sweet potatoes were very
heavy in Baltimore yesterday, over
5000 barrels coming to that market by
the different steamboats,. Prices con.
sequently broke to so cents and 81 q
barrel it being hard to improve on the
latter price even for the best offerings.
Irish potatoes sold at 40 cents bushel.
The Congress of the Brazilian State
of Amazonas has condemned the mis-
| guided acts" of some citizens in deciar-
ing the independence of upper Amazon
as 1t asks the State and federal gov
4 ernments 10 compel respect for the
I rights of Brazil over the whole territory
as guaranteed by the treaties between
| Brazil and Peru.
Recruiting Offices are to be opened in
the South for enlisting men for. the
, Philippines. The cities i wien the
offices arc r. r." -poned are Savanna,
Macon, Rockville, Nashville, Loui-
vile and Raleigh. Baltimore is to be
quite recruiting post, as officers will
be sent there 10 enlist men for three of
the new regiments.
In game of poker between George
Munford, Hank Hamlin and Henry
Smith a few nights ago in Portland,
Ore. Munford lost $4,000 and quit.
Hank Smith then won $4,000 on q
bluff from Munford. Munford and
Hamln have taken an oath before q
! magistrate vowing never 10 play an-
other game of cards as long as they live.
General Jiminez, the aspirant for the
Presidency of Santo Domingo, and his
two sons arrived at Santiago de Cuba,
yesterday afternoon on the Havana, a
steamer from Cienfuegos, but he was
not allowed to land. General Wood
will detain him until he is advised from
Havana what course to take in the mat
tel, as it is believed that Jim;neZ is
seeking to violate the neutrality law.
There are some startling develop
ments in the case of Captain o. NJ. Car
ter, who was found guilty swindling
the government out of 81, 600, 900. Cap
tain Carter, it is reported 10 army
circles, has notified his friends in the
engineer corps and various members of
Congress, who assisted in securing ap
preparations for the Savannah harbor
improvements, that if be goes TO the
penitentiary he will take others with
him.
!. M. Sinclair, high sheriff of Donegal,
committed suicide by shooting himself
on Sunday, on receipt of the announce
ment that his daughter, is years CT
age, had been drowned in another
part of the country. The latter story
now turns out to be false, and has caus
ed an immense sensation in the county,
where the family is prominent. The
author of the fslsehood which caused
the father to commit suicide is un-
known.
The bodies of Absalom G. Hazlett
and Aaron Dwight Stevens, who were
captdred with John Brown in his raid
on Harper's Ferry in 1859, and who
were hanged month after the raid,
were dis.nterred yesterday from the
graves in which they have rested since
Mrs. Rebecca Spring, now of Los An.
geles, CAL, took them to Perth Amboy,
n. j., and had them buried. They
were sent to the John Brown home
stead at North Elba, Essex county, n.
Y, where they will be in reinterred by
the side Of their leaders, body.
Without a moments warning, the
immense steel framework of the Coli
scum building, which was in process OF
construction on the site Of the old Lib
by Prison war museum, on the east
side of Wabash avenue, between Four
teenth and Sixteenth streets, Chicago,
collapsed and fell to the ground yester-
day evening, carrying with it two score
OF workmen, who were putting the fin
ishing touches upon the arches recent.
ly put into place. Ten were killed,
three are missing and Eve so badly
hurt that they may die. Shifting sands
under the foundation caused the disas-
ter.
The Tenth Pennsylvania was given
big reception yesterday on its return
to Pittsburg from the campaign in the
Philippines. Speeches were made by
President Mckinley. Governor Stone