Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

President Loubet has cashiered Major
Cuignet, of the French war Office, for
divulgiug Dreyfus letters.
The government has forbidden Jews
to reside in st. Petersburg. Several
French Jews are among those who will
be compelled to leave.
NJ. De Giers, Russian minister to
China, has demanded the right to build
railway connecting the Manchurian
system with Pekin.
At the annual session of the Southern
Baptist Convention in Louisville yes
terday Ex-Governor Northern of Geor-
gia was elected president.
Reinforcements are being sent to Gen
erals Macarthur and Lawton from Ma
Mia. The Filipinos are strongly in
trenched in front of their armies.
The Rev. DR.. W. U. Murkland, pas
tor of the Franklin Street Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore, and one of the most
eminent divines in the Southern AS
sembly, died in Baltimore yesterday.
Postmaster General Smith has issued
an order requiring postmasters at presi'
dental post offices to give their per-
sonal attention to the business of their
offices and must not absent theretrom
longer period than one or two days
without authority.
After thirty years. possession the
family estate of the late Chief Justice
Chase, near Washington, is expected to
pass out of the hands of Mrs. Kate Ohate
Sprsgue next Thursday, as it will be Of
fered for sale at auction to satisfy
mortgage of$SO,O0O.
Eighteen buildings covering four acres
OF ground, were destroyed by fire in
the Brighton district, Boston, yesterday
evening at loss of about $4,000.
About one hundred and fifty dogs in
kennel, owned by Edward Walsh, were
burned at loss of about $1,000.
While Oliver A. Johnson, of Sesford,
was fishing for sturgeon in Delaware
bay yesterday, he felt a mighty tug at
his line. He wrapped the line around
his arm and started to pull it in, but
was drawn from his boat by the mon
ster fish and did not reappear.
The Cuban distrust of General Gomez
is growing. Charges of his treachery to
the army have been revived, and re.
proach is heaped upon him by mem
ber5 of his former escort. a ser sation-
al manifesto is expected and his rela-
tons with General Brooke are to be
disclosed.
Former Governor Roswell p. Flower
died last night at 1880 at the Eastport
Country Club, at Eastport, L. |. Mr..
Flower was taken i'll early in the day
with severe attack of acute indges
ton. Ia the afternoon symptoms OF
heart failure supervened, and he grew
steadily worse until the time OF his
death.
The Texas House OF Representatives
has passed the antitrust bill. An amend
ment was adopted which provides that
trusts and corporations shall not have
the right of suit to enforce the collection
of accounts in the State. An amend
ment was also adopted which will pro
hibit the Standard Oil Company from
doing business in Texas.
At Paris, Tex, about $3.50 O'Clock
last night the reviewing stand, on
which were seated 1000 persons, wit
Messing display OF fireworks, fell with
crash. No ore Was killed, but
great number were injured, some prob
ably fatally. The pyrotechncal display
was the closing entertainment of the
Firemen's Convention. The staging
was overcrowded and seemed to give
way in all parts st once.
Shortly before 10 o'clock last night
collision Of passenger trains oc-
Cured on the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway at Exeter station, six
miles below Reading, Pa. The passen-
gers were mostly from Norrstown and
it is reported that twenty-five were
killed and over fifty injured. An
express train from Philadelphia
was behind schedule time in
leaving and stopped at Exeter for
orders. A special train from Harris
burg bearing excursionists who had at
tended the Hartranft monument un
yelling at the capital left Reading
twenty minutes later than the express
train, and at Exeter, while proceeding
at a rapid speed, crashed into the
express.