Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The people of Augusta county have
geniZed good roads association.

organized good ROADS aSSociaIIoh.
The pension bureau is restoring to
the rolls pensioners who enlisted in the !
army during the war with Spain.
General Otis has bought thirteen
Spanish gunboats which had been left
in Philippine waters.
The Berlin National Zeitung says
Germany has abandoned the proposal
for partition of the Samoan Islands.
A letter received in Winchester states
that Mr.. Charles Broadway Ronss
is seriously ill at his home in New York.
Rev. Z4bulon B. Farland. of Ports,
mouth, has declined a call to St.
Pau's Protestant Episcopal Church,
Richmond.
The Fairfax democratic primaries to
nominate candidates for county and
district offices, will be held tomorrow,
Wednesday.
W. H. ("Coin'D Harvey has resigned
as general manager of the ways and
| means committee of the national demo-
| cratic committee.
! President Mckinley left Thomasville,
| Ga, yesterday, whore he had been the
guest of Senator Hanna, on his return
trip to Washington.
Nearly 10000 punches of bananas ar
rived in Baltimore yesterday, the largest
| number ever received at that port in one
day.
| Fire caused panic in q church at
Leon, Nicaragua, and many women
were seriously injured in the rush fol-
lowing the alarm.
! It is reported that in the charge on
the Filipioos at Polo on Sunday Gen.
Irving Hale fell wounded while direct
ing the advance.
( Cornell played her first game of base
ball on her southern trip, at Charlottes'
Vile yesterday, losing to the Uni
versity OF Virginia by score fourteen
to five.
| DR.. H. Reginald Fairfax, resident
physician at the Retreat for the Sick,
in Richmond, has been appointed to a
position in the Marine Hospital, ct
Boston.
Mormons are still canvassing sec
tons OF the Northern Neck, and not
withstanding the fact that they meet
with cold receptions as rule,
they continue on at their work undis-
mayed.
A Washington dispatch states that
Vice-President Hobart does not desire
d denomination and that the repub!i-
can managers have determined to Sc
lect war hero" for the second place
on the national ticket next year.
The military court investigating Gen
Miles's charges against army beef is in
session in Washington. Former Com
missary General Eagan will be recalled
to testify aud General Miles will also be
given an opportunity to appear as wit
ness.
The wrecking of live stock train on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Glen
Loeb, Pa, yesterday afternoon. result
ed in terrible butchery OF dumb ami
mails, and the killing OF the locomotive
fireman. At least $50 beasts in the
crowded cattle cars were slaughtered.
William a. Brady, manager of Kid
Mccoy, yesterday notified Tom
O'Rourke, maGager Of Tom Sharkey,
that the Sharkey Mccoy match would
have to be declared of temporarily, as
Mccoy hurt his shoulder in his recent
fight with Choynski,
Fire destroyed the Armour Curled
Hair and Felt Works, in Chicago yes
terday, and caused a property loss Of
nearly $500, 900, injured eleven en-
ployes, one fatally, and endangered the
lives of four hundred others, who
rushed to escape through the binding
i, smoke.
Director Merriam yesterday appoint
ed Prof. Walter F. Wilcox, OF Cornell
University, to the Office OF chief statsti-
tion of the twelfth census. William B.
Powell, son OF Prof. Powell, superin-
tendent Of schools of the District OF CO.
lumbia, was also appointed 20 take
charge of the examination Of ap-
plicants for appointment in the census
Office.
At Albany, N. Y, yesterday the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company filed certificate with the
Secretary of State announcing an in
crease in the capital stock of $75 900,
900. This is $50, 100000 over the former
capitalization, and one of the heaviest
increases that has ever been recorded.
The American Bell Telephone Company,
chartered uDder the laws of Massachu-
sets, is the parent OF the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company, as
it also is of the New York Telephone
Company.