Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-28
NEWS OF THE DtG.

Archbishop Ireland, Of St. Pau,
Mimi, addr,s the Ca; holic Union
Society in Tendon yesterday.
The condition of Mrs. McKinley's
health is such that the President has
abandoned his projected trip to the
West.
Osnada's attitude prevents temper
airy arrangement by the Uuited States
and Great Britain of the Alaskan
bounary.
1t has been decided to give General
Otis an effective fighting force OF 80, 900
men during the rainy season in the
Philippines.
a report from apl arently reliable
sources states that hostlities have been
renewed in Kentucky 10 the Baker.
Howard feud.
General Otis has ordered the opening
OF trade of many important points in
the Philippines that have been closed
since the outbreak.
at the International Council of Wo-
men, now meeting in London, an ad-
dress yesterday in opposition to women
suffrage created commotion.
The litigation over Daniel B. Fayer-
weather's will was reopened iu New
York yesterday and requests of 50, 000.-
900 to colleges may have to be re-
turned.
Paul Deroulede, in the French Cham
Der of Deputies Yesterday moved that
steps be taken to substitute q popular
for the parliam entary republic" but his
motion was voted down.
The Navy Departments contemplate
ing q material reduction in the strength
OF the feet at Manila. The bsttleship
Oregon and the monitors will probably
be ordered to San Francisco in the fall.
The Japanese battleship Hatsuse was
launched at Newcastle, Eng, yesterday.
The Hatsuse is built OF steel, is 400 feet
long has 76 feet inches beam, draws
81 feet Of water, is of $1,000 tons dis
placement.
His clothing in flames and he shrek.
ing in agony. Esau Bishop ran from the
forecastle of the schooner Bertha Dean
the in harbor at Baltimore last evening,
plunged over the side into the water
and was drowned. The mans clothing
, had caught fire from some burning oil.
The race troubles which have been
brewing around Bloosburg and Brook
side Ala, for the past two days result
ed in a bloody riot near the former
! place yesterday afternoon. As re.
suit three negroes were killed and a
fourth is dying. The two races came to
q clash in the late afternoon in Glasgow
Hollow, where the negroes had congre-
gated armed with Winchester rifles. A
white man passing along the road was
held up and roughly handled and the
riot followed.
The American Tin Pate Company
which, barring four mills, has monop-
| oily of the TIM plate manufacturing in
terests in the United States, is facing
the prospect of general strike next
Friday midnight, the result of which
will be to close all its mills. Twenty.
Eve thousand skilled workmen and 49,
600 laborers are likely to be involved.
The present contract with the anal.
gamated association will expire at mid.
| night on Friday next and the men want
an increase of pay.
What was probably the most sensa
tiouel eight cared boat race ever seen
in America was rowed over the Hudson
rivers four-mile course, at Poughkeep
sic, N. Y, yesterday afternoon before
thirty thousand persons. The Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Varsity eight
proved victorious, but only by g bare
half length over the University of Wis
consin's eight, which proved big sur.
prise from the very start. Cornell
crossed the line third, aJ least three
and half lengths back, while Colum.
bia brought up the tail-end OF the pro-
cession.