Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-13
NEWS OF TEE DAY

Secretary OF War Alger declares ba
will not retire from the Cabinet til
year. He says the attacks upon him
are cruel and distressing to bis family.
Partial returns from the recruiting
stations received bv the War Depart
ment show that less then 1000 men
have thus far been accep.ed Tor service
in the Phil ppine volunteers.
M. Lsbon, former French Minister
for the Colonies, justifies some of his
alleged cruelty toward Dreyfus by stat
ing that great precautions bad TO be ia
ken to Illustrate plans for escape.
A movement ia being organized TO
have Gov. Johnston, of Alabama, de.
clare the congressional seat OF General
Joe Wheeler, of the Eighth district, Va
cant, and order an election 10 fill the
place.
James F. Failey, receiver of the Order
of the Iron Hall, has filed his final re-
port in Indianapolis, Ind., and, by or.
der of court, the trust which has exist
ed since August %, 1892, will immedi-
ately be closed.
The Monarch Brewing Company, of
Baltimore, is required by an order
sigued yesterday by Judge Stockbridge
to show cause by July 20 why it should
not be placed in the hands of receiver
to wind up its affairs.
At the meeting of the democratic ma.
tional committee ia Chicago on July
20 Mr.. Bryan's friends will show that
there is general demand for his renom.
nation. Senator Jones will not resign
the craftsmanship of the committee.
Ex-senator German, of Maryland, is
i'll at the Hesperus Hotel, Magnolia,
Mass, and his wife and two daughters
are at his bedside. His condition is not
considered serious. He suffers from
exhaustion, or relapse of the grip.
At cake walk Tuesday evening
at Bridgeville, Del. Dinsh Snowden,
colored damsel, was bitten by kissing
bug. Her face soon began to swell, and
10 short time she was unable to speak.
The appearance of the bug created q
panic, and the cake walk broke up in
short order.
Serious riotiug mas followed the &C,
quittal of Father Flamidieu, of the
School of the Christian Brothers at
Lille, France, who was charged with
numbering q boy in that institution.
Thousands of persons paraded the
streets, shouting Down with the Jes-
uits !" and smashing windows.
An electric storm played havoc in
and near New York last night The
sky dropped flood and fire and half an
inch of rain, varied by hail, fell in four
teen minutes. Lightning hit the navy
yard and the ferry boat Robert Garrett,
fired an oil tank, and cut capers for an
hour thereabouts. More than an inch
and a half Of rain fell during the storm.
At Concord, N. f., yesterday, there
was very exciting episode at the af-
ternoon session OF the civil service CON-
mission hearing the charges preferred
against United States Senator Jacob
q. Galiinger by former Gov. Busiel,
who is backed up by Senator Chandler.
Chandler and Gallinger were ready to
eight. The lie was passed, and the two
Senators started for the door to fight it
out. Friends, however, restrained
them. Then both parties made state.
ments and the affair wound up.
A copy of the Independence has
reached Manila containing the speech
which Aguinaldo made during the re-
cent celebration at Tarlac of the ami.
versary of the proclamation of Filipino
independence, He tells his followers
that some of the States of the American
Union have declared in their favor
aud predicts that this country will,
soon be an ally of the Filipinos. All
tonomy, he says, is only deceit, and
is designed to save accumulated wealth.
He says the Filipinos must have indie,
peudence.