Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-05
NEWS OF THE DAY

halhRuua, Olt u at hOnOlulu june "a.
Y. low fever is on hr increase in the
American military camp at Santiago.
1t is reported in Manila that the Fill
pinos will release all SPANS prisoners
except the friare, who will be kept for
ransom.
The army will probably be supple d
with machine guns for use in the Phil
ippines. The Maxim automatic gun
may be adopted
There will be no change in the um-
Der OF major generals or brigade gem
erals an account af the return of volun.
teers from the Philippines.
A dispatch from Springfield, Oaio,
says: The Big Four and the Ches-
peske and Ohio railroads are to be
consolidated into one system.
The German delegate in the Peace
Conference at The Hague has declared
| thai his country would not accept the
principle of obligatory arbitration.
1t is rumored that Roosevell's Rough
Riders will be reorganized and 60 to
the Philippines. Governor Roosevelt,
it is said will go as brigadier general.
Dreyfus had an affectionate meeting
with his brother Matthew yesterday.
The close watch kept upon the captain
at all family interviews is very annoy
ing,
The drafting committee of the arbi.
tration commission of the peace confer.
ence at The Hague passed the second
reading of the scheme for permanent
court of arbitration.
Az embarrassing situation is said to
exist in the cabinet owing to Secretary
Alger's candidacy for the Senate and
the efforts made to secure his retire
! ment from the cabinet.
The Belgian government has prob
ably averted q revolution by accepting
counter. electoral proposals and refer
| ring the whole matter to parliament
airy committee. The socialists claim
victory.
At Buffalo, N. Y on Monday night,
the twenty round fight of Kid Lavigne,
of Saginaw, Mich, and Frank Erne, of
Buffalo, for the light weight champion
ship of the world, resulted in victory
] for the latter.
I A dispatch from Odessa announces
that dynamite cartridge exploded
near there yesterday while the excava-
ton of coal mine was in progress, and
| that fortyfour persons were killed and
-, twenty wounded.
A correspondent has just returned
to Houston, Tex. from trip through
the food districts. The half has not
been told of the havoc wrought. What a
week ago was the fairest part of Texas
is how God.forsaken wilderness.
Fire broke ont in the establishment
of the Memphis Paper Company, in
Memphis, Tenn, yesterday afternoon,
and caused the loss of one life, the ia
tai injury of e1-Fire Chief Cleary, and
the Injury of Assistant Chief James
RYAN. besides property loss OF about
| $45O,000.
From reports from up and down the
Brazos river valley, Tex, it is now fig
ured out that there are over 400 county
brid ses and about $50 railroad bridges
swept away in the food. About thirty
lives were lost ia the food, and the
property loss will reach $5,000,000. An
! appeal has been made for help.
A dispatch from The Hague says the
American delegates to the Peace Con-
ference on Monday placed wreath of
silver upon the tomb of the Dutch phi,
losopher, Hugo Grotius, the Father of
International Law" The ceremony
took place in the Nieuwe Kerk at
Delft, which town Grotius was born in
1858.
In Washington, on Monday, Ambrose
G Dunn filed petition in the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia ask
ing for dissolution OF the partnership
between him and Otto Mears and Chas.
Pepper. constituting the Chesapeake
Bay Construction Company. He al.
leges conspiracy on the part of his as.
soCiates
The Fourth of July was more gener-
ally observed throughout the country
than for several years past. The Amer
lean reeidents 10 London, Paris and
European capitals observed the day and
officials in those cities We'd with them
in making the occasion gala one. The
day was duly observed in Cuba. Porto
Rico and Manila.
Five boys, who were sitting around
can of powder, on Gorsuch avenue,
near Polk street. Baltimore, yesterday,
and who were planning how they
would use it, were all more or less in
jured by the premature explosion of
the powder, and one of there number
Thomas WatkiDs-eleven years of
age, the son of Capt. Samuel D. Wat
kins, of the Fire Department, whose
home is at &c Gorsuch avenue, was in-
jured so badly that he will probably
die.
HATFIELD AND MCCOY.
At noon on Monday when No. II