Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The London Gazette announces that
Hiram Maxim and John G. Meiggs, OF
the United States, have taken out pa
pers OF naturalization.
A white child, a colored woman and
o colored child were accidentally
sufoceted by Illuminating gas in Balti'
more on Monday Dight.
The trial OF prominent Germans
charged with gaming at the notorious
gambling club in Berlin was begun yes
terday. A number of important wit
nesses have fed.
At Savannah yesterday Capt. E. @.
Gillette, United States engineer, IN
charge of the Savannah district, annul-
led the contract of the Atlantic Con-
tracing Com paDy for building break
water in Tybe roads. The contract was
entered into October s. 1896, by Cap
tain Carter as engineer in charge.
The various foreign disturbances and
change 10 discount rates proved rather
heavy pressne upon the Wall
street market, yesterday, causing
prices for awhile to drop. Mon
ey rates made several violeut gyra.
tions, reaching at one time forty per
cent.
The rush of Europeans from Johan-
| nesburg and other points in the Trans
vaal continues. 1t is reported that the
! Orange Free STATE troops have occupied
| and closed Gothas Pass on the Free
| State border. Lloyds publishes a report
that the Transvaal authorities have
seized $500, 900 gold in transit. A num-
Der of Paris papers say that the Beers
have sent an ultimatum to England de-
handing the withdrawal OF the British
troops from the frontiers within forty.
eight hours.
The Warren Line steamship Bay
State, with returning cattlemen and
general cargo, bound from Liverpool to
Boston, went ashore at daylight yer.
terday near Rsnews, on the north OF
Cape Race. Besides her crew she car.
ried twenty-five cattlemen-all told
| there being one hundred person.
abroad. Eignty-fve have been account
ed for, but there is great uneaslness
felt as to the safety of the fifteen Others
who were cast adrift in an open boat
The steamship is fast breaking up, anc
the weather last night was go rough as
TO preclude the possibility of saving any
Of the cargo. The ship was driver
ashore by a northeasterly current O
unusual force.
In the Venezuela decision made BY
the board of arbitrationi Paris yester
day, as stated in the Gazette of tina
date, the disputed territory was aoou
equally divided between Venezuel'
aud England. The course OF the boun
] Diary TO Mount Roraima, while it con
| cedes half of the disputed territory te
Venezuela, gives the best Of it to Eng
land, especially the region containing
| The gold fields now worked. The aware
means that of the 10000 square mile
csimed by Venezuela, that country Oh
tains only half, formed partly OF The
narshland near the river Barima, ant
a portion in the interior; while Gree
Britain retains all the forest country.
Yesterdays edition of Ell Cuban
contained a manifesto issued by Gen
erals Miro and Sanchez against th
American government. Both General
Miro and Sanchez are prominent, ant
held lucrative positions under Genera
Woods administration until recently
Thew claim that the conduct OF tn
Americans is more tyrannical than tba
Of the Spaniards ever was, and that tn
time is nearly ripe for new revolution
which they are willing to lead. CUB
ibre announces that it will soon sua
pend publication unless General WOOD
revokes the order restricting the RICH
of the paper to publish whatever it like
relative to the American adminislra
ton