Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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ton in Salisbury, Md, yesterday.
AS the result of foggy weather and
brisk northeasterly gale three schooners
lay stranded on Cape Cod this morning.
Their crews were rescued.
The western counties of Maryland
were visited by a severe electrical
storm yesterday evening. Large hail
fell in Washington county.
Representative Mark L. Davis, who
was accused of Offering a bride to fell
low Delaware Legislator, was acquitted
of the charge by q jury at Dover yes
terday.
! The cruiser Chicago has been order
ed to Morocco, with view to influence
ing the Moorish government to respect
the rights of Americans and to pay Ger.
| tain claims.
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries will proba-
bly, have to fight before some other
| club than the Coney Athletic Club. A
license was refused them yesterday at
the meeting of the New York police
board.
~ 0iplOAl0biol CSSCS VIC
l that the agreement between Russia and
[ Great Britain in regard to "spheres of
influence" in China will be followed by
/ the partition of the Empire among Eu-
ropean nations.
Senator Pettigrew has returned to
Washington from trip through the
south and west. He says Bryan will be
| nominated by reclamation. The popu
lists will hold their convention before
/ the democrats and nominate Bryan.
| Reports have reached New York
that the Rev. DR.. Joseph Il. Kerr and
| the young woman who was the cause
of his being deposed from the pastor
ate of the Fourth Presbyterian Church,
have been seen together in London.
Col. Alexander Biddle, one of the
! oldest representatives OF the famous
Biddle family of Philadelphia, ana for
twenty-tiveye years director of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, died Yes.
I terday at his home, in Chestnut Hill, in
his eighty-ninth year.
Henry 3. Hyde, president OF the
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States, died at his home in New
York yesterday afternoon of heart dis
ease. Mr.. Hyde received salary of
500. 900 year, the largest paid to any
business man in the United States.
One of the fercest heavyweight fights
ever seen in the east was decided at the
Lenox Athletic Club, at New York,
| last night, when Peter Msher and Gus
Rubin battled twenty rounds to Il
draw. The result was g surprise to
the crowd, for Maher was big favorite
and was expected to win quickly.
Senator James K. Jones, of Arkan-
sas, before sailing for Europe, designa
ted J. G. Johnson, national committee
man from Kansas, as temporary secre
tary OF the democratic national com
mittee. Senator Jones, upon the re-
quest of Mr.. Bryan and other party
leaders, will not resign the chairman
ship OF the committee, although strong
ly urged to do so by his physician.
| The Circuit Court of Appeals at St.
Louis, yesterday, with Judges Bland,
Biggs and Bond on the bench, made n
unanimous decision in an appealed
| case to the effect that trust cannot
cloak its objects under the form of
corporation, and evade the penalties
provided for violations Of the Missouri
| antitrust law of 1891. Under this de-
cision accounts with trusts operating IS
corporations in Missouri are not COL
lectable.
Rev. B. F. De Costa, rector of the
Protestant Episcopal Church ofSt. John
the Evangelist, of New York, yester-
day made formal protest to Bishop
Potter against the ordination of Prof.
Charles A. Briggs, of Union Seminary,
as an Episcopal clergyman and asked
for an investigation, in accordance with
the canons of the church, into the pub.
lie rumor accusing DR.. Briggs of teach
ing doctrines contrary to that held by
the church.
After three months of waiting and
watching for man whom, he charges,
had swindled him out of $4,000. Dan
iel Nessmore, formerly Il prosperous
shipowner of New York city, caused
the arrest at sight yesterday of William
Bailey, who is described by his accuser
as president of numberless imaginary
railroads and copper mines in the west
and the debtor OF the railroad mag.
mates, banks and trust companies in
New York city.