Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-22
NEWS Of THE Dai

Minister Harris gave a banquet at
Trieste last night in bonor OF Admiral
Dewey.
The peach crop of the Eastern Shore
OF MARYLAND is said 10 be almost COM
plete failure.
Vice President Hobart is again sick,
and spent Thursday in red at Loug
Branch. n. J. 1t is said that his illness
is not alarming, and need not be con-
sidered relapse ofthe old trouble.
The United States and Great Britain
would not agree. in the peace confer
euce, to Mr.. Van Kamebeck's report pro-
hibitng the use of asphyxiatng pro-
jectiles and dum-dum or expanding
bullets.
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan, it s
said, will issue an address to the people,
announcing himself q candidate for the
democratic nomination for President,
on g platform of free silver, antitrust
and anti Imperialism.
A new company has been organized
at Chester, Pa, to manufacture iron
and steel, and plant will go up along
the river front, at the foot of Harwick
street. Acout 600 men will he employ
ed. The capital is about 5000
Phienthropc James McIutyre, a
we'll TODD man of Blair township, near
Altoona, Pa, recently laid out GENE
terry on his farm for the free use OF his
neighbors. He was driving post in
the fence around it when stricken with
fatal paralysis. He was buried in his
new cemetery today.
A member of the Twentieth Kansas
writes from the Philippines that while
throwing up an intrenchment near
SAINT Tomas, Will Smart and Orville
Spencer, OF Independence, Kan, un-
esrthed an iron box containing $500
10 Spanish gold. Other buried treasures
have been found by the Kansas regi-
ment.
Rev. John ]. Eberle, a retired Bap
list clergyman of Pottstown, Pa, who
celebrated his seventy. sixth birthday
anniversary yesterday, has for 43 years
eaten but one meal day He adopted
this economical plan of diet to cure
stomach ailment, and it proved so bene'
fetal that he has continued it. He is
10 vigorous health.
While unloading hay liz his barn at
Repaupo, N. j., Thursday, J. Clark
Helms got his fingers caught in the
hosting apparatus and was hauled ~
into the air in a twinkling. He hung
suspended for few agonizing seconds,
when the fingers pulled out and he
dropped to the NOW. Il was found
necessary to amputate the finger stumps.
The War Department has issued a
statement quoting certain dispatches
from General Otis in answer to the press
correspondents "roupd.robin." The
General says in substance that the cor
respondents wish to send statements
that imperil operations; that they had
no specification to support their charges
against him, and that these charges are
untrue. He denies that he minimizes
the work of the navy, and quotes from
naval dispatches to justify his state
ment.
Mr.. George ]. Goschen, in the House
OF Commons, yesterday said Great
Britain's policy was still to maintain
feet equal to the combined fleets Of
France and Russia. Abiding to the
use of electricity in the navy be said :
Both the United States and Japan are
now naval powers sufficiently import
ant to make US think we ought to have
a naval attsche in those countries. AS
attache to the Embassy at Washington,
we are going to appoint an officer es'
pecially competent to deal with electri'
cal matters"
Mrs. Charles Golf, of Oil City, Pa,
died of strangulation Thursday night,
aud her husband is under arrest, sus-
pected of having killed her. According
to the neighbors, Golf came home drunk
and loud talking between him and bis
wife followed. In a short time Mrs.
Golf came out of the house and said to
a neighbor: II guess he's finished me
this time" She said that her husband
had choked her. Before medical as
sistance arrived Mrs. Golf was dead
The prisoner denies that be choked his
wife. Mrs. Golf was SO years Of age
and her husband is 81.