Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-22
NEWS OF TIE DAN.

Baron Paul Julius de Reuter-, founder |
of Reuters Telegraph Company, is at !
the point of deBth at Nice.
Latest reports are that the damage to
the sou hern fruit crop rom the recent
blizzard was not as great rs was at first
supposed.
Five oyster dredeers tramping from
Drum Point through Calvert county
toward Baltimore persisted during the
past week in the blizz ud SHOWS.
Municipal elections wero held through
out Pennsylvania yesterday. Ssmuel
IL AshhIiige, republican, was elected
mayor of Philadelphia.
The trip to Cuba and Porto Rico
proposed by Secretary Alger is regard
ed as 2 jlnket and an expensive one.
It will cost the government at least
100000.
Senator Cockrall yesterday served
notice upon the republicans in the Sem
ate that the democrats would not per-
n,it the nassaGe OF the Hull army bill at
this session of Congress-.
The House, in committee of the
whole yesterday adopted the amend
ment of Representative Mudd, APP
proprieting $4,000 additional for i'm
provements at the Naval Academy.
Tho Court of Appeals ia Washington
yesterday affirmed the verdict OF the
lower court awarding Mrs. Laura P.
Howard $4,000 damages on account of
iujDries received while travelling on the
G. x 0. Railroad.
President Loubet sent a message to
tie French Parliament yesterday ad-
vising that an understanding be reach
Cd as TO domestic differences, so tnat
Frenchruen may work in unison for
their country's welfare.
By vote of 200 against 100 the
House of Commons yesterday rejected
motion 10 remove the Bishops from
the House of Lords on the ground that
their presence there is incompatible
with their religious duties.
The filtration committee of the Phila-
delphia board OF trade has submitted
report urging the passage of the meas
ure now before councils sppropriating
81, 10000 out of the big loan for the
purpose of providing purer water sup
ply.
Mr.. John r. McGraw, who was the
unsucc= ssful candidate in the West Vir-
cinia Senatorial contest, yesterday
served notice upon Senator elect n. i.
Scott thai he would contes! the latter's
right to seat in the United States
Senate.
The House yesterday afternoon per-
sisted in disegreeing 20 the Senate
amendments TO the Bowman act and
another conference was ordered. This
il the measure which carries with it an
appropriation for a large number OF
claims made by residents OF Maryland,
Virginia and other southern States for
compensation for property lost during
the civil war.
The General Conference of the NJ. E,
Church South, at its late session in Bal
tmore, committed itself to proposi-
lion to raise on or before the 1st OF Jam
uary, 1901, 81 800, 900, as its twentieth
century Offering TO Christian education.
Bishop Galloway is capvassing Virginia
in the interest Of this fund, and on
Sunday afternoon addressed q mass
meeting of Methodists at Broad Street
Church. The churches of Richmond
and Manchester pledge themselves to
raise their part of the sos, 900 assessed
20 the Virginia Conference.
Residents of Flatbusb, n. y, were
greatly surprised yesterday to learn OF
the secret early morning marriage after
club party of Colonel William |. Boy
den, wealthy resident, 10 Miss NIL
dred Praeger, daughter of DR.. Praeger,
OF williamsburg. Besides being TWEEN
ty-fve years older than his bride Col.
onel Boyden is The father-in-law OF her
brother, his daughter being the wife OF
F. ]. Praeger. Colone! Boyden is
veteran of the civil war, and is over
fifty years of age, while his bride is
not more than twenty-five years old.
Lord Charles Beresford, Great Brit.
ieu's commissioner to China. arrived in
Washington Yesterday. Concerning
nis mission to China to investigate the
condition of trade in the far East, Lord
Charles says this country's trade with
China is rapidly increasing. The En-
pire, he says, is in totIering condition
and the United States is interested with
Great Britain, Japan, and Germany in
maintaining it. The policy OF the open
door, he says, offers superior opportuni.
ties to this country and division of
China would be likely to injuriously af-
feet our growing trade.
HEIR TO VANDERBILT MILLIONS
The stork visited the Whitney mansion,
at No. west Fifty second street, short
" after o'clock Monday morning and