Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-04-02
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAY.
General Fitzhueh Leo has established
o rural guard of one company in BIZ
province.
Germany asks the United States To-
the same open door policy in the Philip
pines as that applied to China.
Secretary Gage has asked Congress
for an additional sppropria ton OF 5000
600 for fighting off the plague.
James Easter. formerly of the 6rm o
Hamilton Easter & Co., Baltimore, diet
In that city yesterday, aged 70 years.
Mayor Hayes, Of Baltimore, fell dow
the stairway OF his home on Saturday
evening and fractured bis left leg abov
the knee.
Rev. o. F. Davis, OF Omaha, has beef
divorced from his wife, who has declar
ed that her tastes were too extrsvsgan
for his income.
10 Warren county, n. G, on Satur
day Miss Mary Hickman, the only els
ter of the once noted beau" Hickman
OF Washington, died at her coun,r.
home.
The survivors Of the South Polar ex
petition has arrived al Campbell Town
New q ,aland, aud G. E. Borcbgrevink
t1e explorer, reports that the msgneti
pole has been located.
Two fremen we're killed aud tw'
seriously injured at Owosso, Mich, 10
FIRE which destroyed the Central Higl
School 10 the town yesterday. Two o
the pupils we're also hurt.
Nathan Lermend, Boston engineer
ran of with Mics Winnie Noyers, o
Houltou, Me-, as she was about Il
marry Pnineas Sawysr. carried her to 1
minister, and they were married.
The House on Saturday passed tn
Notifications appropriation bill. Not G
single amendment was offered and tn.
bill passed as 1t came from the CON nit.
tee. The measure carried N,093, 4S8.
Attorney General Griggs has notified
the Secretary Of the Navy that the Sec
rotary of the Treasury has complete au
thority 10 the disposition of wrecks o
Spanish vessels along the shores o
Cuba.
General Grosvener reported the ship
ping bill to the Honse on Saturday
The report is long one, devoted tt
arguments favoring the gift of $3.50. 600,
600. The democrats will submit q mino
rity report.
Crowds of people are arriving il
Dublin 10 take part in the reception tc
Queen Victoria. A proposed proct 8
sion of the Nationalist Society, timed
to start on the night of the Queens ar
rival, will probably be prohibited.
The Senate subcommittee sent te
Cuba to investigate conditions has re
turned. They report great desire o.
the people for absolute independence
but the committee THINKS the natives
are not yet educated to that point.
The confidence OF democrats to defea'
Mckinley and the trusts is CROWNS
The claims for Bryan now include the
solid South, Nebraska, Kansas, the
mining States, New York, Illinois, l,
diana AMI Others The question Of
platform Is an sll-important one, 80 far
as the convention is concerned.
Many thous ,nds of dollars worth OF
''slot" gambling machines were de-
stroyed on the meadows west OF the
Hackensack river. near the Jersey Guy
aud Newark plank road, on Saturday.
The machines were coDfiscated 10 Jei =
sey City, Hoboken, Bsyonne and other
towns of Hudson county as gambling
DEVICES.
So far az the committee in charge Of
the measure is concerned, the Porto
Rico bill was completed on Saturday,
with the exception of two amendments,
which Senators bad requested should
lie over until today. The final two
days' debate on the bill was begun at l l
o'clock today, At 4 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon the votes will be taken on
the pending amendments and the bllI,
Representative Hay, of Virginia, one
OF the members of the military commit
tee of the House, has prepared bill to
create out of the militia OF the several
States q reserve volunteer army for use
10 time OF war, to supplement the reg.
ular army. It is designed to obYiate
the necessity Of a large standing army
upon the expiration OF the present law,
July /, 1901. increasing the standing
army to $1,000 and authorizing the
present volunteer army of 5000. The
bill makes all citizens between the ages
of Is and As fable to military service in
the volunteer army. 1t sppropriates
"a, 000, 900 annually for the matt
tenance and equipment Of the national
guard of the several States.