Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-08-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

trusts.
The U. s. battleship Alabama yester-
day made an average speed OF IL knots
in her official speed trial of the MssSa-
chusetts coast.
Opposition is developing 10 Cuba to
the expected attempt by President Nc
Kinley to interfere with the Cuban con-
stitutionsl convention.
I The rush of homeward- bound Eu-
ropean tourists is shown by the cabin
passenger list OF the steamships, which
arrive at the American ports daily.
The fight between Richard Croker
and Senator Hill over the Coler nomi-
nation for governor OF New York has
practically ended, with victory for the
former.
Paterson, n. j., is to lose one OF its
largest and most important industries.
The Rogers Locomotive Works are to
be closed down and 1900 men thrown
out OF employment.
1t is said that 100 employees of the
Maryland Steel Company at Sparrows
point, were dropped from the pay rolls
last week, and that the company con-
templated shutting down about No
vember l..
Mrs. Butler, wife OF Maj. Gen. NJ. c..
Butler, U. s. A., died at Old Point
Comfort yesterday, OF acute pneu
monia. Mrs. Butler was sixty eight
,, years old and the daughter OF Gov.
PickeDs, war governor Of South Caro-
lima.
In taking steps to carry out the uni
versal arbitration section OF The
Hague peace conference, President Nc
Kinley has asksd former Presidents
| Cleveland and Harrison to serve a.
TWO OF the international board OF srbi-
traitors.
| The Cuban consular report states
that the Spanish population In Cuba
has refused almost en- masses 10 accepi
American citizenship and that &C, S3l
householders have inscribed their
names in the registers at the Spanish
cousulstes.
The census of Boston, Mass, is $780,
S92, against AS AIT 10 1896. Thsi is sn
increase Of 112 AIS, or 2507 per cent
This makes it rank below St Louis, and
Just above Baltimore. San Fra cisco has
342 1872, against 298, 997 in 1890. This
is an increase of 1878, or ii Ga per
cent.
The supreme lodge, Knights Of
Pythias, is in session in Detroit. In
mis- report, r. l.. G. Wright, OF Atlanta,
Ga, supreme keeper of records and
seals. gave the following facts: Total
number of subordinate lodges Deem
Der 81. 1899, 6,740; total membership,
1872, SOC; net Gain during 1898 and 1899,
So lodges and q, 237 members.
A negro named Avery Mills was
taken from the officers neat Forest
City, N c., at noon yesterday and rid
died with bullets by mob, which
sought to avenge the death OF
Mills 81. Flack, an ex-member of the
legislature and we'll known citizen OF
Rutherford county, who was shot and
killed about o'clock that morning.
The leaders of the national party
third ticket movement have about de-
| cded upon the ticket which is to be
nominated at the Carnegie Hall. New
York, convention on September 5. The
ticket is For President of the United
States, Senator Donelson Gallery, OF
Louisiana. For Vice President of the
United States, Moorefeld Storey, of
Massachusetts.
A dispatch from Hszeton, Pa, says:
If the anthracite coal operators refuse
to grant the demands OF the Unite ed
Mine Workers, az embodied 10 the re.
ports of the scale and the resolutions
committees as reported and adopted
at yesterdays convention, within ten
days of date, or by September s, a
strike involving 10000 miners. OF
whom 40, 900 are members of the mine
workers organizations, will be de-
clared.
Virgie NJ. Taylor. said to be the 49,
year-old daughter of Mr.. Richard NJ.
Taylor, former Mayor Of Richmond,
and the stepdaughter of DIR. George G.
Worthington, of Baltimore, committed
suicide by taking morphine on Monday
at the home OF Mrs. Ada LINK, In
Baltimore. 1t is said that the girl was
respondent about money matters and
that her father recently declined to help
her. The affair is causing some COM
ment in Baltimore.
w l.. Tyler Bingham, secretary OF
the Tyler Family Association, has
given notice OF the fifth annual reunion
to be held in Odd Fellows Temple, at
Philadelphia, on Wednesday, Septem-
Der II. Tyler headquarters will be at
Hotel Hanover, Philadelphia. The
morning session will be presided over
by Governor Tyler, of Virginia, and
there will be presented an original
poem by the distinguished elocutionist,
Miss Virginia Culbertson, OF Bal more.
General Joseph Wheeler, DOW a brig.
adler 10 the regular army, will be
placed on the retired list Monday
next, at noon, after six months service
under his present commission. Gen.
Wheeler reaches the age of CA years,
and under law must retire. He is
now commanding the department of
lakes, with headquarters at Chicago.
General Wheeler's retirement creates
a vacancy in the grade of brigsdier-
general, to which the President would
have appointed Gen. Fitzhugh Lee bu
for the fact that he has passed the age
limit.
Eight.yesr-old Edna Lanston was seized by
q stranger last night on the street at Cory,
Pa, dragged to q vacant house and assaulted.