Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There have been twenty seven deaths
from the plague at Honolulu. and the
situation is reported TO be serious.
The naval bill presented by theFrench
ministry in the Chamber of Deputies
asks for S1S0,OOO, 900 to carry out lis
provisions.
The House committee on ways and
means yesterday decided to construe
the Constitution as not given to Puerto
Rico and the Philippines the rights OF
territory as laid down.
The republicans of the House and
Senate met in joint caucus in the Hall
of Representatives last night and sc
lected the members of the congreesioD-
al campaign committee.
The report is discredited in London
that Portugal, according to the forth
coming Delagoa Bay Railroad decision,
will have TO transfer the port and rail.
road to Great Britain.
A scouting party Of the Twenty-fifth
infantry was surprised by insurgents
near Subg yesterday, losing lieuten-
l.
loss was forty killed and wounded.
At the meeting OF the British Parlis.
ment yesterday the chief sopic 10 the
Queens speech and 10 the address in
both Houses was the war in South
Africa. Prime Minister Salisbury de-
Tended the governments policy, and
Lord Rosebery bitterly attacked it.
Senator Bacon made his long-expect-
ed speech on the Philippine question in
the Senate yesterday. He pointed out
the injustice Of the present war and
showed the dangers OF Imperialism. To
keep the people of the islands 10 sub
lection, he declared. would cost the
people of this country 100000, 900 q
year, without adequate return.
Abdurrahmsn Pasha, the Minister of
Justice, has refused the request of Ital-
ian Ambassador Pansa that the Italian
girl, Sylvia Gemeli, whom a Turkish
officer placed in his harem, be surren
dered. II is alleged that the girl is of
age and has embraced Islamism. 1t is
expected that the matter will cause u
rupture of diplomatic relations between
Italy and Turkey.
The determination of the admins
trstion not 10 offer mediation betwe On
Great Britain and the Transvaal repub-
lie has been made very plain, and Sen.
ator Mason's further efforts to force
this government into an attitude of
sympathy for the Boer farmers will be
useless. Mr.. Mckinley and his cabinet
are firm on the proposition not to cause
Great Britain any occasion for regret.
Horace SliDglufi and Henry V. D.
Johns OF NJ, copsrtners, trading a.
Slingluff, Johns & Co., wholesale boot
aud shoe dealers, of Baltimore. made
application yesterday for the admins
tration OF their copartnerships and 10.
dividual properties under the provis-
ions of the national bankruptcy act.
Their liabilities are said to be 1892, 49,
81 and assets not pledged to secure
creditors $87 ,6l8.59
A. Narrows station, on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad, a few miles south
of Bluefisld, w. Va, just across the
border in Giles county, Va, Rebeccs
Fitzgerald and John Wright were shot
to death Monday night on crowded
depot by Christopher Fitzgerald, q
wropged husband. For years past Fitz-
gerald has suspected that intimate re-
lations existed between his wife and
Wright. Fitzgerald, after the shooting,
escaped. The latter and Wright had
previously had difficulty.
1t is semi-Officially announced that
the Russian government, It the request
of the government OF Persia, has au
thorizad the loan bank of Persia to
take up the loan of % 500, 900 rubles,
about to be issued in Persia under the
designation OF the per cent. Persian
gold loan OF 1900 Russia guarantees
the bonds OF the Persian loan. There
is widespread idea in London that the
Persian loan has finally accomplished
Russis's long.laid plans to obtain COM
plete political and financial control of
Persia, with the double object of ousine
the British and assuring Russia an out
let on the Persian Gulf.
The supreme court Of Ohio yesterday hand
ed down decision which sustsins what !,
generally known as the Valentine Stewart
antitrust law, which prohibits the combina-