Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-11-16
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The Dewey Arch, In Madison Square,
New York, is being torn down.
The population OF Kentucky for 1900
is 2, lat, ia, an increase of 288 ,539, or
l5.5 per cent.
Advices from Tientsin state that win
ter is likely to force the allied troops to
suspend their operations.
Thirteen persons were killed and
twenty injured 10 the wreck Of an ex-
press train near Bayonne, France, yes
terday.
Secretary Hay has taken steps open
ing the way for treaty by which this
country will secure the right to build =
canal across Nicaragua.
The Alabama Legislature last night
unanimously reelected Hon. John L.
Morgan to represent the State in the
U. s. Senate for the ensuing six years
This is the beginning of his seventh
term.
Ambassador Choate, in an address at
Burnley, said it would not do to rely
90 much upon Anglo-Saxon supremacy
az Germany Was making bold bid, aud
he Uutsd States had no intention Of
being left behind.
The German Rsichstsg bill provid.
log for a third supplementary credit o.
account OF the China expedition fixes
no salary Of Field Marshal Count vi
Walders at 5000 marks ,bou
s37 5O0l annually, with large ex ras
rne Tartar general commanding i
the province OF Szuchusn has been
lomins ted governor general OF Man
churla 10 d ference to the Russian invI
tation TO CHINA to resume civil gov
rnment 10 that provinces under Rus
ian protection.
General Valeriauo Weyler, in an in
terview 10 Madrid, says he never coU-
iucttd himself 10 Cuba ss the E lgl sb
nave done 10 South Africa. He also
lays be would have driven the Amerl-
cans into the sea had be been retained
- leader 10 Cuba.
Though the administration, in the in-
crest of preserving the concert OF
the powers, consented to several propo
sitions incorporated 10 the list OF de-
mands to be made upon China to which
il entertained objection, it decidedly
disspDroves the plan OF destroying tbr
,ombs of the Ming dynasty.
Senator Samuel d. McEnery, Of
Louisiana, predicts that the policy o
be republican administration will
bring about within the life OF the CON-
ing administration the most disastrous
6oaocial panic with which this country
mas ever bsen visited. He says 1t is
be inevitable reac ion OF fictitious
values.
Representative James d. Richardson.
Of Tennes ee, by virtue OF his office OF
Lieutenant grand commander, has as
sumed the duties of sovereign graD0
commander of the Supreme Council,
Thirty third degree, Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite for the Southern
Jurisdiction, since the death at San
Francisco last Tuesday of the grand
commander, Thomas II. Caswell.
Toe executive committee Of Tam
many Hall, in New York, held meet.
lag last night at which Richard Croker
babe ali the leaders good bye and took
a hand 10 starting a movement to rio
the city of vice. Lewis Nixon had q
committee of Eve appointed to "investi
gate the moral conditions of the city
and to receive and suggest remedies for
the correction of the abuses" Mr..
Nixon was made chairman.
Hugh @. Moore, of Rochester, N. Y,
substitute centre rush on the Institute
OF Technology freshmen eleven, was
killed at the South Eod baseball
grounds, Boston, during the sophomore
freshman rush yesterday afternoon.
is believed to have been the
cause of death. He was found uDcon-
scous at the bottom of a heap OF co.,
testants and expired in the ambulance.
James ]. Jeffries, of California, yes
terday signed articles Of agreement for
fights with both "Gus" Rubin, OF
Akron, Ohio, and Thomas J. Sharkey,
of Ireland. The contest with Ruhlin is |
to take place first. Lou NJ. Housemsn,
of Tattersall's Athletic
Club, Chicago, yesterday secured the
signature OF James ]. Corbelt 10 arti.
,les of agreement calling for a six
round bout between the ex-champion
champion Jeffries.