Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-02-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.


to take advantage of highlands present
embsrras ment.
Twenty five of the 80 steel sheet
mills 10 the country have formed a
combination at Pittsburg. The capital
will be $50, 900, 900.
Louis Stewart, aged nineteen, of
CharlestOwn, w. Va, yesterday shot
and killed bis father, who was about to
assault the boys mother.
Big holders OF olive oil at Chicago,
Ill.,, ere said to be trying TO corner the
market and the price has advanced 20
cents fallon in two weeks.
The rioters in Martinique are becom
ing more menacing and the brigade OF
gendarmes has been called out. Two
plant atoms at Rviere Sallee have been
fired.
Mr.. X. Steuart Latrobe, third son OF
the late John II. B. Latrobe and BROTH
er of ex- Mayor Ferdinand c. Latrobe,
died in Baltimore yesterday at the age
Of As years.
The largest blast furnace in the world
was lighted at Youngstown, o, on
Tuesday in the plant OF the National
Steel Company. 1t has capacity OF
600 tons in "a hours.
The National Woman's Suffrage As.
ISOLATION convention came TO an end in
Washington yesterday. Miss Anthony,
the retiring president, was the recipient
of many gifts.
Floods have done considerable dam
age both in New England and the
South. Towns in Vermont, Massachu-
sets, and along the Chsttahoochie riv.
or, in Georgia, were flooded.
The antitrust conference, which has
been in session in Chicago, for the past
three days. finally adjourned yesterday,
after adopting platform electing OFF,
GERS and deciding npon national or
ganizatioD.
The special committee OF the general
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, appointed to draft canon on
the question of marriage and divorce,
met in New York yesterday and con-
tinued all day in secret session.
Rear.Admiral Melville, who has just
returned from official visits OF inspec.
ton to the navy yards at Newport
News and Richmond, expressed him
self much pleased with the way the i'm
portant work at both points is proceed
ing.
The w. r, Trigg Shipbuilding Com.
pahy of Richmond have been asked 10
build 6 000-tOn steamer for the Lehigh
| Valley Railroad Company. The time in
which the work is required to be done Is
too short. and the Richmond firm had
to decline it.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Chand-
ler's amendment to the financial bill
to authorize the President to appoint
| com missioners to any bimetsllic con-
ference that might be called, was de
feated. Toe pension appropriation bill
was reported and placed on the calen.
| dar. In the House the chairman OF the
com mittee on military affairs reported
the army appropriation bill.
Ex-ConsuI Charles E. Macrum, re-
Gently at Pretoria, has issued a state
ment giving reasons for his actions
while at that post. He says in the face
OF the orders from home that Americans
must remain neutral, many joined the
Boer forces, and he knew they were Cit
liens of the United States when they
went to the war. 1t was four weeks
after the war started before he heard
from home. He says the British cen
sors opened his letters from Secretary
Hay, and he thought he was being put
in false position. One of his state
ments may be construed as an intima-
| ton that a secret alliance exists be-
tween the United States and Great
| Britain.