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

| Governor General Wood. OF Caba
has practically selected bis new cabinet
| Severe cold weather and snow storms
are reported from several points 10 the
South.
Aguinaldo has ordered the release o.
all Spaniards now 10 possession OF the
insurgents.
Senator Vest has announced that b
would retire from the Senate ct the OK
pirstion of his recent term.
1t is reported from Copenhagen thai
the Danish West ladies will be sold tG
the United States for a, 600, 900.
Considerable opposition to the Fran
CO. American commercial treaty haf
arisen in the French Parliament.
The state entomologist of Georeis
has ordered the destruction Of 10000
peach trees affected with the San Jose
scale.
A dispatch from Rome says that Pope
Leo has designed Cardinal Girolamo
| Maria Gotti, the famouSGenoese monks
as his successor.
Thomas Kite, the old parish clerk Of
Shakspeaer's church, known to all
theatrical celebrates, is dead, at the
age Of pinety-one.
Complications between France and
Great Britain are feared as a result oil
the expiration of the Newfoundland
fisheries modus vivendi.
Several leading German newspapers,
not Notwithstanding the semi official disa-
vowals, believe the existence of q secret
treaty concerning Delagoa Bay.
The United States government has
come to an agreement with Eogland
and France with reference to conces-
sions about Shanghai.
To the note sent out to the powers by
Seer etary of Safe Hay, asking for con-
currence 10 an open-dO0r policy 10
China, favorable answers were receiv-
cd from all, Italy being the only one
not yet heard from.
Commissioner Evans says there ia no
present prospect OF reduction in PEN
sion payments, and the government
may have to pay $3.50, 0O0, 900 year in
definitely. Many pension bills have
been introduced in the House OF Rep.
resentatives.
The well-known and venerable type
founder, printer and author, DR.. Thorn
"a MacKellar, senior member of the
American Type Founders Company,
MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, of Pbila.
delphia, died suddenly on Friday at
ais home. "Woodnest," in Germantown,
aged 81 years.
Or Bartb, liberal leader in Germany,
condemns the war, and expresses the
opinion that England will lose the whole
of South Africa. DR.. Barth also declares
that Germany's new naval scheme is iD
connection with the war 10 South Afri-
ca, Germany having lost confidence In
the men who are shaping highlands
policy.
Attorney General Griggs has refused
the petition Of shippers for 30 injunction
uoder the antitrust lay to prevent the
operation OF the proposed new freight
classification. The Attorney General
says the antitrust law does not apply,
and that the remedy, if need OF one
exists, lies with the interstate commerce
commission.
The United Irish Societies OF New
York and it's vicinity filed the Acsde-
my of Music, in New York, last night,
at mass meeting called to express
sympathy with the Beers and opposi
ton to England in consequence of the
South African war. Senator Mason, OF
Illinois Congressman Sulzer and Cum
mings, OF New York, and others adj
dressed the meeting.
German government officials regard
the seizure of the G.rmsn steamer by q
British warship 10 Delagoa Bay ss seri-
ously involving the rights of neutrals
An imperial cabinet meeting will con-
slider the seizure. The British right to
stop passengers on q steamer, whether
they intend to fight for the Beers or
not, is strenuously disputed by the
Germans. Two German protected
cruisers have been despatched to De-
lagos Bay.
Americans, while searching for Re-
carte, a Filipino leader, found explo-
sive bombs and q quantity of arms and
in Manila residence, said
10 be placed there 10 anticipation of an
uprising. The Americans claim that a
plot was discovered which included the
of bombs among the foreign
consuls attending the funeral of Gen.
Lawton. Native spies have informed
American hat here are more than 1900
Filipino soldiers within q mile of Imus,