Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-12-17
NEWS Oh TIE DAY

NEWS Or The DAY
DR.. C0wl's says Congressman Bou'
telle's mental condition is less favor.
able than formerly.
Five British officers and 316 men,
Mapaiesburg prisoners, have been re-
leased By the Beers.
Selma Scbnspka, who attempted to
kill Emperor William on November is,
has been placed in an insane asylum.
Min ster Conger says be believes that
Cnira will immedia ely accept the
terms imposed by the powers on pre-
sentation.
The Beers have defeated detach-
mem OF General Brabant's norsemen
uesr z 's'ron Orange Free State, cop
turing 100 men.
Major Elterhsz7 is ragged pauper,
living on charity, in Loudon Stun.
His wife is selling her furniture, silver
and clothes 10 Paris to feed their five
children.
Oswsld O!tendorfer, editor OF the
Stats ZeituOg, a pbilsnthropist and a
leader among the Germans in this
country, died 10 New York on Satur'
day evening.
Letters from bankers and brokers
all over the country are being reclved
by Congressmen urging an amendment
to the War Tax Reduction bill repeal
ing the special tax on capital and eur
plus Of banks.
. the same day OF the year and at
the same hour az her husband, Mrs.
Calvin S. Brice died Saturday at her
home 10 New York of Bright's disc Sc.
1t was the second anniversary of Sen
ator Brice's death.
The expectation of manufactures OF
metals during the year shout to end
will reach $200,000000. In steel rails
he exports CT the year will aggregate
Sl2 100000 But still there will be no
reduction in the tariff on metal imports.
By the collapse of floor during the
progress of the funeral services of for
mer County Commissioner Wilmer
Worthiugton. at Forest Grove, Pa, on
Saturday, 60 men made narrow escape
from death. Several were severely in
jured.
The American troops have be- Z
moving Dorlhwsrd on the Island OF
Psuay, and in several slight encounters
with the Filipinos hsv lost two killed
and three wounded. The Philippine
commission is deVoting most OF its
time to the tariff bill.
Congressman happen introduced
bill in the U. s House of Representa-
lives an Saturday providing for the
construction of homes by the govern
ment for the homeless poor, that they
may be made sef-sustAining home
owners. Toe bill was introduced "by
request"
Between 800 and 400 men, all OF them
Jews and nearly all of them residents
of the East Side, met in the Sixty-Dinth
REGIMENT Armorv. 10 New York, last
evening, for the purpose OF organic pc
an exclusively J wish regiment-the
fret of the kind in the United States
which they hope to have admitted in
due course OF time as a constituent part
OF the National Guard of the State Of
New York.
A dispatch from Brussels says the
Chateau De Oil, the castle aud sum-
mer residence OF the Prince of Ligue,
dating from LAG, has been destroyed
by fire. The paintings and most of the
principal works of art which it con"
tanned were saved. The Princess OF
Ligne noticed an odor OF burning wood
last evening, and told her father of it,
but he paid no attention to the matter.
The chateau was burned during the
night.
10 anticipation of the passage OF the
army bill, which will create a. large
number OF desirable jobs in the perma-
nent military organization, The rush OF
place seekers has already started at toe
White House and the War department.
The wise ones are not waiting until the
bill gees through. They know that by
the time the measure is law every
last lieutenaucy and captaincy will
have been promised at least once and
perhaps oftener.
While the German training ship
Gneisensu was enierting the harbor OF
Malaga, Spain, yesterday, where she
was putting in to seek shelter from
storm, she was completely wrecked.
Her commander and many cadets were
drowned. A boat with forty persons in
it left the wreck, and has not since been
heard of. 1t is feared that it has been
lost with all its &C 'upants. The Gneise-
nsus masts were left projecting above
the water when she had settled tc the
bottom, and many of the officers and
cadets sought safety in the rigging.