Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-03-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A slate deal recently consummated in
Washington county, N. Y, enables u.
T. Matthews g. Co.. of Boston, to con-
troll the entire red slate product OF the
world.
The Apglo.American chess tourna.
ment was won by the American team
by O score OF six games to four, This
makes the third victory for the Ameri-
cans.
The Florida State Board OF Health
blames the National Marine Hospital
Service for the introduction of yellow
fever. and decided hereafter to ignore
it's certificates.
Thirteen Young girl students OF the
Western Seminary for girls, in Oxford,
O., have been suspended for indecorOus
conduct 10 holding an initiation in q
cemetery vault.
Albert r. Talbot, who was to have
been best man at his brothers. marriage
to Miss Lucy Biestaff, of Bath county,
KY, yesterday, changed places and be-
came the girls husband.
Clinton Liberal Institute, a college
preparatory school and United States
military academy, at Fort PLATO, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire yesterday.
The loss will be about $4,000
Lawrence E. Walsh, the self-confess-
ed slayer of Robert Gilchrist, the Chi
cago barber a ID song writer, persists 10
justifying his action on the ground that
Gilchrist was southerner and should
not be permitted to live.
General Otis has imprisoned the edi-
tor of newspaper of the extreme Fill
Pine party for attacking the military
government Of the Philippines. The
Filipinos in Genera! Young's district
are becoming very aggressive.
Miss Mary McIlvsine, of Belair, Md,
aged fity-four years, was the victim OF
an attempted assault by q negro early
yesterday morning. Lewis Harris, a
hostler, has been arrested, and is in the
county Jail, charged with the crime.
Bob Fitzsimmons and Kid Mccoy
were matched on Saturday to fight on
July Is rounds at tch-weights
Both men posted $4,000 forfeit, with the
understanding that they are &c double
this sum when articles are signed with
the club which gets the match. The
club has not yet been decided upon, but
April 6 has been set as the time for
receiving bids.
The Beckham- Taylor suit. involving
title to the governship, reached its final
stage in the Circuit Court, at Louie
vile. KY, on Saturday. Judge Field
entered judgment 10 accords uce with
bis recent rulings, overruled motion
for a new trial, and granted counsel for
republicans an appeal to the Court OF
Appeals. A decision from the Court OF
Appeals ia expected within q week or
ten days,
Twenty-three banks 10 Baltimore on
Saturday turned oyer to the city 1895,
AS. "a. the amount due for taxes for
1897, 1898 and 1899. The banks con
tended that they should be called upon
to pay only 30-cent tax instead of the
city 81 rate. The matter went into the
courts and was bitterly fought, the city
winning 10 every court. The payment
will enable the city to reduce its tax
rate for 1900 by 80 cents or more.
Driven to despair by quarrel with
her fance, Anne Volande, a beautiful
girl. employed as eoverness, placed
her neck on the railroad track, near
aterson, N. j., on Thursday, and was
decapitated by the wheels OF lOcOmO-
tive drawing q passenger train. The
man with whom she had had the last
quaEre was a frenzed witness of the
scene. He bad turned back, half-re-
lenliog, and saw eight the memory Of
which causes him to 90 about the streets
ia half-daza.