Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-08-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UF IHE DhE.
England is buying American coal for
it's warships.
The Grand Army encampment is IN
der way in Chicago, with a big crowd
in attendance.
An alleged plot to kill VIM. J. Bryan
at Omaha has caused the arrest OF w.
J. Williams, of that city.
Lord Roberts has held a conference
with his generals and arranged for an
advance upon the Boer forces.
Incipient race riots kept the New
York police busy yesterday. The out
| breaks grew out OF the shooting OF o
white messenger boy by negro.
Governor General Wood, in speech
at Santiago, Cuba, said the United
States would accept no independent
government for Cuba except a stable
| one.
The price of quinine has risen from
81 cents to 20 cents, caused by the large
quantities bought by the government
and also q falling of recently in its
supply.
On the ground that Its figures we're
the lowest submitted, the Midvale Steel
Company has protested to Secretary
Loug against the rejection OF It's bid for
armor plate.
Rev. Thomas D. Tongue, well.knowD
Washington and Maryland divine, died
late Saturday afternoon at his late home
10 Maryland after an illness covering a
period of over two years.
News reached Baltimore yesterday OF
the death of Rev. DR.. Royal II. Pull
man, pastor emeritus of the Second Un-
iversity Church, at his summer home in
the Thousand Islands of the St. Law
re1ce.
Rev. DIR. John Abel Morgan, presi-
dent of Loyola College, and rector of
st. Ignatius' Church, Baltimore, has
been transferred to Leonardtown, Md,
and succeeded in Baltimore by Rev.
William P. Brett.
Mr.. Bryan will devote every spare
moment now to work upon his letter of
acceptance, which has been receiv
ing scaut attention. 10 this, he says,
he proposes to take up each issue as
presented In the platform.
A leopard named Governor Roosevelt
killed another leopard called Rose
Coghlan In cage at the Philadelphia
Zoo on Saturday and the finest speci-
man ever brought into this country was
buried 10 the Zoo grounds.
Despite official denial there is reason
to believe that the illness of the Dow
ager Empress Frederick of Germany,
the eldest daughter OF Queen Victoria,
Is OF so serious character that her
death is but question OF few days.
The fremont and Suffolk Cotton
Mills at Lowell, Mass, closed on Salur-
day. The shut down affects $500 hands.
The ingram department of the Lowell
Manufacturing Company (csrpeD also
shut down on Saturday. -Four hundred
hands are idle.
Charles DENLY, OF Indiana, ex- United
States minister to China, where he was
sent by Mr.. Cleveland, and member of
the first commission to the Philippines
"a lifelong democrat-has written a
letter urging the reelection of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Initial steps have been taken by the
Navy department in the preparation
for the complete and comprehensive
syste n of Notifications aud harbor i'm.
provements by which 1t Ia intended to
make the island of Guam thoroughly
protected base for our naval vessels in
the western Pacific.
George J. Williams, of Washington,
ran amuck with a hatchet in the Hotel
Mitchell, in Baltimore, on Saturday.
He would have killed Mrs. Hattie Nit
chell but for colored waiter, who shot
bin in the Zip inst as he battered down
the door OF Mrs. Mitchell's room with a
Ratchet. He was arrested, after
and is in hospital.
Bob Fitzsimmons has challenged Jim
Jefiries for fight, to be held August
81, and has posted $500 as q forfeit. |
Jeffries says: 81 have defeated Pitz-
simmons decisively once, and think |
can do 1t again, but reserve the right |
to set aside time to train" Jeffries has |
changed his mind and now says be will |
cover Fitzsimmons's deposit of $4,000 |
and sign articles to fight the Cornish
man on August 81. Corbett announced |
yesterday that IL Jeffries insisted Ia bis
declination to meet Fitz he would ar
range fight with him on August 81.
The thirteenth Futurity race was
run at Sheepsbead Bay, N. Y. on Sat-
nrday evening. William c. Whitney's
Ballyhoo Bey, by Kingston, ridden by
Tod Sloan, won, with James r. Keene's
Olympian second and Tommy Atkins
third. The time was LILO, equal to the
fastest time ever made in the race,
which was by Ogden, in 1896. The
value OF the stake was 1850; value
% the winner, $50, $50; to the second
horse, $1,000, and to the third horse,
81 500. Mr.. Whitney is said to have
paid $4,000 to Sloan to come over aud
ide Ballyhoo Bey. The attendance
vas 10000.
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