Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-02-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.


quest TO both houses for more officers
and men for the navy.
Brother Alexius, provincial of the
XsveriaD Order 10 America, and presi.
dent Of Mt. st. Joseph's College, Fred
erick road, died at that institution after
brief illness OF pneumonia, yesterday.
Very Rev. B. J. Kelley has been ap-
pointed Bishop Of Savannah, Ga, and
Very Rev. Bertrand Orth Bishop OF
Vancouver's Island. Rev. B. J. Kelley
i, u native of Petersburg, Va.
Concerning q report received 10 Ber-
lin from Washington intimating a ces-
sation of the commercial relations with
Germany, Ambassador White said that
if the meat inspection bill passed the
Reichstag in its present form it would
cause tariff war.
Mr.. Jutaro Komura, Minister of ia
pan to the United States, has received
a dispatch informing him of his appoint
ment TO be Minister of Japan TO Russia.
Minister Komura will leave Washing
ton for his new post about the 10Th Of
March.
Mrs. Mamie Hayes was murdered on
Saturday night in her sleeping apart
ment in the Hotel Endicott, in New
York, by DR.. franklin l.. Caldwell,
who then shot and killed himself. The
woman was shot in the head. Caldwell
was employed as an assistant by DIR.
Ephraim II. Hayes, husband of the dead
woman.
A fire which started last night in the
plant OF the Detroit Steel and Spring
Company's works destroyed both the
company's rolling mills and caused a
loss of 6reman's life, besides indirect.
ly resulting in injuries 10 a physician
and an ambulance driver. The prop
erty loss is about 500, 900; fully in
sured.
Shortly after midnight Saturday
night the express on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad struck a carriage containing
seven persons at Tuttle's crossing, "a bout
twenty-five miles east from Rochester,
N. Y, instantly killing five OF the &C.
cupsnts, fatally iDjuring another, and
badly bruising the other. All were
members of family.
Baltimore won the national bank
stock case, which had been before
Judges Simonton, Paul and Bra wiley, OF
the United States Circuit Court of APP
peals, at Richmond, for the last eight
or nine months. The effect of the de-
cision will be to enrich the city treas
ury to the amount OF 100000, includ.
ing taxes on the stock of the banks for
1900, and all bank stock will be subject
to taxation of the full city rate in the
future.
The WAYS and means republican
members of the House learned at the
party caucus on the Puerto Rican tariff
bill held Saturday night that the CON-
mittee cannot rule the House. A sub
committee to amend the bill was az
pointed and was in session most of yes.
terday, but failed to reach an agree
ment. Neither side would yield an incb
on the principles of the bill 1t now
seems certain the bill in its present form
cannot pass.
The big Allan Line steamship Call
fornian, which left her dock at Portland,
Me-, at midnight Saturday, went ashore
on Ram Island Ledge.jus outside of the
harbOr,a few minutes after her pilot left
her yesterday morning. All the
passengers are safe, though still aboard
Most of the local seafaring men are Of
the opinion that the rocks have peEe-
trated the bottom OF the vessel in sew
eral places, and they doubt very much
if she can be saved. The vessel is
valued at $1,000, 900; the cargo at $780,
600. She is still aground but in no i'm
mediate danger.
As the result of q fire that broke out
Yesterday at st. Ouen, a suburb OF
Paris, in collection Of alcohol and oil
stores, series of explosions occurred,
spreading the flames until block of six
immense warehouses was involved in
huge confsgration. A great concOurse
of spectators ha.. assembled and had
approached too near, when suddenly
and Unexpectedly the explosions occur
red. A large number Of people, includ
ing some 6remen, were more or less in
jured. The block of warehouses were
almost surrounded by unoccupied
ground, over which the burning alco-
mol spread when tine buildings col
Iapsed, resembling sea of flames and
causing CONSERVATION throughout the
The loss ia estimated at $780,
900. The big fire is still raging. The
police have their hands full with the
crowd which surrounds the fire lines. |
Already 100 persons have been crushed
and injured.