Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-12-09
NEWS OF The DAY

The Journal de Roma States tnsI
Bishop Scalsbrini has been appointed
apostolic delegate to the Uoited States.
The Duchess of Marlborough is ex!
pected to visit this country and spend
Christmas ss the guest OF her father,
William K. Vanderbilt, at Idle Hour,
OF Long Island.
Tnos. W. Lawson, the Boston mil.
lionaire, lie said to have lost $40, 0OO, 600
by the fall In copper stocks. which
broke badly on liquidation and resched
the lowest point 10 many months.
In Chicago on Saturday wheat
jumped d cents to SO cents. Corn sold
at 50 and oats touched high mark at
Az. In New York May corn sold at
78i. Wheat .broke sll records for the
season.
An eminent navy surgeon, just re.
turned from the Philippines, makes
the statement that the unusually large
number OF insanity cases among the
American soldiers in the islands Is due
to immoderate drinking OF vino.
It Is reported that Senator M. A,
Hanna will make q fight for the control
of the Ohio legislature. This is inter-
preted in that State to mean 6 declara'
ton of war on Senator Foraker and
the renewal OF the Hanna-Foraker
feud.
A conference on Philippine tariff
legislation was held on Saturday be-
tween Secretary Root and republican
leaders In Congress, as result OF which
q new bill, possibly containing q reel
procity provision, is to be prepared for
early introduction In Congress.
The only measure OF Importance
which the Senate has on lts calendar
for the present week is the new Hay
Pauncetote treaty making provision for
the abrogation Of the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty and opening the way for the un-
obstructed construction of an isthmian
canal by the United States.
Police Chief Vellines, OF Norfolk, Is
confident that Nell Cropsey, the Eliza
beth N. c., girl whose mysterious dis
appearance on November 20 from her
hone has to this time remained I'M
solved, is now in Baltimore and he be.
lieves that In the course Of the next
day or 80 she will be located there.
Rev. J. w. Bradford, Methodist min
lister at Brookside, Ala, was shot and
killed yesterday evening by B. d.
CoffmaD, justice of the peace. Coffman
was once a member OF Rev. Mr.; Brad
ford's church, but is said to have been
expelled, and for this reason there is
alleged to have been bitter feeling.
Native scouts from Bengabon, pro-
vince OF Nuevs Ecljs, have killed the
American negro David Fsgsn, a
deserter from the Twenty-fourth (col-
ored) Infantry, who for more than two
years has been leading Filipinos
against the American troops. The ma
tive scouts decapitated their prisoner.
Protest against British methods 10
the South African War was declared
by an immense audience in the audi
forum theatre In Chicago last uight.
Following an eloquent address by ex-
Congressman w. Burke Cochran, Of
New York, and earnest speeches by
others, resolutions for the appointment
of q committee to bring the sentiments
of the meeting before President Roose-
welt were adopted.
In wreck on the Central OF Georgia
road, in the outskirts of Macon, Ca, at
3:45 a. m, yesterday, one unknown
negro woman was killed and about
thirty-fve or forty persons were more
or less iDjured. The baggage and ex.
press cars were thrown over into cul.
vert and burned. The second-class
coach was thrown on Its side and burn
ed. The first.class passenger coach fell
over the embankmeut.