Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-02-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

At asst accounts General De Wet
was still eludiug the British in South
Africa.
Jackson, Tenn, was nearly wiped
out by fire last night. TIE opera house,
banks. and finest buildings in the city
are in ruins.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was sent to jail in
Topeka, yesterday in default of $1,000
peace bond which she refused TO give.
Judge Hszen says the smssher has lost
her reason.
Negotiations for the sale OF the Dam
ish West Indies to the United States
have ceased, and the islands are to be
administered In the future by the Dam
ish East Asian Steamship Company.
The British governments majority in
the House of Commons yesterday was
cut down from 1870 to As on test vote.
The question wss'the concesliDg of in-
formation about foreign affairs by the
cabinet.
Reports are current in Washington
to the effect that German and British
Interests may try to prevent the revoca-
ton OF the order imposing countervail-
Ing duties on Russian sugars imported
into this country.
The Spanish Cabinet will resign next
Friday. Don Francisco Silvels, who Is
to succeed General Azcarraga as Pre-
mier, has previously held that office,
bis last term as such having begun
March 5, 1899, when be succeeded Ss.
gasta.
At Dyersburg, Tenn, yesterday after
noon, Fred King and Sam Montgomery,
negroes, charged with assault upon a
white woman, were taken from Jail aud
hanged on the public square by mob
OF some fifty or one hundred people.
King confessed.
It Ia said that unless conditions in
the Philippines change materially
Congress for $4,000 more soldiers. His
reason will be that the men cannot
stand more than two years servcs in
the Philippines.
"Aunt" Peggy Jones, l24 years old,
died last week in Lexington, Ky, ia
the arms OF her hundred year old
daughter. Aunt Peggy was an ardent
believer 10 the old times and had often
said that the condition of the negroes
was bstter 10 the days before the war
than at present.
The Senate committee on commerce
concluded the consideration of the
river and harbor bill. Action upon
ax.Ix Ill tofn II
has been rec0nsidered and vsrious
House provisions recast, until the total
appropriation has been reduced below
that made by the House. The Nicara-
qua canal amendment was voted nown.
The dead bodies of Mrs. II. M. Will
SOD, young widow, and William Ham,
ilton, . student in pharmacy, who dis.
appeared from Atlanta one week ego
yesterday, were found Sunday night
one mile from the end of the Chatta-
hoochee river car line. The surround
ings indicated that Hamilton had killed
Mrs.. Wilson, set fire to the woods near
her body and then ended bis own life.
At the Temple Emanu-El, ia New
York, the Rev. DR.. Jo:eph silverman
discussions by Minister Wa and DR..
Felix Adler concerning the relation of
Christianity to Confucianism. Iu his
discourse be endeavored to show how
both Chinese and Christian codes of
ethics had sprung originally fronf
Moses and we're intimately connected
in most essentials with the Jewish sys-
tenn of morals.
1t was reported in Wall street, New
York, yesterday, that the new steel
consolidation bad been completed. The
capital will consist of $400, 100000
per cent. preferred stock and $4O0, 000,-
600 common stock, beside which $780,
600, 900 5 per cent. first mortgage bonds
will be issued. All the stocks and
bonds of the constituent companies will
be Cancelled If plans do not miscsrry.
Mr.. Carnegie is to receive bonds in ex-
change for bis $50, 900. 900 stock at $3.50,
giving him s124, 100000.
The Senate committee on commerce
yesterday finished consideration of the
river and harbor bill, and 1t will be re-
ported to the Senate today. The COM
mittee made horizontal cuts on ell i'm
portant items, these reductions amount
ing TO ooe-fourth in oil appropriations
of over 5000 in oil appropriations in
excess of 100000 for continuing con-
tracts. A Recommendation is made
that the sum OF SIS 900 be appropriated
for the improvement of the hsrbor of
Richmond above the corporate limits TO
the ship locks, which are at the head OF
navigation.