Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UF The UAf.
The War department has decided to
retain and reorganize the Porto Rican
Infantry.
Fillipinos are dissatisfied because oil
Determinations 10 the civil service In
favor OF Americana.
Bradstreet reports failures for the
week number 1879. against 1872 last week
and 167 In this week q year ago.
Senator Bate, OF Tennessee, expects
a democratic victory In the next Presi-
dental campaign, regardless OF the Is
sues.
Under the operation Of the new com.
mutation law about thousand convicts
will be released from the prisons In
Pennsylvania,
The Comptroller of the Treasury has
ruled that the law excluding clerks and
officers from the benefit Of mileage and
witness fees doesn't apply to United
States Senators.
Mr.. Arthur p. German, jr., young
lawyer, with an Office in Baltimore and
a SON OF former Senator Gormsn. Is o
candidate for the House OF Delegates In
Howard county Md.
Ernest Duttop, colored, who poisoned
baked beans which boaders ate, was
Yesterday sentenced at Wiliiamsport,
DEL. to receive 60 lashes, pay fne OF
Sc, 900 and stand an hour in the pillory.
At the request Of Sir Thomas Upton,
owner OF Shamrock H., disabled few
dsys since, the races for the America
cup to have commenced on August ~,
have been postponed until Septem-
Der 81.
President O'Connell of the machiD-
ists' association said yesterday he
would recommend q movement for a
nine-hour day on all the railroads OF
the country, and strike II the demand
Is not granted.
The Cuban constitutional convention
yesterday afternoon rejected Gualberto
Gomez's minority report against the
Platt amendment by vote OF 10 to o,
thus paving the way for the adoption oil
the amendment.
A motion made at the Presbyterian
General Assembly, In Philadelphia yes
terjay, to dismiss the subject of revis.
ion was rejected by an overwhelming
majority after the Assembly had spent
the day 10 discussing the subject.
The Chicago city directory, just com.
pleted. will show the city's population
to be 2,074 900, or about GA 600 greater
than in 1900. The directory contains
more than 100000 names. 1t Is the
largest volume of its kind issued 10 the
world.
Stockholders of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company we're notified yesterday
of an extra" dividend of 43 1-5 per
cent. making total of 795 1-5 per cent
received by them since the &C.
quirement of the company by J. 2.
Morgan g. Co., for the Erie Railroad.
1t Is semi-officially asserted that the
resolution by the ministers OF the pow.
ers 10 Pekin not to reduce the China
indemnity below 450,000,000 tsels, is
fiual, and also that China accepts this,
thus rendering approximate reimburse
ment Of the expenditory expenses OF
the powers certain.
William Gibson was arrested Hast
nigh. charged with attempting to kill
Frank II. Holmes in Lafayette Square,
Washington. During an alteration
Gibson stabbed Holmes fosr times.
The wounds are not believed to be
dangerous. The injured man was re-
moved to the Emergency Hospital.
A terrific left hand punch delivered
by "Kid" (Edward) Carter 10 the
second round In his fight with Patrick
Rsedy at Germsnis Maennerchor Hall
in Baltimore last night put Raedy out
for the IO-second limit. Ia Louisville
Marvin Hart, Of Louisville, last night
Knocked out Dan Creedon. of Australia,
In the sixth round of 25 round bout
before the Southern Athletic Club.
The wooden steamer Baltimore
foundered In Lake Huron, near An
Sable, Mich, yesterday, and twelve O.
her crew OF fourteen were drowned
| The men were tossed about In the lake
| for several hours, lsshed TO q piece o.
wrecksge, and were finally picked uI
by the tug Columbia and brought II
East Tswas, Mich. George McGinnis
q deck hand, one OF the rescued, be-
came insane from his experience.
Abram 8. Hewitt, himself a large
steel and iron manufacturer, yesterday
commented on the remarks OF Gustav
II. Schwab in an interview In which
the latter, concerning the danger of OF
industrial combination against tn,
United States by England and Ger
many, declared himself in favor OF th,
abolition OF protective duties. Mr.
Schwab said he thought the protective
tariff OF this country would have to b.
reduced to enable the United States Il
retain the good will Of Europe. Mr.
Hewitt said that our tariff should b
reduced, and that for twenty years h'
had advocated such action. sour pro
tective duties are really only ohetruc
tive duties" be said. II have Away
maintained that they were follies, bu
there never was time in their exist
epcs when they could be dismissed will
better results and more easily thai
now.