Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-12-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Pope Plus has issued anote on the sub
iect of sacred music in the churches,
strongly favoring the Gregorian chant.
Notices were posted yesterday at all
the plants of Carnegie Steel Company
that new wage rate will be offered for
the coming year, and that personal con-
tracts will be made.
The crusier Olympia arrived at Colon
yesterday from Cartagena, bringing
Arthur NJ. Beaupre, United States
Minister to Colombia, who is technically
On '1eave of absence"
William ]. Bryan, now at The Hague,
says that when he visited Count Tolstoi
the latter asked him if he was a socialist.
When Bryan assured him to the con-
trary. Tolstoi said he was not socialist,
either
The claim upon which Captain Drey-
fus depends for vindication and his res
toration to the French army has been
established, in the opinion of the COM
mission, which has recommended re-
vision.
Ex-Congressman John NJ. Glover yes
terday defed the order to residents OF
Cripple Creek, Col, to surrender their
arms, barricaded his Office and was cap
tured by the militia only after being shot
and wounded.
A rumor that Mr.. jobs. SHELTON
Williams would resign as president OF
the Seaboard Air Line Railway was gen.
orally circulated in Baltimore yesterday,
but later was absolutely denied by Mr..
Williams in New York.
Fire destroyed the large barn and
several outbuildings on the property Of
Joseph E. Ashton, near Upper eros.
Roads, Hartford county, Maryland, yes.
terday. Eleven head of cattle persisted
in the flames. The loss is fS, 500.
Seven thousand sheep were burned to
death at the East Buffalo, n. Y, stock
yards last night. The long sheds in
which they were confined were swept by
the flames before any of the animals
could be released. The loss is estimated
at $75, 900.
New high record prices were made
amid the greatest excitement at the very
opening of the New York Cotton Ex-
change yesterday. First prices were at
an advance of 23 81 points. Before the
call was fairly completed March had sold
at 14.O1. May at 1920 and July at
14.14.
Thirteen dairy COWS and two work
horses persisted in fire which destroyed
a stable and its contents on part of the
estate of the late T. Harrison Garrett,
located near Arlington avenue, abouttwo
miles from Govanstown, Md. and near the
northeastern boundary, of Baltimore,
yesterday evening.
Father O'Reilly, curate of St. Mary's
Catholic Church, in New Britain, ct.
one of the most popular priests in that
State. has turned his back on the church
and taken wife. His bride is young
girl barely out of high school, Miss Mary
O'Donnell. The couple were married
in Hartford Saturday.
A proposition for the annexation Of
the Island of Santo Domingo by the
United States has been submitted to the
Senate committee on foreign relations
in the form of a joint resolution intro
duced BY Senator Weldon B. Hepburn,
of Idaho, requesting the President to
acquire by annexation or otherwise the
Island of SanIo Domingo and the de-
Tendencies of Santo Domingo"
Several hundred men are working
night and day and Sundays at the Hi
nois Steel Company's plant at South
Chicago to complete repairs in order to
resume operations by January 10. 1t is
now definitely known that all employees,
except those working under agreements,
must accept ten per cent reduction in
wages when they return to work. The
exceptions are highly skilled workmen.
The employees earn from Sc to $50 per
day.