Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-05
NEWS. OF THE DAY.

Manila has been declared free from
cholera. though it is still epidemic in
parts of the Philippines; since the out
break more than 100000 victims have
died.
Mrs. Elizabeth Young Ellsworth, the
eldest daughter Of the late Brigham
Young is dead in Salt Lake City, aged
rs years. She leaves AZ great-grand-
children.
A small cyclone passed over Whining
ton, DEL, early yesterday evening, in
juring seven persons, two Of them severe
ly, and unroofng or wrecking fully 100
buildings.
The House committee on pensions
yesterday authorized favorable report
ON the Senate bill to increase pensions OF
all Mexican war veterans from So to sl2
per month.
Two firemen were killed and four
Others seriously injured by falling walls
during the fire which destroyed the
Parish Hall of the st. MichaePs Society
at Hudson, Mass, last night.
A severe blizzard swept throughout
the West Yesterday, Chicago suffering
severely from snow and wind. In the
South and Southwest there was heavy
rain, and in many places there we're
floods.
Lord Charles Beresford, in speech
before the New York Society of Pill
grims, in New York last night, declared
himself strongly in favor of maintaining
the Monroe doctrine, which, he said, is
as much to the benefit OF Great Britain
as to the United States.
The u. S. Senate yesterday passed
bill granting a pension of sl25 a month
to the widow of the late Surgeon Walter
Reed, U. S. A., in special recognition OF
his eminent service in connection with
his yellow fever investigations in Cuba.
DIR. Reed was Virginian.
The annual encampment of the De-
partment of the Potomac of the Grand
Army of the Republic which has been in
session in Washington, was concluded
last night with the unanimous adoption
of resolutions in opposition of the cree
ton of statue in Statuary Hall at the
Capitol of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
S. V. Hobson, indicted with Enoch
Wright and Bob Mullins for the murder
of John Salyers in Wise county, last
November, was yesterday found guilty OF
murder in the first degree. Mullins
turned State evidence upon an agree
ment that he would get Is years in the
penitentiary. Wright will be tried today.
Hon. J. L. NJ. Curry, resident OF
Washington and former Minister to
Spain, who went to Asheville, n. g.,
some time ago for his health, is critically
i'll, and his physicians are not hopeful
of his recovery. Mr. Curry has reached
an advanced age, and it is feared that
his health is suffering a general break
down.
Building Inspector Preston yesterday
officially declared the old shot tower, at
Front and Fayette streets, Baltimore,
to be in dangerous condition and issued
notice condemning it. The old tower
is one of the historic landmarks of Baltl-
more and has been pointed at with pride
by builders in the city as one of the finest
specimens of brickwork in the world.
The Arizona legislative assembly yes
terday received a dispatch from Marcus
Smith, delegate to Congress, saying thai
Senator Quay advised the acceptance Of
the plan proposed by the opposition tc
admit Arizona and New Mexico as
single State. The legislature unanimous
ly adopted a resolution sustaining dele
gate Smith in his opposition to the con
solidation of the two territories.