Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The expected revolution in favor OF
Jiminez for President o. Saoto Domingo
was begun yesterday.
E. 81. Earle, an aerouau,. fell into
Lesch Lake, MINI, while making sn
ascension yesterday, and was drowned.
Advices from the storm-swept cities
along the Gulf coast show the damage
have been more severe than was at
first supposed.
The Prince of Wales was the guest at
dinner Of the Counte and Comtesse De
Castelane on their yacht Valballia at
Cowes yesterday.
The engagement OF Lady Cful chill,
who was Miss Jerome, OF New York, 10
Lieutenant CORVALLIS West: an Egg
lishmsn, is announced.
Haiti will be required to express re-
greet for the invasion OF the United
States legation at Port ST. Prince by an
officer pursuing prisoner.
President Roca, OF Argentina, has
/ started on visit to the Presidents OF
Uruguay, Brazil and Chilli, and it is said
the four republics may form an al
lance.
Iron has advanced to over Sl7 per
ton in the Chattanooga district, and
] there is every indication that the pro-
duct will reach the $50 mark before the
end of two months
| Louis Henderson. the negro who At
/ tempted 10 commit an assault on the
isix-year old daughter OF J. W. Bow.
man, near Blskely, Ga, was yesterday
captured and lynched.
Reports from al parts OF the State OF
Maryland show that the storm OF Wed.
nesdsy wrought death and destruction
in almost every section. So far as
known six people we're killed.
1t appears probable from develop
ments during the past two weeks in
the War Department, that Secretary
Root has in contemplation an army OF
quite 5000 men for the Philippines.
Rev. ". h. Milburn, chaplain OF the
q. s. Senate, was prostrated by sun
stroke yesterday while delivering lee
ture at the EDworth Assembly, at Lin
coin, Neb. Last night be was much
improved.
At Hagerstown, Md, yesterday Clyde
l Grove, aged twenty pleaded guilty
, before Justice Ward on the charge OF
cruelty to animals. Justice Ward re
served sentence until next Wednesday
Grove built fire of straw under four
horses hitched to heavy load OF
wheat, because they baked TIE
brutes we're horribly burned.
It is feared that number of persons
lost their lives by the wrecking OF Car
rabelle, Fla, during the recent storm
The town was literally obliterated by
the high wind. a number OF people
are missing. Thirteen vessels were
driven high and dry aground. Fifteen
men VINO were fishing when the storm
broke over the town are among the
missing.
George Oven and William Wallace,
two prominent north Georgia farmers,
engaged in bloody encounter with
knives at Rossville yesterday. They
! fought for 10 minutes when Owen fell
TO the ground MORALLY wounded, hav-
ing been stabbed four times in the
breast and back. He died shat even
ing. Wallace, who is a brother Of
Squire Robert Wallace, OF Chattanooga
Tenn, and well known throughout this
section, has escaped.
Henua Hauser, treasurer OF the
Herald Square Theatre, in New York,
| jumped from the middle span OF the
Brooklyn bridge at o'clock yesterday
afternoon. He was rescued from the
water aud will recover. Hauser was 8
passenger on an electric car bound from
Brooklyn to New York, and when
crossing the bridge rushed from the
car and jumped into the river. Being
asked why be took the leap be replied
That's what Coney Island does for 8
fellow" He had no thought ofsuicde
The employes-brewers, bottler,,
6remeD, drivers and engineers-of six
teen out of the seventeen breweries in
the combine" kaown as the Maryland
Brewing Company, went out on d
strike in Baltimore yesterday. TIE
strike, which was ordered by Daniel
Liedlich, president of the Brew-work-
era Union, was caused, it was SAID, by
the refusal of the brewers to sign an
agreement prepared by the National
Brew-workers' Union of ten hours pay
for nine hours work. An agreement
was reached g. night. and the men re-
turned to work this morning.
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