Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.


swears his estate Dies lot exceed SO.
600.
o, September the Postoflice Depsrx
me will begin the use OF new form
for domestic money orders.
President Kruger's reply TO the Brit
ish demand is considered equal to
positive refusal and war seems likely.
A family quarrel occurred at Seaborn,
Ala, yesterday, during which Joseph
Ward, an eX-convict, Drained his sister
Wi h two. gallon churn.
From nine to ten thousand masons
struck at Havana yesterday TO enforce
demand for higher wages. Other
workmen are helping them.
Alexander Bradley, president OF the
Tradesmen's National Bank and the
Pittsburg Insurance Company and
well-known millionaire, died yesterday,
aged eighty-seven years.
Masked highwaymen on bicycles are
terrorizing the neighborhood of Meri-
den, Conn. They rush upon men and
assault them with clubs, after which
The officers of the ten additional
regiments to be organized for service in
the Philippines will be appointed this
week. Enlistments for the new regi-
ments will probably begin next Mon
day.
Peter Louin and his 15-year old son,
who were under arrest at Electric, Ala,
charged with shooting Hall Jordan, q
respectable citizen, were taken from
Jail Sunday by mob of masked men
and killed.
At the Coney Island Sporting Club
last night Jack O'Brien, of New York,
whipped Jack Downey, of Brooklyn,
in the nineteenth round, after fierce
struggle, in which the New Yorker did
all the heavy work.
George Loey danced in New York
yesterday until he fell unconscious,
then his legs kept on keeping time to
the music until doctors gave him
opiates. Loey had danced five hours
without rest when he fell.
Stephen Elliott. o young married
man, shot by Nathaniel Peoples at
Bristol, Tenn, died yesterday and PEG,
Piles is in Jail, charged with murder.
The shooting was the result of the el-
legged undue intimacy between Elliot
and the wife of Peoples.
(, Sixteen fishermen were camping on
Swan Island, near the mouth of the
Neuces river, N. c., during the recent
storm. The island was overhowed,
compelling the men to seek the main
land. A crew of four men who were
camping Cd another island are missing
and are undoubtedly lost.
Major Ross, the head of the malarial
expedition sent out by the Liverpool
School of Tropical Diseases, has cable5
from Sierra Leone: 1.-THE malarisl mos
quito has been fouud." The maj
went out to West Africa on the theory
that malaria is disseminated by the
swsmp.frequenting mosquito. The Brit
sh government will be asked 10 send q
scientific force to work in conjunction
with Major Ross.
Ralph Hills Robbins, aged seventeen,
of Warren, Mass, was shot and instant
ly killed Saturday night by his brother,
William Robbins, the instructor of
manual training in the public schools
in Passsic, N. j., near their Adiron-
| dack camp. The young men had been
enjoying camp life for several weeks on
Eighth Lake, Fulton Chain, near the
Durant road leading to Seventh Lake
The unfortunate youth was mistaken
by his brother for q deer, he hearing
him move in bush.
All the boilermakers, riveters and
clippers of the Nixon shipyards. at
Elizabeth, N j., who were on strike
for nine hours, and who went back last
Wednesday after two weeks of idle
ness, threw down their tools again yes.
| terday morning and quit. 1t is said
that Mr.. Nixon will hire non-union
men, as the great amount Of govern
| ment work which includes two torpedo
boats and monitor must be completed
on time, as we'll as number of other
new vessels contracted for.
Judge Blizzard, of the Circuit Court
of Chenille. W. Va, has just ruled in
some interesting cases of contempt of
court. When holding court in Clay
county recently the judge was compel.
! led to send to Nicholas county for q
special venire of jurors. Fourteen OF
those summoned did not respond and
the Judge had them arrested for con-
tempt. Three of the defendants gave
reasonable excuses for their inattention
to the orders of the court. Eleven
other men were unable to explain their
| non-appearance satisfactorily and each
| was fined $50 and costs.
James lemons shot and killed Will
lard Dunn at Bivalve, Md, last night.
Dunn few days ago whipped his wife,
and she left him and went to Virginia,
leaving behind her two children. a day
or two ago Dunn took one of the child
rem and went to Cris6eld, Nd, leaving
the other child in care OF the Hemons
family. Dunn returned yesterday and
| went to Hemons's house for the child
lemons refused to deliver the child,
and a quarrel ensued which led to
blows. In the fight Hemons drew his
| revolver and shot Dunn twice, one ball
entering the heart and the other the
| head. lemons was arrested.
Squad Bolin, 8 negro lodged in jail
at Fulton, Ky., Saturday. On charge Of
highway robbery and attempted muir.
der, was taken out between l and 2
o'clock Sunday morning and lyncbed
by mob of masked white men. He
was hanged to the limb of tree on the