Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-17
NEWS OF THE DAY

A number of ersons have been ar
rested at SeouI on The charge OF plot
ting to kill the Koreau E nperor.
By a mine explosion in Kyushu,
Japan Saturday, two hundred men
and women we're entombed and large
number of them persisted.
Riotous marines in Cherbourg,
France, on Saturday, stripped woman
on the street, and many persons we've
wounded during the rioting.
Captain Andrews who called from
Atlantic City alone in an dory on June
Is, was picked upiu exhau 'ted con.
dition on July u by Briti-h steamer.
COL l.. Victor Baughman will be Mr..
Gormsn's proxy at the meeting of the
Democratic National Committee in Chi.
cago, and favors Baltimore for the con-
vention.
At Bainbridge, Ga, on Saturday
night, twenty seven business houses
were destroyed by fire. The esli-
mated loss is between $4,000 and
500 900.
Tom L. johnson has called of all
deals for municipal ownership Of his
railway lines in Detroit and Governor
Pingree's adherents admit that they
are beaten.
The State of Minnesota, on Saturday,
purchased S91, 900 worth of Virginia
| bonds, making total of nearly 81, 0O0,-
600 worth of these securities now held
by that State.
German newspapers contend that the
United States and Great Britain have
not shown in practice so much zeal for
arbitration as they have displayed at
the Peace Conference.
Leona Elmere, young woman, was
found murdered in cemetery at Mason
City, ILL.,, on Saturday, and Roy Sutton,
her companion, although wounded him.
self, was arrested, charged with killing
the girl.
A strike was insugurated on the
Brooklyn trolley lines yesterday, the
! old Nassau lines being somewhat Grip
pied. The presidents private Car was
attacked and there were some minor
disturbances.
A special from Ishkooda, Ala says:
Two negroes were killed outright and
another fatally shot in a one sided bat
=. tie Saturday night at Ishkooda between
striking miners and negroes who have
been imported to take their places.
A new treaty between the United
States and Japan went into effect to-
day, at which time also new treaties
between Japan and nearly all of the
countries OF Europe and some of the
South American republics also go into
effect.
a disastrous storm ragged 10 Knox
vile, Tenn yesterday afternoon. The
wind with a velocity Of 70 miles an hour,
destroyed huge oaks, stripped business
buildings of their signs and architecture.
al ornaments and did other serious
damage, such as removing portions OF
roofs.
Detectives are on close lookout in
northern aud Canadian cities for Miss
Gladys Perot, the 10.year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Yates Perot,
of Baltimore, who are divorced. The
| child and her brother were awarded 10
the custody of their grandfather, Mr.
William Il, Perot, who permitted the
daughter to pass a night with her mother
at the Hotel Stafford, in Baltimore.
Next morning they disappeared to
gether.
According to the report just issued
from National Guard headquarters by
Captain A. P. Robbins, the act
ing adjutant general, no less than
thirty-three officers have resigned
their commissions in the District Of
Columbia militia during the past six
months, and q goodly number of
designations is being piled up to be re-.
ported for the six months beginning
June 80 last. About one-ha!f of the
above number of designations have oc
cured since May.