Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A three. sided war In South America
among Peru, Chill and the Argentine
Republic ia threatened.
"Failures for tile week were 145 In
the United States against 1872 last year,
and "a in Canada, against 80 last year"
President McKinley's letter of &C
ceptance OF the republican nomination
will be made public Monday morning.
A severe hurricane ragged last night
along the Louisiana Gulf coast, and at
New Orleans the wind blew from forty
to sixty miles an hour.
1t is stated that tho annual report OF
COMPTROLLER OF Currency Dawes Will
show that the United States LEADS all
other countries in banking.
Senator Doneson Gallery refuses 10
talk about the nomination for PRESIDENT
recently offered him by the National
Party" His friends say he will decline
the nomination.
The coroner's jury placed the blame
for the fatal wreck at Hatfield, on the
Philadelphia and Reading, on the COM
pany and some of the officials concern
ed Ia the running OF the train.
Montgomery, Ala, and Columbus.
Ca, have both recently passed ordi.
nances requesting street railways to
provide separate accommodations for
the colored passengers, either by Darti-
tioning the cars or the provision OF sep
arate "Jim Crow" cars.
The most recent intelligence from
Tientsln states that DR.. T. M. Lppit',
an assistant surgeon in the United
States army. who is graduate OF the
University College Of Medicine, has al
most recovered from his wounds.
Rev. Lorenzo Waugh, the oldest
Methodist minister in the world, died
suddenly in the railroad depot at Will
Jams CAL. just after alighting from a
train yesterday. He was born 10 Poca-
bontss county, w. Va, in 1905, and en-
tered the ministery sixty-eight years
ago.
The democratic and silver parties OF
Nevada effected fusion yesterday and
nominated Francis q. Newlands for
Congress. The silver party passed q
resolution depounciDg Senator Stewart,
who recently announced that he would
support the republican national ticket,
and demanding his resignation as Sen
atOr.
A terrifying storm OF wind, rain
thunder and lightning visited limo
plum Fair, near Baltimore, yesterday,
uuroofng the stand and doing consid-
cradle damage. The spectators were
drenched. Lightning killed horse
and several people were shocked. The
total attendance during the four days
| of the Baltimore County Fair was 25,-
! 600.
Col. Roosevelt's Michigan tour so far
is by no means the bowling success:
which Mark Hanna had counted upon.
| At Detroit on Thursday night the
Rough Riders reception was distinctly
a "frost." The fellow-townsmen Of
Gen. Russell A. Alger showed marked
indifference. The former Secretary o.
War was coDspicuously missing from
the scene.
In New York yesterday former Po'
| lice Commissioner Frank Moss, on be-
half OF the recently organized Citizens
Protective League, preferred charges
against Chief OF Police Devery. H.
spector Thompson, and Acting Capt
Cooney, of the west Thirty-seventt
street station. He accuses them o.
brutality, neglect of duty, and incom
potency in their method of treating the
recent race riots in the West Side.
Theophlus Tunis, of Baltimore, pres
ident OF the company, and II. b. Mich
OILS, of Norfolk, Va, were appointed
receivers of the Tunis Lumber Com
pany yesterday In the United States
Circuit Court in Baltimore. The
Tunis Lumber Company is million'
aire concern operating large plants 10
| Newport News and at Baltimore, with
smaller mills scattered throughout III
thousands OF acres of timber lands in
North Carolina. Mr.. II. Clay Tunis
wholesale lumber dealer, also made al
assignment for the benefit Of his credi.
tors on Thursday to George w. Court
ney 10 the record Office of the superior
Court, 10 Baltimore. The bond Was
fixed at S25, 900.