Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.


John B. Morrow, the well-known
editor of 1.-THE EIlicott City, Nd, Times
is dead.
The Kansas wheat crop is estimated
at hundred million bushels, worth
$50, 100000.
All Italy is in dread because OF be-
lief that anarchists are planning whole
sale murders of prominent men Of that
country.
The engagement OF Queen Wilhel-
nina of Holland to Prince Frederick
Adolph of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is an
nounced.
1t is said Com missioner General Peck
has violated the Constitution OF the
Uoited States by accepting the decora-
ton Of the Legion OF Honor in France.
The Seaboard Air Line Railways
first mortgage to the Continental Trust
Company, of Baltimore, to secure an
issue of S75,000,000 4 per cent. gold
bonds, has been filed in the clerks
office of the Superior Court at Atlanta.
Theodore Wallart, the farmer who
murdered his wife and four stepchildren,
10 Arlington, Mich, has been captured.
He had tramped through the woods,
seeking escape, but finding none, he took
refuge in the barn on his sisters farm
two miles from the scene OF the tragedy.
Wallart admitted his guilt.
Gabe and Cycero Copeland were in
stantly killed yesterday, in duel with
John and Charles Baker, in Polk
county, Tex. The men battled at
twenty PAGES with rifles. Both the
Bakers was badly wounded in the
shoulders and groin and may die. A
family quarrel caused the fight.
Evidences are multiplying daily that
the republicans are becoming more and
more alarmed over the prospect OF los
ing the House of Representatives in the
coming election. They are dwelling on
the fact that Bryan's election will prob
ably mean that in 1902 both branches OF
Congress will be democratic.
While a dance was in progress in a
floating bath house at Carthagena,
Spain, Monday, the flooring gave away
and one hundred and fifty persons,
mostly children, were precipitated into
the sea. Many OF them were wounded
and bruised but no one was drowned. Il
is believed the catastrophe was the
work OF a miscreant, as the screws OF
the flooring were found to be missing.
1t is reported in Odessa, according TO
a dispatch to the London Daily Express,
that in consequence of the strain upon
Russla's financial resources, owing to
the Chinese campaign, a specially &C.
credited representative OF the Russian
Minister of Finance, M. DeWitte has
concluded, or is about TO conclude, ian
arrangement with a syndicate OF all
the great insurance companies 10 the
United States" for a loan OF 100000
600 (about $150,000000.
On Monday night, at Hundred, in
Wetzel county, w. Va, four men
named CoDdy proceeded to visit the
various resorts of the town. 10 an al
tercation with an officer they knocked
him down and beat him badly. A
posse OF citizens appeared on the scene,
but were fred upon by the despers-
does. The posse fred back, shooting
and capturing three of the Condys. The
other escaped and is still at large. Sew
eral persons were injured by shots fired
by the desperadoes
DIR. Howard M. Wilkinson, the
Dover, Del, druggist who ,eloped with
his wife's sister, and who has been in
prison at Atlanta since Sunday morn.
iIg, may be given bis liberty to-day.
The police say they will decline to hold
him longer, upless a Delaware officer
comes for him. Officers with a war
rant for him were expected Monday,
and the police do not understand the
failure OF Delaware authorities to send
for Wilkinson. The prisoner seems
delighted with the prospects of escap-
ng siege 10 the Delaware courts.
There was ia oil rear-end collision
directly in front ofthe depot at Kensico,
N. Y, yesterday evening. The engi-
neer and fireman of the second train
are buried under the debris, crushed
to death. The conductor and two
brakemen OF the forward train are
missing, and are believed to be in the
wreck dead. KeDsico is on the Harlem
division OF the New York Central.
about sixteen miles from New York
The collision was caused 80 far as can be
learned, by the engineer of the second
train running past block signal set
against him.