Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF The DAY.
Two negroes were hanged by mob
at Biloxi, Miss., yesterday for the muir
der of Miss Winterstein.
Thirty thousand people yesterday at
tended the ceremony of the veDeration
OF two Italian saints in st. Peters Cathe-
dral, Rome, at which the Pope officiat-
ed.
10 riots growing out OF the street car
strike in st. Louis yesterday three men
were killed and five or more wounded,
one probably fatally. There were nu-
merous encounters between strikers
and the constituted authorities.
DR.. Paul Gibier, head OF sanitsrium
at Sufiern and OF the Pasteur Institute
10 New York city, died late Saturday
night from the effects of injuries re-
ceived In runaway earlier in the even
ing.
President Mckinley, 1t is stated, ask
ed Senator Hanna on Saturday to con-
tinue as chairman of the republican
national committee through the coming
mpaign and Senator Hanna, it Is stat
ed, agreed to do so unless his health
should absolutely forbid. His present
intention is to do 30.
Envoy c. II. Vessels, of the Orange
Free State, was given big official re-
ception by Omaha, Mob, on Saturday.
Governor Poynter, populist, presided
over the mass meeting, and William J.
Bryan was present and on q call from
the audience made an impassioned
speech Of sympathy for the struggling
republics.
Hon. w. A. Clark, who resigned his
position as United States Senator from
Montana and who was Immediately ap-
pointed to the vacancy by the acting
governor, reached his home, 10 Butte,
Mont, yesterday, and was given tire.
meudous ovation by an enormous
crowd, who agreed to fight with him in
the coming election.
Ex-Governor Oates, of Alabama, shot
and killed a negro at his residence In
Montgomery, Ala, on Saturday night.
General Oates heard pistol shot in
his kitchen, and on investigation found
his cook lying dead, killed by negro.
The negro, whose name Ia not known,
started toward the Ex-Governor, pistol
10 hand. Not paying any attention to
warnings not to advance, General Oates
shot and killed him.
The Beers have torn up about 81
miles OF railroad track Ia the Orange
Free State and cut of Lord Roberts
communication and unless the British
are able to secure communications
quickly they may begin to starve. Gen.
Butler hes crossed the Drakensberg
range and moved northward into the
Orange River Colony, or Free State.
General Mahon's forces have joined
General Hunter, who has occupied Ven
tersburg.
A frightful accident, resulting in the
loss Of four lives and the injuriDg OF
twenty-six persons, occurred on the Oak
land Beach Electric road near Provi-
dence, r. l., yesterday. Two cars met
ia a head-on collision on sharp curve.
The Car coming toward the city tele-
scoped the down trip car, crashing its
way through to the fifth seat. The &C.
0ident occurred through the efforts OF
Motorman Burroughs to make switch
on the line, which is single track.
A surprise was sprung in Baltimore
on Saturday when Judge Golf, of the
United States Circuit Court, Issued q
restraining order against the electrical
workers who are on strike, prohibiting
them from in any way interfering with
the men imported to take their places.
The judges action was taken on
mi junction proceedings instituted by
Messrs. J. L. Blackwell & Company,
contractors for the United Electric
Company. The strikers will have to
answer the bill OF Injunction by Satur-
day next. They have employed Mr..
Thomas G. Weeks to represent them.
The Injunction is the first proceeding
OF the kind ever taken in Maryland by
employer against employees.
The American civil commissioners
to the Philippines have found, il is said,
q much more difficult problem to solve
than was anticipated In furnishing
government for the islands. They find
that war RACES there and learn that
the y. 8. army is unequal to the task
of bringing it to an end. Judge Taft,
president of the commission, is told by
army officers that it is too soon to sur
plant the military regime. The church
question ia a stumbling block, and the
native officials are hopelessly treacher-
GUS and corrupt, Another element be-
lieves that the United States may yet
withdraw all her forces from the islands.
There is a secret underground govern
ment 10 the Philippines that is giving
General Macarthur a greal deal OF
trouble. Two hundred Filipinos were
killed and l60 captured by American
troops last week. Nine Americans
were killed, 81 wounded aud l, an Of
fcer, taken prisoner.
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