Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-08
NEWS OF The DAY

Great HOODS are causing ueetLuO'io"
10 Mexico.
Kentucky democrats claim that the
State will give Bryan 25,OOO majority
Late advices show that the Cninese
Emperor has no intention OF returnips
to Pekin.
An agreement has been reached re-
gsrdipe the boundary between Nicara-
qua and Honduras.
The case ofthe five men charged with
criminal. assault OH Miss Lucy Hart In
Prince Georges county hss baen remoV'
ed to La Plata, Charles county, Md.
Five thousand Beers are reported to
have retreated from Pilgrims Rest,
northeast OF Lydenbury, carrying their
guns. 1t is said the ammunition for
the big guns Is exhausted.
During heavy fog in New York
harbor yesterday the Old Dominion
Line steamer Hamilton ran down and
sunk the Philadelph schooner A. A..
Shaw. The crew were saved.
The Census Bureau on Saturday gave
out the result of the enumeration in
she State OF New Hampshire. The total
is placed at All ,5SS. Ia 1890 the popu
la,ion was 476, $50, the increase being
80 ,058, or 9.3 per cent.
A Shanghai dispatch 10 the Berlin
Lokalanzeiger says 100000 Chinese
troops, armed with modern weapons are
marching from al! the provinces to join
Tung Flu Hsiang at Singan-fu where the
Chinese Court has gone The Chinese
still posses modern guns and an i'm
mense quantity OF stores.
Yesterday The Bishop of Jerusalem,
in the name OF the Pope, and In the
presence of the German Consul and 500
German pilgrims, laid the cornerstone
OF the church which is to be erected on
Mount ZION, on the site which Abdul
Hsmid presented to Emperor William
on the occasion of the latter visit 10
the Holy Land.
Complete returns so far show that
4S1 members have been elected to the
british Parliament, 322 OF whom are
minister alsts and 159 representatives
of the opposition. There is no probs
bility that the result OF balloting in the
1S9 constituencies still TO be heard from
will materially affect the present posi-.
tons of the parties.
mosquito malaria" is just now at
tratipg the attention OF British medical
men. Experiments completed in Lon
don, in which healthy persons allowed
themselves to be bitten by insects ship.
ped from Rome and were then prompt
ly stricken with malaria, have demon.
strated that a malarial parasite is trans
mitted by particular species of mos
quito.
Hon. w. J. Bryan concluded Satur-
day his tour of the State of Indiana,
arriving at Louisville, KY, about $50
o'clock Saturday night, an hour and a
half late. He made fourteen speeches
during the day, before crossing the
Ohio river. Mr.. Bryan concluded his
days work with speech to an audience
that taxed the big Auditorium at Louis
vile to its utmost.
At conference OF the officials OF the
United Mine Workers Union in Hazel
ton It was decided to hold the conven-
vention in Scranton. President Mitch
ell said the miners would decide for
themselves whether to accept the in
crease offered, and none of the officials
would interfere. General Goblin au-
nounced in Shenandoah, Pa, last night
that he would send Battery c home to-
day.
While trying to quiet an infuriated
man, William J. McUauley, an actor, Of
Philadelphia, was shot and instantly
killed in a restaurant at Huntington,
w. Va, Saturday morning, by Pearl
Newman, of that city, the hayward
son OF wealthy and prominent parents.
The quarrel which led up to the m ur-
der was over a woman, and the only
part taken by McCauley was that OF
peacemaker.
More than 5000, 100000 will be asked
for the support OF the army and navy
for the fiscal year ending June 80. 1902,
according to present estimates. II
Bryan be elected, it is said, 1t is propos-
ed to close recruiting offices immediate
ly after November 6, and sufficient meu
will be discharged by favor and because
OF expiration OF terms OF service to re-
duoe the army to the limit Congress
decreed.
Because she thought her lover had
deserted her Miss Carrie Doerr, pretty
German dressmaker, 80 years OF age,
ended her life by inhsling gas at her
boarding house, in Baltimore, several
days ago. The facts OF the case were
only made known yesterday to the pol
lice of the Western district, and as a
consequence the funeral service, which
was to have taken place at one O'Clock,
was stopped and jury OF inquest will
investigate.
After careful and systematic study |
of the social aud economic conditions |
existing in Porto Rico, Ex-Governor |
Robert E. Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
has returned from that unfortunate isl-
and fully convinced that the natives
are much worse of than they were IN
der the dominion OF Spain. The For
aker bill, ne thinks, is most unjust,
aud works greatly to the disadvantage
Of the Porto Ricans, who, he says. de.
msDd and are entitled to a territorial
form of goyernmen
The tornado that ragged in the vi.
cinity of Biwabik, MINI. Saturday
evening was the most violent ever ex-
perienced theresbouts. The storm cut
3 pathway $50 feet in width through
the northwestern section of that town.
wrecking buildings struck,
The shaft houses and buildings of three
mines, which stood 10 the path of the
storm, were reduced to kinding wood
The property loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to 500 600, and the known ia.
.alities number nine, with score or
more injured-some severely, others
poly slightly. Among the victims was
, family Of ak Dersons