Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-08-13
NEWS Of The DAY.


The Peoples Cooperative Ice Com
psny has organized 10 New York to
compete with the ice trust.
General Joe Wheeler, in his address
at the Chicago University on Saturday,
declared himself to be in favor OF q
large standing army.
Nine persons OF picnic party were
Yesterday struck by the same flash oil
lightning in the Bronx section OF New
York, OF whom three are very seriously
injured.
The Opera House, Gibson's Hotel
and four residences at Asbury Park, N.
j., were completely destroyed yester-
day morning by fire that threatened
destruction to the entire resort.
The democrats feel confident of car
rying West Virginia, If they can pre-
vent the republicans from voting "col-
onized" negroes, large numbers OF whom
have been brought into the State.
During msneuvers of the French
feet of Cape st. Vincent on Saturday
the torpedo boat destroyer France ran
into the battleship Brennus aud sunk
with, it is believed. about fifty of her
| crew.
John Peck, OF east Fallowfeld town
!, ship, Pa, became crazed on the subject
| If the war 10 China aud yesterday went
cunning for preachers because ne be-
lieved they were responsible for the
] trouble.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
been making a study of domestic and
foreign demand for wheat this year,
and n view OF the crop estimates says
1--WE will have dollar wheat before the
end of the year."
Police assisting Father Glucz to get
into St. Hedwig's Polish Catholic
Church, in Wilmington, DEL, yes.er.
day, to celebrate mass, were attacked
by a mob of women, who threw red
pepper into their eyes.
A dispatch from Mansgua, Nicera-
qua, says the Eyre-Cragin Syndicste's
canal concession was forfeited Ssl urday
because OF the non-psyment of money
due. This leaves the NicAraguan gov
ernment free to deal independently
with the United States in canal mat
tiers.
Mr.. w. J. Bryan's visit to Chicago
has practically resulted in an under
standing that he will travel almost as
much during the present campaiIn az
he did in 1896 There has been such
general pressure that it is understood
that be is now inclined to yield and to
visit many parts of the country.
The most disastrous fire 10 the his
tory of Hanover, Pa, broke out early
| yesterday morning in the heart of the
| town. Twelve barns were destroyed
and four residences, four business houses
and one hotel badly damaged. The
loss will aggregate $4,000. 1t is re-
ported that one person was burned to
death, but the rumor cannot be sub
stantiated.
The United States has been turned
down by the Sultan of Turkey on the
strength of the report made to him by
Ahmed Twofik Pasha, the Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, who came to America
to study shipbuildirg facilities with an
eye to business. After reading the
minister's report, the Sultan instituted
negotiations with German builders for
six cruisers to be built at once.
A passenger train on the Lehigh and
New England Railroad last night
struck an omnibus containing twenty
five persons at BenniDgers crossing,
about three miles east OF Slatington,
Pa, and eleven passengers in the bus
were instantly killed, number OF
others being fatally injured. The pas
seugers In the bus were returning from
q funeral, and most OF them were relat-
ed to one another.
At Sylvania, Ga, Saturday night T..
F. Harrington and Milton Mears, white,
we're driving home 10 their buggy. On
the road they met two negroes named
Alexander, also in buggy. The wheels
of the vehicles collided. A quarrel en-
sued, when the negroes drew pistols and
shot Harrington and Mesrs dead. The
leader OF the posse that attempted to
capture the murderers was MORALLY
wounded and race war is imminent.
The democratic congressional com
mittee has issued statement giving
the names OF a number of prominent
republicans who will not support the
imperialistic policy of Mckinley and
will vote for Bryan. From every quart
or OF the country former Mckinley men
are quitting the party of imperialism.
The lst OF such defections is so large
that only small percentage of the in
fuential men who are leading the re-
volt against absolutism can be given.
R. II. Terrell, former employee Of
the Adams Express Company, was ar.
rested in Columbus, o yesterday, and
confessed to the murder of Express
Messenger Lane and the robbery of the
safe on the Pennsylvania easlbound
train Friday night. One thousand dol
lars OF the money was recovered. Fer
rell confessed that the motive of the
robbery was to secure money OF which
he felt In great need on account OF his
approaching marriage. The money re-
covered he had given to a Miss Cost
low, his intended bride, to kesp for
him, saying that 1t was money he had
saved from his earnings. He was al
the home OF his fancee and 10 her com
psuy when placed under arrest. Fer
rell is but 81 years OF age and has q
splendid physique. being six feet in
height with dark hair and an attractive
face.
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