Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-08-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gem: Plaza has been elected presi- I
dent of Ecuador.
President Kruger, In an interview
saws he put no faith 10 the promises Of
Great Britain.
There is a rumor 10 Europe that
King Edward is suffering from cancer
Of the tongue.
Ecuadoresn troops are ready to In
wade Colombia and battle is imminent
near the frontier.
A Spaniard who, 10 medical expert
ments. was bitten by yellow fever
mosquito in Havana, died.
TIE United States now stands third
as coal exporters, only. England and
Germany showing larger net trade.
Col, Thomas Murphy, Collector OF
the Port of New York during General
Grants two administrations, died Sat-
urdsy, at the age OF SO years.
The German steamer Alene. running
ia the Atlas branch OF the Hamburg
American Line, ran down and sank the
pilot boat James Gordon BsnneEt NO.
7 Saturday afternoon near Sandy Hook
and drowned three pilots and the COOK
OF The Bennett.
The Earl OF CIonwsll. who spent last
winter among New York's 400" and
was expected to marry an American
heiress, and has been seriously Ill with
malaria two months, signslized his re-
covery by privately wedding bis nurse,
| Willy Bsrridge, at Brighton, England,
last week.
Eight persons were killed outright
and several others seriously Injured
Saturday night in a collision between
trolley car and a Fort Wayne passen-
ger train in Chicago. The motorman
lost control of bis car, which ran
through the safety gates and crashed
into the second coach OF rapidly-meV-
ing train on the Fort Wayne road.
Early yesterday morning in Parkers-
burg, w. Va, John German was
stabbed twice in the breast and his
skull crushed with q bottle. He died 10
twenty minutes without regaining con-
sciousness. German and others had
been drinking. German bad money
and refused to lend it. A fight eDsued
and German was killed. The police
have arrested several men on suspicion
of committing the murder.
An attempt to impersonate Tonga,
the snake chsrmer," an attraction ct
recent street fair at Richmond, KY,
nearly cost the life OF Clarence Hicks,
twelve years old. The boy bit OFT the
head of q reptile that he was handling
!, for the entertainment OF other children
who were taking part 10 the show.
The snake, however, used its faugs be-
fore it lost its head, and the boy is Sc
riously i'll from the effects OF the bite.
, A most destructive cloudburst &C.
Cured between IL and l o'clock yester-
day morning in the Eyitts Creek VAL
lev. near Cumberland. Md. 1t started
( near Centreville, an interior town
Bedford county, fifteeu miles above
Cumberland, and after traversing
, thirteen miles its fury had not been
, spent and the creek became raging
|: torrent, the highest 1t was ever known
to rise. Considerable damage is re-
ported.
} Near York, Pa, s q walnut log for
, which 81, 500 was recently refused. Ii
was found by man who was making
: an excavation In the bank Of creek,
and who, realizing partially the value
! of his discovery, went TO the owner oil
! the land and secured possession OF the
, niece OF timber for SIS. He dug it out
of the sand and clay, and q lumbermaD
who examined it offered the price first
J mentioned. The owner asked 81 800,
J The timber has been covered for pos
sibly centuries, and the wood is
black and hard.
Elizabeth Blizzard, colored, was con.
victed 10 Baltimore Saturday Of having
thrust a red.hot iron poker into the
mouth OF her seven-year old son Dan
lei. because the little fellow had been
guilty of telling falshood. According
to- her own admission the woman de-
liberatey heated the implement over q
cosl.oil lamp and. forcing the boys
mouth open, held it against his tongue
for several seconds, burning him fright
fully. She was sent to jail for six
months end fined $50. The boy will
lprobadly recover.
Miss Julia YEP, the Chinese mission
ary. who, 10 company with Bishop
Graves and Miss Martin, of Shanghai,
recently arrived from China for the
puroose of foishing her education in
this country, has been allowed to land
ia this country by orders of II. A.
Taylor, Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury. 1t has been shown to the
satisfaction OF Mr.. Taylor that Miss
Yen is a bona fide student and intends
to travel in this country and again
return to China. Two brothers OF
Miss Yen we're educated at the Episco.
nal High School near Alexandria.
Large parties are at Buffalo from
Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The
trains from the South are heavily load
= ed every day, and everybody from
Dixie who can afford it is spending his
or her vacation in or near the exposi-
ton city. A meeting was held Satur-
.. day In the reception rooms of the Press
Building to make arrangements for ell
citizens OF Buffalo Of Virginia descent,
visitors to the exposition, aud native
VirginiaDs living there to join with the
visiting Virginisns Ia celebrating Vlr-
ginia day, August 23j. A local associ-
: alton was formed Of which DR.. J. B
Coskley, formerly OF Richmond, was
elected President; Mr.. James Mullen,
of Richmond, Vice President, and Mr..
w. a. Wheeler, formerly of Danville
Secretary.
STRIKE.BREAKERs AT PITTsBURG -
t | A party of strike-breakers taken to
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