Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-06
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

At Tientsin on Saturday German
soldiers fired on British tug, wound
ing two of the crew.
Heavy fighting occurred last week 10
the interior OF Colombls. The rebels
repulsed an attack OF the government
forces.
The United States il the greatest OF
coffee-drinkiDg nations, the per capita
consumption in 1900 having been 9Sl
pounds.
General Kitchener reports the killing
and capturing OF more Beers, and the
capture of large supplies OF ammunition
and stock.
Many clerks. walters, office boys,
typewriter girls and other women are
said to have made fortunes 10 day in
the Wall street speculation.
In o fight between American and
Mexican boys at l.. Paso. Tex, yester-
| day Q nine-year-old Mexican was
killed. Three American boys under the
age Of IA were arrested.
It has been decided that Mrs. Nc
Kinley shall start the Ohio down the
ways at her launching In San Fran
| cisco, and that Miss Helen Dasher, OF
Columbus, shall break the champagne
bottle on the wsrship's bow.
The first trial race of the two Sham
rocks 10 the Solent on Saturday ended
with the new challenger going aground,
but she was pulled of without damage;
the new boat showed great speed, easily
distancing the first Shamrock.
Three lives were lost 10 fire which
took place yesterday morning In Brun-
nelle's Hotel ct Maissoneuve, an east
ern suburb OF Montreal. The fire broke
out about about 8 o'clock In the morn.
ing when the inmates we're asleep.
The biggest crowd since Pessara wop,
in 1892, saw Clarence II. MacKay's
Bansstar win the Metropolitan Handi'
cap, at Morris Park, New York, on Sat.
urday. He beat Confession q head,
while the 3-year-old All Green was
third, q length away. The time, LAO,
was only fair. There we're fully 10000
people present.
After forging her mothers signature
to obtain $500 from the bank, Emily
Weeks, of Albany, N. Y, deliberately
J threw carbolic acid 10 her parents face
so az to make comparison and detec-
ton of the forgery impossible. Blinded
and robbed Of every penny OF her say.
ipgs, Mrs. Weeks lies at the point OF
death. Her daughter is In jail and will
! be prosecuted by the bank officials.
President Mckinley and party ar.
rived at FL Paso, Tex, yesterday, but
President Disz, of Mexico, who had
hoped to shake hands with him across
the border, could not leave the capital
on account OF the Mexican Congress be-
ing In session. General Juan Herman
DEE brought message from President
Diez and was also the bearer Of mes
sage in response from President McKin-
ley.
Yarns end wool worth $4,000 and
the six.story warehouse, No. lie Chest
nut street, Philadelphia, occupied by
Charles J. Webb & Co., were almost
completely destroyed by FIRE on Satur.
day night. By hard work the flames
were confined to that building, but the
adjoining warehouses OF Richard A.
Blythe, and a. B. Heston and Co.,
wool merohanls,. we're badly damaged
by water.
The directors have decided to close
the Pan-A merican exposition, at Buf.
falo, N. Y, until Dedication day, May
90 Building operations are going for.
ward with swing. Six thousand work.
men are engaged on the grounds. One
of the four 500 horsepower boilers was
fred on Saturday for the first time, but
until at least Two OF them are I'm readi-
ness 1t will not be possible to operate
the numerous fountains successfully.