Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-01-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.


So Hal. the assassin OF Baron Won
Ketteler, has been heheaded in Pekin.
The Boer invaders of Cape Colony
are now estimated to number FIVE thou
sand.
The Car welcomed at Livadia Rus
sian troops who have returned from
China.
The Hotel Vendome, at Asbury
Park, was burned yesterday evening.
The guests had narrow escapes.
Senator Mcmillan has been renomi-
mated by the republican caucus OF the
Michigan legislature and will be re-
elected.
The French at Pekin held aloof from
review of British troops recently,
which representatives of other nations
attended.
Senator Quay yesterday secured four
democratic votes for bis candidates in
the House and organized the Pennsyl-
vania legislature.
The Interstate Building and Loan
Association, the last of the incorpors-
tiops of the kind in Atlanta, was placed
10 the hands of receiver on Monday.
Reports are current that the coffee
and sugar war, which has waged 30
long and bitterly between the Arbuckle
and Hsvemeyer interests, is nearing an
adjustment satisfactory to all parties.
James Gibbons. son OF Mr.. John T.
Gibbons, OF New Orleans. and nephew
and namesake Of Cardinal Gibbons,
was set upon by footpads early yester-
day morning, was shot IL the abdomen
and died later at the Charity Hospital,
10 that city.
Notices of reduction In wages that
will affect about 1000 men were posted
yesterday at all OF the blast furnaces in
the Mehoning and Shenango Valleys,
in Pennsylvania, and it is said will be
followed by cut at every furnace In
western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.
John Greenwood and two daughters
of Surrey county, N. c., became vio-
lently insane few days ago on ac-
count, it Ia supposed. Of religious ex.
element. One OF the girls died. The
others are in a hospital in strait
jackets. They have pronounced homi'
cidsl mania.
Nine. Adelina PATHS beautiful Co.
tate. Craig-y-Nos, in Wales, upon which
The prims donna has expended more
than $3.50, 900 during the twenty years
of her residence there, ia about to
change ownership. 1t is understood
that Sir George Newnes, London pub
Usher, Is the purchaser OF the estate.
Rev. DR.. Macksy Smith, rector Of st.
Johns Episcopal Church, Washington,
stated last night that he had not re-
ceived a call to New York to fill the
vacancy at st. Thomas caused by the
death of the late Rev. DR.. John Wes-
ley Brown. BE declared that he was
quite satisfied to remain In Washing.
ton.
Bishop Peterkin, of the Episcopal
Church, in Parkersburg, w. Va, on
Sunday night preached his final SER
mon 10 the Diocese of West Virginia
before starting on his trip to Porto Rico
at the instance of the bishops OF the
church for the purpose OF investiga-
ting the condition OF the people In that
island and the ACCESSIBILITY OF beginning
vigorous missionary work there.
DR.. d. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, yes
terday completed his great benefactions
Of the nineteenth century, amounting
to more than $4,000. 900, by mailing a
check to Carleton. College. Mortified,
MINI. DIR. Pearsons also give check
for $4,000 to Frederick w. Crosby,
treasurer of Lake Forest University.
The trustees OF the university will at
tempt to raise 100000 for new build
ings.