Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-04-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
terday observed in Georgia and other
southern States.

The London Saturday Review de
scribes the increase of the German navy
as aimed against the United States.
Dun reports failures for the week
| numbered 2l5 In the United States
against 204 last year, and rs in Canada
a ssinst % last year.
A subcommittee at Pitttsburg hal
formulated creed revision propositions
for the Presbyterian General Assembly
at Philadelphia May 16.
Last months fire losses, amounting
to S15 ,000, 900, have aroused Insurance.
men to seek greater protection against
present methods OF electric wiring.
The launching of the cup yacht In.
dependence will take place at Boston
May 10. Miss Marion Lawson, daugh.
ter OF Thomas w. Lawson, owner of the
yacht, will christen her.
The Chinese troops who retired be-
yond the Great Wall have reappeared
at another point within the information.
al area. The French force is In readi-
ness to renew operations.
Great Britain lie still exerting efforts
to induce the other powers to de-
crease their cash indemnity demands
upon China and substitute commercial
agreements for q portion Of their claims.
TIE appointment of Brigadier Gen.
eral William Ludlow to be military
governor OF the department of the Wis
ayas has been revoked. He Is afflicted
with tuberculosis and will return to the
United States.
DR.. John 8. Fulton, secretary OF the
Maryland State Board of health, has no
faith in the newly invented consump-
ton serum, for which wonderful cures
are claimed, and says that there is as
yet no sign OF a specific cure for the
disease.
A law has been enacted 10 Florida,
which grants divorce to anyone whose
husband or wife as the case may be,
Is afflicted with incurable insanity.
Ministers have been asked to join q
crusade against the law which is attrpc-
ting great attention.
Lord Kitchener continues to report
heavy Boer losses. In one day IL Beers
we're killed, 20 wounded, AZ captured
and AZ surrendered. Lord Kitchener
will temporarily fll the position OF
British high commissioner to South
Africa during the absence of Sir Alfred
Miner.
A dispatch from Manila says Cables,
who is now lurking in the mountains OF
Travabss province, Luzon, has pro-
claimed himself dictator over the Fill
pinos, and the successor OF Aguinaldo,
and announces his determination to
continue war of determination against
the Americans.
The first grave diggers' strike on
record 10 this country has ended disas-
trously for thirteen OF them 10 Philadel-
phis. Not man could be found to dig
9 grave at Holy Cross Catholic Gene
terry because the regular hands object
ed to the discharge OF one Of their mum.
Der. New meo, however, were secured
and graves are being dug as usual.
As stated In the Gazette OF that date,
Thomas E. Ketchum, alias "Black
Jack, the notorious outlaw who had
terrorized the people of the southwest
for the past Is years, was hanged ct
Clayton, n. NJ, yesterday afternoon for
train robbery. His head was severed
from the body by the rope as II by q
guillotine. The hesdless trunk pitched
forward toward the spectators, and
blood scattered upon those nearest the
scsfold. The execution took place In.
side q stockade built for the occasion.