Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-11-18
NEWS OF TIE DAT.

The Beers last Friday captured SO
yeomanry, who we're aiterward re-
leased.
Queen Wilhelmins OF Holland, to
whom Q child was born few days ago,
is reported better. No announcement
has been made OF the child's sex.
Several beds of live asphalt have
been discovered near Rapid River,
Mich. II Is said the quality of the
aspt alt is eqDal to the far-iamed
Trinidad produce.
On Saturday Henry Fourier made q
mile in 81 As seconds In 40 automobile
on the Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn.
Foxhsll KeeDe and A. @. Bostwick
m sde mile In less than a minute.
The brigands who kidnapped Miss
Stone, the missionary, declare they are
not robbers, but patriots working IN
holy cause. They have offered to re-
duce the amount Of the ransom to $685.
900.
Deposoy, Filipino priest, had been
sentenced by court-martial to death
for the murder of his countrymen who
favored Americans, but General Chaf'
fee has commuted his sentence to ~
years. Imprisonment.
Major John Bowyer BrockenbroRgh.
who commanded Confederate battery
from Maryland 10 the Civil War, and
for Is years had been special agent OF
the United States Interior department,
died last Friday at Evanston, Wy.
A force of bolomen tried nusuccess-
fully TO rush Company E Of the Ninth
Infantry near Tarsngnan, Island OF
Ssmsr, Philippines. The Americans
lost q corporal and q scout, killed, aud
one private wounded. Sixteen bolomen
were killed.
Football games on Saturday resulted
az follows: Cornell "A, Columbia 0;
Georgetown II, Virginia 16; Virginia
Polytechnic Institute IL, DIVERSITY OF
Maryland 8; Pennsylvania 10. Carlisle
Indians IA; Yale IL, Princeton U; har'
ward 81, Dartmouth II.
The Bank Of Greenvllle, Iowa, was
broken into Friday night, the vault
and safe blown open, and the contents
taken. The robbers were captured
after q sensational pursuit during which
two of the pursuing party and one OF
the fugitives were wounded.
| Its reported 10 San Francisco that
conspiracy, In which American resi-
dents ofSkaguay were interested, bad
been formed for the overthrow OF the
local government OF the Northwest
Territory and the establishment OF
republic, with Dawson as Its capital.
The burned bodies of Deputy U. s.
Marshalls J. R. and Hugh Montgom-
ery. who left Oxford, Miss, on Sstur'
dsy to arrest Will Msthis, moon
sinner, were found yesterday 10 the
smolderlng embers OF Machis's house
which had been burned Saturday
night.
After re-electing Simon Burns, OF
Pittsburg, general master workman Of
the Heights OF Labor. on Saturday at
Indianapolis, the general assembly oil
the order, that night, reconsidered the
action, and In Mr.. Burns's place cleo ed
Henry A. Hicks, OF New York, Is the
executive head OF the order.
The terrible gale which has been
raging on the Newfoundland coast dur.
ing the past three days has carried
death and destruction in its tracks.
Shipping has suffered severely as re-
suit OF the storm, and many lives nave
been lost. The Norwegian steamer
Ella has been lost in the vicinity OF
Belle Isle, with all hands.
1t is the prevailing opinion in rail-
road circles that the Baltimore and
Ohio system will soon be entirely all
sorbed by the Pennsylvania. The
Baltimore and Ohio will order 90 new
locomotives, 3S passenger and 5000
freight cars, to cost about $1,000 600
Phe Pennsylvania Railroad has placed
contracts for 1000 additional freight
cars. This makes total of IL 900 cars
ordered within a month. They will
cost about s13, 100000.