Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-11-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Lord Kitchener has ordered the
shooting of all Beers captured 10 Brit
ish uniforms.
King Edward will have the Kohl
moor diamond mounted In Queen Alex
andrs's crown.
John Cannon. farmer Of OAkel,
DEL, Ga years old, married Miss Ethel
Hill, 15-year-old girl, of Green Mills,
Del, yesterday.
Frank Thompson, the negro leader
of the Leavenworth (KaD.) prison mu-
tiny, was captured yesterday after
desperate fight.
The Maryland republican State Geo.
trail committee has been called to meet
in Baltimore tomorrow to consider pre-
posed election contests in the counties.
The Maryland democratic state and
city managers still feel keeDly the loss
of Baltimore at the election last week
and blame Mayor Hayes for the re-
suit.
Secretary Gage will probably recon-
mend In his annual report that the
duty on tea imported into this country
be cut In half. The duty is 10 cents q
pound.
It is reported, but not generally be-
lieved, that Mr.. Quay, OF Pennsyl-
vanis, will submit his resignation as
member of the United States Senate
when that body meets next month.
Senator Quay has been 10 i'll health for
considerable time.
Alabama voted yesterday or the
question OF the adoption or ratification
OF the constitution formed by the
recent convention, and from the re-
turns 80 far received it Is evident that
the instrument has carried by mai
ority ranging between $4,000 to $4,000.
General Urlbe-Uribe commanding
the Colombian rebels, says there lie DO
international war between Venezuela
and Colombia, but struggle between
the liberal and conservative parties oil
both countries. He is willing, he says,
to accept the protection OF the United
States at the isthmus.
Both Colombia and Venezuela have
accepted the mediation OF Chill 10 their
conflict. General Tribe Tribe in an In
teryiew says the Colombian rebels are
fighting to secure q definite programme
OF reforms. A Colombian sentinel de-
clined to honor the passport OF United
States Minister Hart and fired shot
which failed to hit the diplomatic.
DR.. George d. Barney, of New
York, has confirmed the report that he
inoculated young woman with germs
taken from tuberculosis COW, expect
| ing to prove by the development o.
positive symptoms 10 his subject the
| falsity of Professor Koch's theory thai
, bovine tuberculosis is not communica
BILE to human beings and denies tina
there was imminent danger to the pa
tent in his experiment.
! American control OF the proposed
islhmisn iDteroceanic canal is nov
assured, When the canal is built 4
will be constructed by American en-
gineers and American money and de
| Tended by American guns. such II
the purport Of the new treaty Whlct
has been agreed upon between th'
United States and Great Britain, snt
which will be sent to the Senate aftel
the converting Of Congress.
Newell @. Rathbun, who was sup
posed to have died 10 Jacksonville
Ind, hotel last Thursday, was arrested
in Louisville yesterday. According t
Rathbun, the corpse which vas shipped
to Little Rock for burial as the body o
Rathbun was the body OF W. L.
Ten Eyke. The police say Rath'
bun has con Messed to desertion from the
u. s. army and to having formed
plan to fraudulently collect $4,000 TO-
sursnce on his life, but that he denle;
having killed the man who died 10 the
Jacksonville hotel and whose body
contained poison.