Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

George II. Phillips made corn reach
IS cents bushel In Chicago yesterday.
It costs $S4l 900 to equip a regiment
OF UnitedStates cavaliy-to buy clothee,
arms and horses.
Naval officers are concerned over
Germany's surveying operations about
Margarits island, In the Caribbean sea.
George Miller, formerly of Chicago.
confessed 10 Paris that he robbed the
American Express Compsny's safe 10
that city.
Reports from the foremost peach
growers OF Delaware and Maryland
show the peach crop to be In the best
possible condition.
The consultations being effected by
]. Pierpont Morgan lead to the In
terence in Washington that the next
Congress will pass the ship subsidy bill.
The annual meeting OF the spiritual
ists' convention was begun In New
York yesterday, President Barrett m Ak
ing an address, stating there had been
decline in spiritualism,
Mr.. George G. Wilkins has been
elected president of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad Company and OF the
Union Railroad Company to succeed
the late B. F. Newcomer.
W.K. Vanderbilt Is said to be the
heaviest buyer OF Union Pacific stock,
with view of securing control. The
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad has
become q part of the Gould system.
The Columbian Iron Works and Dry
Dock Company OF Baltimore, which fol-
years Mr.. William 7. Master, former
Mayor OF that city, has been managing
under difficulties, Ia about to fall into
the hands of q syndicate.
A monument to the memory OF Henry
Timrod, the gifted Carolina poet. was
unveiled In Washington Square,
Charleston, s. g., yesterday afternoon
| 10 the presence of 1900 persons. The
monument consists OF massive granite
pedestal surmounted by bronze bust
OF the poet, by Edward Valentine,
the Virginia sculptor.
1t Is reported that the international
Power Co. has acquired the Rogers
and another Locomotive Works at Pat
ersoD, New Jersey, and plant 10 Provi'
dence, where 1t already owns the Rhode
Island Locomotive Works, and plant
at Schenectady. Paterson, N. ]. Is to
be the great locomotive centre, accord.
ing to report. The works there are to
be enlarged so that they can turn out
500 engines year,
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener,
dated Pretoria yesterday, says: "Gren.
fell attacked the Beers at Bergplantz,
near Halverstsberg, where the last
Ions-tom opened fire at 10000 yards.
Kitchener's scouts advanced to within
5000 yards, when the gun was blown
up and the Beers fed. Ten of them
were made prisoners. Other columns
report ten Beers killed, six wounded,
six made prisoners, and sixty surren'
dered, and 10000 rounds of ammuni-
ton captured. The British had four
killed and seven wounded"
The supreme Court OF California has rem
dered a decision in the Fair will case, the
effect OF which is to distribute twenty mil
| lions among the three heirs Of Senator Fair
The ruling of Judge Slack, Of the lower
court 10 upheld, and tho trust declared by
the will of Senator Fair is void. This means
that after the payment Of special legacies, the
| remainder of the estate will be DIVIDED among
| the three children-Theresa Oelrichs, Virgins
| Vanderbilt and Charles Fair. As the re-
| Ipainder Of the estate, after the payment Of
| special legscies is valued to twenty millions
each OF the three children will get moro thar
Sc. 100000.