Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-03-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| The Chinese government has notified
! the United States aud other powers
that 1t will keep the disputed provinces
OF Tacna and africa.
General Funston has gone into lea
bella province with 10 men and o com.
pany of native scouts to attempt to
capture Asuinaldo.
The Minnesota Senate has passed O
bill requiring a physicians certificate
that no trace Of insanity ia found in the
family history Of applicants for mar
riage licenses.
Mrs. @. Brunschneider, of Toledo,
Ohio. with pair Of scissors, yesterday
cut of FIVE toes. both ears and a part OF
her nose and also horribly injured her
self otherwise.
Father Renard, prominent Jesuit,
professor OF mineralogy at the UDiver-
sity of Client, has left the church. He
has married Miss Harriet Gobbelsoh-
roy 10 London.
Joseph A. Conlin, clerk In a branch
Of the New York postoffice, who dissp.
peared with q pouch containing SAC, 600
worth OF property, has been caught
after a long chase and brought back to
New York.
A mortgage for 100000 was burned
yesterday In the presence OF q large
congregation in st. Andrews Metho-
diet Church, New York. Hymns Of
praise were sung while the papers were
being destroyed.
Threatening letters have been re-
ceived by several of the Russian minis
tiers. A plot against the life of the Czsr
has been discovered. A hundred work.
men are reported to have been killed In
fight WITH Cossacks 10 St. Petersburg.
The Korean government has die.
missed from Office McLeavy Brown, d.
rector general of Korean customs, and
Great Britain has entered protest. A
Japanese squadron is reported to have
sailed from Nsgssaki on Saturday for
Korea.
A dispatch from Pochahontas, Ark,
says; George Shurley, who shot and
instantly killed City Marshal John
Norris on the 21st, was taken from the
jail by q mob at o'clock Saturday
morning and hanged from the city
bridge, which faces Norris's home.
w. J. Gilbert, former mayor of Niles,
Mich, and reputed to be wealthy, was
found dead yesterday 10 storehouse
in the rear of his residence, where he
had ended bis life with bullet. Grief
over the misfortune OF bosom friend is
believed to have caused the suicide.
The revolutionary feeling 10 Russia
is on the increase. The ministers Of
war, justice and the interior have re-
csived threatening letters. Lagowski,
the official who attempted to asssssi-
nate the procurator general Of the Holy
Synod, says it was an act of revenge for
the excommunication Of Tolstoi.
German troops have ousted Chinese
imperial troops from the passes on the
Shan-se frontier. A Japanese squadron
left Nagasaki on Saturday for Cores,
where owing to Russian demands Nc
Lsavy Brown, the director general OF
Corean customs, has been dismissed, in
spite of the protest OF Great Britain.
1t Is said that ex- Representative VIM
A. Rodenberg, OF East st. Louis, may
be appointed chairman of the civil s,r.
vice commission. This will mean the
deposition OF the present chairman,
John Il. Proctor, who will retain q pc.
silion ss one of the commissioners, and
q reorganization Of the commission on
new lines, thoroughly In touch with the |
By the wrecking and burning of o
train largely composed OF loaded oil
tank cars, on the Jewsey Central Rail-
road, on the mountainside above Glen
Gardner, N. j., yesterday, the village
was almost wiped out by fire. Eleven
buildings, including the Masonic Tenn
pie and the postoffice and q coal and |
lumber yard, were destroyed. The loss
Is estimated at s75 900.
President Mckinley, 1t is said, has
the st. Louis Fair Commits
son. 1t will consist of ex-Senators
Carter, Thurston, Lindsay and Nc
Bride, and ex-Congressman Glynn, end
Messrs. Scott. of Arkansas; Miller, of
Indiana; Nortnrup, of Minnesota, and
Belts, OF Connecticut. Ex-Congress.
nan John Allen, of Tupelo, who was
irst slated for a place, was turned
Town in favor OF Mr.. Scott, OF Arkan.
&c, whose appointment was asked by
senator Jones, as leader of the minority
'arty In the Senate.