Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-08-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Persistent attacks by Colombian
rebels o. the outskirts OF Colon and
Panama continue.
Rich ard Croker is planning to sail
from Eogland so as to arrive in New
York September B.
Americans In London have protested
against negro delegates to the Metho'
dist Ecumenicai Conference being quar-
tered with them.
A dispatch from Pointe-a-Pitre,
Guadeloupe, w. | says fire Yesterday
morning destroyed Grandbourg, the
town on Marie Galaptet Island. -Four
Thousand persons are rendered home
less.
While at target practice yesterday
morning on Fort Riley reservation, half
a mile north OF Junction City, Kansas,
ssven-inch 107-pound shell exploded
as 1t was being placed in the breech OF
a section gun OF Siege Battery o,
Seventh Artillery, One man was
killed and a number of others more or
less injured.
1t is reported in Glasgow that ]. r.
Ellermau, OF the Leylsnd Line, has
purchased the old established City
Line of fourteen steamers engaged in
the East Indian trade, the price being
nearly $1,000 900. Mr.. Ellerman, ac-
cording to rumor, Is acting for j..
Pierpont Morgsn and his associates.
A dispatch from London says: "Sir
Ernest Satow has Dotified the Chinese
peace plenipotentiaries that unless the
DEGREES for the punishment OF the au
thors OF the Chu-Chsu massacres are
carried out forthwith, Great Britain
will reconsider the arrangements for
the withdrawal OF the British troOps."
European newspapers are distrustful
OF American imperialists, and they are
charged with intriguing for war be-
tween the South American republics
with view to creating q situation
favorable to military Intervention. The
ordering OF the north Atlantic squadron
to Hampton roads is taken by them to
mean a movement in that direction.
The State department, however, deni, o
any such intention, and asserts that the
ordering OF the feet from the New Eng
land coast to Hampton roads was for
the purpose of obtaining a more suit
able place for manouveriDg.
While large force of fremen were
endesvoring to check the fire in nest
of burning oil tanks at the Atlantic OIL
Refining Company's plant at Point
Breeze in the southwestern section OF
Philadelphia, about 1890 o'clock this
morning, an immense tank OF Der zine
exploded. Many 6remen were in close
proximity to the tank and fell victims
to the blazing oil and flying pieces of
iron. Five were killed, four are miss
ing and twenty-one were badly burned
before they could be rescued by their
more fortunate companions.
By the explosion of dynamite in the
Mohawk and Malone roundhouse at
Herkimer, N. Y, last night, which
wrecked the building, it is reported
that at last II or 13 men, ell members
of the New York Central bridge gang,
who were sleeping 10 Car which stood
on a side track nearby, we're killed.
Five out OF the 10 men have been &C.
counted for, three OF these are dead
and one fatally injured. Bricks and
fragments of iron were blown several
blocks away. Ali the windows within
several blocks were broken and nearly
all the plste.glass windows In the viii
lage were shattered.
Excitement was created at Tampa,
Fla, yesterday afternoon by an extra
issue of La Federation, the organ of La
Resistencis, containing a very incendi-
airy article from Louisa Herrera, the
woman secretary OF the Shippers
Union OF Resisteacia. Louisa Herrera
Is an anarchist OF some renown aud to-
augursted the great trouble at Tampa
last winter. She is we'll known 10 New
York and Chicago, where she has led
number of strikes. She calls for
r ssistenc cha to pack up and leave Tampa
in q body, "es q griDniDg skeleton"
using words too profane to reproduce.
Her article is taken by the general pub
lie to mean arson, and she says they
should leave II the blood of the officers
have to run 10 revenge for the men
spirited away from there. A demand
has been made for the arrest of the
woman for the incendiary article.
Edward Garrett, Of Atlanta, Ga attempted
suicide at Atlantic City yesterday by taking
poison because girl who was to accompany
him on drive failed TO put In an appearance.
he is out Of danger.