Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-10-26
NEWS OF THg DAY

France will issue new loan of about
$50, 900 900, secured by the Chinese in
demnity.
Failures for the week number 240 as
against 1913 last week and 16l 10 this
week year ago.
Fourteen painfully bruised and five
seriously beaten is the score OF foot
ball game 10 Mckinney, Tex, yester-
| day.
The Director OF the Mint has issued
a statement showing that the United
States led In the production of gold and
silver In 1900.
DIR. Melville D. Peck, for many years
chief clerk of the Patent Office, 10
Washington, died at his home in that
city yesterday.
Miss Lillian A. Norton, just appointed
chief of division 10 the Postoffice De-
psrtment, is the only woman holdiog
suchIs position.
The Flat Top Land Association of
Philadelphia has sold 238 624 acres of
coal land in West Virgins to the Poca-
hontss Coal Company for 100000.
Little Boy broke the worlds psciog
to WAGON record yesterday at the Bill
ines Park, Memphis, making the cir.
cult 10 POI IL. The former record was
2:01 ga held by Little Boy.
Mr.. Chamberlain, the British colonial
secretary, Ia q speech at Edinburgh,
announced that the government it,
tended to limit Irish obstruction by re-
duciug Irish representation in Parlia.
ment.
The Duke and Duchess OF Cornwall
and New York started from st. Johns.
N. F. for EoQlsnd at daylight yester-
| day on board the royal yacht Ophir,
with the Britirh cruisers Niobe and
Diadem forming the escort.
General Butler, after delivering the
speech which resulted In his retirement,
received a personal letter from King
Edward disappearing Of his utterances
and clearly intimating that his me- esty
would be glad il be would resign.
Five men were killed and 10 more or
less severely injured, one Of them fatal
", by a terrific explosion OF gas 10 the
Buttonwood mine OF the Parrish Coal
Company, near Wilkesoarre, Pa. short
| ly after 8 O'Clock yesterday evening.
Eighteen known dead and property
loss amounting to upward of $500. 900
| Ia tbs awful result of FIRE which &C.
Cured yesterday 10 the business sec.
ton OF Philadelphia. The number
of injured IL not known dehnitely, but
fully o score OF victims were treated at
various hospitals.
"Coedsn of the Northwestern Unver.
sity at Evanston, ILL.,. who live at Cha.
pin Hall have drawn the cJlor line. Un-
less Elizabeth Ellis, the young colored
girl OF San Antonio, Texas, who wac
recently assigned room 10 the domi-
tory, is Immediately elected, the young
women say they will leave the hall and
procure rooms elsewhere In Evanston.
The people OF the Island of Samar
have been notified to concentrate In
the towns or be treated ss outlaws. A
number OF the presidents and other
civil officials of the Island of Leyte
have been arrested. The insurgents
attacked San Jose, Province OF Batsn-
gas, and the Americans, though they
fought hard, could not prevent the
burning of the town.
Numerous meetings are being held
10 England to denounce the action of
the government in the csss OF General
Butler. 1t Ia said that General Butler
had fatty refused to resign, even when
be received an intimstion from the
King to that effect. The Scottish Lib
ersl Association adopted resolutions
declaring that the continued existence
Of Lord Salisbury's government threat
ened the country with humiliation and
disaster.