Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-09-09
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

! DR.. Johanncy von MIGUEL, former
Prussisp minister OF finance. was found
dead in bed at Frankfort on-the- NJ ain
yesterday.
Only 4S candidates for Naval Aca
deny cadetships out OF SO who present.
ed themselves passed the examinations
tor admission this month.
Sarah Howells, q recluse, who bad
lived as a voluntary prisoner 10 one
room for nearly bali century, died at
Msttituck, L. l., yesterday.
During q severe gale on Lake Huron
yesrerday,six vessels went ashore. the
lights and buoYs being ob:cured by .
n-avy pail Of smoke, due to the forest
fires. All the crews we're saved.
The attack on President Mckinley
has stimulated the French authorities
to extraordinary measures to protect
the Gar when be comes to France.
Workmen OF the Bay View steel
mills held a meeting 10 Milwaukee yes.
terday and voted TO return TO work.
The radical element seeded from tie
lodge.
Herman o. Armor. OF New York, q
brother oil tue late Pnilip d Armor,
millionsire meat pscdrr OF Chicago,
died at his summer cottage Of Saratoga
yesterday.
Expressions OF coincidence from all
quarters OF the world continue TO h)w
Ia uDou the State department. Yesier-
days messages were largely from
crowned heads and governments.
Two figures we're decided at tn
Shee pshesd Bsv races on Saturday. o 2
vas the great FLY stakes. worth $28. :
705; the other the century stakes Of
$40 900 At one mile and a hall. Biut
Girl, William G. Witney's 6lly, wa
beaten q shot head for the first named
10 a seusa' ionsl hnish with LeoDors
Lorng. W,t-r Color woD the century
stakes. w. @. Whitney asked for an In
yes igation of Jockey Snaw's ride on
Blue Girl.
Major Sylvester, chief OF the WASH
ington police department, as president
of the National Association Of Polict
Chiefs, has written to the directors OF
that organization suggesting that the
heads of .he police departments OF the
world be invited to the next convention
OF the association, with view to I'd
adoption OF a cooperative plan for
dealing with anarchists throughout the
world.
The wife of the Kaiser's former spec.
isl envoy 10 Washington, Baron Mumm
Won Sco warzsnsteio, now Germany
Oioiste; to China, as successor 10 the
murdered Baron voo Kstteler. has sep.
psrated from her husband aud gone on
the American stage. She ia now play
|, log small part 10 Mr.. James X. Hack
cts "D1n Caesars Return" at Wei
lsck's, 10 New York, under the Dsme OF
Miss Msude K josevelt, and before her
romantic marriage 10 the G. srman dip.
lomste wss Miss Maude Roosevelt lie
VInsen, OF New York.
six thousand Polish mile, of Chicago
yeyefcay Genounce the come Of Leon OzI-
gosz snd drafted so utions declaring ihsir
sympathy for President McKinlsy, their
4 va ~ to the ma ionsl principles OF America
aud III r detestat GA Of their alleged fellow
cOuntryman.
Mrs. William Grossner Was beaten, robbed
and assaulted at New Brunswick, N. j.. Last
night. He condition is serious. Bernard
COhD, white man. and lott n Dewald, a
colored barber. have been arrested.
Johnnie Nelson, the We known b'csce
rider, died early this mDning at Bellevue
Hospital, New York, rs the result Of Injuries
s1st4ned Ia sn accident at Madison SO mare
daroeD, last wednesday night.
J. Wilism Grant, In jail at Hagerstowp,
Nd await nR trial for double murder, CON-
mitted suicide yesterday afternoon by taking
poison.