Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-11-22
NEWS OF TIE DAP.

A dispatch from st. Petersburg Is 10
the effect that Count Lyof N. Tolstoy,
the famous Russian novelist, is dead.
Col. Arthur Lynch. who served 10
the Boer army, is elected By large
majority member of Parliament for
Galway, Ireland.
The heirs OF the late Cornelius Van
derbilt must pay the 1851 ,S03.43 inberi-
lance tex levied against their legscies
by the Uoited States government.
Mr.. Milton G. Barnard, a brother OF
Justice Barnard, of the Supreme Court
OF the District OF Columbia, and we'll
known member of the District bar
died in Washington yesterday.
Women 10 the lower end OF Atlantic
City are experiencing q reign Of terror
because OF the appearance there within
the past week OF a Jack-the-HuRger.
He Is q young and fssbionably attired
man.
The Colombian Charge d'Afaires is
assured by Secretary Hay that the
United States will maintain free and
uninterrupted communication across
the Isthmus of Panama. All is quiet
ct Colon.
The Maryland Court OF Appeals yes
terday gave q decision 10 the case OF
Miss Eta NJ iddox. who sought to prac-
tice at the bar. 1t holds that. under
the existing law, women cannot be sd'
mitted to the bar Opinions were hand
cd down In other cases.
Twenty thousand rioters assembled
near the Temple of Jupiter Oily mpus
at Athens. yesterday, to make q
demonstration against the translation
of the Gospels into modern Greek
Military attempted to suppress the
mob, and seven persons were killed
and many injured.
Constable Lsrwill, OF West Hoboken,
N. j., went to Somerville, N. j., on
Monday and arrested Mrs. Adolph Mis-
karin, 60 years Of age, and Adolph
BsumRarten, 50 years old, who eloped
from West Hoboken last August. When
Mrs. Miskarn deserted her husband she
stripped their house and took $500 in
sayings. Miskarm, the deserted hus'
band, is rs years old.
Confidence men 10 New York yester
day secured 81 800 from w. s. Hunter
of Goshen, Va, and Frank NJ. Bell
of Gainesville, Ga. Frank Palmer was
taken into custody on charge OF beioe
one OF the operators. The victims had
lust returned from Ecuador, where
they had bsen working on the con-
struotion of new railroad, and were
caught by the three card monte game
Threats to remove the great Baldwin
locomotive works from Philadelphia
and to press the claims OF the hrm
,, against the city for damages arising
from the construction OF the Reading
subway were made on Wednesday. The
threats were without avail aud during
heated argument that took place be-
fore councils committee on surveys,
the head OF the great plant was told thai
the concern has deprecated property
values in the Fifteenth ward OF the city
The military government established
over the native city of Tientsin con-
tinues in effect, the military com
msnders refusing to yield the collection
OF taxes to the Chinese. They also de-
cline to submit the question of their
control OF the native city to the min
listers OF the foreign powers here, hold
ing that continuance Of the military
government there is vital to the main
tenauce OF communication between
Pekin and Tsku. The ministers sp.
parently regard the question as within
their Jurisdiction, and some of them
are OF the opinion that it is impossible
under the terms OF the protocol for
foreigners to continue to govern Tien-
tain.