Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Alter meeting WIFI uctCihihNN 49,
lance. the French authorities closed
three more of the Catholic sisters
schools in Brittany, yesterday.
A fire destroyed the Easton Furniture
Company's factory, in Easton, Md, yes,
terdav. causing loss of $40, 600 and
throwing 80 men out of employment
Representatives Babcock, Hull and
Overstreet, all of whom are connected
with the republican congressional com
mittee, took dinner with the President
yesterday.
At the session on the Supreme Lodge
of Knights of Pythias in San Francisco
Yesterday the proposition to erect a
sanitarium at Hot Springs, Ark, for
sick and disabled knights was defeated.
The coal famine grows severer in New
York and retailers expect to see the SO
mark passed. The Manhattan elevated
road has been driven into the English
market. 1t is almost impossible to pur-
chase any anthracite coal.
DIR. George Augustus Lung, surgeon
of the United States navy, has been Sc
lected by the Navy Department for duty
as surgeon to the President to succeed
DIR. John F. Uric, who was made ass1s-
tant chief of the bureau of medicine and
surgery.
The will of the late Senator Mcmillan
was filed for probate in Detroit yester-
dav. His estate is estimated to be worth
between Sc, 900, 900 and $40, 900, OOO.
A few charitable institutions are re-
membered, but the bulk Of his property
goes to his family.
The New York Shipbuilding Company
has purchased 80, 900 tons of manu-
featured iron and steel from the Lanca-
shire Iron Company of Scotland. This
is one of the largest orders for iron or
steel given in this country to a foreign
company. The order was placed on ac-
count of the scarcity of iron and steel in
the United States.
News has been received at Yokohama
that the small island of Toria Shima, be-
tween the BONN Islands and the main
land of Japan, was overwhelmed by a
volcano between the 18th and 10th OF
this month. There is no trace left OF lou
inhabitants, which constituted the total
population. The eruption is still pro-
, ceeding. All the houses have been de-
molished and the island is covered with
debris
viii Brantley, who had been defying
arrest for year, was killed in battle
) with posse near Douglass, Ga, Sunday
. night. Brantey, a year ago, while in
buggy with his father, met in the road
near Minnie, Irwin county, DIR. Russell
; who was in buggy with his father-in'
t law, Mr.. Young. Brantley, tits alleged,
drew a gun and shot DR.. Russell Il
? death, claiming justification on the
? ground of alleged intimacy between DR.
RUSSELL aud his brothers wife.
At the meeting of the Cuban Council
of Secretaries yesterday Emilio Terry
Secretary of Agriculture, presented hi
resignation. 1t was not accepted. Seno
Terry will have four days in which t.
reconsider his step. The resignation i
commented upon variously in the loca
press. FL Mundo says: Senior Terry re
signed because he became Disguised will
'the weak policy of the Government
and because President Palma has not
followed the plan he outlined when h'
landed at Gibara".
In clash between striking mine
workers and deputies at Nesquehoning
Pa, last night, Patrick Sharp, striker
of Lansford, was shot and killed almos
instantly by deputy. The shooting
caused considerable excitement for {
time, but order was soon restored with
out any other persons being injured. A
deputy named Harry McElmoyle was ar
rested charged with hekilling of Sharp
and was taken TO the county Jail al
Mauch Chunk. The shooting is said tC
have been caused by the deputies being
jeered by the miners.
Keokuk, Iowa, was almost cut of
from Geographic and telephone commu
nication for the twenty-four hours end
ing yesterday afternoon, when sOmC
t wires were again secured to surrounding
! towns. They brought story of one o
the hardest storms ever experienced IL
r that section. Sunday afternoon light
ming, wind and rain worked havoc al
over the country around Keokuk except
t in the quadrant southwest in Missouri
, A score of towns in Hancock and ad
! Joining counties in Illinois were hare
t hit, and about 100 farm houses anC
barns struck by lightning.
President Charles NJ. Schwab, of the
United States Steel Corporation, has ac
cepted the advice of physicians and de
cided to retire indefinitely from an ac
tive business life. He will leave Ameri
ca to seek some quiet nook in foreign
cline, where not an echo of the strenu
GUS life he has led can reach him
, Though in the prime of life it is said tha
Mr.. Schwab's health has been impaired
that his nervous system is shattered anC
that he needs a long rest from the care'
, and strain of business. Mr. Schwab il
the highest salaried employee in tho
world. The impression preyailes il
Wall street that II. G. Frick will sue
coed Mr.. Schwab as president of the
billion dollar steel trust.
MORE TROUBLE IN THE PHILIPPINES
The Moros in Min1anao are renewing
Il. Il L 4.