Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS VI liz Oh1
The new yiceroy of Szechumen prov
ince says the Boxers have not been sup
pressed, and he advises missionaries moi
to travel in that part of China.
Senator Mason, of Illinois, has begun
his bolt from the republican party by 2
bitter attack upon Governor Yates and
Others of his fees in the republican party
of Illinois.
While members of the democratic con
gressional campaign committee say
there seems to be some apathy among
voters. they count on democratic
majority of 20 in the next House.
Major Evans Gordon, NJ. F., said IN
an interview in London that England
was worse off than the United States IL
the matter of being made the dumping
ground of undesirable immigrants from
Russia and Poland.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has entered suit in equity against
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company ia
restrain it from taking away from the
former the right to use the telegraph
lines along the railroad.
The Governor of Delaware has decided
not TO issue a call for special session OF
the legislature for the purpose OF elect
ing United States Senators. He was
afriad to trust Addicks, who said he was
candidate for the Senate as long as he
should live.
At meeting today Of governors Of
the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Asso-
citation of the United States held in
Philadelphia on Saturday Admiral Dewey
was elected President. The object is To
erect monument to Jefferson In
Washington.
The fourth terrific eruption of Sou.
friere volcano has further crippled the
agricultural resources Of st. Vincent Is.
land. Numbers of refugees who FLED
from Georgetown tainted from hunger
and thirst while trudging through the
deep hot sand.
President Roosevelt has issued an or
der warning all federal Office holders thai
the law regarding political contributions
must be strictly obeyed. The President
forbids them soliciting contributions from
government employees for political pur,
poses. The opinion of Attorney Genera
Knox accompanies the order.
Mrs. Ida Cakes notified the Washing
ton police Saturday night that musl.
clan who boarded with her in Balti.
more, and accompanied her to Washing
ton when she started new boarding
house there had disappeared. The sum
of SO, 700 vanished about the same time
from safe in her parlor.
Mr.. Mitchell of the miners union,
now says that eff Others had been as
fair and reasonable as Mr.. Morgan was
the strike would have been settled long
time ago." Both Mr. Morgan and
President Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, were working for settlement
when President Roosevelt made his sue
cessful move.
Fire, which broke out at the cotton
compress at Hamlet, n. c., yesterday,
destroyed property valued at 1928, 900
and caused the death of j. NJ. Wilson,
Of GAINESVILLE, Ga, bookkeeper for the
compress company, and nephew OF
George 4. Wilson, of Charlotte. The
compress was owned by the Seaboard
Air Line Company.
Mrs. Maude Kiehl, a widow Is years.
old. was arrested at Preble, n. Y,
last night, charged with having
poisoned her brother-in-law, Adam
Kiehl. The infatuation of the young
woman for her brother-in-law and the
announcement of his approaching mar
riage to another is given as the motive.
Her husband, William Kiehl, died last
February under peculiar circumstances,
and his body will be exhumed.
A dispatch from ST. Paul, Mimi,
says "Jim" Younger, former mem
Der of the Jesse James gang, is dead by
his own hand. Hedged about by the
restraints placed upon him by the laws
of the State, the one-time outlaw and
murderer of all who opposed him in his
wild career of robbery and violence,
goaded to desperation by the taunts of
politicians and political hangers-on,
sought escape from torment in death.
A few lines of distractedly written
throughts renouncing his relatives, a
pathetic note of love for young girl
and plea for fair treatment after
death-these were his last messages.
He had recently been pardoned from
the penitentiary in which institution he