Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-09-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

IL Is stated that MT. y. L. Moisd
the Pennsylvania Railroad and the FIRST
National Bank, of New York, have OBJ
tanned control of the Reading road, to
prevent Mr.. Gould from capturing it.
For the first time in the history OF
Vermont a Roman Catholic has been
elected to the Legislature. The success
full candidate is the Rev. Daniel >.
O'Sullivan. He was born in Winooskl,
Vt. in 1858, and is a brother of I. T.
O'Sulliyan, of New York, who Is
Tammany man.
The directors of the various steamship
lines included in the Morgan Atlantic
Steamship Trust are to meet in New YORK
S .ptember 20. They will then be told
the details of the combination which
affect the lines each now represents, and
will be informed of the changes the
combination requires.
The Royal Mail steamer Yare arrived
at Castries, Island of St. Lucia, b; W; L.,
Yesterday evening from the island OF
Martinique. She brings the report that
a violent volcanic eruption occurred there
Wednesday night and that about 2, 900
persons are said to have persisted.
Large numbers of people are leaving
the island
A cablegram from Swansea, Wales,
saws: ''The steamships Glenroe and
Devonshire are each loading 1000 tons
of anthracite coal for New York. These
are the first cargoes to be shipped from
Great Britain to New York. The board
of education of Philadelphia has com
pleted arrangements by which anthracite
coal will be imported from England to
furnish fuel for the public schools during
the winter.
Plans were made in New York yes
terday at a meeting of the directors OF
the Mexican Trust Company Bank for
the formation Of an international bank
ing institution capitalized at $40, 900, 600
and designed especially to operate In
Latin-American countries. The scheme
involves the consolidation of the Next
can Trust Company Bank and the Cor
poration Trlst Company. The combi-
nation is to be known as the lnternation-
al Bank and Trust Company of America.
James w. Denny won the democratic
nomination for Congress i'll the Fourth
Maryland district primaries yesterday.
Mr.. Denny was member of the House
during the Fifty-eighth Congress, and,
though renominated, was defeated by
Charles r. Schirm, who will be his OPP
ponent in this campaign. Major Denny
is well known in Virginia He served
in the Thirty-ninth Virginia Cavalry
until 1868, when he was detailed for
service at General r. L. Lees head
quarters, where he continued uLil the
surrender at AppomattOx.
Frost in the northwestern States has
practically ruined the corn crop north OF
central Iowa, and has brought ruin to
one-haIf of the fax crop. Wednesday
night throughout the Northwest a heavy
frost fell. The temperature was 30
degree above zero. Corn is still green
and fax is a long way from maturity.
The recent heavy rains have made it
impossible for either corn or flax to
make any .headway, as it is estimated
that tie frost Wednesday night has
caused a loss to farmers Of at least
$500, 900.
Letters from Haiti, dated September
|, say that the situation in that repub-
lie is becoming more complicated. In
the Chamber of Deputies, as now con-
stituted, VI. Pierre, one ofthe candidates
for the presidency, has a majority over
his rival, NJ. Fouchard; while NJ.
Firmin's revolutionary party is making
Roadway in the field. No settlement OF
the difficulties is in sight, business is en-
tirely suspended in the chief towns, and
the public employees are leaving their
work because they have not been paid
since Gen. Sam resigned the presidency
and left the country.
Frequent shooting cases have resulted
from the political quarrels between the
republicans and federals at Caguey,
Porto Rico, during the past few days.
An American army officer reported
Wednesday evening that the town was
then quite, but that at 10 O'Clock the
night before the republicans attacked
the fedcrals' portion OF the city. Hun
dreds of shots were fired. The police
assisted the republicans. Four fcderals
were badly wounded The city is in
state of anarchy. The mayor has called
upon the commander of the United
States troops for protection. The officer
recommends that the governor should
act, as the life of no federal is safe.
Finding her husband calling on an
other woman, Mrs. Henry Rosenburg
last night entered the house at 2ll
PENNSYLVANIA Avenue northwest Wash
ington and emptied the contents Of a
bottle of carbolic acid into his face. He
was terribly burned but at Casualty
Hospital, where his injuries were dressed,
it is said they will not prove fatal, even
to bis eyesight The woman offered as
an excuse for her fendish attack that
Rosenberg had abandoned her and her
child in New York and refused all sup
port Mrs. Rosenberg says she located
her husband in Washington after long
search, and that when she found him
at the home Of another woman she could
not help wanting to injure him. The
assault was committed at the home of
Mrs. Levi.
BRYAN ATTACKS RoosEvELT.-Hon.
William J. Bryan can discover no
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