Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-01-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

part of the breaking down
among American residents in the Phil
ippines is due to home-sickness.
The smallpox scare 10 London is as
Stunning such alarming proportions that
an official OF q transatlantic steamship
company says he fears that London
will be In quarantine when King Ed
ward is crowned.
Admiral Schley had remarkable re-
ception st the City Hall 10 Savannah
on Saturday. BE met and shook hands
with thousands OF people OF all classes.
The streets were packed with people,
who cheered him with will.
Emperor Williams yacht HoheDzol-
lern will come to New York to parti'
cipate in the launching OF the Ksiser's
new yacht. Prince Henry of Prussia
will also be present at the ceremony, as
representative of Emperor William.
Parliament will open on Thursday,
and the air is thick with rumors that
the Salisbury government will invite
defeat on the telephone scandal az
convenient method of washing its
hands OF the Boer war and its conse-
quences.
The British governments call for
volunteers to relieve the regiments 10
South Africa is meeting with no re-
sponse because those answering the
call would only be paid shilling a
day, while the yeomaDry receive I'VE
shillings per day.
President Roosevelt and Attorney
General Knox are reported to be 10
favor OF the government practically
exercising control over the railroads
through the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, 30 as to check the increasing
railroad combinations.
In the Medley. Rsthbone postal fraud
trial ct Havsns, on Saturday, b. d..
Reeves, in reply to question OF the
court. said he did not get any portion OF
the SIS 900 from the stamp-burning in
cident. Reeves said Medley told him
he had given 1t all to Ratbbone.
Mr.. Henry Watterson, editor Of the
Louisville ier-Journsl. while 10
Washington on Saturday made the an
nouncement that he would run for
Governor OF Kentucky, and, to quote
him, "There will be but one caudi'
date" Mr.. Watierson is to call on
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie and interest him
10 home for aged and worn out news
paper men.
As result of collision between 8
passenger and freight on the South"
ern Railway at an early hour yester-
day morning near Reeves station,
twenty miles north OF Rome, Ga,
Mme. Lillian Nordica, the singer, was
injured, her sccompanist, E Romano
simmons sustained a bruised hand, an
engineer was killed. and three other
employees OF the road were Injured.
Henry Pearlstein, his wife and five
children, ranging in age from one and
a-half to twelve years, were burned to
death at an early hour yesterday mora
ing in Buffalo, n. Y, by fire that de-
stroyed a two-story frame building.
Joseph Supowski, who owned the
building, and Karl Braoki, his brother
in.law, have been arrested pending an
investigation. 6upOwski carried an in-
surauce OF &c. 900 90 the building and its
contents.
According to information from Cath.
Ollie Church authorities in Washington
plans are rapidly maturing for the prac-
tical solution OF the difficulty regarding
the friars 10 the Philippines. Arch
bishop Ireland, 1t is said, has made the
proposal that the United States deal
directly with Rome in the matter. The
proposal is to send a commission OF
prominent Americans to Rome, with
authority from President Roosevelt to
act as plenipotentisries. and to deter
mine terms of prompt settlement.
Two members of the Army Hospital
Corps, stationed at the Washington
Barracks, were arrested last night in
connection with an alleged robbery re-
ported to the police by Miss Annie
Farley, who gives her address ss POT
Arch street, Philadelphia. She alleges
she was sccosted by a soldier, who
touched her shoulder, and she was al
most simultaneously knocked to the
ground by blow from the rear. When
she recovered her senses, she said, she
was in the Holmes Hotel, negro es
tsblishment, on Virginia avenue south
west. She says she then discovered
that she had been robbed.
Rev. Thomas g. Wall, chaplain OF the Pres
byterisn Hospital, New York, died suddenly
OF heart disease after performing marriage
ceremony in that institution yesterday.