Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.


mi ..ers' strike in France by arbitration.
II is said that the King of Siam pur-
poses visiting the United States in the
near future.
Rear Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge,
| U. S. N, died at the Mclean Asylum in
Waverly, Mass, yesterday.
The New York police last night made
sensational raid on a number of alleged
gambling dens in the "Tenderloin' dis
trict, and, besides other things, secured
a pile of money aggregating $25O'oo
1t is announced from the frontier
near Dubnitza that about 600 women,
children and old men have crossed into
Bulgaria to escape the Turks. They re-
port the complete destruction OF num-
Der of Christian villages.
In his annual report to the. Secretary
of the Navy, Rear Admiral P. NJ. Rixey,
Scrgeon General, makes an urgent APP
peal for additional medical officers.
DIR. Rixey also recommends the en-
ployment of female nurses in naval
hospitals.
The battle near La Victoria, Vene-
zuela, between the forces OF President
Castro and the Venezuelan reyolutionists,
which began Monday morning, has so
far been without definite result. The
government lost 247 men and the insur-
gents 80.
J. G. Bancroft Davis, who has served
as reporter for the Supreme Court of the
United States for nearly twenty years,
has resigned his Office and retired from
public life. Mr.. Davis is nearly eighty
wears old and has spent much OF his life
in public service.
A thief who tried to extort diamonds
from woman in an apartment house in
New York, yesterday, by threatening to
drop bag which he said contained
dynamite, was scared off by the
screams of the woman and was caught
while trying to escape.
A fast west-bound passenger train on
the Vandalia Railroad and the Terre
Haute and Indianapolis accommodation
train collided at Reelsville, Ind, eight
miles west of Greencastle, Yesterday
afternoon, killing two men and seriously,
if not fatally, injuring three Others.
The federal party in Porto Rico have
given up the fight. Shooting affairs
growing out of the political situation
have occurred at C0rozai and Aguidlla.
At the latter place four persons were
shot, one being seriously wounded. An
attempt has been made TO assassinate
the mayor of Vicqnez.
lofty Niblo, pretty ten-year-old
school girl, was kidnapped from school
Tuesday at Gumboro, Del. A strolling
photographer named Mclean is suspect
ed of being the kidnapper. In Delaware
child-kidnapping is punishable with
death, and if Mclean is guilty, he will
be sternly dealt with.
Capt Job Evans, his wife and daugh-
ter, and John Snead, deckhand, were
drowned Tuesday night, by the capsizing
of the batteau Annie in Tangier Sound,
Nd. The party left Crisfeld, Tuesday
night bound for Smiths Island, where
Capt. Evans conducts a store. The
vessel was heavily laden with merchan-
disc, and when near Great Rock was struck
by squat and capsized.
The Frankfurter Zeitung publishes
dispatch saying that Gen. Fernandez has
captured President Morroquin, of Colon
bia, and has proclaimed himself dictator.
President Marroquin procured the office
of president of Colombia by arbitrarily
deposing former President Sancemente,
July 81, 1900. Marroquin was vice
president of the country.
The formal sale and transfer of Beau
voir, the home of Jefferson Davis,
by Mrs. Davis to the Sons of Con-
federate Veterans was consummated
yesterday at the opening session of the
reunion of the Mississippi Division, Sons
of Confederate Veterans at Jackson,
Miss. Beauvoir will be used as home
for INDECENT Confederate veterans. Mrs.
Davis received so, 900 for the home
1t is declared in government circles
in Constantinople that the Bulgarian
revolutionary bands have everywhere
been defeated and that after a sharp en-
gagement in the Krezna defle between
force of Turkish troops and insurgents,
the Bulgarians were dislodged and dis
persed. The Porte understands that the
Bulgarian government has finally decided
to suppress the Macedonian committee.
Miss Minnie Martin, at Minnie, a
station between Clarksburg, w. Va, and !
Martinsvile, on the short line, saved a
passenger train yesterday afternoon from
disastrous wreck. She discovered a
large log on the track that had rolled !
down the bank She hurriedly secured |
a horse, jumped on its back, swan the
creek, and tagged the train just in time |
t. prevent a wreck. Miss Martin is /
the daughter of well-known farmer
of that section,
David Roypen, the father of Marie
Roypen, the young lady who was
formally married to Samuel Oren, a
young barber, formerly Of Philadelphia,
but now residing in Baltimore, whose
marriage is believed by many to be void
according to the Orthodox Hebrew faith
on account of what is said to have been
her ecclesiastical marriage to Joseph
Goldberg, stated yesterday that he had
heard or seen nothing of his daughter
since her simultaneous disappearance
with Goldberg last Monday afternoon.
Early last summer beautiful and
wealthy widow, Mrs. Bryan, of Holly
Springs, Miss, went to Littleton, a