Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

chias has sailed for that port.
Castro has issued confident procla-
nation. Two thousand insurgents sur
round the city of Puerto Cabello.
Right Rev. R. w. Barnwell, Episco-
pal bishop of the diocese of Alabama,
died at his home in Selma last night.
Margie Smith, the 7-year-old daughter
of Monroe Smith, of Union Hill, n: D.,
is DIVING as the result Of a mosquito bite.
The irremovable rectors and diocesan
consulters of the province of Chicago are
said to have named Bishop J. l.. Spauld-
ing as first choice to succeed Archbishop
Feehan.
Harry Myers, the young man from
Shepherdstown, w. Va, who on last
Friday night fired into a gang of boys
who tried to make him fight while he
was out walking with young lady
and shot James Bremen, was given
hearing at Martinsburg w. Va, yester-
day and was dismissed.
Between 1000 and 5000 men and
women gathered in huge tent pitched
on the marshy lawn in front OF the
Rockland House at Nantasket Beach
Yesterday afternoon, and listened to
speeches by w. j. Bryan, Edward NJ.
Shepard, of New York, and Senator
Carmack, of Tennessee.
The Washington, Baltimore and An
napolis Electric Railway Company ex-
poets to have cars running between
its terminals within year. The force
of men at work on construction has
been largely increased recently. 1t Is
said to be very likely that the power
plant will be built at Hyattsyille, with
transformers distributed along the line.
A fierce electrical storm, accompanied
by high winds and heavy downpour OF
rain, passed over Pennington, n: j.,
Yesterday afternoon. At Center Hill,
Pa, a young man named Wood, with a
companion and dog, took refuge under
a large tree. The tree was struck by
lightning, killing Wood and his dog.
The other young man was stunned, but
will recover.
Senator Bcveridge, of Indiana, has
expressed his willingness to make at
least four speeches in the Fifteenth dis
trict of Texas, in which Senator Bailey
will make a campaign in behalf OF John
n. Garner, the democratic nominee Tor
Congress. Friends of j. G. Scott, the
republican candidate, have communicate
ed with Senator Beverage with the
above result.
Karl, aged seven years, son OF Mrs.
Annie NJ. Kienhoefer, was drowned in
the Potomac at Cumberland yesterday
afternoon. He had attached 10 him
pair of wing-shaped canvas bags, known
as "white wings" which, when wet
can be inflated. They are used by per-
sons unable to swim. The air began to
give out, and the lad chung desperately
to companion, who narrowly escaped
drowning. The boy sank in five feet OF
water.
Navigation is greatly interfered with
on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal by
low water, and sixty to seyenty-iye boats
bound to Georgetown are held at different
points along the line; unable to proceed.
A message from Williamsport, Md,
saws the water is extremely low and boats
are tied up there waiting for the levels
to fill. No water is running over the
dam, and rain is badly needed to fill the
feeders of the canal. The matter is one
Of much Importance and the boats may
have to be partially unloaded before they
can reach Georgetown.
The most stubborn deadlock ever
known in a Texas Congressional conven-
ton is in progress at Dublin. in the
Twelfth district. Six thousand five hun
dred ballots have been taken without any
change. Poindexter, of Cleburne, in
johnson county, has always had II
votes, Gillespie, Of Fort Worth, in Tar
rant county, % voters, and Riddle, of
Granbury, in Hood county, % votes.
The convention three weeks ago bal
lotted for three days at Weather
ford, and then adjourned until last
Tuesday to meet in Dublin. Three
DAYS have been consumed there without
the change Of single vote from the
opening ballot cast at Weatherford.
A dispatch from Lander, WyO., says:
In addition to killing Mexican sheep
herder named Sam Galaxee and slaughter
ing several thousand sheep, a band of
$50 masked men has surrounded ali the
sheep camps and forced the sheep men TO
abandon their focks. After killing one
herd of 1000 sheep, twenty-five other
herds amounting to about 65, 600 sheep
we're driven into the mountains and left
to shift for themselves. The sheepmen
have been threatened with instant death
if they go after their hocks. The sheep
are now the prey of wild animals, and
the loss will be very heavy. The scene
of lawlessnes is ll5 miles west of Lander,
in Fremont county. The militia may be
called out to protect the sheepmen.
The worst wreck in the history of the
Muskingum Valley Railroad occurred yes
terday at noon at the Douda trestle, amlle
south of McConnellsville, o., A north
bound passenger train on the Ohio and
Little Kanawha Railway was passing
over the trestle when the rear coach
turned over twice in its descent and fell
forty feet. II is stated that the trestle
had been weakened by the recent Hood;
The train was going at ordinary speed
over the trestle when the rear coach iell,
and there was no damage to any part OF
the train except to the coach which FELL
which was smashed into splInters.
Thirty passengers were in the coach,
nearly all of them from local points
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