Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

coal and iron police at Thropp, rough
mining settlement north of Scranton,
Pa. Hundreds of shots were eX-
changed, but nobody was killed,
Lightning struck four different objects
on the farm of Charles II. Bullock, in
Carroll county, Md, on Sunday, struck
at the feet of Nlrs. james Purnell while
rocking a baby III her home, in Washing
ton county, and burned wheat barrack
near Ellicott City.
Complaints were made by the farmers
in the neighborhood of the anthracite
coalfelds in Pennsylvania that the
strikers are raiding their farms. Women
come to the soldiers camp glad to accept
scraps of food the soldiers do not use.
Upon receiving notice from Minister
Bowen. at Caracas, that the Germans
intended to land naval force at Porto
Cabello. Venezuela, the Navy Department
ordered Commander Nichols OF the
Topeka, to do likewise, in case OF an
attack
While chatting with woman caller
at her home, in Derby, Conn, sunday
night, Miss Ella Bassett was surprised
bv the entrance of wildcat, which leap
cd through an open window and threat
ened the wcmen 50 angrily that they
hastily retreated upstairs, where they
called for help, and the cat was Killed
At hearing yesterday in New York
in the suit of Peter Power against the
directors of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company to prevent them from
turning over the stock of the company to
the Northern Securities Company George
A. Lamb, counsel for Power, admitted
that his client was living at the Queen
Hotel. Montreal, under the name OF +.
Blake.
The Baptist Church at Leslie, near De
Soto. Ga, was struck by lightning Sun
dav while services were going on. The
building was crowded Richard Dodson,
a cousin of Hon. w. A. Dodson, Of At
lanta. was instantly killed. Forty per-
sons were seriously injured, though it is
not thought any will die. The building
was badly torn and set on fire but heavy
rain prevented it from burning down.
d. II. Tanning, of New York, who
rode into the court yard Of the Hotel
Cecil in London in an automobile Sun
day and declared that he was the Saviour,
will remain in the st. Giles infirmary,
where he was removed, until today,
when he will be taken before the lunacy
commissioner Tanning is connected
with the firm of Haas Brothers, of New
York city, and his parents are spending
the summer at Newport
The DEGREES against the Catholic
schools continue to be resisted in the
villages around Brest, France. Col. DE
Saint Remy was ordered to take a squad
ron of chasseurs and close the nuns
| school at Lanouen He replied 81
am a Christian and will not share in an
act that is contrary to my faith and
religious sentiments" General Frater
thereupon relieved him of his command
and notified the war office Of his dis
/ obedience.
Blood poison, following the bite ola
mosquito, has caused the death of Louis
Bertrand Faler, fourteen year old boy,
Baltimore. The lad was playing in
his fathers garden when stung on the
arm. Little attention was given to the
bite, which itched the boy so that he
! scratched it. Two days afterward his
arm began to swell, and the pain became
intense. The physician summoned APP
piled the usual remedies, but the boy
grew worse and finally died.
Advices from Kharbin, Manchuria,
say that the inhabitants who are able to
do so are fleeing from the city in con-
sequence of tbs cholera epidemic. China
men are dying like flies, many expiring
even while at work on the quays, or in
workshops. Deaths among the Russians
are also heavy. The average daily morta-
lily in Kharbin and its vicinity is from
100 to 1870. Railway officials are quitting
their post without awaiting their pay,
and those who consent to remain demand
treble their usual salaries.
An i'm portant development in the
Bartholin- Mitchell murder mystery wa
made in Chicago yesterday when it was
discovered that BarthOlin had been sur
prised July 80 while standing at the
cellar grave of his murdered mother by
real estate agent. Peter Van Wis
singer, who holds a mortgage on Mrs.
Bartholins home, and who sent his
agent to the Calumet property to APP
praise it the afternoon of July 80,
furnished the police with the informa-
ton about BarthOlin working on the
grave of his mother.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
that the Landsthing elections in the
Farce Islands resulted in a complete
ministerial victory. The campaign
turned on the sale of the Danish West
Indies to the United States and the gov
eminent captured all opposition wards.
Other wards will hold elections next
month. A good ministerial majority is
confidently expected. The treaty will
be taken up soon after the opening of
the Rigsdag in October AT the last
session those opposed to the sale of the
islands had majority of three in the
Landsthing.
A horrible accident occurred yester-
day at StetsOn & Vosts sawmill in
Seattle, Wash, resulting in the crema-
ton J. NJ. Kidney, an employe. The
duty of Kidney was to attend refuse
conveyor which runs from the mill to a
furnace, which consumes the sawdust
and mill refuse. Kidney fell on the
conyeyOr in fit and in this condition
was carried to the furnace and dumped