Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Thomas w. Stevenson, aged 30, anu
Miss Tillie Wycoff, aged 80, both OF
London Mills, H., eioped and were
married late Christmas night.
Cardinal Gibbons, after narrow es-
cape from injury in an elevator accident
in Pittsburg, was the leading figure in
the golden jubilee ceremonies of the Pas
sionist Fathers there.
An interchange of views among the
representatives ofthe governments inter
ested as to the raising of the Venezuelan
blockade and other questions will take
place at Washington.
DIR. Walter ID. Cannon, a member of
the staff of st. Elizabeth's asylum for
the insane, near Washington, has him
self gone mad. He is a nephew of Con-
gresham Cannon, of Illinois.
An elderly woman, her married daugh-
ter. husband and two other persons have
been arrested at Osaka, Japan, for being
in a baby-farming conspiracy. Since
they started operations 300 infants have
been killed.
The appointment of Vice-Admiral
Cervera. who surrendered to the Ameri-
can fleet off Santiago de Cnba, to the
post of chief of staff of the Spanish navy
has been published in the "Oflicial
Gazette.
A story from st. Petersburg says The
Hague Conference was the direct result
of a spiritualstic seance, at which the
Gar, who has taken great interest in
spiritualism, was told it was his duty to
bring about peace in the world.
The members of the Humbert family,
who were arrested at Madrid in connec-
ton with the great Paris safe frauds,
were taken from prison on Saturday
evening and sent to Paris under strong
guard of French and Spanish detectives
Baron de Constant, the French deputy
who was one of the French delegates to
the International Peace Conference, has
written President Roosevelt a cOngratu-
latory letter on the submission OF the
Venezuelan question 10 The Hague Ar
bitration Court.
There are thirty-iive vacancies in the
grade of assistant surgeon in the army
and little prospect of filling them. The
next examination to be held in Wash
ington will occur some time in April
and an examination is now being con-
Quoted in the Philippines to fill some of
the places.
A colored man and his wife, who were
accused of killing w. X. Jay, a white
farmer, were lynched near Troy, S. c.
on Saturday. This was the first woman
ever lynched in South Carolina. Jay
was a worthy master Of Stonewall Lodge,
A. +. NJ, and was grand junior warden
in the South Carolina grand lodge.
-Four masked robbers entered the home
of Peter Robinson, near Walsh Run,
Washington county, Nd, early on Fri
day night bound four adults, carried of
all the money and vaIuables they could
find and took two teams to convey them
to a safe distance. Three searched the
house while one stood guard with revolt
yer in hand.
A complete rout at Taxa of the Moor
ish imperial army by rebels under the
leadership of the pretender to the throne
which was reported December % has
been officially confirmed. The imperial
forces abandoned their guns, rifles, am
muntion, tents, and beasts of burden
and fled precipitately to Fee.
An attempt was made to wreck the
business section of Moorefield, w. Va,
with dynamite late Saturday night Ten
sticks of dynamite, stolen from the Dam
kiln of George b. Eberly, near Moore
field, were used. Several houses were
badly damaged and in some cases people
were thrown from their beds.
Rev. d. G. Rankin, missionary of the
Southern Presbyterian Church in Seoul,
Corea, died in that place recently from
pneumonia. The deceased was editor of
the foreign missions publications of the
Presbyterian Church, and had been
travelling in the Orient visiting the mis-
sion fields there for the past six months.
DR.. Rankin made Nashville his home,
and was fifty-six years old.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow
of General Fremont, died Saturday night
at her home in Los Angeles, Cal. She
was rs years OF age. The deceased was
a brilliant and remarkable woman who
lived a thrilling life full of adventure,
honor and humiliation. She was the
daughter of the late Senator Benton,
and she defied her father at the age of
sixteen by clipping with General Ere
mont.
The Venezuelan revolutionists have
resumed active hostilities against Presi
dent Castro. There occurred yesterday
morning a lively engagement between
|, 200 revolutionists, under Gen. Riera,
and government forces at Cauyarao, in
the vicinity of Coro. Details of the en-
gagement are lacking but it is known
that the reyolutionists had artillery.
The government forces were commanded
by Gen. Refereno Castillo. Gen. Riera
retained his position.
A freight engine of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad and car of the Westport
line of the United Railways and Electric
Company were in collision Saturday
afternoon at the Ridgely street crossing
at Ostend street, Baltimore, and as a re-
suit one life was lost and four other per-
sons were injured, two Of them probably
seriously, The street eaT~Ees hurled