Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The condition of King Edward con-
tinues favorable to recovery.
Gen. P. A. Cronje, the noted Boer
loader, took the oath Of allegiance to
King Edward at St. Helena yesterday.
The elections for deputies in Hayti,
have been interrupted. The various
political parties are in arms and ready
for battle. There has been much firing
and the situation is critical.
The first practical test of the use of
oil as substitute for coal fuel on
large passenger ship is to be made by
the Mariposa, steamer of $500 tons,
sailing between San Francisco and Aus
tralia.
Miss Pauline Mosby, the daughter of
Col. Johns. Mosby, and who has been suf-
fering with appendicitis for the past two
weeks in Baltimore, went to the Mary
land University Hospital yesterday
morning for treatment.
The boxing contests held in connection
with the coronation sporting tournament
between Harvard and Yale students and
English aniate~rs. resulted in victories
for the Englishment, put tbn Americans
gave remarkable displays of gameness.
Louis Disbrow, accused of causing the
death of Clarence Foster and Sarah
Lawrence at Good Ground, i. l., ar
riAed at Riverhead yesterday afternoon
from Long Island City in company with
his counsel and surrendered to Sheriff
Welles.
Some Tammany leaders have been so
impressed by the speech which ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland made at the Tilden Club
Iat they intend to request him to speak
in the support of the State democratic
ticket in New York city just before
election.
Oars of the Hampton Roads Railway
and Electric Company were brought to
sudden halt yesterday, when it was found
that sand had been placed in the bear
ings of the two S25, 900 machines,
and both were fast running to their
destruction.
Count Won Buelow, the Imperial
Chancellor, and the Austrian and Ital-
ian Ambassador Saturday morning sign
ed the treaty providing for the prolonga-
ton of the alliance between Germany
Austro-Hungary and Italy 0he Drei-
bund). The alliance was renewed in it,
original form.
A gas that is cheaper than any other
now in use, and which gives off a light
exceeded in brilliancy only by electricity
is what Henry Soeder, Of Cleveland, o.,
claims to have discovered. Soeder will
not tell how the gas is made, but he is
now using it to light his store and do
the family cooking. He claims that he
makes the gas from the air.
Country people in the interior of
Florida are greatly excited over the dis
covery of a secret negro organization,
called "St. Andrews Aid Society"
Its ayowed object, it is claimed, is hostil-
ity to the whites. A leading citizen of
Grandin, named Godson, was shot and
killed by two negroes Saturday night.
One negro was s o. while r,sisting ar
rest; and the other escaped. On the
person of the dead negro was found cards
and the constitution of this society,
Hostility to the whites" being its
motto. The whites will ferret out the
members and break up the society.
Joseph Ray Irons, aged II years, son
of /. b. and Ella Irons, of Morgantown,
WA, died on the Baltimore and Ohio
Duquesne Limited, due at Cumberland
Md, at 1890 o'clock Sunday, from
hydrophobia. The lad was taken by
his mother to Baltimore for Pasteur
treatment. Last April the boy was bit
ten by cat, which had previously been
bitten by a dog. The wound was treated
and it having healed it gave no concern.
On Saturday about midnight the boy
developed decided symptoms of hydro
phobia and physicians advised that he
be sent at once to Baltimore. While on
the train the boy frothed at the mouth
and at one time took his mothers arm
between his teeth. She asked him if he
would bite his mother. He had a
startled appearance and, as if realizing
what he had done, said he would not.
He began to sink as the train neared |
DRUGGED AND ROBBED. - Serano |