Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

seaport of Cumana.
The civil war in Haiti has spread to
every part of the island.
Switzerland has forbidden the estab-
lishment of new converts by religious
orders in that country.
President Truesdale, OF the Jacka-
wanna Railroad, says the anthracite coal
GENERATORS will make no concession III Or
der to end the strike.
Owing TO the Polish hostility and for
the greater safety of the Emperor, the
HEADQUARTERS of the German army
manoeuvers have been changed from
Posen. Prussian Poland, to Frankfort-on-
the-Oder.
A daring robbery took place in the
iewelrv establishment Of A. Webster q
Co., in Brooklyn, n. Y, during the
busy hours yesterday afternoon. A tray
containing AZ solitaire diamond rings,
valued at 81, 900, was removed from one
of the show cases and the thief made his
escape.
Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, arrived
in New York yesterday. The stories sent
out about his health were greatly exag-
gerlted. These reports were evidently
sent out to influence the stock Market
He will sail for Europe Monday for a
two-month's visit. He has no intention
of rcsigning as president of the steel cor
poration.
CAPTAIN Willard Wade and Captain
Willard Wade, who are indistingulsh-
able twins, and who are masters OF two
big twin four-masted schooners, are IN
port at Baltimore with their vessels for
the first time since they have been on
the c asst. But few men among the
associ, ties of the captains in that city are
able to tell one from the other, while
their vessels arc also duplicates and can
only be distinguished when person Is
sufficiently close to them to read their
names.
The Pittsburg Post publishes a story
to the effect that fuel famine Is threat
ened for the mills in that district, and
that 80. 900 men may be thrown into en-
forced idleness through the lack OF coal
and coke. The trouble comes from a
scarcity of engines to move the loaded
cars. 1t is reported that on the sidings
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad lead
inc into Pittsburg from the coal and
coke regions there are nearly 5,OOO
loaded cars. Many of these are said to
have been ready for shipment for at
least a week.
William Adams, a well known citizen
of Lincoln county, w. Va, died yester-
dav from an assassin's bullet. lie was
crossing Mud river in small craft near
his home. twenty miles south, when a
bullet was fired from the willows along
the shore and he fell forward and soon
expired. There is not the slightest clew
to the assassin's identity. Adams was
quite prominent recently in Lincoln
county politics, and it is thought by
some that this may have been the cause
of the dastardly deed. He was 40 years
/ old, married and quite wealthy
After an unexplained absence of over
two months. Miss Louisa G. Nash, the
Washington school teacher, who disap-
peared from her home June 2, has re-
turned. and is now believed to be resid-
! ing at 1413 Fifth street northwest, that
city. Miss Nash was at this house last
night and is said to have been there two
days. While it is admitted by Der fami-
w that she has returned, no explanation
Is vouchsafed as to why she left home OF
where she spent the period of her alb
sence. Miss Nash is thirty-tive years
old and has been a teacher in the public
schools Of the District for the past
fifteen years.
From official figures given out in Wash
ington Yesterday setting forth the exact
sum of money appropriated at the recent
session of Congress, it appears, in the
light of estimates made by the Treasury
Department, that this government at the
end of present fiscal year will be con-
fronted with an apparent deficit amount
ing in round numbers to 1923, SO, 81.
Congress at its recent session appropriated
the enormous amount of 81, OG3, 335, 96l
30 Thus it is shown that the repub-
lican Congress is fairly over the first halt
of the road to the two-billion-dollar
mark. The expenditure Of this sum is
far in excess of the revenues to be de-
rived during the year, and the result
NAV be bond issue.