Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Bradstreet's review shows the railway
situation the best in years and the out
! )ok in iron bright.
General Saazar wires from Panama
thot the battle at Aqua Dulce Is being
fought desperately.
At Columbus Dan Patch, the PAGER
broke the record of his sire, Joe
Patchen, by going in 2:OO4.
The Gar is said to have promised the
King of Italy his aid in securing re-
ductiOn of European ornaments.
The Kaiser is to send a party OF
Young German mobiles to the United
States to study American methods.
Mount Vernon WOOdberry cotton
mills of New Hartford, Conn, will shut
down and later move to the South.
1t is alleged workmen unearlhed
human bones while making excavations
in the White House basement recently.
The Alabama republican State Exec
utive Committee has adopted aresolution
to ignore colored delegates to State con-
ventiOns.
Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dennis, who was
mysteriously assaulted in Washington
December 10 last, is still in a helpless
condition.
Commercial failures during July were
S25 in number and So, 932, S5l in amount
of liabilities, compared with 697 failures
for 81, O35, 933 in July, 1901.
Excessive drinking among society
women has resulted in the Minnesota
Club of st. Paul refusing to serve
intoxicants to women at the club, except
with meals.
In the third heat of his $50, 900
match race with Lord Derby at Hart
ford on Saturday Boralma, Thomas W.
Lawsons crack trotter, gashed his leg
and was retired.
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan, in an
address on problems of Government
at the Mountain Lake Park Chautauqua,
in Garrett county, Maryland, Saturday,
declared that he would not again seek
TO become the national standard-bearer
of the democratic party.
The democratic State convention,
which meets at Boston in September
will in some manner honor Richard
Olney. Secretary of State under Presi-
dent Cleveland, most probably by res
olution indorsing him for the democratic
nomination for President i'll 1904.
What undoubtedly is the largest
known tree in the world has been dis
covered on the government reservation
far up in the Sierras, in California. Sin
feet from the ground it took line l54
feet eight inches long to encircle the
tree, making it over 81 feet in diameter.
Mystery surrounds the identity of the
hcadless body of man taken from the
surf at Bridgehampton, l.. l., shortly
after part of the cabin Of vessel was
stranded on the shore. 1t is believed
the mans death is connected with the
wreck. but the liiesavers at the MecoX
station have seen no vessel in distress of
the coast.
The disclosure of a disgusting init
macy between a white woman and a
negro man, in the lower end of Fauquicr
county, 50 incensed the community IL
which the discovery was made, that a
party of respectable citizens followed the
negro who had made his escape to Cal
vertOn, where it is presumed he was
waiting for train, and after administer
ing a severe thrashing started the repro
bate elsewhere with chorus of pistol
shots.
Nav Yohe arrived in Paris from Lon
don yesterday in a state of lasstude and
fatigue. She refused to see visitors, cx-
cept a doctor, who attended her for the
injury she sustained by falling when er-
tering her cab in London Saturday. She
had recovered sufficiently, however, to 60
out. Putnam Bradlee Strong, of whom
Miss Yohe is supposed to be in pursuit.
failed to call at the hotel during the day,
although he was seen in the neighbor-
hood
A through freight on the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad was derailed near the
louisiana Mississippi State line Satur-
day night and the engineer and a
brakeman were killed, and the firemen
badly injured. The engine and thirteen
cars were badly wrecked. An investiga-
ton showed that the accident had been
caused by train wrecker, who had re-
moved the bolts of the switch and dug I
out a tie, with the intention, it Is |
thought, of wrecking a passenger train,
and securing rich booty.
It is explained in Paris that the repOr
that an attempt had been made to shoot |
President LOubet arose from an incident |
that occurred while he was walking with
General Faure, General Biquet, governor
of Paris, and Major Lamy, Of the Pres
idents household staff, after a shooting /
party at RambOuillet As the party were /
walking along Major Lamy saw wild
dnck and fired at it, Some of the shot
passed near the President, who skipped
aside. Peasants who saw the incident
were responsible for the story of attempt
ed shooting. 1t is said that some of the
shots bruised the Presidents ankle.
John II. Apple, Union veteran, who
owns a large farm near Little Orleans,
Md, and who some time ago married a
young and pretty woman, who lived
with farmer nearby, but who after
ward ran away with several hundred
dollars of his cash, has just returned
from a trip to New York, where he fol-
lowed his runaway wife, and whom he
found with the aid of detectives. He
states that he also learned that she had
seven husbands liying. including himself. |