Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Reports 10 the war Department shoN
contemplated extensive additions to a.
most all the navies of the world.
The projected great anti-friar demon
stration in Manila, yesterday, which
caused the authorities some anxiety
proved fzzle.
The draft of the commercial treaty
between Great Britain and China has
been cOnditionally accepted by the
Chinese government.
Farmer Steven Clark, Of CORTLAND,
n. Y, yesterday put fly poison on his
bread, thinking it maple sugar, and had
a narrow escIIe from death,
Ninety-one cases of cholera and sixty
deaths from the disease were reported in
Manila, Saturday. There were fifty
three deaths up to noon yesterday.
Captain Willard Herbert Brownson,
commanding the battleship Alabama,
has been selected as the next Superin-
tendent of the Naval Academy at An
napolis.
Alfred Londo, an attendent at Bellevue
Hospital New York, who on Tuesday
last eloped with a female attendant, tried
to commit suicide yesterday because he
had enough of married life.
Filty-two cases of cholera, one of the
victims being being an English woman,
and thirty-eight deaths were reported in
Cairo, Egypt, yesterday. Since July 10
there have been 400 cases and 1888
deaths.
1t is reported that the United States
Mineworkers will try TO secure the inn
parchment of Judge Jackson, of West
Virginir, who restrained them from
holding meetings to induce miners to
quit work,
Two girls, Rose CLAW, aged sixteen,
and Annie CLAW, aged six, were drowned
in Lake Erie, off Cleveland, yesterday
afternoon. Their father, Anton CLAW,
took them out sailing and squall up
set the boat.
George w. Graham shot and seriously
wounded Benjamin Walker, in Baltimore
yesterday, as the result Of feud over
Mrs. Bertha Geisler. Walker lies in a
serious condition at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital and Graham is under arrest.
Mrs. William Gebauer, wife of a we'll
known shoe merchant, of Springfield,
Ohio, was shot yesterday and died with
in an hour, the result of a stray bullet
fired by Homer Seekford, who was in
tenkon shooting Mrs. Fleck, whom he
was following home from church.
Mayor Low, of New York, has in
duced the members of the Board of Al
derman responsible for the hold-up of
the Pennsylvania franchise to consent TO
its passage when it is again introduced.
Even Borough President Cantor is now
said to have been converted in its favor.
With Colts revolver of the large
army patten DR.. Eugene Grissom, once
famous as an alienies and neurOlogist,
sent a bullet through his brain at s
O'Clock yesterday morning while stand
ing on the little front porch of his sons
home, in Washington. He expired in
half an hour.
King Menelik, of Abyssina, convinced
that alcoholic drinks are raising havoc
in his empire, has determined to put a
stop to their importation. He has
served notice throughout his kingdom to
that effect and has appointed a corps of
frontier guards to shoot all who at
tempt to import wines or liquors into
his dominion.
Charles Reyley, aged twenty-five, late
Saturday night shot and killed Miss
Josephine Sheridan, his former sweet
heart, at her home in Springfield, Ill,
and then shot and killed himself.
Jealousy probably prompted the act.
The two had known each other for four
years and up to a month ago had been
engaged TO be married.
An attempt by five men to wreck an
incoming trolley car at the rife range,
short distance north of Rochester, \.
Y, on the Rochester and Irondequot
Railway late last night, resulted in a
rear-end collision, in which seven pas
sengers we're seriously and several others
slightly injured, and two score or more
passengers miraculously escaped.
Mrs. Everett Spence, aged nineteen,