Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Upon her arrival in New York from
England yesterday May Irwin announced
her retirement from the stage.
Ernst RUNNER, a German inventor,
has succeeded in telephoning more than
four miles with "a wireless apparatus.
: A gambling syndicate proposes TO es-
tablish a Monte Carlo at Saratoga, with
Lord Rosslyn, the English system player,
as star attraction.
John Wise, negro, who last We'd
nesday assaulted Mrs. John Smith,
Young white woman near Pembroke, Ga,
was lynched Sunday night.
The report that the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad Company may absorb the
Louisville and Nashville is denied by }.
p. Morgan & Co. in New York.
/. II. r. Nyce, extradited from
Mexico to Philadelphia, where he is
accused of forging title deeds, was COM
mittcd to the county prison for trial.
A terrific thunder and lightning storm,
with a heavy rain, visited Pittsburg,
Pa, and vicinity last evening causing
three deaths and much damage to
property.
According to present indications very
few. if any, of the national guard Or
carnations of the various States Will
participate in the proposed extensive
manoeuvers of the regular army at Fort
Riley. Kan, the latter part OF Septem-
ber.
A. NJ. Rothschild, until two months
ago the head of the Chicago firm OF A.
NJ. Rothschild a. Co., committed suicide
Yesterday by shooting himself in the
head. the wound causing almost instant
death. Acute insomOnia, which prob
ably caused temporary insanity, IS said
to be responsible for the deed.
A dispatch from Manila says that a
party of engineers commanded by Lieu
tenant Brown, encamped at Matalang
river. was attacked by Moros at mid
night on Friday. The attack was re-
pulsed without loss to the Americans.
Three Moros were killed. II is said that
the Sultan of Nauli personally led the
attack. thinking the American camp was
without sentries.
William Snively, an aged resident OF
Shady Grove, Pa, has been a sufferer
with rheumatism for long time and
lost the use of his arms. One day re-
Gently some men were hiying swarm
of bees. and they settled on the old man
and stung him sorely. When the swell
ling from the stings disappeared the
rheumatic pains and stiffness also left,
and the old gentleman can now do as
niue h work as before afflicted with the
malady.
Oriental adviccs describe an appalling
epidemic of suicides of young women IN
Southern China. The usual method Is
for six or eight girls to tie themselves to-
gether and deliberately walk into deep
river. Six hundred girls have committed
suicide in this manner. There was a
dearth of rain for months, despite daily
prayers. Many girls believed the gods
had forsaken them and therefore ended
their existence. The famine in Hainan
has caused girls to be sold into slavery.
Many sought death in the manner de-
scribed rather than become slaves.
While on a Birmingham, Ala, street
car under arrest, George Leonard, a
brick mason, was shot and killed last
night by Hollins b. Parrish, a proml-
nent young lawyer, whose father is pre-
siding elder of the Tuscaloosa district OF
the Methodist conference. The difficulty
arose over Parrish brushing against
Leonard. The men began cursing, and
a policeman arrested Leonard. As the
policeman was taking him from the car
Parrish reached under the policeman
arm and fired, the bullet passing through
Leonard's heart, death resulting instant
". Parrish was placed in Jail.
1t is said in Paris that Sarah Bern
hardt has lately been giving concern
to her intimate friends on account of
her growing melancholia since her re-
turn from London. She is now at her
country place, Belle Isle, on the north
coast and shows a morbid disposition
for solitary brooding. All food is distaste-
full to her and she is constantly saying
~ am an old, played out woman. My
DAYS are over. 1t would be merciful IT
death would spare me the bitterness of
conscious decrepitudc." Her attendants
never relax their watch, Jest she should
attempt suicide in fit of dependency.