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

In eastern Galieia Investigators report
that 80, 900 farm laborers starve to death
each year.
1t is believed in New York that j. p.
Morgan q Co. have brought John W..
Gates's Louisville and Nashville stock
The Wyoming democratic State con-
vention yesterday nominated George L.
Beck for governor and Charles +.
Clemens, for Congress.
At New Haven, Ct, the strike of the
400 conductors and motormen of the
Fair Haven and Westville Railroad
Company continues unchanged and the
90-mile system is paralyzed.
At a meeting of the leading demo-
Gratis of the Third Congressional district
of Iowa, yesterday, E. l.. Boies, son of
Ex-Governor Boies, entered the field
against Speaker David b. Henderson in
the coming election.
The w. L. Telegraph wires were yes
terday removed from the Broad Street
station in Philadelphia and those of the
Postal Company put in, the thirty days
notice to leave given the Western Union
by the Pennsylvania Railroad having
expired yesterday.
Priscilla White, aged nine years, of
Morgantown, w. Va, was criminally
assaulted yesterday by an unknown
foreigner, thought by the victim to be
about 20 years old. The crime was
committed in an orchard in a sparsely
settled section of the town.
Contracts were awarded Yesterday Ivy
the Commissioners of the District of Co
lumbia for the removal of the old Chin
ney and other ruins from the power
house site, which has been purchased
for the proposed municipal building.
As soon as the ground has been cleared
it will be placed at the disposal of the
executive committee Of the
Grand Army of the Republic encamp-
ment, which probably will erect large
tent on the site during the gathering of
the veterans.
F. ID. Shoemaker, flour inspector of
the District/of Columbia, has resigned
because he thinks it is useless for him
longer to continue in office. The reasons !
for the resignation are set forth in let
ter sent to Commissioner Mcfarland in |
to a request for the annual re-
port of -four inspections in the District.
He says he has no report 20 render as he /
mas inspected no -four since he received /
notice, through the president of the
Board of Commissioners, that the COM
nissioners had decided to allow the in
'pection of -four 10 be optional for an in
lefnite period.
Henry Lancaster, who killed Chief of
Police Bud Wilmoth at WomelsdOrf, w.
Va, two weeks ago, has been captured
Ifter a desperate chase through the
BlOodhOunds were repeated
y put on and taken off his trail, and all
lopes of his capture were abandoned
Until Wednesday, when the negro was
ound near Montrose, and he was captur-
d there by posse of 20 men yesterday.
large reward was offered for him, dead
r alive. He served several terms in
'rison. a lynching is feared when he
) taken to Elkins.
DR.. Theodore Herzl founder Of the
.ionists movement and head Of the
'alestine Association, and DIR. Wolffson,
resident Of the Jewish colonial trust,
ave returned to Vienna from Constanti-
ople. They report that their confer
noes with representatives of the Sultan
18th reference to the proposed settlement
Iionists in Palestine have been with
ut result In reply to DIR. HerzI
ritten statements on the subject the
ultan expressed sympathy with the
ews in their purposes and named GER
hin concessions which he would grant. !
hese, however, did not meet the re- :
uirements of the Zionists. DIR. Herzl
lys he still has hopes of being able to
)nvince the Porte of the beneficial re-
Its which would result from the settle
Ient Of Jews in Palestine.