Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

will be again postponed.
A United States judge in st. LOUIS
holds saloonkeeper is responsible ior
the death of an inebriated patron follow
ing an accident.
A dispatch says that tornado visited
the Gulf of California last Thursday night,
wrecking and damaging many buildings
in the coast cities.
The gunboat Machias has arrived at
Cape Haitien. Commander McCrea
would not allow the town to be lombard
ed without due notice.
A tremendous ovation was given Cen
erals Delarey and Botha at Stellenbosch
Yesterday, student drawing their car
riages and acting as walters.
Mrs. George Conner, wife of farmer
of Cecil county, Md was killed at her
home by being run over by three horses
with a moving machine yesterday.
The ordinance experts of the army
claim to have produced an explosive
she'll which will penetrate the armor oil
the most heavily protected warships.
1t is expected a ministerial majority
VIII be elected to the next Danish Land
thing, which will mean the sale OF the
West Indian Isles to the United states.
The agitation in connection with the
circular issued by Premier Combes oil
France. with regard to the closing OF the
unauthorized congregational schools mas
considerably abated.
According to dispatches from Chicago,
the American Cigar Company has alb
sorbed its chief rival, the United Cigar
Manufacturing Company, the consider
alton being $40, 0O0, 600.
Efforts made by the United States to
bring about settlement of differences
between Brazil and Bolivia over the dis
puted territory of Acre have not met
with success. and the situation is more
serious than ever.
Mrs. Susie A. Gardner, 62 years old,
of Baltimore, died very suddenly OF an
attack of heart disease last evening at the
home of Mr.. Coleon White, where she
fed following an attack upon her by Mrs.
Laura Meldrumm. half-sister, living
with her. who is said to be demented.
Alexandra Seba was storned to death at
Santa Fe. Yesterday. Luis Romero had
returned home Unexpectedly and found
Seba with his wife, After stoning Seba
to death, Romero and hisrelatives drag
ged the body 800 yards through wire
fences and over stones to the murdered
mans home. Then Romero surrendered.
A special from Tucson, Ariz., says;
driven to desperation by hunger and
thirst, band of 80 Indians, nearly hall
of them women and children, attacked
the Cannon Ranch, near Hermosilla
Saturday and fierce fight followed.
When a patrol Of Mcxican troops came
to the rescue two of the women and five
of the men lay dead.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Shanghai says that the bankers COM
mission has received information that
Great Britain and the United States
have abandoned their attempt to in
duce the other powers to consent tempo
rarily or permanently to accept the
payment of the Boxer indemnity on n
silver instead of gold basis.
The food situation in central and
western Texas is worse. Another
twenty-four hours of rain, covering the
greater part of the territory, has put the
Brazos and Colorado rivers out of banks
in many places and destruction of the
cotton crop in the bottoms seems
certain. The railroads suffered severely
from the terrific rains of Monday night
The steamer Condor, which arrived at
New Orleans yesterday from Puerto
Cortez, Honduras, brought news that
the British government has finally and
officially Withdrawn all claim to any
sovereignty over the bay islands of
Utilla, Ruatan, Bonaca, or Guanaja
Elena, and Barbarat, and formally ac-
knowledged that they belong to the re-
public of Honduras.
There is little hope among those best
informed that the strike in the Pennsyl-
vania coal fields will continue much
longer without bloodshed The pre-
yailing opinion is that there will be a
fatal collision somewhere between the
guards and strikers that will result in
the calling out of the militia and that
mining, if resumed at all, will be re-
sumed under National Guard bayonets.
Louis Oschenbach, of Dorset, Pa, on
the Lizard creek branch of the Lehigh
Valley railroad, was killed by lightning
yesterday evening. He was railway
repair man, and with four other repair
men sat on bench in the West Penn
station while the storm was raging. Osch-
enbach was the middle man. His shoes
were torn from his feet and his body was
turned black by the bolt of lightning.
Oschenbach was 80 years of age and
married. His companions escaped
injury.
The State Department has been in
formed by United States Minister
Squiers at Havana that the lower house
of the Cuban Congress has adopted a
resolution practically regulating the
settlement made by the United States
with the Catholic Church concerning
church property in the island. The
resolution declares that this arrange
ment need not be considered as binding
upon the government of the Cuban re-
public. This action has the effect OF
reopening the church question. The
upper house must, however, adopt the
resolution before its terms can become
effective.
TRIED TO KILL THE PATIENrs.-Jim