Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-14
NEWS or THE DAY.

Illinois unions have voted against a
general strike of coal miners.
Foreigners are fleeing to Trinidad from
the renewed terrors of the Venezuelan
revolution.
II is said that King Leopold of Bel
GUM is contemplating a visit to the
United States.
The number of cases ofinsanity report
ed to the District of Columbia officials IS
increasing at an alarming rate.
Senator Tillman says he will vigorously
oppose the appointment of Senator Nc
Laurin to any Judicial position.
Residents of Panama are anxious that
no obstacles be put in the way of the
United States in the preliminary ar
rangements for the canal.
The Susquehanna Electric Light and
Power Company is making plans to har-
ness that river and utilize its enormous
energy for furnishing light and power to
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington,
Chester and York, Pa.
About 7:90 yesterday evening at
Thacker, Mingo county, w. Va, James
woodward, of Hurricane, w. Va, and
Henry Neal, Of Central City, w. Va,
had words about woman, and Neal
literally riddled woodward with bullets.
Rev. Henry S. Nagengast, rector of St.
Anthony's Catholic Church at Garden
yille- near Baltimore, has procured a
patent on a device to protect Catholic
cIergymen and COMMITMENTS from fire
and dripping wax in the ceremony OF
blessing Threats.
1t is not unlikely that international
complications may ensue between the
United States and Japan as the result OF
local people taking possession of Mar
Gus Island, a small guan0 island lying
about 2, 500 miles west of Honolulu and
about 1000 miles southeast of foko-
hama
Charles Mccormick, aged thirty-eight
years, is locked up in Trenton, n. D.,
charged with shooting seventeen-year-
old Lille Lane yesterday afternoon at
Yardville, y. j., about six miles south
of Trenton. The shooting was the re-
suit of the girls refusal to receive atten-
ton from Mccormick.
1t is reported that the Southern Rail
way has secured or will secure the Ohio
River and Charleston Railroad and will
extend it from Huntdale, n. c., to
Marion, n. c., to connect with the main
line between Asheyille and Salisbury, in
order to have coal road nearer its
Washington and Carolina end without the
long haul from the JellicO. district
through to Knoxville.
Colonel Eccles Cuthbert, one Of the
best-known newspaper men in the coun-
try, who had been correspondent at
Washington for number of out-of-
town papers for many years past, died at
Garfield Memorial Hospital in that city
about five O'CLOCK yesterday afternoon.
He had been affected with heart trouble
for some years and had been compelled
to relinquish his duties several times
during that period
Florence Burns, the remarkable young
woman who was inthe Toombs only few
months ago charged with the murder OF
her admirer. Walter :. Brooks, and was
released. has returned to her home in
New York but is Eery much changed.
She is no longer the high-strung, pert
young woman when she was accused of
murder. She has put all gay life aside
and she sees nobody at her home except
few most intimate friends.
Sir Liang Chen, formerly secretary to
Minister Chang Yen Huang, who was
beheaded in 1900 after being exiled to
Turkestan, has been appointed minister
to the United States to succeed WI Ting
fang. Sir Liang Chen was one of l2O
Chinese students sent to the United
States BY the imperial Chinese govern
ment to be educated and TO secure a
knowledge of American affairs.
Judge Shaw, of Greensboro, n. c.,
yesterday issued the first bench warrant
ever known in the State for the arrest
of a member of Il party engaged in Il
lynching. The accused was arrested in
Salisbury and placed in Jail without bail.
He was charged with murder Three
weeks ago two negro boys were lynched
at that place for the murder of white
woman, and Gov. AycOck offered re-
wards aggregating $50, 900 for the ar
rest and conviction of the participants.
Funeral services over the remains of
the late Natl. c. Mckay were conducted
Yesterday by Rev. j. G.. Butler. Only
few friends were present besides the
members of the family. Mrs. Jessie Pope
Mckay, the divorced wife of the dead
man, was not present, although she was
in the city for the purpose of contesting
the will. She thinks she can prove that
the Washington millionaire hotel man
loved her, and was a victim Of the wiles
of the young women TO whom he was
married recently. She promises some
sensational disclosures when the case
comes up. ~
A dispatch to the London Times from
Montevideo says the government has
decreed the Punishment Of Senators
DOminguez and Mendoza and arrested
General Easteran and other officers,
alleging the discovery of plot to as
sassinate President Cuestas, Of Uruguay.
The Senate has protested against this
violation of its impurities. The plot is
not generally considered to be serious,
but public opinion is alarmed by the
violent course President Cuestas is taking,
He has provoked an open conflict with
both the leO1slative and judicial power.