Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Chairman Payne, of the ways and
means committee of the House, says he
thinks tariff revision is not necessary.
A disastrous confagration yesterday
resulted from spark being blown into
pile of cedar at Rat Portage, Ontario.
Six steamboats,, two barges, eleven houses
and $4,000, 900 feet of lumber were
burned.
Charles F. Kelley, former speaker of
the ST. Louis House of Delegates, under
indictment for completely in the munci-
pal scandal, reached New York from
London yesterday. He was arrested in
Philadelphia.
s--A dispatch from Chicago says j.
Pierpont Morgan aided by Barring Bros,
of London, will floaIthe beef merger and
underwrite the necessary 800, 900, 600
of bonds. The deal is to be launched in
January.
Edward F. Croker, chief Of the New
York fire department, who was recently
tried on series of charges was yesterday
declared guilty by Commissioner Sturgis
and was dismissed from the service, the
dismissal to take place on December l.
John L. Sullivan, former champion
heavyweight prize fighter of the world,
filed petition in bankruptcy in the
United States district court in New
York yesterday He said his liabilities
were 80, 63S and his assets $50 worth of
wearing apparel.
After bidding his wife good-by and
waving his hand to his two-year old child,
John Rohlback, the oldest employee of
the Union Traction Company, entered a
cab in front of his home, in Chicago yes
terday pulled down the shade on the
window, placed revolver to his mouth
and killed himself.
G. B. Houston, of Chester, Pa, pro-
prietor of extensive mining operations at
Elkhorn, w. Va, died yesterday at a
hospital in Philadelphia. He was seventy
years old Recently Mr.. Houston went
to Elkhorn to inspect his mines, and
while there was struck by small locomo-
tive and seriously injured.
Suit has been brought against the
American Sugar Refining Company to
prohibit cutting rates on sugar and to
restrain it from engaging in the coffee
business also and to compel the direc-
tors of the company to distribute
among the stockholders a portion of its
undivided profits, which, the bill alleges,
amount to about $50, 900, 000
Prof. j. Scott Clark, of the North
western University, recently made this
statement at the First Congressional
Church of Evanston, ILL.,, ''No man has
a right to bring into the world more
children than he can support, and no
parents, however wealthy, have a right
to bring children into the world and so
train them that by any possibility they
may become dependent on Others"
Gen. Lew Wallace is teriously i'll at
his home near Charlottesville, Ind.
His illness started one week ago with
neuralgia in tooth. The pain was so
great that General Wallace, who has
failed greatly within the last year, is in
very weakened condition. Com
plicated with the neuralgia is a severe
cold which he contracted while out
hunting in the rain, and which it is
feared has affected his lungs. He is
bedridden, and the doctors express
grave fears over the outcome of the i'll
ness on account of the advanced age of
the patient.
The news was received from Tacoma,
Washington, yesterday, announcing the
arrest at Hoonah, Alaska, of four In
dams on charge of Murder in having |
starved to death several tribesmen
whom they suspected Of witchcraft.
The dispatch said the supposed fol-
lowers of witchcrait had been tied to a
tree and compelled to stand for eight
days, in the rain and cold, without food
or drink, until death relieved their suf-
ferings. 1t is said to be the practice of
many of the tribes in Alaska to infict
the death penalty on supposed witches.
the victims are buried alive,
others are tied to a stake on the sea
shore until the tide comes in and
browns them, while in other instances
they are cut to pieces and thrown to the
birds of prey.