Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Twenty thousand people on Franklin
Field, Philadelphia, on Saturday saw
the Army football team defeat the Navy
by score of % to 8.
Four men were killed and three fatally
and others seriously hurt in a gas ex-
plosion in the Luke Fiddler colliery, in
Shamokin, Pa, on Saturday.
The Mad Mullah of Somaliland has
sent defiant message to the British,
threatening to whip them whenever
they were ready to risk second defeat.
William H. Murray, who had lived
for more than decade under the name
of Howard at Dunlap, Tenn, has been
arrested for a murder committed in ILL
nois % years ago.
Generals ,vergas-Santos and Soto, two
of the foremost leaders of the Colombian
revolution, have surrendered, thus, it Is
claimed. completing the pacifcation Of
the entire country.
Fire of unknown origin on Saturday
evening damaged the New Castle county,
DEL. workhouse to such an extent
that it will have to be almost completely
rebuilt The 165 prisoners in the
institution were gotten out without injury.
In runaway in Philadelphia on Sat
urday evening, James B. Markoe, a
banker and prominent society man, was
thrown from carriage and killed, and
two Others were injured, one probably
fatally. The accident was the climax OF
day of enjoyment, starting at the Army
and Navy football game.
General Dewet's book on the Boer
war, just issued in London, is remark
able work, in which the great fighter
critcises both Boer and Briton, defends
General Butler, gives Generals Roberts
and Kitchener but little praise, and
charges that many of the burghers proved
false to their own colors.
Judge Parlange, in the United States
Circuit Court, at New Orleans Saturday,
handed down a decision in the cases OF
the linemen of the Cumberland Tele-
phone Company, who have been on trial
for contempt in connection with the re,
cent strike in that city. Six were found
guilty and given heavy sentences.
The British Government is trying to
locate gold bars worth $3.50, 600 which
ale supposed to have been taken to
Germany from South Africa, where they
had been concealed. 1t is said thai
General Botha demanded from DIR.
Leyds that %, 500, 600 gold held by DIR.
Leyds and Mr.. Kruger be turned over
to the Boer people, but the demand was
refused.
Comptroller of the Currency Ridgely
saws in his annual report that individual
deposits with national banks the last
fiscal year were SO, 200, 27S, S9S.9S, e.
ceeding all previous records. He sug'
gests as solution of the currency
question a bill permitting the banks to
issue limited amount of uncovered
notes, on which there shall be tax
ranging according to the size of the
issue.
A force of Venezuelan government
troops numbering 100, under Generals
Yalutini and Olivares, reoccupied BARGE
Iona on the morning of November 70.
The revoutionists, commanded by Gen.
Pabla Guzman and General Rolando,
who joined them last week, with only
$50 men. abandoned the city before the
arrival of the government forces, taking
with them the leading prisoners whom
they captured some time ago.
A Chicago and Baltimore express train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway,
east-bound, ran into an open switch at
Carbon, Pa, seven miles east of Youngs-
town, Ohio, early yesterday morning,
and collided head-on with freight train.
The engineer of the passenger train was
killed. and several others of the crew
more or less injured. Several Congress
men on their way to Washington were
on the train. No passengers were hurt.
Congress reassembled today. The
only measure on the Senate programme
for the week is the Oklahoma-Arizona-
New Mexico Statehood bill. 1t Is ex-
pected the Senate will adjourn Thursday
until Monday. In the House a number
of bills affecting the trusts and the tariff
will be introduced, and appropriation
bills will be reported as speedily as the
committee can draft them. It's thought
the bill making an appropriation for the
anthracite strike arbitration commission
will be passed during the week.