Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS Or THE DAY.
The statement of the London Board OF
Trade for June shows decreases OF Fl,
O45 700 about So, 22S, 500 in imports
and FL, 1872, 900 (about $500, OOV IN
exports.
William Clark, the thread manutac-
turer, died yesterday in England. MI
Clark was one of the largest manuiactu-
rers of thread in the world
The School Board of Newport X. l.,
has elected for the first time member
of the negro race as teacher in the pup
lie schools. The young woman chosen Is
Iouise Van Horne, daughter Rev.
Mahlon Van Horne, United States Consul
at St Thomas. She is recommended to
the Board as highly educated and has
had experience in teaching in Texas
Mr.. Charles T. Snyder Of Washington
was Yesterday committed to St. Elizabeth
Hospital for the Insane for treatment.
He was taken into custody some time ago
while wandering about the streets in the
,;obborhood of Vermont Avenue
Church He informed the policeman
who took him in charge that he had IN
vented a lamp which would light him
to heaven, and that he was then on
his way.
The Boersenhales, of Hamburg,
prints dispatch from St. Petersburg,
stating that the Standard Oil Company
and the Russian Oil Company have
signed a contract dividing the British
market, two-thirds going to the Stand
ard and one-third to the Russian COM
pany. The correspondent of the Boer-
senhalles says that similar contracts III
connection with other countries are be-
ING arranged and he assumes that ter
many will be partitioned.
During AN attack of melancholia last
night Miss Rhoda 5. Richie hanged
herself in her room at the Government
Hospital for the Insane, at Anacostia
where she had been patient since Apn
20 last. She was about AZ years OF age
and a victim of what physicians term thu
aqitated form of melancholia. Mis-
Richie was sister of Miss Ellie j.
Richie and of John p. Richie, OF thu
Government Printing Office, both living
at Brightwood Park.
Deputy United States Marshal DAME
w. Cunningham went up Louis creek
w. Va, on Saturday to serve Judg
Keller's Injunction on the miners of tn
Blume Coal Company. He was met b.
crowd of marching miners, among then
Constable Shaver, of the Winona dis
trict, VINO Nrrosted Mr.. Cunningham TO
| disorderly conduct. Mr. Cunningham
, then. on his authority as United State
deputy marshal, arrested the constable
the marching party and later the justic
of the peace who issued the warrant TO
his arrest, all for contempt of the Unite
States court.
News has just reached Charleston, W
Va, of a desperate encounter betweel
the Hendricks and Jarrold familie
which occurred in Jarold's valley
! Boone county, Ky. As result Peter +
! Hendricks, postmaster at Orange
r Boone county, and Orphea Jarrold wer
, fatally wounded, and several Others re
ceiyed serious injuries. The fight too
place near Presbyterian church in Jan
rold's valley. Five of the Hendrick
f family and four of the JarrOlds were com
batants, and pistols, knives, stones an
clubs were the weapons with whic
they strove to settle the family feu
which has divided them for years. tn
locality is 40 miles removed from rail
road and telegraph. No arrests hay
been made so far as is known.
An effort was made yesterday mornin
to assassinate Thomas Cook, son @
) Senator William Cook, of Wyomin
county, w. Va. Mr. Cook, who IS EN-
' ployed in the territory along Baker
creek as bookkeeper by Cincinnati
: lumber concern, was riding to the tim
Der camp on horseback, when sewers
shots rang out from a nearby woodland
5 He reeled in his saddle when bulle
| struck him in the breast, but THROWN
! his arms around the animals neck, h
: nut spurs to the steed and rode half
mile before he fell. He was near
I farmers house and was taken in. MI
+ Cook. who generally carries the none
2 to nav the hundreds of laborers in tn
! camps, was probably shot by robbel
The bullet came out near the shouldt
blade. Little hope for his recovery
entertained.
To BE CROWNED IN AUGUsT.-Kin
, Edward is still doing well. The onl
, medical bulletin issued yesterday was
1Oa m. 1t said: "The king had min
hours of natural sleep. His progress col
, tinues to be uninterrupted. The woun
i is discharging freely and is less paint
+, to dress" King Edward will be crown
ed between August / and August Il
, His recovery has been so rapid and salts
+, factory that this decision has been made
|, The pageant through the streets and tn
ceremony at Westminster Abbey Will b
, much curtailed from the original plan
, The royal couple will drive from Buck
! ingham Palace to the Abbey throug
the mall to Whitehall and thence to tn
Abbey, the same route as taken at tn
opening of Parliament. In the Hous
Of Commons yesterday afternoon, reply
, ing to a question on the subject of tn
: coronation stands, the First commits
sioner of Works, A. Akers-Douglas, sal
r it was not proposed to remove them, a
/, it was hoped the stands would still be re
quired for the purpose for which the