Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In New York, yesterday all grades OF
refined sugar were advanced ten points
A dispatch from Bucharest says The
UNIVERSAL states that the steamer Bosnia
sank in gale ON Tuesday in the Black
Sea. Her crew and passengers, number
ing $50, we're drowned.
Professor Wiley, of the Agricultural
Department will experiment on EN-
ployees who have volunteered to test
the effect on health of chemicals used Tor
preserving meat intended for export.
II is understood that the Rt. Rev.
John Jansen, Bishop of Belleville, ILL.,,
has resigned his see and made apPiic;a-
ton to be admitted as a monk OF the
Beuedictine order. His request has not
as vet been granted, but should he per-
sist in his application the desired per-
mission will be given. This would open
vacancy to which Bishop Conaty, OF
the Catholic University, might be trans
ferred.
News reached Dallas Texas, last night
that powder magazine at the village OF
Langley-Spur, Indian Territory, near
the Texas line on the st. Louis and san
Francisco Railway, exploded yesterday
evening, totally wrecking the village.
Not house was left standing. Eleven
persons were injured, some of them dan
gerously. The powder magazine was
connected with extensive stone quarries.
]. Ogden Armour and :. |. Valen-
tine, the president of the Armour Grain
Company, caught Chicago Board OF Trade
spectators mapping yesterday and there
by added ,,robabi, ~ Tho "ois hbofhoou
ofsl50. 900 to the credit side of the firm
books. Armour unloaded about 3, 900.
600 bushels of his long May line OF wheat
between II cents and 77s cents, with
probably an average profit of four cents
a bushel.
The London Chronicle, recognizing
the truth of the declaration of the Presl-
dent of the United States, that the
United States would as soon abandon
Alaska as the Philippines, says it hopes
the Filipinos will be content with the
amount of individual liberty that
American rule, according to the Presi-
dent. has brought them. Gree Cuba, "
the paper adds, ''is somewhat doubtful
as to the benefit of exchanging the easy
yoke of Spanish misrule for the bit Of
the American fnancier."
A iury in Judge Spencer's court in
St. Louis yesterday awarded Jacob Ernst
81, 900 damages against Dr. Amar
Ravold, formerly city bacteriologist, fol
the death of his daughter, May Ernst
who died from tetanus after having beer
inoculated with diphtheria anti-toxir
provided by the city. Nine other CASES
are pending, in which damages are
demanded aggregating 500 The
jury held that DR.. Ravold alone wa
responsible for the death of the child.
A special from Bluefeld says due
with revolvers was fought at the mining
town of Nauagluck, Mineral county
w. Va, Wednesday night between
]. NJ. Lawson and John Walla, of tina
community. The men had been enemies
for several years, and last night wher
they met both drew revolyers and began
firing. Eight shots were fired, two o
which took effect in Lawson's groin anC
arm. Three bullets struck Walla, two
of them passing through his body, an'
third piercing his neck. 1t is no
believed Lawson will die, but Walla's
wounds are fatal.
At the Capitol in Washington yester
day the table of the ways and means
committee, on which were framed meas
ures known as the Wilson, Mckinley
and Dingley tariff bills, became thu
property of Virginian, said to be a sport
ing man, for the modest sum of $40. A
an auction sale of the furniture of thu
ways and means room, which is nov
being reftted, the table was first bid il
for So. Immediately afterward the Vir
ginian bought it for so, and it is nov
on its way to his State. The highbacl
chairs on which the members of the
committee sat for years discussing ant
framing important bills brought almos
as much as the long table, all the wa,
from SO. 80 to 50 being paid for them.