Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Lord Roberts has practically decided
to visit the United States in 1903.
The National Rifles, of Washington,
have disbanded as an active military
company.
The foreign consuls in Haiti have
practically brought about the end OF the
revolution there.
It is believed in New York that j.
Pierpont Morgan will head the syndi-
cate which will build a yacht to defend
the new cup against the Shamrock Ill.
A dispatch from St. Thomas states
that the people of the Danish West In
dies are now practically all in favor of
the sale of the islands to the United
States.
Asa result of an attmept to fill the
conditions of wager that he could drink
sixteen glasses of gin in rapid succession,
Joseph Kosinski, Polish laborer, is
dead at his home, in Baltimore.
Advices from Port au Prince are to
the effect that General Firnin, the revo-
lutionary leader, has evacuated Con
aives, with over 300 of his followers. lie
has left on the steamer Adirondack for
the island Of lnagua.
The Boar generals, now in Berlin, are
sorry they did not first canvass the United
States instead of Europe for money. The
ttll collections in Germany are s67, oOO'
The Beers have declined to encourge
any anti-British demonstration.
The United States Packing Company,
which is understood to be the beef COM
b;ne was Incorporated in Trenton, n. j.,
Yesterday with an authorized capital OF
81. 600. 900. II is understood that this
amount will be subsequently increased to
probably $500, 900, 900.
Rev. DIR. Roland Cotton Smith, of
Northampton, Mass, has accepted the
call to st. Johns Episcopal Church, OF
Washington, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Rev. DIR. Alexan-
dria Mackay-Smith, the present bishop
coadiutor of the diocese of Pennsylvania.
Gen. Perlomo has notified the foreign
consuls at Panama that he had assumed
the functions of supreme commander OF
Colombian forces on the isthmus, as well
as those of the minister OF State. The
revolution in the republic has fallen to
pieces and only few insurgents are
left.
At Longford, Kan, Thursday night
200 men and women met and smashed
saloon and spilled several barrels OF
liquor. The mob met in the country,
and lust as the moon was in total eclipse
marched into town and battered down
the doors and destroyed the fixtures In
the saloon.
Uncle John Henry Wilson, aged lO2,
the oldest war veteran in Virginia, for
% years an invalid, and for 80 years a
pensioner of the Government, died
Thursday night at his home built over
20 years ago at Finney's Siding, Va,
East of Whitesburg, Ky. Uncle John
had nineteen living children, four dead,
and an even one thousand descendants.
A dispatch from Constantinople to the
London Daily Mail says it is now stated
in palace circles that the Car, in tele-
graphing his thanks to the Sultan for
the cordial reception given Grand Duke
Nicholas on the occasion of his recent
visit there, repeated his urgent invita-
ton for the Sublime Porte to renew the
Unkiar Skelossi treaty Of 1888, which |
provided for an offensive and defensive
alliance between Russia and Turkey. |
Russia is still attemptingto arrange with
Turkey for two coaling stations, one on
the Black Sea, near Constantinople, and
the other on the coast of Smyrna. Moth
ing seems to be settled yet.