Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Ex- Bank President Charles w. Spald-
ing has been released from Joliet prison.
Seven men we're terribly burned by a
natural gas explosion at Dayton, Ohio,
yesterday.
Jamaica is rapidly becoming con-
verted to the idea of annexation to the
United States.
One powerful system of railroads, 1t Is
believed, will in the near furture cover
the southern territory.
King Edward was yesterday reported
to be able to walk the entire length oil
the deck on the royal yacht without
assistance.
A severe rainstOrm struck Winona,
Mimi. Wednesday evening, accompanied
by a terrific wind Considerable dam
age to property resulted.
Emperor William has pardOned Lieu
tenant Hildebrand, who was sentenced
TO two years imprisonment for killing
Lieutenant Blaskowitz in duel.
Upon her arrival in London yesterday
Nav Yohe declared Captain Strong 5
statement, to the effect that she got the
money raised on the pawned jewelry, to
he a fabrication.
President Mitchell and other officials
of the Mineworkers' Union were made
defendants in Injunction proceedings sued
cut in Charleston, w. Va, by the
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Agency
Company yesterday.
Official returns show that cholera Is
spreading with terrible rapidity through
out Manchuria. The epidemic now
claims hundreds of victims daily, mostly
Chinese, but Russians and other Euro
peans are dying of the disease.
After twice escaping from the hands
of the law, Lee Newton, negro, has
been Iynched in Columbia county
Ark. Newton was caught month ago
in the room of two young ladies belong
ing to a prominent Columbia county
family.
A man signing himself Watson Con-
nell, Minneapolis, Mimi, has written Il
letter threatening to kill J. p. Morgan
on the ground that he is responsible for
the miners strike. The writer also says
that President Baer Of the Reading Is
marked 70 death.
Harry Kneer, the delunct and bank
rupt contractor, has been located IN
Alaska. He fled from York, Pa, about
a month ago leaving behind an accumu-
lation of debts. Kneer reports that II he
should strike a rich vein of gold his
creditors will be taken care OF.
A WATERFRONT northwest of Hermann,
Neb., caused washout on the Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha road
Yesterday. About 1000 feet of track
are washed away. Reports from other
poin indicate that the whole State was
visited by a heavy electrical storm.
The Oyster Bay report that Governor
Odell would, after all, decline renomi-
nation and accept a position offered him
by his friend f. ii. Hartman, is de-
MED by the governor himself, as well as
by Senator Plat. lfre-elected he will,
it is said, be sent to the United States
Senate at the close of his second term.
A dispatch from Pekin says the
viceroy of Szechuan reports that his
troops have killed 800 rebels and one OF
their leaders, near Chentu. The board
of foreign missions believes that this
blow will end the rebellion. One French
and one English gunboat are proceeding
to Chunking at the request of the viceroy
of Szechuan.
George Hambacher, a member of the
Washington police force, was arrested
Yesterday on two charges of housebreak
ing, and at preliminary hearing pleaded
guilty. Besides the two charges on
which he was arraigned there were seven
other similar complaints against Ham
bacher which were certified to the grand
ury, making nine cases in all.
Shocking disclosures of corruption at
the Asylum for the Insane at Kankakee,
ILL.,, are already bearing fruit We'd
nesday Senator Len. Small announced
that thorough investigation would be-
gin Monday, and Yesterday Trustee
William Murphy resigned. Attention
was first drawn to affairs in the asylum
when it became known that two women
patients had given birth to children.
Mayor \. A. Ames, of Minneapolis, |
Baden has decided to resign his office,
the resignation to take effect September
9th. The Mayor has also agreed to
secure the resignation of his brother,
Colonel Fred. w. Ames, superintendent
of police This is the climax Of the |
police corruption scandals which have
agitated that community and occupied |
the grand jury and the courts for two