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

Pryor of st. Joseph, Mo-, made MS
band play lively airs at his window.
According to reports received : at the
State Department, 1889 Hebrews
emigrated to the United States from
Roumania during the three years ended
June 80.
Saturday will be coronation day, and
the London Exchange will be closed as
will also the Exchanges in New ork'
Baltimore and other large cities IN TINS
country.
Judge John Gray Bynum, who Is Ill
in Greensboro, n. c., is not expected TO
live through the night. He was INJURED
by fall Monday night and his injuries
will probably prove fatal.
An excursion train on the Illinois
Central caught five young ladies on a
high trestle at Dawson Springs, ny,
Yesterday. Two were crushed to death
and the Others, jumping, were probably
fatally injured.
In New York, yesterday, cars were
blocked, railroad trains delayed, roofs
smashed in, parts of the subway made a a
canal, and hundreds of persons drenched
by two storms. one in the morning, the
other at night.
Eli 4. Gage. a son Of ex-Secre;ary OF the
treasury Lyman J. Gage, is wanted by
the Chicago police on charge OF oo-
tanning S25 by means of bogus cheek.
The charge was made and the warrant
sworn out by one Eva Lowery.
Two engineers and many laborers
were killed yesterday afternoon in col
Esion on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
II. Paul Railroad, two miles west OF
Rhodes. Iowa, between a fast freight ana
a work train. 1t is not known how
many were killed.
John Cassidy, Washingtonian,
thrice attempted to end his life near Jes-
sups. Md, Yesterday. He threw him
self in front of two trains and jumped
from bridge, but escaped with only a
few injuries. He could give no plaus-
ible reason for his acts.
William Stein, the mining inspector,
in Shenandoah, Pa, announced tha'
four of the Reading collieries and the
/ Lawrence colliery, belonging to the
Schaefer.estate, of Pottsyille, have been
permanently abandoned at loss o.
$500. 600 each, or a total loss OF ST.
! 500. 600.
Joseph Harper, about GO years Old
was instantly killed by lightning yester'
day while riding horseback along Tho
road near Orrstown, Pa. The horse
was also killed His little grand
daughter, who was riding another horsC
near him, was burned and stunned by
the flash. but not seriously injured.
The Fair Haven and Westville Rail
road Company, operating and control
ling all trolley traffic, local and subur'
han. within Il radius of 10 miles OF New
Haven. Conn, found its entire system
practically tied up yesterday morning
as result of a strike of its 400 con
ductors and motormen.
Leo Wilder, wife, and three children
were burned to death in their country
home near Stockton, CAL, Thursday
night. The fire caught during the night,
presumably from defective fiue. NJ
one went Ia Tie scene, which was mil'
from town, until early yesterday morn
ing. when the remains of the entire fam
ilv. burned to a crisp, were found.
The announcement of the breaking OF
of the engagement of the Archduches IS
Marie Annonciade of Austria and Duke
Siegfried of Bavaria, made Tuesday
was accompanied by statement
emanating from the Bavarian court
that the betrothal was broker
of by agreement of both parties
but it is very well known in court society
that the Archduchess took the first step
4 cloudburst cnveloped Beulah,
small settlement few miles east of Pitts,
burg. Pa, yesterday evening, killing
William McCoOk and causing much
property damage. McCook was driving
through the place when the storm hao
reached its height, and was canght
under falling tree The high wind
and the immense downpour of rain ac-
companying it completely ruined gar
dens and laid waste the entire section.
Twelve boys, son of American and
European merchants and missionary re-
sidents in China, died of ptomainC
poisoning at the China Inland Mission
School. Chez Foo. on July I. One Of
the courses served to the boys and
teachers at the school was chicken pie.
There were several pies cooked and one
of them was evidently bad. a number
of bows were taken i'll afterward and il
was thought that cholera had broken
out in the school, but the ailmenl
turned out to be ptomaine poisoning.
Ike Mcmillan, engineer in charge OF
the merry -go-round at Latta Park, Char
lotte, n. c., which has just created q
big stir in that old town by running in
full blast last Sunday, was yesterday
afternoon struck dead by lightning and
several of his assistants were stunned.
Themen were near the center pole OF the
tent, and Mcmillan, according to one o.
his assistants, had just made use of an
oath while trying to unite knot when
the fatal stroke felled him. Three
others we're stunned by the electrical
discharge, a negro being badly burned.
/ According to information received by
the Vatican, almost all the real estate
belonging to Spanish friars in the
Philippines was sold before American
occupation to syndicates and corpora
tons duly registered and legally recog-