Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NE w - UT Il III Dh l.
General Juneau is marching on the
Haitien capital.
President Loubet has signed the de-
cree for closing the unauthorized re-
ligious establishments in Paris.
Minister Conger is informed that 300
or 400 Chinese rioters have been killed
in Sze-Chuen province and quiet
restored
Two hundred revolutionists and ~
Government troops are reported killed
or wounded in a battle at Aqua Dulce,
Colombia.
There is a plan to boycott the broker
age firm of Waite, Thorburn d Go. IN
Chicago that defaulted on July oats and
carried the case to court.
At o'clock yesterday morning the
wife of Senator Pritchard died at Ashe-
Vile. n. c.. following a critical opera
ton performed during the day.
j. b. Pioda, Swiss minister to the
United States, has been appointed
minister to Italy. DR.. c. ID. Bourcart,
who was appointed to succeed Mr.. Pioda
at Washington, declined the appoint
ment.
Bv his own admission Willard {.
VanD erlip, a prominent Boston lawyer,
who has had for years the care OF sey-
eral estates, is guilty of larceny and Il
short in his accounts between one and
two hundred thousand dollars.
Louis Hoffman, - years old, a
widower. committed suicide Thursday
night by hanging himself in his little
room in New York On the wash
stand Hoffman had arranged all his
earthly possessions-an old pocketbook-
in which was found a pawntcket for
zone broken pin, 25c.," matchbox
and a penknife.
The Rome Osservatore Romano, the
Vatican organ. reproduces an interview
with Right Rev. Thomas O'Gorman,
Bishop of Sioux Falls, ;. d., concerning
the Taft negotiations. The Rome news
paper quotes the Bishop rs saying that
those negotiations were happily ended,
and adds "The gift of the Pope to the
President is proof that all was concluded
according to the desires Of the Vatican"
Andrew J. Bailey, well-known
young Chester man, was killed near
Reidsville, n. c., Thursday night by
Southern express train. Heis supposed
to have been asleep on the track. Bal
ley was twenty-one years old and was
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. George Bailey.
lie was a single man, and ran until re-
Gently as fireman Oh the Atlantic Coast
Line.
Warren Johnson and Joseph Bordges,
prominent young men of Salinas, CAL,
were shot and fatally wounded there
Yesterday by q woman. The woman
then attempted to commit suicide, but
was prevented and placed under arrest.
Johnson received two bullets in the
abdomen and Bordges was shot in the
back, the ball piercing the right lung.
The shooting is believed to have followed
a quarrel.
During severe electric storm at
Troy. H., Thursday afternoon cross
shaped fissure was formed in the ground
near the school building. One arm Of
the break is 40 feet long and about Il
inches wide and the other 20 feet long
and 6 inches wide. Where the arms
meet there is hole , feet il diameter,
and line $50 feet long weighted with
lead did not touch bottom. The theory
is advanced that a bolt of lightning en-
tered the ground, yet those in the
vicinity assert that no unusual bolt Of
lightning was noticed during the storm.
Halle Eminie Riyes, the authoress, is
the heroine of a fight with large fish in
the Delaware river, just below Trenton,
n. j., which occurred late Monday, aud
has only just leaked out Miss Rives
essayed canoe trip on the Delaware
river to Cochran Island between Tren-
ton and BOrdentOwn. As she nearcd
the north end of Cochran Island,
big fish leaped from the water
and landed in the canoe. The fish,
gasping for breath, jumped up into Miss
Riyes's lap, and his mouth closed over
her left hand. She hit him with her
canoe paddle, but in doing so upset the
boat, freeing herself from the fish.
Miss Riyes cannot swim, but the cur
rent of the river carried her and her
canoe to the shore.