Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-09-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Soldiers killed five peasants in quellirg
a strike at Candida, Italy, Monday.
A notable funeral was given Prof.
Rudolf virchow in Berlin yesterday.
1t is rumored in Haiti that Admiral
KilIick persisted on his sunken gunboat
Crete-a-Pierrot.
The st. Leger stakes, run at Don
caster, Eng, today, was won by K. ,
Siever's Sceptre>
By the capture of Aqua Dulce the
Colombian insurgents made prisoners oil
3, 900 Government troops.
The alleged st. Louis bribetakers
combine is said to have been bound by
an oath whose penalty was death.
Colorado democrats, in State conyen-
ton at Denver, yesterday heartily
cheered Hon. William J. Bryan's
name.
The New York court has restored
Sl40. 900 to creditors of "25O per cent
Miller" head of the notorious Franklin
syndicate.
The convention of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen yesterday accept
ed the resignation Of Grand Master T..
7. Sargent.
Patrick A. McHugh member OF
the British Parliament, has been released
from Sligo Jail after serving term Tor
contempt Of court
Representative Oscar ". Underwood,
II the Birmingham district of Alabama,
has been renominated for Congress,
practically without opposition.
George Riley, who on Monday shot
and killed North Fox, his father-ln-law'
at Ruiiner's distillery, in Page county,
has been captured by Sheriff Rosser
Rev. Mat Lent, pastor of the Luthe-
ran Church at Sheperdstown, w. Va,
was drowned in the Potomac yesterday
while teaching his daughter to swim
The army manoeuyres in Germany
began yesterday, the advantage at the
close of the day resting with the Reds,
supposed to represent Russian army OF
invasion.
Rev. Maurice Wilson, who in fit OF
religious excitment cut his wiie's throat
with razor in Wayne county, West
Virginia, has been found in an exhausted
condition.
Rear Admiral Bradford declared as a
result of recent investigations made by
the Bureau of Equipment that none OF
the existing systems of wireless tele-
graphy is reliable.
William Allen Butler, one of the
foremost lawyers of his time and an
author of note, died suddenly from
acute gastritis at his home, Round Oak,
in Yonkers, n. Y, last night
Oriental advices received at Victoria,
B. c., tell of the drowning Of more than
5000 persons by the overflow OF tn.
West river in China. Overilows and
tidal waves also caused heavy loss of life
and property in Formosa.
An influential Dutch newspaper a pro-
pos of rumors of an alliance between
Holland and Germany declares it would
be better to lose the Dutch colonies than
make an alliance with another power
at the cost of independence
The Massachusetts, democracy will
stand squarely on the Kansas City plat
/ form this fall. The executive committee
Of the democratic State committee has
named Hon. George Fred Williams as
chairman of the convention committee
on resolutions.
The volcano on Stromboli Island is in
full eruption and is throwing up great
columns of fire and torrents Of stone.
The island is shrouded in smoke.
Mount Vesuvius is showing signs OF
activity. Stromboli is the northernmost
of the Lipari Islands, in the Mediter-
ranean, off the north coast Of Sicily.
Democrats of South Carolina in the
second primary finally determined upon
their candidates for United States senator,
governor and other state officers. Re
ports so far show Asbcrry C. Latimer
leading Evans for the Senate by 10000;
and d. c. Hayward leading Talbert for
governor by 1000. Both certainly are
elected.
\ dispatch from Rome says the ques-
ton of dividing several Of the larger
American dioceses is engaging the per-
sonal attention of the project of the
propaganda, Crlinal Gotti. 1t is be-
ieyed that ere long the existing
dioceses and archdiocese, numbering
about SO, will be recognized so as to in
crease the number to 100