Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Boxers are pouring into Mongolia
and new uprising is feared.
The new battleship Maine left Phila-
delphia yesterday for her builders trial.
Senator F. NJ. Cockrell, of Missouri,
onposes the agitation for the annexation
of Cuba.
Henry Gutman, of New York, died of
hydrophobla at Long Branch, n. j.,
yesterday.
William S. Hartley, editor of the
New York Clipper, died at Atlantic
City last night
J. P. Morgan is said to be about to es-
tahlish an Antwerp-Mediterranean
steamship service.
The strike of freight handlers in Chi
cago has been settled, new wage scale
! eng agreed upon.
Second Lieut.. Oscar G. Monday, Of
the Philippine scouts died Monday in the
Philippines of cholera.
Joseph G. Mariner, of Philadelphia,
committed suicide at Smyrna, Del, yes
terday on account of financial difficulties.
Tremendous explosions have occurred
in the volcanic region of New Zealand
and one geyser Is spouting from 800 to
900 feet high.
Catherine Gordon, one Of the little
twin daughters of Mrs. Basil b. Gordon,
died yesterday at Saranac Lake, N. y,
from the effect of burns.
Charles NJ. Schwab, in an answer
filed in the steel trust suit at Newark,
n. j., states that he values the assets
of the corporation at 81 400, POI, 600.
The populist and democratic Congress
sional conventions of the Third Kansas
district have renominated Hon. A. M.
Jackson. Jackson is the only fusion
Congressman from Kansas.
William Upper and George Young
we're instantly killed by lightning near
Coatesyille, Pa, yesterday. Tipper's
little daughter who was sitting in her
fathers lap at the time, escaped unin-
jured, but her shoes and clothes were
torn Off
In riot between whites and blacks
at Orangeburg, $. c., in which knives
and pistols were freely used Isaac
Smith, colored was killed and several
others wounded. 1t is said the negro
was a non-combatant The exact cause
of the trouble is not known.
The Navy Department has rejected
the group of armor plate from the Car
negie factory which failed to stand the
required tests at Indian Head last week.
The group is small one, consisting of
about 800 tons of casemate armor for the
battleship Missouri.
Several employees of the John Turn
bull, jr., Furniture Company, Baltimore,
were injured by the crashing in of the
roof yesterday. A trestle under con-
struction on the roof of the Riddlemoser
building, on Fayette street, was toppled
over by the wind and caused the wreck.
Tremendous damage and it is thought
great loss of life were caused by tor
nado which last night swept the north
eastern portion of North Dakota.
Three towns, according to reports, were
totally wiped out. Railroad and tele-
graph lines are wrecked and there is
no communication with the section of
the State where the most serions de-
VISITATION is thought to have been
worked.
The famous John w. Gates corner in
July corn cameNto an abrupt termina-
ton in Chicago yesterday, when it be-
came known that shorts to the extent,
of good many million bushels, had eff
fected private settlements with Harris,
Gates g. Co., and that the deal was at
an end so FAR as the steel magnate was
concerned The July price responded
70 the settlementby quick drop of l53c
10 6ote. Later it recovered a frac-
ton and closed at 65s, subsequently,
the price of the cash article.
A party composed of Ralph Sweeney
aged 40; his son Harold, aged 10; Josenb
Seebert and Walter D. Escher, all of
Columbia, Pa, were fishing in the Sus.
quehanna river yesterday, when their
boat drifted in the rapids near Chickies
Rock. Striking a rock the boat upset
and the entire party was thrown into
the water. Sssbert and Escher managed