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

day.
Russell Sage, who has been threat
ened with pneumonia, is now out Oh
danger
1t is reported that general insurrec-
ton has broken out in dozen distFicn
in Macedonia.
Five men were killed by the explosion
of she'll in the naval arsenal at Spezi',
Italy yesterday.
The Crown Prince of Siam will arrive
in Washington on Saturday and call Oh
President Roosevelt.
The Swiss authorities at Geneva have
ordered out additional troops in view OF
the threatened general strike.
Excited denunciation Of Emperor
Francis Joseph marked the opening oil
the Hungarian Diet yesterday.
1t is semi-ofiicialIy announced that
Emperor William has abandoned the
idea of receiving the Boer generals
A bill for the sale Of the Danish west
Indies to the United States has been IN
;roduced in Parliament at Copenhagen.
The Earl of Euston, Henry james
Fitzroy. eldest son of the seventh Duke
of Grafton. has been declared a bank
rupt in London
Dr. Nella B. Kennedy, of Findlay,
O. has been elected national councillor
of the Daughters Of America at their
convention in Cincinnati.
All the local unions of the anthracite
miners organization in Pennsylyanl,ia
Yesterday voted to continue the striKe
until the operators make concessions.
Lord de Freyne yesterday applied Tor
300 eiectment writs in tenant cases IN
Ireland. Friends of the evicted people
are providing for them in stables ana
outhouses.
BENJAMIN Porter, a fugitive from
Justice, wanted for the attempted muir
der of his wife, cut his throat at West
land, Ia, yesterday, and died in Rock
Island Qll.) hospital.
Despite reports that the miners were
standing firm, presidents of the coal roads
declared emphatically in New YORK yes
terday that the turn in the strike situa-
ton for the better had come.
President Mitchell went to New York
We ,terday and some believe he is to nave
a conference with Governor Odell and
Senators Platt Quay and Penrose.
Peace rumors are again in the AIR.
The magazine of the Catawba Powder
Company's plant on Catawba river, SIX
miles from Rockhill, S. c., exploded
Yesterday morning. 1t contained many
boxes of dynamite and ten kegs OF giant
powder. The cause of the explosion was
unknown. No one was killed.
The presidents of the coal roads failed
to meet the committee of the National
Manufacturers Association in Philadel-
phia Yesterday. The committee asked
for conference, but waited in vain Tor
the presidents to appear. President
Baer said he knew nothing about COM
mittee.
Andrew Carengie yesterday began at
Perth. Scotland, round of functions,
including the bestowal upon him of the
freedom of five cities and the opening OF
several libraries. In speech he talked
of the horrors of Civilized war; and
the benefits to be derived from arbitra-
ton.
Diocesan Council at Montgomery,
Ala. Yesterday elected Rev. G. NJ.
Beckwith. of Houston. Texas, Bishop OF
the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, to
succeed Bishop Barnwell, deceased.
Mr.. Beckwith, the Episcopal nominee,
is nephew of Right Rev. John Beck
with, late Bishop Of Georgia, and IS a
native of Petersburg, Va.
Passengers who have arrived at San
Juan, p. r., from Venezuela say that
the revolution in that country will end
within two weeks. The revolutionists
have set price on President Castro
head. General Matos, the rebel leader,
holds the situation in his hands, aud the
government troops will capitulate in or
der to prevent bloodshed in Caracas and
Laguayra.
DR.. Sotiriadis, custodian of antiquities.
at Athens, Greece, announces the dis
covery, near Cheronea, the place where,
according to PIutarch, the Macedonians
buried their dead after the defeat of the
Athenians and Thebans by Philip OF
Macedon, 33S b. c., of a number OF
skeletons in a good state of preservation.
Beside one of them lay a sarissa, or pike,
carried by the Macedonian phalanx.
The correspondent at Belgrade, Ser
via. of the Vienna Neues Wieher Tage-
blatt says that to revenge herself upon
King Alexander for stopping her 'pin
money!" Queen Draga created scan
dalous scenes before the courtiers. The
King reproached the Queen with being
the curse of his life. Draga retorted
with Coarse abuse, accusing the King Of
a liaison with her sister Helen, md even
boxed the Kings ears.
A fearful tragedy was enacted at
Drovssig. Bohemia, Monday. A village
schoolmaster, 40 years old, while talking
to his class suddenly became insane,
rushed to his desk, drew a pistol from
it and ran amuck, shooting right and
left among the terrified children. Three
were killed and three dangerously
wounded On hearing the shots and
screams the villagers quickly arrived at
the school, and, Infatuated at the sight
which met them, lynched the school
master.
Dispatches have been received at Pc
kin asserting that the lower part OF Man
churia. south of the Lao river, was re-