Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-05-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

line LUKE VI MARLBOROUGH hhD WV
made knight Of the Garter.
While the King and Queen OF Italy
we're on their way to Palermo yester.
Law q man threw stones at the royal
rain and was promptly arrested.
The pineapple schooner Edith and
Mary Captain Kelley. arrived at Bal
timore yesterday from Tarpun Bay with
5 900 dozen OF the luscious fruit aboard.
The extensive railroad terminals
In St. Louis, and TO be COM
pleted before theiopening OF the WORLDS
Fair, are expected to cost over SzO,'
100000.
Mr.. ]. p. Morgan is reported to have
given to King Edward a piece OF Span
ish tapestry that cost $500, 900, which
will be hung in Westminster Abbey ct
the coronation.
Emperor William has finally deter
mined to start his American-built
yacht Meteor in the race from
Heligoland to Dover, July IA. for the
Coronation Cup.
A member of the British government
says that the war in South Africa lie
ended, but they want to give the Boer
leaders every chance IN their confer
ences with their followers.
London is largely preoccupied with
coronation preparations. Lswanika,
King OF Barotsslsnd, In RhodesiS, tue
only king who will be prescott al the
ceremony, has arrived Ia the CITY.
The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge
across the Rsritan river was yesterday
moved q distance OF 10 feet without In
to traffic. The structure Is
900 feet long, has 6 spans and weighs
{, 1000 tons.
Bya vote OF 4S to 10, the colliery
engineers and pump men at a mass
meeting yesterday resolved not to 90
on strike June 2, even II the operators
refuse to grant an eight.hour workday
at the present wage scale.
With ell the pomp and ceremony and
the impressive solemnity OF the services
OF the Roman Catholic Church, Rev.
DR.. Philip J. Garrigan was raised to
the episcopate at st. MichaePs Csthe-
dral In Springfield, Mass, yesterday
An attempt was made yesterday to
assasslnate Prince OboleDsky, governor
OF Kharloff, Russia, who was commend
ed by the Gar for suppressine rloting
among the peasants. The whipping OF
peasant political prisoners In Poland is
exciting more riots.
By advices brought to San Francisco
bp the steamer City of Para lis learned
that in ninety seconds 900 people were
KILLED, over 1000 manned and crippled,
and the city OF QuezAltensngo, OF 4O,-
600 people, destroyed by the earthquake
OF April Is 10 Guate mals.
President Palma OF Cuba says he
will nominate Senior Quessda to be
Cuban Minister at Washington on
Tuesday; President Palma says he has
heard OF no objections on the part OF
the inhabitants OF the Isle of Pines to
becoming Cuban citizens.
Fire in Cecil county, opposite Fred
ericktowD, Md, on the Sasssfrss river,
on Saturday, destroyed the new freight
steamer Marion, with 1000 bushels OF
wheat, and q granary and warehouse,
containing about 1000 bushels, belong
ing to Capt. Andrew WoodSll.
Curious phenomena have been OBJ
served at Pedroso, near Oporto, Portu'
gal, which are supposed to bs connected
with the volcanic eruptions In the
West Indies. Tissues 10 the earth there
I'D crnnBn and aim
neously there came tornado.
President Loubet of France WIS yes
terdsy given an enthusiastic reception
BY King Christian and other members
of the Danish royal family and the peo-
pie OF Copenhagen. He luncbed with
the King, exchanged complimentary
toasts, and then sailed for France.
Abe Witherup, white, the murderer
OF William Grow, who was killed Iast
month, was taken from the Paris, Mo-,
iail at 2 o'clock yesterday morning,
marched to the bridge on the north
edge of town, and hanged by mob OF
more than q hundred men, who rode
quietly into the town at midnight.
The Brooklyn handicap at Gravesend
was won on Saturday by Arthur
4.year-old chestnut tilly
Reins, 10 POI, at 40 to l, with O'Oon'
nor up. Reina won by short bead,
leading home thirteen Of the most
noted racers ofthe American turf. Ad-
vance Guard, Burns up, was second,
length ahead OF J. Z. Madden's PeDte-
cost, ridden by RedierD.
General Corbin's interprt tatlon OF
courteous remark made by General Won
Pressen, that II was an invitation TO
attend the German army maneuVers In
and an announcement re-
ceiyed In Berlin that Generals Corbin,
Wood and Young would attend, APP
pears to be q misunderstanding. Only
the Emperor can extend such an In
yitation, and he has not yet done 80.
The coal miners show signs OF pre-
pairing for q long continuance OF the
strike, snd the men are seeking work
wherever they can iod IL. President
Mitchell started for week 10 the
Wesl. a general strike has been or
dered among the soft coal miners In
Virginia aud West Virginia, to begin
on June and to last until the increase
sought last winter is granted by the
operators.
Rev. T. J. Morgan, q secretary OF
the Baptist Home Mission Society, al
its meeting in ST: Paul, Mimi, on Sat-
urday made q statement that "lo the
last election Marx Hanna, representing
the republican party, formally agreed
with Archbishop Ireland, representing
q mass OF voters, that, in consideration
of tnrninC over theee votes to the re