Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-09-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

More than $3.50. 900 has been raised
for the Mckinley mausoleum that Is to
be huilt at Canton, Ohio.
Three deaths from cholera occurred
on the American transport Sherman be-
tween Manila and Nagasaki.
Ex-Gov. Horace Boies was nominated
for representative by the democrats OF
the Third Iowa district yesterday eve
ming, to run in opposition to Speaker
Henderson.
Fire DESTROYED the main building OF
the old Bullock Fertilizer Works on
Washington road, at Gwynn's Falls,
near Baltimore, causing loss OF several
thousand dollars.
meeting in Chicago late yesterday
afternoon in the First National Bank
Building of all the interests connected
with the proposed packers combine, 1t
was decided that the merger should go
into effect September p.
The Utah republican State convention
Yesterday nominated Joseph Howell, for
Congress, and adopted a platform in
which mention of Cuban reciprocity was
omitted On this point the beet sugar
interests of the State won after a some
what bitter and protracted debate in the
committee on resolutions.
News reached Ell Paso, Texas, last
uieht that the little town of Tres Jacals,
ON the Mexican side of the river, about
twenty miles below Juarez was swept
away Yesterday afternoon by a cloud
burst and windstorm. The cloudburst
also did considerable damage to the
island settlement on the American side
of the river
Mayor johnson of Cleveland, o.,
replving to an inquiry from a Spring
field. Ohio, newspaper asking if he was
candidate for governor and finally Tor
President. said II am not can
didate for anything except mayor next
spring. 1t is my belief that my field OF
usefulness lies very close to the city OF
Cleveland"
Eugene Wood, n young nan well
connected in Washington, was arrested
at Atlantic City Yesterday charged with
the larceny of jewelry valued at sou
from William Kuenhle, the proprietor
of an art store on the boardwalk, by
whom he was employed. He was held
in $500 bail to appear at the present
term of court.
I'm dispatch from st. Petersburg the
correspondent of the Daily Mail relates
that the commander of the COssack sta
ton at Wertschink, anxious that his dis
trict should show preponderance OF
males. has ordered that the father OF
every girl baby born in the district shall
receive 30 stroke with the knout. SIEVE
raj men, says the correspondent have
ready been knouted under this ruling.
Late Wednesday night some one ex-
ploded dynamite under the home OF
William Sutolsky, a non-union work
man of William Penn, Pa. Sutofsky
and his family escaped without injury,
but the doors and windows Of the house
were shattered, and the windows of sew
eral nearby houses were broken from the
c)ncu. on. Sutofsky has been employ
ed as a general utility man at the Le-
high Valley Company's Packer No. >
coliery, and within the last week he re-
ceived several threatening letters warn
ing him against continuing at work.
The principal issue in the coming
election in Colorado is the United States
senatorship, and it is already apparent
that the contest is distinctly between
Henry NJ. Teller and Edward 0 VOL
colt. The democratic and populist
members Of the legislature are pledged
by the State convention Of their parties
to vote for the reelection of Senator
Teller. There appears to be little or no
opposition to Wocott in the republican
party, and should republican majority
be elected to the legislature the ex-Sena-
tor can step into the shoes Of his former
colleague.
"a set of blunderers and political
towards" is the way Mr.. w. J. Bryan
designates the democrats in Iowa who
controlled the recent State convention.
In his paper of today he says it is
difficult to say who Of them are most to
blame, the men who engineered the
turning down of the Kansas City plat
form or those who were duped into be-
Iieving that party can fight best when
on the run. Mr. Bryan says the CON
vention was cowardly because, while
refusing to indorse the national plat
form of the party, it did not have the
courage to come ont for the gold stand
ard. In another editorial he puts the
Wisconsin democrats in thc-same class
with Iowa. Mr.. Bryan approves Tom
l.. Johnson's presidential aspirations,
and creates the impression that he is