Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ordered 10 return 10 Worh.
Senator Quay conferred with the
President on the coal strike yesterday
but refused to talk before his return 10
Philadelphia.
A supreme effort will be made by the
anthracite coal operators to reopen their
mines this week. Sunday passed with
out disorder in the coal region.
The coal strikes in the United States
and France have awakened hopes IN
Bealin of an improved foreign demand
for German coal, especially from France.
A hail storm in St. Louis and tornadoes
and heavy rainfalls in Quincy, ILL.,,
LAFAYETTE, Ind, and other places in the
latter section caused considerable damage
last night.
The American Federation of Labor,
through its Executive Council, has issued
an address to the public, appealing Tor
aid for the striking miners, and de-
nouncing the attitude of the mine own
ers.
Thousands of tons of anthracite ex-
ported to Germany by the Reading
Company is to be reimported. The
Braner Line Steamship Company VIII
also bring over coal from southern
Russia.
A dispatch from Vienna says the re-
tirement of Count Esterhazy from the
Order of Jesuts was occasioned by
love affair with the Marchioness de
Reynac, French woman, whom the
count has since married.
The Paris Jockey Club has excluded
Milton Henry and J. Reili, the Ameri-
can Jockeys, from riding on any French
race course. 1t is charged that the
Jockeys on several occasions have pre-
vented favorites from winning.
Thomas b. Reed is said to be making
between $50, 600 and $50, 600 a year at
his law practice. Incidentally 1t may
be noted that there are only five living
ex-Speakers, of the House of Represen-
tatives and four of them are lawyers.
Judge Penfield, of the American State
Department, commenting upon the
Pious Fund case between the United
States and Mexico before the lnterna-
tiona Court ofArbitration at The Hague,
says that while the courts decision Is
still doubtful he feels confident OF ia
vorable result.
The body of Edward Crantz, sexton
of Trinity Methodist Church of Washing
ton WI found at o'clock last nightin the
church belfry, where he'had hanged him
self with the bell rope he had pulled
for the past ten years. Crantz, though
sober and industrious, is said to have
been drinking in the past week and to
have had trouble in his home.
Mr.. John Mitchell said toa correspon-
dent at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on Saturday:
GAS far as we are concerned, we
can continue the strike indefinitely.
There is no more distress than is to be
expected under such circumstances. As
long as we continue to receive the moral
and financial support we are now re-
ceiving, we have no thought Of surren-
dering. +" ~
The 1902 convention of the Disciples
of Christ will be held in Omaha, Neb.,
October 1928. The growth of the
Disciples of Christ as church organiza-
ton is one of the marvels of the religi-
Gus world. Its percentage of growth
exceeds that Of any Protestant denomin-
alton, and the church now numbers up
wards of 1900, 900 communicates in
the United States. The late President,
James A. Garfield, was a minister OF
the Disciples church.
After having remarked to his relatives
and friends more than dozen times
that he was tired of living, and would
end his life the first favorable chance,
George II. Cooper, sixty-one years of
age, clerk in the Office Of the Auditor
for the Postofice Department in Wash
ington, made good his threat yesterday
morning by hanging himself at his
home, 1882 Fifteenth street northwest.
1t is believed that the man was suffer
ing from acute melancholia brought on
by the nervous attacks to which he was
subject.
OPERATION A SUCCESS. Prof. Adolf
Lorenz, of Vienna, declared yesterday
that the operation on little Lolita,