Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Acute distress prevails in the Nan
ming and Tsun-Fa district of Kwang-Si
province, China. 1t is estimated that
70, 900 persons are starving.
Four of the IL presidents of the See
Yup Society in San Francisco have been
arrested for the conspiracy to murder the
800 members of the Chinese Society oil
English Education.
Archbishop John J. Kahn has left st.
Louis for Baltimore, where he will enter
St. Agnes's Sanitarium in the hope OF
regaining his health, which has been
failing for several years.
No confirmation has been received in
Washington either by the State Depart
ment or by the Colombian Legation, OF
the report resignation of President Mar
roouin, of Columbian on account Of polit-
ical trouble.
A young woman, about 20 years old,
was killed yesterday afternoon bya case OF
goods falling on her while she was pas
sing 355 Broadway, New York. The case
was on heavy truck from which other
boxes and cases were being removed.
The Russian Minister Of the Interior
has circulated a long official account OF
the recent anti-Semitic outbreak at
Kischeneff, capital of Bessarabia. He
saws As persons were killed and 424 were
injured and that 700 houses and 600
shops were looted.
Amid scenes of enthusiasm and to the
strains of Good Be With You Till We
Meet Again" the fifty-eighth annual
session of the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton adjourned at Savannah, Ca, last
night. The next convention will meet
in Nashville, Tenn, on the second Fri
day in May, 1904.
A man who has frightened the people
in the vicinity Of Derby, Conn, for two
day was found yesterday to be an electrical
student, driven insane by overstudy. He
had stuck bl1des of grass into his face to
immitate beard, and protested to the
trees that he was the Saviour.
By the upsetting of an oil lamp in
their home at 1928 Thirty-second street
northwest Washington about 1890
O. clock last night, Bessie Ward, aged
nineteen years, and William Ward,
eighteen years old, the son and daugh-
ter of Policeman Isaac II. Ward, were
fatally burned.
In St Tammany parish, about fifty
miles from New Orleans Saturday night
an insolent negro was beaten with an
axe handle by white grocery clerk.
The negroes armed and sought to cause
trouble. but the whites rallied and a
pitched battle followed in which four
negroes, all members of the Florant
family, one of whom was the aggressor,
were killed.
A petition signed exclusively by
Filipino women has been presented to
Archbishop Guidi, the apostolic dele
gate in the Philippine Islands, asking
for the retention of the friars. 1t de-
clares that no reason exists for their ex-
plusion, asserts that their withdrawal
will leave hundreds of parishes without
spiritual advisers, and charges that q
small minority is responsible for the
anti-friar movement.
1t is reported in Panama that Presi-
dent Marroquin has been compelled to
resign Office on account of political trou-
bic, and that Gen. Raphael Reyes, Sec
ond vice president of Colombia, will as
sumo the presidency. 1t is currently re.
ported that the Panama Canal Company
has offered the Colombian government
so, 900. 900 of the 40, 900, 900 the COM
pany receives from the United States
government if it will lratify the cana
treaty.
Magistrate Leydat has concluded his
investigation of the Humbert FRAUD
case in Paris and has decided to com
nit Therese Humbert, her husband
Frederick and her brother for trial Oh
the charges of forgery, the use of forged
documents aud swindling. The magis-
trate dismissed the cases against Eve
Humbert, Therese's daughter, ant
Marie Daurignac, her sister. The cast
against Madame Humbert, her husband
and brother probably will be heard in
July.
The committee representing the keep
ers of Chinese gambling houses il
Honolulu has been placed under arrest
! charged with attempting to brib
Deputy Attorney General Andrews t
permit four games of paka pic to be rul
without molestation. Andrews ar
} ranged meeting with the gamblers, an
concealed witnesses, who heard the ofe
of Sc, 900 a month made il Andrew
would permit the conducting of gamb
ling games. The Chinese state tina
they had formerly purchased protectio
, from other officials, and interesting dis
, closures are expected.
, There was a wild market in cotto
trading in New York yesterday, wit
prices covering a range of 81 bale fror
Saturdays closing quotations, an
81. so to 81 a bale in New Orleans
Prices scared at the commencement
business, going up by leaps and bound
on trading 30 to % points in New Yor
and 80 to 40 points at New Orleans
S The Liverpool markets were almo
d equally excited. There spot cotton az
e vanced 10 points, or equivalent to )
: per bale in Qua fluctuations, to the basi
h of IS. Sd. per pound for middling co
). ton, which is equivalent to ll.6O cen
n in the New York market.
!, DIED.