Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Warsaw Canning and Picking
Company has made an assignment.
No American prelate was namedas Car
dinal at Pope Plus KS first consistory
held in Rome.
A valuable sulphur mine has been
discovered in Orange and gold quartz
on the suburbs of Roanoke.
Miss Alice Roosevelt has discarded
the side saddle and conventional riding
habit, and now rides in divided skirt.
Charlottesville and Cincinnati as well
as Clifton Forge are after the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad general offices.
Five thousand acres Of Dismal Swamp
lands, near Norfolk, are to be reclaimed
by the franklin Land and Lumber
Company.
The 62d birthday of King Edward was
celebrated in England yesterday, Lord
Mayor Richie of London giving a no.
table banquet.
Mrs. Caroline X. Fulton, widow Of
Mr.. @. c. Fulton, late proprietor of the
Baltimore American, died yesterday at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Thomas NJ. Kenney, in Baltimore.
The coroner's jury in the case of Mar
tin Loew, the dental student, who was
found dead Sunday morning in his room,
in Baltimore, declared thathe ''came TO
his death by gas or some other deadly
drug unknown to the Jury"
DR.. E. W. Light, prominent den-
fist of saginaw, Mich,, committed sui
eide Sunday night at his home, after
fatally shooting his wife and his Is year
old daughter, Ruby. The tragedy was
not discovered uutil noon yesterday.
Despite the claims of the coal compa-
MES, householders in Denver and other
cities found it impossible yesterday to Sc
cure ton of coal for immediate delivery.
The railroad companies claim to have
enough coal stored to meet all their re-
quirements for sometime.
The House yesterday agreed to pro-
coed again under the so-called Reed
rules. The House adopted reso
introduced by Mr. Hit (rep., ILL.,
ing the President for documents re
to the Panama revolution, if not il
patible with public interests.
More than 10000 coal mine
Colorado went on strike yesterday
eight-hour day, increased wage.
other concessions The strike was or
dered by the National executive officers
of the United Mineworkers of America
after the coal companies refused to con-
fer with union representative concerning
the demands ofthe men.
Delayed dispatches from Bogota indi-
cate that Colombia still has hope of ne
gotiating canal treaty. This hope.
however is considered baseless IN Wash
ington, the State Department having
decided it is too late for Colombia to
expect to renew negotiations for treaty.
The United States threatens to resist
the departure of Colombian troops
for the isthmns with warships, if neces-
sary.
Senator Frye, president pro tempore
of the Senate, yesterday officially fixed
the status of Senator German, of. Mary
land, as the democratic leader of the
minority in the Senate, by appointing
him the democratic member of the COM
mittee, on behalf of the Senate, to visit
the White House and notify Mr. Roose-
welt that Congress was again in session
and ready to receive any communication
from him.
In addition to adopting the recommen-
dation of the board of directors to in
crease the capital stock from $4,000
900 to 20,000,0 900, another important
proposition was taken up at the meeting
of the stockholders of the Northern Cen
trail Railway Company, held in Balti-
timore yesterday which has in view
permanent lease Of the property TO the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company or its
merger with that corporation.
The dead bodies of five negroes badly
mutilated have been found in cabin
eight miles from Mariana Fla. The dead
have been identified as Henry Smith,
his wife and three small children. Smith,
his wife and one of the children had
been murdered by having been beaten over
the head with some blunt instrument,
while the two younger children had been
decapitated. The house in which the
negroes were found bad been securely
bolted and the doors we're all locked on
the inside Allen Roulhacs aud boy
named 10 Gordon, negroes, have been ar
rested on suspicion.
The annual convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor was begun in
Boston yesterday the principal event Of
the day being the annual address Of
President Gompers. He pointed out
that the grave danger which confronted
their movement was the internicene
strife, due to the conflicting claims of
trade jurisdiction. Mr.. Gompers con-
demned such antitrust legislation as
was secretly against labor and urged
eternal vigilance with respect to legis-
lation. He gave warning that organized
labor will resent attempts to reduce
wages should employers attempt cut
ting with depression in industry and
took ground against the open shop.
Stepped Against a Hot Stove.