Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Americans have sent more than sl''-
500 to help relieve the famine inSweden.
A combination of practically all the
electrical companies in Germany is being
formed.
1t is said the administration fears an
other instruction in the Philippines
unless remedial legislation be passed.
Mr.. Thomas F. Walsh is TO be erect a
81, 900, 600 office building at Fourteenth
street and New York avenue, Washing
ton.
Agap Hatchikian, for shooting and Sc
verely wounding the Armenian patriarch
at Constantinople, has been sentenced to
death.
Officials in Paris are not disposed to
accept the Porte's assurances that Turkey
has no intention of mobilizing large
force of troops.
Rear-Admiral Basil Cochrane, retired,
declares that subalterns in the British
army are cruelty hogged for social or
military offenses.
Minister Bowen, representing Vene-
zuela, has accepted in full the British
peace protocol. The reply of Germany
has not been received.
The Presidents attitude toward trusts
is said now to be defiance, ana tits added
he has chosen Representative Cannon to
represent him on the floor of the House.
Officers of the Russian army reserves
have been notified to be ready to join
their regiments in "a hours, and it is be-
lieved that this is due to danger in the
Balkans.
Mr.. William Randall, who until the
first of the present month was general
freight and passenger agent of the Baltl-
more Steam Packet Company (Odd Bay
Line), died yesterday at his home IN
Baltimore.
Miss Mary S. Sheehy, % years old, of
Jersey City, died Monday of hysterla,
caused by worrying over tales told her by
fellow-employes in watch company S
factory about the wanderings of social
ed 'Black CnOSt.
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan will be
rendered a banquet by the Maryland
Democratic Association when he visits
Baltimore February II. There is a
great and increasing demand for tickets
to the lecture Mr.. Bryan is to deliver.
At meeting last night of the third
class men of the Naval Academy it was
unanimously decided to accede to the de-
mand of Superintendent Brownson that
members of the class refrain from hazing
of all forms Superintendent Brownson
will probably rescind his order restrict
ing the class from all liberty.
Mrs. George Wilson, the telegraph
operator, who was beaten and burned by
a rufiian at Monongahela, Pa, on Sun
day night, is unconscious at her home,
and there is no hope for her recovery.
Physicians say it is only matter of a
few hours until her death occurs. Her
assailant has not yet been captured.
Edward Chandler and John Hunter
quarreled at J. Elkins home, at Hand
ley w. Va, yesterday. Hunter slashed
Chambers clothes with a knife, after
which an unknown man handed Hunter
a pistol, which, it is alleged, he discharg-
ed, killing Elsie Elkins, aged IL, who
was in the room. Hunter escaped.
A bill was introduced in the Senate
Yesterday by Mr.. Burton which provides
that henceforth $12 shall be the minimum
pension allowed. 1t provided for an in
crease to that amount Of all pensions
now below that figure. Senator Mason
introduced bill providing for the pay
ment of a bounty of $3.50 to all soldiers
of two year regiments who enlisted prior
to July %, 1861.
A dispatch from Munich, says the
former Crown Princess of Saxony has
written to an intimate friend, member
of the Bavarian royal family, bitterly
complaining of the irreconcilable spirit
shown by her own and her husband 5
family. The Princess is reported as
saying in her letter that she dismissed
Giron definitely and went to the Nyon
sanitarium of her own accord. She
low deeply repents her fight and de-
clares she is unable to longer endure the
conditions of a prisoner The report
that the former Crown Princess of Sax
ony had attempted to commit suicide is
untrue. Her health is as good as posi-
bic, considering her delicate condition
and the griefcaused her by recent events.
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