Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Two distincts earthquake shocks were
felt in St. Louis and vicinity between
6:25 and $50 o'clock last night.
Hon. John T. Vinson, formerly asso-
ciate Judge of the Sixth judicial district
of Maryland, died at his home in Rock
vile on Saturday night, aged seventy
eight years.
1t is reported in Washington that a
well defined combination Of certain
captains of industry" and Senators
have been formed to defeat Mr.. Roose-
velt's nomination.
Lee Hall, colored, who shot and NOR
tally wounded Sheriff ID. A. Crawford,
of johnson county, Ca, last Wednesday
night, was taken from the county jail on
Saturday and lynched.
The government of San Domingo is
seeking to evade payment of the Ameri-
can claims, but United States Minister
Powell has announced that he will not
submit to any further delay.
Henry G. Hayes, for many years
prominent as correspondent and one OF
the most accomplished legislative re-
porters of his time, died at his home in
Washington on Saturday, aged "a years.
Speaker David B. Henderson, who
will cease to be member OF the House
when the Fifty-seventh Congress adj
iourns sine die, has decided to enter a
prominent law firm in New York city.
The Cooper bill appropriating $25, 900
for q statue of General Robert L. Lee,
at Gettysburg, is still in the Pennsyl-
vania House appropriations committee
and the prospects are it will never be
brought out.
Joseph w. HAZEL, a well-known
LAWYER of Baltimore and former mem
Der of the legislature, committed suicide
on Saturday in his Office by shooting
himself through the head. Financial
troubles are assigned as the cause.
The Bolivian government has replied
to the Brazilian government, agreeing to
Brazilian occupation and administration
of the Acre territory pending the settle
ment of the dispute and offering to send
minister plenipotentiary to Brazil in
vested with full powers to negotiate q
settlement
Mrs. Ada Shaw, of Butte, Mont,
died at ST. Luke's Hospital, in Denver,
on Friday evening of pneumonia, con-
tracted ten days ago after an operation
for appendicitis Mrs. Shaw was the
sister of Mrs. William A. Clark, jr., of
Montana, who died recently after the
birth of a child, which is known as 'the
milion-dollar baby"
By the collision of two trains on the
BiddIe street bridge of the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Railroad
Company, in Northwest Baltimore yes
teaday, car containing seventy-ont
hogs was thrown TO the street. Thirty
five of the animals were crushed 'tc
death. The injured were killed by
order of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals.
William J. Bryan has declared thai
he would refuse to attend any banquet
to which Grover Cleveland was to be
invited. Col. Bryan's declaration was
made through an intimate friend to the
officers of the Iroquois Club, which in.
tended to invite Bryan, Cleveland, and
other democratic leaders to banquet tc
be held in Chicago on the anniversary
of Jackson's birthday, March 10.
At an early hour yesterday morning
apparently without cause. Officer NJ. NJ
Walk, of the Bristol (Va.) police force,
crossed State street to Tennessee, and
after passing a few words with Police.
man Houston Childress, of the Bristo
Tenn.) force, deliberately shot Child
ress down, killing him almost instantly
Walk then fled. Childress was an in
valid, being a victim of locomotor ataxia
and had been kept on the force as a pen
sioner for his past good service.
The British steamer Para, which
arrived yesterday at Kingston. ia
maica, from Colon, brings news o
the suicide on January 30, of tn
former Colombian revolutionary gen
eral. Uribe-Uribe. General Tribe
Tribe published letter on Decembe
u, advising Colombia to await the laps
ing of the Panama canal concession il
1904, which would leave the government
free hand in regard to the canal. Re
ports brought by the Para indicate tn
possibility of another revolution in oppo
sition to the canal treaty.