Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Armenian revolutionary bands have
entered the districts of Bayazid and
Sasun, Armenia, from Russia.
Gen. James Longstreet has been placed
in Garfield Hospital, Washington, Tor
treatment for a severe attack OF rheuma-
tism.
One hundred and fifty men employed
by the Barnum and Bailey Circus Com
PAW struck in Washington last night
and greatly retarded the work OF moving
the circus to Baltimore where perform
ance was given today.
Bishop Leighton Coleman, OF the
Diocese of Delaware, yesterday, in VIII
mington, made vigorous Remuneration
of the marriage of persons divorced Tor
any cause. Among other things he said;
ono power in heaven or hell Will en-
force me to marry DIVORCES. +"
John r. Howard, one of the most
prominent citizens of Quincy, Fla, was
shot from ambush and instantly killed
Monday night while on his way to his
plantation in Liberty county. The
motive for the murder is not known and
there is no clew to he perpetrator.
Word was received from Tyrone Pa
Yesterday afternoon saying that fierce
forest fires are now raging in the
mountains north of that place and that
the Tyrone fremen have been called out
TO protect the suburbs, which are threat
ened. The fire is dan gerously near the
town.
Before Judge DeHaven in San Fran
cisco yesterday, in the United States
District Court, the Federal Salt Com
panv Of which D. IL. Skinner is presl-
dent pleaded guilty of maintaining a
monopoly contrary to the Sherman anti
trust law. The maximum fine is 50, 900.
This case marks the first conviction
under the Sherman law. which went
sentenced tomorrow.
Col. Garnett Andrews, ex-mayor OF
Chattanooga, Tenn. "a Confederate soldier
and one of the most prominent lawyers
in the South, is dead. During the wal
the deceased was acknowledgement and
chief ofstaf of the Army of Western Vir-
ginia. Twice, it is said, he was given
credit by General Lee for saving Rich
mond, and in the engagements at Sails
bury he held all the roads and enabled
Jefferson Davis to escape.
Henry Nichols, a member of the
Jersey City Club, in New York, yester'
day had his right leg amputated in tb'
Christ Hospital. During the operation
Nichols displayed great fortitude. H'
declined to take anaestheties, anC
watched with great interest every move
ment made by the surgeons. Not once
did he lose consciousness. He talked
with one of the physicians while the
leg was being removed, and when th(
operation was over the congratulated The
doctors.
Maud Ballard, a young white woman
who murdered Miss Anna Chambers, Ia
wears old, on Big creek, Logan county
w. Va, was yesterday convicted of man
slaughter, and sentenced to six years IL
the penitentiary. The murder occurred
February 90. 1t was alleged that Mrs
Billiards. husband was intimate will
Miss Chambers, and the young wife
driven to madness with jealousy, wen
to the Chambers home, and, calling thu
girl out, marched her at the point of ;
Winchester to the head of Big creek,
where she blew her brains out while sh'
was on her knees begging for mercy
The body lay in the woods for two day
before it was found and buried.
The Western Missouri Court OF Ap
peals has decided that a member OF tn
church congregation is not liable in Law
for the payment of the pastors salary
and that minister of the gospel mus
depend upon the good consciences
the members of his flock for his pay
and has no legal hold upon them for it
This decision was made in the sui
brought by Rev. J. H. Rife against tn
congregation of the First Baptist Churc
of Monroe City. Rev. Mr.. Rife wa
engaged at a salary of $500 year, bu
was not paid that much, so he sued TO
the balance. The clergyman won hi
case in the trial court, but the Court
Appeals reversed that judgment.
Without stop for sixty hours, ex
hausted and choked with smoke, tn
lumbermen and mountaineers of Cambria
Somerset and Westmoreland countie;
Pa, are praying for rain to quench tn
forest fires that have been raging for
week. By the almost superhuma
efforts of the inhabitants, and with tn
aid of the fire companies summoned fror
Altoona and JohnstOwn, the village
and mills at Dunlo, VintOndale an
Twin Rocks have been saved. On tn
Laurel Hill, in Westmoreland county
several houses have been burned an
loss of life narrowly averted. Guard
surround the Conemaugh Powder Con-
pany's plant at Seward to prevent th
+ flames reaching that establishment.
A meeting of the republican Stat
executive committee, at Birmingham
! Ala, called at the instance of the ILL
Whites leaders and held yesterda
: afternoon, was captured by supporters
I President Roosevelt to all appearance
and the action of the last republica
f State convention in excluding negro'
T from the councils of the party wa