Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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All along the Mississippi river the
leyees are being strengthened to resist
the flood.
III. Snowden Cowman, only son OF
Charles III. and Louise II. Cowman, died
in Baltimore yesterday.
The proposed conference to discuss the
negro question is reported to be plan
to put forward Senator Spooner for the
Presidential nomination in opposition TO
Roosevelt.
The severity of German parents to-
ward their children is said to be the
cause of an alarming increase in the
number of suicides among juveniles in
Berlin.
Rev. Martin Luecke, pastor of Trinity
German Lutheran Church at Springfield,
ILL.,, has accepted the presidency of Con-
cordia Lutheran Theological Seminary,
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
1t was reported in Washington yes
terday by a large stakeholder of the
Wabash Railway system that the road
would be extended to Washington and
then built OH to Newport News.
Senator SanguilIy in debate yesterday
in the Cuban Senate on the reciprocity
treaty, expressed fear of the domination
of Cuba by trusts, and contended that re-
ciprocity was not a necessity to Cuba's
progress.
Flood conditions prevail in the Mis-
sissippi and Ohio rivers and tributary
streams. Thousands have been driven
from their homes in the lowlands, vast
areas of bottom lands are inundated and
still worse conditions are feared.
Homer Bird charged with killing two
companions in the Klondyke in 1897
was legally executed at Sitka on Fri
day. The execution was void of acct
dent. On the gallows he made short
speech in which he protested his inno-
cence.
Major George A.Armes, retired, of
Washington, has been relieved from the
further payment of alimony to his former
wife. Mrs. Lucy II. Armes, having ef-
fected an agreement whereby he has
paid her 81, 200 in satisfaction of all
claims upon him.
The congregation of the propaganda
has decidedlto propose to the Pope that
be appoint Mgr. Conaty, former rector
of the Catholic University at Washing
ton, as Bishop of Los Angeles, Cal, in
succession to the Right Rev. George
Montgomery, recently appointed Coad-
tutor Archbishop of San Francisco.
The navy estimates for 19OS-19O4
were read to to the House of Commons
Yesterday. The estimates show total
expenditure of e35, S36, S4l, an increase
of f3. 202, 600. Four thousand six hun
dred more men have been provided for
as well as three new battleships, 4 armor-
ed cruisers and three protected cruisers,
four scouts, Is destroyers, and ten sub
marine boats.
More than 100 women of fashinable
society in New York withdrew yesterday
into the clustered solitude of the Con-
vent of the Sacred Heart, there to spend
the remainder of the week in Lenten dis
ciplne. Prominent among them are Mrs.
William X. Vanderbilt, jr., Mrs. Will
liam Kipp Earle, Mrs. Katherine Drexel
Dahlgren, Mrs. Robert l.. Crawford, lr.;
Mrs. Albert Gould Jennings and Mrs.
Pierre La Marche. While in retreat the
participants will be under the spiritual
guidance of Father Pardow.
DIR. w. J. Fink of the United States
Bureau of Animal Industry slaughtered
and buried fifteen head of cattle yesterday
on the farm Of +. X. French, at Bedford,
n. H. French is the drover who ship
ped to the Waterdown market the load
of cattle in which we're found five inject
ed with the foot and mouth disease. DR..
Fink now has six men out running down
herds from which Mr.. French obtained
the diseased animals. These herds will
be DESTROYED as fast as located, for the
government is bound to stamp out the
disease. Inspections will be made OF all
the herds in Hillsboro county.