Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UF The DAY
Representative A. G. Dayton, OF
West Virginia, favors fewer but more
complete navy yards.
Edmund ]. Smith, former discount
clerk in a Newark On. J. bank, Is short
$40, 600 in his accounts.
Garland G.. Menefee, aged about "a
wears, died at his home, at Hope Mills,
three miles north of Luray, yes terday.
An Alabama republican declares
President Roosevelts negro policy has
injured the party prospects in the South
In an interview Judge Alton B. Par
ker, of New York is quoted as saying
az shall remain on the bench; 1t Is my
ideal"
Hospital doctors in San Francisco re-
port the cure of case of lockjaw by the
use of anti-toxin, which was injected in
to the patients brain.
A heavy freight car jumped from the
Chesapeake and Ohio trestle at Main
street, Richmond yesterday evening and
tore away the rear of two buildings.
Marine hospital surgeons who con-
Quoted an investigation at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, say the germ of yellow fever IS
a protozoan parasite carried by mosqui-
toes.
The scientists of the Smithsonian In
st;tution are conducting series of ex-
periments with a newly completed
coelostat. BY the use of this instru-
ment it is believed more accurate
weather predictions will be made.
A Madison wis. syndicate has pur-
chased the Windsor Shades estate, IN
New Kent county, for 500, 600. The
property contains 5000 acres and will be
divided into small farms, which will be
conducted by men frcm the great North
west.
DR.. Francis T. Miles, professor OF
physiology at the University of Mary
land School of Medicine and we'll
known physician of Baltimore, died last
night after a lingering illness. lie
served in the Confederate army during
the war.
An explosion of powder on Wednes-
day night, in one of the two chaser
houses of the Rockdale Powder Mills
Company. near Hoffimanville, Baltimore
county Md, resulted in the untimely
death of two of its employees and the
comnlete demolition of the building it.
self.
Gen. A. ?. Stewart, one of the sur
viving lieutenant generals Of the Con
federate army and a member of the
Chickamauga Park commission, is not
expected to live. He is STEERING from
paralysis, at Chattanooga, Tenn. Gen
eral Stewart was second in command a
the battle of Missionary Ridge.
With the realization that only one
more day remains for delivery on July
contracts, cotton shorts in that month
were thrown in a semi-panic in New
York Yesterday, resulting in Ia sensational
rise in prizes. The July option wa
quickly advanced 60 points, or SO pc
bale, at the opening. Itsold at 49,. 60 o
within Is points of the high record.
One of the severest thunder, lightning
and rain storms Of the season broke owe
Baltimore and vicinity yesterday after
noon, completely deluging the streets
causing many washouts, delaying street
railway traffic and resulting in the deatl
of William Beatty, II years of age. Mr.
Beatty, who had been in good health
expired while the storm was at its heigh
and before a physician could reach him
1t was said that fright at the storm
brought on heart failure.
Riotous scenes occurred in the Georgii
legislature yesterday over the adoption
of a resolution to investigate the charge
that bills to kill the convict lease sys
tenn and to provide for uniformity o
textbooks in the public schools have
been held up by lobbyists. The charges
of corruption became so pointed that the
SenateI adopted resolution to invest
gate. When the resolution was reaC
in the House the members were greatly
angered by the fact that several of them
who had attacked the lobby, were practi
cally denounced by the Senate. Their
followed scene without parallel in
Georgia legislature. Members rose il
in their seats and openly cursed the
Senate for its "cowardIy conduct"