Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-06
FOREIGN NEWS.

A general strike is expected at Va
lencia, Spain, today, which will affect
the large silk industries.
The hereditary Princess Ernst SAKE
Altenburg, gave birth to daughter at
Potsdam, Germany, this morning.
The Grand Theatre at Lille, France,
was completely destroyed by fire today
which levelled the structure to the
ground.
In consequence of the inability to cope
with American competition, the Pirma-
sens shoe factory at Weissenfels has dis
missed six thousand workmen.
1t is announced this morning that the
Servian government does not consider
the situation in the peninsula sufficient
ly serious to warrant the calling out Of
the reserves.
1t is announced toGay that Germany,
with view to extending her trade, will
shortly send councillor Zimmerman to
South Africa, Australia, and New Zea-
land, for the purpose of making study
of British colonization in those countries
Emperor William, of Germany, who
has been at Copenhagen for the past few
days on a visit to the Danish court,
sailed for Kiel today. His stay APP
parently has healed the breach which
had existed between the Germans and
the Danish.
Several pictures in the royal apart
ments in Buckingham palace, London,
were seriously damaged by cuts last Sat
urday. This is not the first act of van
dalism that has occurred. 1t will probably
result in excluding the public in the flu
ture from royal residences.
The Berlin Tageblatt's ST. Petersburg
correspondent today wires his paper that
an elaborate conspiracy to assassinate
Minister of Religion Pobiedonostzeff and
Minister of the Interior Plepve has been
discovered. Numerous arrests have been
made and the police are on the track OF
other conspirators.
The Belgrade correspondent of the
Vienna Tageblatt wires that riot and
bloodshed occurred in that city last night.
Shop assistants, apprentices and messen-
gers, he states, started a demonstration
against the police regulations. The
demonstration developed into riot led
by the students of the city. Troops were
called out and fired into the ranks of the
demonstrators. Quiet was then restored
Five persons were killed and sixteen in
jured.
At Amsterdam, workmen engaged il
transportation services of all kinds went
on strike today. Troops are guarding
the railroad property also the quays.
The government is running the foreign
express train under the protection of the
military. All the men employed on the
docks have quit work and shipping is al
a standstill. 1t was stated this afternoon
that temporary relief had been secured.
Sufficient men have been obtained to Sc
cure a restricted railway service.
In London today the courts issued g
writ of equestration on the estate of Lady
Granville Gordon, who recently kid
mapped her daughter and escaped from
England. The daughter of Lady Cor
don, it will be remembered, was giver
by the courts into the custody of Eri'
Gordon, Lady Gordon's first husband
When Gordon went to secure his child
he discovered his former wife had lief
England with the girl. Her whereabouts
have not since been definitely known.
Mrs. Mabel Townsend, wealthy anc
eccentric theatrical teacher, formerly
attached to the Alcazar Theatre, of Sar
Francisco, shot and killed herself on The
doorstep of her sisters house in Litch
field street, London, early this morn
ing. A letter was found in her hanC
addressed to her sister in which she ex
pressed sorrow for the trouble her suicide
would cause, but gave gave no reason
for the act. Mrs. Townsend is thought
to have been driven to the act by re-
ligious mania.