Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

While playing baseball at Coshocton,
O.. Newton Van Horn, aged II years,
was struck by foul tip and was instantly
killed.
Soler Bueno, young Brazilian student
at Boston University. who was spending
his vacation at Asbury Park, was
drowned while bathing in the surf yes
terday.
The Colombian Consul General at
London accuses the United States OF in
trigue in the canal negotiations, but adds
that the opposition IS sufficiently strong
to overthrow President Marroquin.
Former Cashier Tulloch, of the Wash
ington postofTice feels that he has been
injured by publication in the Phila-
delphia Press, former Postmaster Gene
raj Smiths newspaper, and may sue for
libel.
The Capital Traction Company, OF
Washington, has embarked in the build
ing of street cars, and few days ago
placed twenty new cars in service.
They were built at the Georgetown
shops of the company.
A sensational break occurred in the
prices of cotton in New York, yesterday.
July contracts broke 5S points and
August "a points After the first rush
Of liquidation there was partial rally
on renewed evidences Of clique support,
but the market remained very nervous.
Henry Haverwald, 40 years old, a
laborer employed on the farm of Oscar
Willishouse, near Castle Shannon, Pa,
was murdered by his employer some time
last week. WillshOuse is under arrest.
1t appears that the murder was the re-
suit of a quarrel concerning the presumed
relations of Mrs. Willishouse and Hayer-
valid which had aroused the jealousy OF
the husband.
The London war Office yesterday re
ceived dispatch from Col. Rochtort,
one of the British officers serving with
the Abyssinian torce in Somaliland,
which says the Abyssinians on May 81,
after a series of forced marches, struck
the Mad Mulah's forces near Jeyd, sur
prising them at dawn and killing ], 900
spearmen and capturing almost all their
cattle and sheep and 1000 camels.
William E. Corey, president of the
Carnegie Steel Company, was appointed
Yesterday by the finance committee OF
the United States Steel Corporation as
assistant to President Schwab, with full
powers. 1t was officially announced
that Mr.. Corey is to perform the active
duties of the presidency, and Wall street
takes this to mean the eventual retire
ment of Mr.. Schwab as head OF Mr.
Morgan's billion dollar trust.
The defeat of a clerical candidate for
election to the Germaa Reichstag in a
country district adjacent to Strassburg,
occasioned riotous outbreak yesterday
against the anti-clericals. Mobs parad-
ed the streets, hootiug and stoning Jew
ish shops. The rioters attempted to
liberate their arrested friends, which
caused revolver shots to be exchanged.
The clericals have declared a boycott
against the Jews and Protestants.
A semi official statement was pub
lished in st. Petersburg yesterday to the
effect that there had been no negotiations
with the United States looking to the
presentation of "A petition from the
American Jews concerning the Kisheneff
massacre. A semi-oficial note issued in
st. Petersburg intimates that Russia will
regard any communication from the
United States on the Kischeneff mass
acre as an attempt at interference.
A conhagration that ragged for two
hours before it was gotten under control
occurred yesterday in the establishment
of Samuel Kirk & Son Company, gold
smiths and silversmiths, Baltimore.
The damage, including that resulting to
the adjoining buildings on either side, is
estimated at about 1925, 600. Several
employees who were at work on an upper
floor were hemmed in by the flames, and
were rescued with considerable difficulty.
The dead body of Richard Tibbitts,
-year-old newsboy, was found in
deserted place a mile and half from
Rockford, H., yesterday. The child
had practically been disemboweled, the
chest split open as though with a sharp
knife. In his throat was stuffed an old
handkerchief. His hands were bound
by his suspenders, which were tied in
hard knot. Beside him lay his unsold
papers, a bag of candy and some
pennies. The lad disappeared from his
home eight days ago. A companion
of his own age declared he had been
drowned in the river three miles from
where the body was found, and a fruit
less search had been made in that di-
ractiou