Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has declared semi-annual dividend OF .
per cent. on approximately 1888, 600 ooo
capitalization.
M. Tzokof, the new Bulgarian diplo-
matte agent in London, says that war
between Turkey and Bulgaria is lneylta-
BILE in the coming spring.
Pore Plus Y has sent contribution
to the Italian firemen who aided IN put
ting out the fire in the Vatican, the
damage of which was estimated at
$50, 600.
Camille Flammarian, the French
astronomer, attributes the recent mag
netic disturbances to the huge sun spots
which crossed the center meridian OF the
sun Oh Saturday.
In the effort to break mp wholesale rob-
berry of freight cars on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, at Trerton, N. j., two more
arrests have been made. Both OF the
prisoners are railroad employees.
Notice has been posted by the Dunbar
Furnace Company, in Connellsville,
Pa, announcing that, beginning Noyem-
Der / cut of per cent. in the wages
of their 500 employees became effective
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
October 81, 1908, the total debt, less
cash in the Treasury, amounted to
1920, 400, sol, which was an increase for
the month of 81, GAG, 956.
In the trial of the Countess Kinlecki
at Berlin Yesterday, DIR. Rosinski, the
family physician, testified that he visited
her the night after the ostensible birth
of her son and she refused to permit him
to examine the child or herself.
Joseph Craddock, negro, was lynch
ed by an infatuated mob, composed
chiefly of blacks, at Taylorstown, about
seventeen miles from Shreveport, La,
on Sunday night. Craddock killed two
inofIensiye colored men and fatally in
iured another.
The Consolidation Coal Company of
Baltimore has purchased majority OF
the stock of the Metropolitan Coal Com
pany. of Boston, concern which is said
to handle at least 65 per cent. Of the
retail bituminous and anthracite coal
business of that city.
The Dowager Empress and high Chi
nese officials in Picking conferred about
the reoccupation OF Mukden by Russian
troops. The Chinese Minister at Wash
ington has been trying to interest the
United States government in China's
behalf in her Manchurian troubles.
More than one thousand tons of field
and garden seeds are to be given away
by the government during the distribu-
ton of the Department of Agriculture
which began yesterday and lasts for about
four months. Every State and Territory
of the Union will be benefited by the
work, the cost of which is estimated at
1910, 900.
His suggestion that there might be a
family service over the body of his sis
ter, Mrs. Booth Tucker, before the pub
lie service Sunday at Carnegie Hall, in
New York, not having been accepted,
Ballingtou Booth, leader of the Volun-
teers Of America, yesterday declined to
20 to the Salvation Army headquarters
and view the body privately there.
The marriage of Miss May Goelet and
the Duke of RoxbUrghe will take place
at ST. Thomas Church, New York next
Tuesday. The Duchess of Roxburghe,
mother of the Duke, sailed for this
country on Saturday on the Campania,
accompanied by her third daughter,
Lady Isobel Innes-Ker. for the purpose
of attending the wedding. The Duchess
and Lady Isobel will be the guests of
Mrs. Goeletat her Fifth avenue residence.
The officers, petty officers and sailors
of the dispatch boats Sylph and May
flower, which had the President and his
family and friends for passengers the
better part of the summer, called at the
White House yesterday afternoon. They
were given cordial reception and a
bounteous luncheon. A number OF
negroes were among those who were at
the luncheon. Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt
shook hands all around and made them
selves generally agreeable.