Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

thing IKE an arunclal DlIu.
Rev. DR.. David Gregg, of Brooklyn,
yesterday predicted negro uprising in
the South, which, he declared, was
drifting back to slavery.
A positive denial of the story that the
Goulds have secured control of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad is entered by
the officials of that system.
A plot was discovered on Saturday to
blow up with dynamite the Adventist
Sanitarium in Battle Greek, Mich, while
dedicatory services were in progress.
George E. Smith, better known as
"Pittsburg Phil" says he has made his
last bet, and will never visit a race track
again. Not that he is broke but is tired
of the game.
The grand jury of Breathitt county,
Ky.. has returned a second indictment
against Curtis Jet, charging him with
the murder of James Cockerill as well
as the assassination of j. b. Marcum.
Two buildings in which 80 Italian
laborers were sleeping at Davis, W. Va,
we're wrecked by dynamite on Saturday
by men in the town who were opposed TO
the presence of the foreigners as laborers.
Ex-Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith, in a letter to Postmaster General
PAYNE, stated that the Tullock charges
had all been investigated during his ad-
ministration and found to be unjustihed.
The ]. /. Case factory and threshing
machine shops in Racine, Wis, the
Standard Oil Company tanks and sheds
and half dozen residences and small
factories were destroyed by fire yester-
day.
Seventeen men, including three Bull
garian officers, recently killed themselves
upon realizing that further resistance
was useless in the recent fight between
imperial forces and insurgent bands in
the Bulgarian village of Mogil.
Col. Charles Goldsborough, aide on
Governor Smiths staff and president of
the Highspire DistilIery Company, died
Yesterday after brief illness at his home
in Baltimore, aged GA years. He served
during the war in both the Confederate
navy and army.
Ruperto Rios, the Filipino leader in
the Province of Tayabas, who was
captured about month ago, has been
convicted of murder and sentenced to
death. Twenty-seven of his followers
also were convicted and sentenced to
various terms of imprisonment.
The Brooklyn Eagle says that an in
vestigation made by it shows that $780,
900 per annum is paid in New York
State in excess of the normal CONNER
cial rentals for postofices The Eagle
adds that as the leases run for 10 years,
the total excess amounts to 50, 600, 600.
Sixteen colored persons, two families
of cotton plantation hands, were drowned
in the Mississippi river near Pecan
Point, forty miles north of Memphis on
Saturday. They left the plantation after
dark in two skifs. Waves from pass
ing steamer capsized the frail boats, and
all hands save one went down.
In a riot at baseball ground at High
Bridge, in West Liberty borough, Pa,
yesterday, one negro was killed, two
were probably fatally shot, a third was
badly beaten and thrown down a hill and
three white boys were severely but not
fatally wounded. One of the negroes
escaped lynching by very narrow
margin.
In the trial races on Saturday Reliance
defeated Constitution by "a minutes ard
26 seconds, but the figures are without
significance. The last few miles of the
race was a drift, and Reliance was a mile
or more nearer the finish line than the
Constitution when the drift began, there
by securing big advantage. Columbia
was nearly three miles away when the
Reliance finished.
The British consul at Erzeroum re-
ports that an official estimate places the
number of persons killed in the earth
quake in the Van district of Asiatic
Turkey at $50, while the loss of cattle
was incalculable, as, owing to the late
ness of the spring, large majority OF
the animals were indoors. Nearly a
score of villages were completely des-
troyed and many more were partially
demolished. The center of the seismic
disturbance was in the neighborhOod of
Mount Gipan.
That a person can articulate and speak
without a tongue is clearly demonstrated
at the Baltimore City Hospital in the
case of William Andrews, sailor, ma
tive of Iceland, whose tongue and ton
sils were recently taken out in an opera
ton for cancer. Not only did the man
survive the shock of the operation, but
he has surprised the physicians by retain
ing his power of speech despite the fact
that every organ was taken from his
mouth and throat and portion of the
larynx clipped off, He is now well on
the road to recovery, and will be dis
charged from the hospital in a few days.
The Hamburg-American line steam
ship Bulgaria, over which some anxiety
was recently caused by a report that she
was at sea with her machinery disabled,
arrived at Baltimore yesterday from
Hamburg via Boulogne and Halifax.
The boilers of the Bulgaria became dis
abled on May 20, but the breakdown |
was repaired in four-and-one-half hours.
On the voyage to Halifax the Bulgaria
carried carried the largest number of
passengers ever brought to America on
one ship. The total number was 2, 500.
OF these $50 were bound for points in
the western States, and the balance were
;o,,rna1,;nO 70 tho farming districts of