Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The Southern Railway has received
81 locomotives and 25 new passenger
coaches.
Admiral Dewey is to review and in
spect the North Atlantic feet off the Vir-
ginia capes.
Guantanamo, Cuba, will be the princi-
pal United States naval station in the
West Indies.
Revolution has broken out in Nicara-
qua. President Zelaya says he has
sufficient force to crush it, but this is
doubted.
Gen. Hector Macdonald, commander
of the British forces in Ceylon, will be
tried by court-martial on charges OF i'm
morality.
Archibald Jones has been sentenced
to three years in the penitentary IN
Erin, Tenn, for bigamy. He had mar
ried nine wives.
The National Packing Company, which
has taken in a number Of Chicago con-
Germs, has been incorporated with capt.
tai of SIS, O0O,0 900.
A resolution was adopted in the
Departmental Assembly at Panama
yesterday fayoring the ratification of the
Panama canal treaty.
The French Chamber of Deputies by
a vote of 3O4 to 246 last night rejected
all the applications for authorization
made by the religious preaching orders.
The principal business of the Woman
Suffrage Convention at New Orleans yes
terday was election of officers. as follows:
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait of New York
is elected president.
While attempting to arrest Doc Smith,
a negro, in Greenville, Miss, yesterday.
Officer Blackwell was shot and instantly
killed, and Deputy Matthew Curry per-
haps fatally wounded.
Judge Kohlsaat, yesterday in the
United States Court in Chicago, issued
preliminary injunction restraining the
Indiana coal companies from continuing
their combination in Chicago.
Senators Daniel and Martin, of Vir-
ginia, called upon the President Mon
day and Endorsed the candidacy of ex-
Senator Jones, Of Arkansas, for men,
bership on the isthmian canal commits
sion.
The message of President Palma on
the amended reciprocity treaty was de-
bated in the Cuban Senate yesterday.
The President considers that the amend
ments made by the United States Senate
should be adopted.
Count Won Bernstorf, chief of the
police of POtsdam, who recently visited
the United States, at meeting yester-
day of the German national committee,
which is seeking to stop the traffic in
girls for immoral purposes, said his in
quiries in New York had convinced him
that few girls were imported there, and
that they we're enticed to South America
chiefly.
1t is announced that the Southern
Railway is to extensively enlarge its
shops in Knoxville Tenn, already one
of the largest railroad shops in the
South. The enlargement, presumably,
is for the purpose of building locomotives
for use on the Southern system. No
definite plans have been given out
officially. About 800 men are now en-
ployed in the local shops.
Charles f. Hughes, who accidentally
shot and killed his roommate, Holmes
Bowel, at Clarksburg, w. Va, on
Saturday night last, attempted suicide
Monday night while on a passenger
train en- route through Cumberland,
Md, to Berryville, Va, to attend the
funeral of the young man he killed, and
is now in the hospital out of danger,
but still suffering from the effects of the
poisoning.
The San Domingo minister of war has
surrendered to the revolutionists, and an
other member of the cabinet has Joined
the foreign minister, Sanchez, in seeking
refuge at the United States consulate.
There has been !severe fighting at La
Vega. At Port of Spain, Trinidad, IA
persons were killed and 40 wounded in
the riots in which the Government build
ings were burned and the Governor of
Trinidad was forced to take refuge on the
British cruiser Pallas.
Judge Halsey, in the Circuit Court at
Milwaukee, has rendered an important
opinion to the effect that so-called black
lists are privileged communications.
The libel suit of Valentine Gerhard
against Armour & Co. and William G.
Lloyd, the Milwaukee representative of
the combination of packers, for $40, 900
damages was nonsuited. 1t will be
appealed to the Supreme Court. Ger
hard brought suit for damages after he
had been refused supply of meat be-
cause previous bill had not been paid.