Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-10-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wilson >. Blssell, former fOstma'lei-
General died at 1915 o'clock last night
in Bafalo.
Brazil has awarded contract inyoly-
ing s25, 600, 600 for harbor improvements
at Rio Janeiro.
The opinion continues to be expressed
in London that the new British Cablnet
will last but a short time.
The continued illness of one OF the
Jurors delays the trial of Tillman for the
murder of Gonzales at Columbia, 3. Z.
All of the campaign managers Of the
various states in which there are close
contests this fan report great difficulty
in raising funds.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain opened his
campaign on the tariff question with
speech at Glasgow last night. 1t was
really protectionist speech
Statements Indicate that the new
union railroad station in Washington
may be ready for the reception ofvisItors
to the Inauguration in 1905.
Since September Secretary OF the
Treasury Shaw has released from the
Treasury and made available for general
circulation total of $lS, 4S9, 200.
Republicans of Rhode Island yester-
day ind )rsed President Roosevelt for re-
nomination and nominated Col. S. T.
Colt, the president of the rubber trust
for Governor.
The President has appointed COM
mission which, with a similar body APP
pointed by Great Britain, is to inyesti-
gate the question Of water routes from
the Great Lakes to the Atlantic ocean.
At meeting of the committee ap-
pointed by the blast furnace operators
ofthe Central West held at Pittsburg re-
Gently to consider the question of restrict
ing the output of iron to the market re-
quirements, it was decided to order a
suspension of rs per cent. of the cnpacity
for the last quarter of the year.
The wife of William Tyson, colored,
living three miles from Starke, Fla,
has presented him with bankruptcies, two
boys and two girls. Both boys died
soon after birth and the two girls lived
several hours. A photograph of the
parents is to be sent to President Roose-
welt.
The trustees of the estate of Mrs.
Florence Maybrick, now serving a term
in prison in England, are alleged to be
short in their accounts to the extent OF
SIS, 900. One item of 40, 00O acres of
land it is alleged was sold for SS5, 600,
and of this sum only $40, 900 was adj
mitted as received by the trustees.
The convention of the Episcopal Do
cese of Eastern North Carolina will'meet
to-day at Goldsboro to elect a coadjutor
to Bishop Watson, now past eighty years
and iufrm in health. 1t is generally be-
lieved that the choice of the convention
will be Rev. Robert Strange, rector Of
st. Paul's Episcopal Church of Rich
mond, Va.
Another respite has been given to the
unfortunate shareholders of the embar-
raised Consolidated Lake Superior prop
erty. Speyer & Co., who hold all the
corporations assets as security for a loan
of SIS, 050, 900, and who advertised that
they would sell the property at auction,
have consented to postpone the sale one
week, from October 8 to Thursday, Oc-
tober Is.
Gustav Schwab, agent in New York
of the North German Lloyd Line, says
that his company had given notice that
it will withdraw from the North Atlantic
conference agreement regulating first
and second class passenger rates Mr.
Schwab does not think that the with
drawal will affect passenger rates, or
mean any material cut in those now pre-
vailing.
The Eastern and Western Retail Pro-
teotive Associations will not consolidate.
Committees from both organizations
met in joint conference in Washington
yesterday morning, and after long ses-
sion agreed TO recommend certain conces-
sions to their respective bodies, by which
they hoped unifcation of the butchers
interests of the country could be effected.
Their recommendations, however,
we're rejected by both organizations, and
the conventions proceeded separately.
Peter O. Elliott, the insane man who
was arrested on Monday in trying to
force his way into the White House to
see the President, is still confined at the
st. Elizabeth's Insane Asylum near
Washington, to which he was committed
by a board of examining physicians
Monday afternoon. Elliott still main
tains that he meant no harm to the
President, and did not intend to assault
or injure him had he had chance to
see him Monday. 1t is said that Elliott
became crazed in trying to perfect per,
petual motion machine,