Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.


mum.
Owing to the discovery of bubonic
plague at Callao the principal markets
of Lima have been closed and the shops
have been transferred to neighboring
squares.
The mutilated remains of woman
with diamond rings in her ears have
been found in the Yellowstone river,
near Jardine, Mont. SO far no one has
been able to identify the remaies.
Gardiner G. Rowland, general mana
ger of the New York Herald, died sud-
denly at his residence in New York Sat
urday evening of angina pectoris. Mr..
Rowland, was in his sixty-ninth year.
Walter Sherman shot himself in
Brunswick, Md, yesterday. The ball
passed two inches above the heart. he
was living this morning, but his condi-
ton is critical. He was to have been
married today, but his fiance changed
her mind. This led to Sherman's rash
act.
Members of the democratic national
committee have been interviewed by the
Chicago Record Herald as to Grover
Cleveland as a candidate for the demo-
cratic nomination for president mex
wear. Here is how they stand; Those
in favor, 3; those opposed, II; noncom-
initial, 8.
Representative Joseph g. Cannon
was in Lincoln. Neb,, yesterday the
guest of Representative Burkett. Mr..
Cannon says there will be an extra SEES
sion of Congress to convene November
9. to take up the Cuban reciprocity bill
and matters affecting the island posses
sions of the country.
A dispatch from Syracuse, n. T.,
saws: "a terrible head-on collision, IN
which five persons were killed, occurred
at Nelson Lake on the Mohawk and
Malone Railroad yesterday afternoon.
Two passenger trains, travelling at a
high rate, erased into each other and
five persons are reported dead and sew
eral injured.
The Russian government has au,
thorized a denial of the story circulated
bv the central committee for relief o.
the Kishineff sufferers to the effect that
there have been terrible massacres Of
Jews in that town, and much suffering
among them in other parts of Bessarabli
or southwest Russia.
Hugh Rivers, 20 years old, while
alone in room in the house OF hl'
brother, John r. Rivers, 2O3l Ninth
street northwest Washington, yesterday
shot himself through the left lung. The
bullet entered above the heart and lodget
in the tissues of the back. Rivers wa
removed to the Garfield Hospital.
A startling confession was made to In
spector Wheeler in Chicago yesterday by
Julius Wiltrax, the latter declaring tina
his father, John Wiltrax, had shot ant
killed six-year-old Paul PaasekOwski
The circumstantial evidence was so strong
that charge of murder was preferred
against the elder Wiltrax and he ha
Dttu diiNobNus
A fire, suspected ofbeing of incendjary
origin, yesterday afternoon and evening
destroyed hundreds of houses and mil
lions of feet of lumber in Ottawa
Canada. John White, who has beer
released from the penitentiary, afte
serving a term ofimprisOnmentfor arson
was caught near where the fire was frs
discovered. He was taken to the polio
station and will be charged with starting
the conhagration.
A desperate street duel took place il
Yazoo City, Miss, yesterday Afternoon
between T. A. and f. NJ. Kelley, on on
side, and R. F. Birdsall, editor Of tn
Yazoo Sentinel, and his two brothers-in
law. Gibbs and Doyle Dorsey, on tn
other. T. A. Kelley was Instant
killed by bullet through his heart, an,
his brother was dangerously wounded
DOYLE Dorsey was also fatally shot, an
died later The trouble grew out
politics.
An internal machine with a hundre
! pounds of dynamite was found in DO
on the Cunard pier in New York Satui
> dav. According to the expert opinion
1, the superintendent of the bureau OF con
bustibies, the box was found and PIT
, into the river Just in the nick of time
! prevent it from exploding and demo
/, ishing the pier and the steamer Umbri'
! ! which was alongside the wharf and abol
! to sail The discovery of the box WI
due to a letter which was received at p'
lice HEADQUARTERS, addressed to Commits
siOner Greene.