Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| thoroughbred, won Iuc Harlem NatlOual
Handicap at Chicago on Saturday, and
Captain S. S. Browns Broomstick was
an easy winner in the Great American
stakes at Gravesend.
The Grand Prix de Paris of $40, 600
at about one mile and seven furlongs,
was run at Longchamps on Saturday, in
the presence of an immense concourse.
1t was won by Edmond Blanc's Quo
Vadis. w. X. Vanderbilfs Alpha
came in fourth.
The new edifce of Grace Memorial
Reformed Church, in Washington. which
President Roosevelt attends, was dedi-
Gated yesterday with appropriate exer-
cises. President Roosevelt, with his
family, attended the services and made
brief address
Douglass Gordon, whose sister married
Senator Hanna's son, has created a
sensation in New York. 70 George NJ.
Duncan, barber at the Hotel Cadillac
shop, he presented check for 81 400,
remarking; 81 think you have earned
this; take it and buy YOURSELF barber
shop"
Julian Wilson, of Philadelphia, q
prominent member of the County Golf
Club who was caught at the locker of
another member of the golf club and ac-
cused of stealing money and jewels, de-
clares that his confession of theits was
forced from him, and insists that he is
innocent.
Geo. Howard Littlefeld, a son of the
late member of the storage firm of Little
field, Alvord & Co., of Washington,
ID. c., was murdered in a Salt Lake City
dive Friday night. He was lured into
the place, drugged with chloroform and
robbed. He never regained conscious
and died in a short time.
Eppinger & Co., of San Francisco,
one of the largest grainde aling firms in
the United States, went to the wall on
Saturday. The crash came suddenly,
and for a time threatened completely to
upset the local grain market. The firm
was caught short on December wheat.
Liabilities 81, $50, 900; assets 500, 600.
Mrs John Swan, wife of a Talbot
county Nd, farmer, was assaulted in
her home, several miles from Easton,
on Saturday by an unknown man, who
attempted to outrage her. The assailan
would probably have been successful
but for the noble fighting of the woman
and of her dog which came to her rescure.
The man escaped.
Howard Blackburn, who already has
made two voyages across the Atlantic
alone in small dories, started from
Gloucester, Mass, yesterday afternoon in
his l5-fOot dOry America in third at
tempt to cross the ocean, with Havre as
his objective point. His attention is to
return via Gibraltar, Western Islands,
Porto Rico and Cuba and exhibit his
boat at the st. Louis Exposition.
A freight wreck involving a loss Of
many thousand dollars occurred early
Friday night on the main line of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Wood
stock, Nd. By the breaking of an axle
five cars loaded with stock, including
cattle, hogs and sheep, were derailed,
and many of the animals were crushed
to death, and scores were so badly Grip
pied that they had TO be killed to end
their misery.
John Fisgus, aged IS, was fatally
hurt in Cincinnati yesterday by ken
mel of % hounds. As he was approach
ing the kennels of julius Ernest the
hounds seized him and tore him almost
to pieces. Mrs. Ernest was seriously
hurt in trying to rescue the boy. Finally
Charles Fissell mounted horse and
undertook to ride over the dogs. Both
rider and horse were seriously bitten,
especially the latter,
A general strike Of the union bakers
of Baltimore took place at II o'clock
last night. The employing bakers were
prepared for the walkout and made such
arrangements as they could yesterday for
the impending trouble. They reached
an agreement last night not to give in to
the men. The men who went on strike
are principally engaged in the manu-
facture of bread and cake, and have.
demanded an increase in pay.
There is a wholesale emigration of
miners and wOrkmen in the iron districts
of Austria to the United States in con-
sequence of the unprecedented stagnation
of the iron industry. Hundreds of men
have been discharged since the beginning
of the year and the mines and iron works
are operated on short time. Wages have
fallen so per cent and in many instances
the men are earning less than 80 cents
day.
A band of Bulgarian reyolutionists was
destroyed by Turkish troops on Saturday
at Cradobar, near Salonica. Fifteen
Bulgarians were killed. Another in
surgant- band is reported to have been
annihilated on the railway Lille near
Ristovatz, Servia, after six-hOur fight. |
Surprise is expressed that the band was
able to approach so near the town. The
Insurgents last Wednesday killed 10
Greek villagers while the latter were in
church at SelovO, near Monastin.
Lightning struck the spire Of ST.
Paurs Episcopal Church in Cleveland,
Ohio, during heavy storm yesterday
afternoon. The spire was practically |
demolished, while two immense blocks
of stone crashed through the roof of the
church, causing damage to the extent of
several thousand dollars. The Hanna |
Mccormick wedding is scheduled to take
place at the church next Wednesday, |
and for a time il was thought other |