Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-12
News of the Day.

The republican convention in Mary
land Yesterday instructed for Roosevelt.
The Virginia Baptist State Associ-
alton. colored, opened its thirty-seyenth
annual conference in Washington yes
terday.
The story published by the Tribuna,
of Rome, that the Pope has sent Cardinal
Satoi to America to make an inquiry in
10 Catholicism here is denied.
Democratic primaries in Florida re-
suited in victoroy for Senator ITALIA
ferro for denomination and likelihood
that the State will be for Hearst.
Final settlementof the Fair estate liti-
CATION was affected in New York yester-
day. the case being dismissed and Mrs.
Oelrichs and Mrs. Vanderbilt paying the
Nelson family substantial sum.
By decision of the Supreme Court of
Georgia betting on horse racing in
Georgia is debarred, and the Supreme
Court of Alabama has decided that pools
should not be sold on horse races in
Birmingham.
Charles Schut, aged IS years, hanged
himself at the foot OF his wife's grave in
WoodIawn Cemetery, at Great Bend,
Pa, yesterday. About year ago he
lost most of his property and this was
followed by the death of his wife.
Prince Esper Oukhtomsky, editor OF
the St. Petersburg Viedomosti, a leading
political journal of Russia, who has been
deputed by the Gar to inquire into the
American sentiment toward Russia, ar
rived in New York yesterday and will
make tour of the country with the OBJ
ect in view.
Secretary Shaw yesterday ordered a
third call on the depositary banks, direct
ing them to transfer to the Treasury on
or before May 25 approximately $40,
600. 900. Yesterdays call is for 10 per
cent. of the authorized balances of the
depository banks as they stood before
the two previous calls.
Yesterday morning while Puanell
Jones, aged 10 years, and Bud Sutton,
wears old, were throwing oyster shells
into creek at Crisfeld, Nd, to dog,
Sutton struck Jones with a shell back of
the right ear, killing him instantly. SUIT
ton was lodged in Jail until Yesterday
afternoon, when Justice S w. Kennerly
decided that the killing was an accident
and the boy was released.
Impending events of great importance
to the military situation in Manchuria
are foreshadowed in official dispatches
given out late last night by the war COM
mission. On May the japanese forces
cautiously moved from Feng-wang-cheng
toward Hai-cheng, which is thirty-two
miles east by north of Niuchwang, an d
it is the opinion of the general staff that
they should certainly reach their desti-
nation within two days. fthe japanese
occupy Hai-cheng, with Port Arthur eff
(ectively cut off, Niuchwang, which the
Russians have already dismantled,
would pass into their hands. The entire
Liaotung peninsula, in fact, save Port
Arthur, and perhaps Kaipling, would be
commanded by them.
There were scenes of martial splendoI
on the Champs de Mars, in St. Peters
burg, yesterday, when Emperor Mich
olas held his annual review Of the de-
tachments of all troops in the military
district of st. Petersburg, which include
every regiment of the Imperial Guard.
Over 40, 600 troops were in line. The
maneuvres conclu led with picturesque
charge across the field. Military at
taches say the troops superiors cannot
be found in Europe. The populace
cheered the emperor and the demonstra-
ton is calculated to check the depression
caused by the unfavorable news from
the front. Among the U. S. officers
who witnessed the review was Major I.
Bentley Mott, formerly of Leesburg, Va.