Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-22
News of the Day.

George w. Cissel, one of the foremost
citizens of Washington, died yesterday
morning at his home in Georgetown.
Oden Bowie, son of the late Gov.
Oden Bowie, died Saturday at the City
Hospital, in Baltimore, aged AZ years.
Congress Hall, in Saratoga, n. Y,
was sold at auction on Saturday for
$3.50, 600. Its original cost was about
$500, 900.
Two republican conventions were held
at Hinton, W. Va. Saturday and two
candidates nominated for Congress from
the Third congressional district.
Rain at the Worlds Fair in st. Louis
on Saturday leaking through the roof OF
the Palace of Manufactures, ruined
$500, 600 worth of gowns on exhibition
by Paris dressmakers.
The selection of Emperor William and
King Edward to be godfatLers to The
heir of the Russian throne is regarded in
official circles in ST. Petersburg as an
omen of future relations between Russia
and Great Britain.
Town Marshal J. NJ. G. Nelson, of
Cordova, Ala, was killed Saturday even
ing and his slayer, negro named Avery,
short time thereafter was taken from
caboose by mob and put to death
with stones and pistol balls.
Fire completely destroyed the Hotel
Cambridge, at Lima, o., ON Saturday.
Thirty-fve guests, with one exception,
made their escape, When the flames
were subdued George Burlage, travel
ing man, from Lawrenceburg, Ind, was
found dead.
One of the largest financial faro battles
ever recorded was decided Friday night
between ]. w. Gates and the men who
run the United States Club at Saratoga.
Alter a sitting of something like six
hours Mr.. Gates got up from the table
trihe less than $40, 600 loser.
At Cripple Creek, COL, on Saturday
two thousand citizens arrested and es-
corted out of town a number of union
men who had caused trouble. They
were told to leave the district and not
return. Citizens declare that none OF
the deportees will be allowed to return.
With more than 5OOpersons watching
the commission of the crime and not
person lifting an interfering hand, an
old man was held up Saturday afternoon
at Park Row and Duane street, New
York, brutally beaten by four stealwart
highwaymen. robbed of $45 in cash and
left PROSTATE and bleeding on the pave
ment.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will order
only 40, 600 tons of steel rails this year.
This has been decided by the management,
and the order will be given by President
Cassatt upon his return from Bar Har-
Dor the first of next month. 1t is the
purpo.e of the management to keep the
order this year far within the one given
last year.
As the result of nearly two months
work by the secret service department,
four men were arrested in Atlanta, Ga,
on Saturday, charged with making and
uttering counterfeit ten dollar bills of
the "Bufalo" pattern. The plates from
which the bills were printed were sur
rendered and about $50, 600 OF the bills
were recovered.
After weeks OF weary searching III the
South Herbert l.. Scott, wealthy con-
tractor and builder, Of Abbeville, Ga,
FUND his runaway wife living in New
York with the physician who had attended
her in a prolonged illness. The husband
declares that the woman has either
been under hypnotic influence or else
has been kept in complete subsection By
the physician with drugs.
Thomas F. Ryan stated in New York
on Saturday evening that he had pur-
chased for himself and his associates,
Blair & Co. and T. Jefferson Collidge,
IT.. the Seaboard Air Line stock which
was held by John SHELTON Williams and
J. William Mddendorf, amounting to
14O, 900 shares, and that these gentle
men will resign from the board of d.
rectors. The New York syndicate is
generally believed to have close ailillla-
lions with the Southern Railroad.
In a clump of bushes in an insulated
mart of Manayunk, just over the Phlla-
delphia county line, the body OF Mrs.
I.onise Greiner, also called KOhle, about
30 wears of age, was found yesterday.
Wounds on the head and face indicate
that she had been brutally beaten tt
death or else beaten and left to die
Jealousy over the woman is believed tC
have led to a quarrel between two men,
resulting in an attack upon her and the
flight of her assailant.
An artillery engagement has beer
fou hit between the San Jacomino bat
terry of the Paraguan army and body
of the revoutionists in which the lattei
succeeded in dislodging the guns of the
government force. The losses on eithel
side are not stated. There has been nj
bombardment Of Asuncion, the capita
of Paraguay, since last reports. Th'
insurgents have established a provisional
government, with the capital at villa
del Pillar Ql2 miles from AsunciOn), anC
have nominated General Ferreira, theil
, leader, for president, and Gonzalez No
f vero for vice president. -Four secretaries
also have been named.
With the final refusal Of the board o
governors of the Building Trades En-
! ployers' Association to give otficla
recognition to Phil Weinseimer's Build
ing Trades Alliance, efforts toward
peaceful settlement of the iudustria
strife in the building trades on Saturday