Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-31
News Of the Day.

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The fourteenth week of the textile
workers strike in Fall River will Close
today and 10000 of the operatives have
left that place.
Rev. @. II. Hess, a Dunkard preacher
dropped dead in the Dunkard Church,
at Wrightsville, Pa. yesterday while dc.
livering funeral sermon. He was Sc
years Of age.
Three persons were killed and II in
jured in a rear-end collision between sec.
tion No. and section No. / of train
No. 8, Missouri Pacific Worlds Fair
special, at Upton, No., early yesterday
A rumor is current in London that
Miss Nancy Letter is to be married
quietly to Captain Colin Campbell be.
fore Lord Curzon returns to India. Mrs
Letter opposed the match until Lady
Curzon interceded for her sister.
Secretary of State Hay has issued a
circular letter to the representatives oil
the United States government in other
countries, carrying out the President
instructions locking to the summoning
of another international peace confer
ence.
Following a fight yesterday evening
in a street car in Latrobe, Pa, growing
out of an Italians insistence upon open
ing window, Floyd Anthony, the
conductor, is dying, and armed men are
securing the hills in search of his as
salants.
An operation for appendicitis was per-
formed on Japanese Minister Kogoro
Takahira 10 a hotel 10 New York yester-
day. The case issaid to be serious one
aud attaches of the japanese Legation at
Washington have been summoned to the
Minister'S bedside. At lila O'Clock yes
lerday morning ii was reported that there
had been no change in the condition Of
Minister Takahira.
1t is said that Mexico is on the verge
OF another revolution. The cause is an
alleged act of war on the part of the re-
public OF Salvador. Gen. Salvador To-
ledo is now preparing to invade Guate-
mala at the head Of forces furnished by
The Salyadorean republic. President
Cabrera, OF Guatemala, who owes his
power to Gen. Toledo, has turned against
Toledo, who il now to be forced In the
presidency of Guatemala through the
aid of 80, 600 Salvadorean troops. Con-
ditions in Guatemala are reported worse
than in many years. An American dol
lar is worth $l5 of the currency OF the
country.
A second murder in MasontOwn, Pa,
within "a hours was made known yester'
day when Steve Borok, employed at
the Bessemer coke plant reported that
late Saturday night he saw man thrown
into coke oven and cremated. Borok
saws he saw three men scufiiing on Top OF
an oven, and moment later saw two OF
the men jump to the ground aud disap-
pears in the darkness. Just then flames
issued from the oven, as though fuel bad
been tossed into it. Coroner Hagan to-
dav ordered the oven drawn, when
blackened human bones and teeth were
found. The murdered man and his as
asaiants are unknown,
Ross Schafer, farmer, aged 60 years,
living near Belmore, Ohio, called John
Ham, aged 80. who had been employed
by him as a farmland, from his resi-
dence and under cover Of the night shot
twice at Ham from a hiding place, let
ting go the contents of double barreled
shotgun. Ham, not knowing what had
happened, ran squarely into Scbsfer,
and third shot penetrated the stomach,
producing almost instant death. Ham
had secured a judgment against Schaier
for services rendered only Saturday al:
ternoon in court and Schafer sought re-
venge Schafer is held to answer to the
charge at preliminary hearing.