Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs

The Ohio democratic state convention
met in Columbus today.
A million dollar fire was reported this
morning at Greenwood, s. @.
This morning Senator Quay walked
down stairs at Beaver, Pa, with little
assistance. He is so much better today
that hopes of his ultimate recovery were
felt by the family physician.
The body of William Davis, a young
man Of Wilkesbarre. Pa, was found in
the Delaware q Hudson railroad yards,
at 6 o'clock this morning. The head
was severed from the body and the po-
lice are working on the theory that he
was murdered.
James Wells, OF Vine street, Philadel-
phia was arrested in Passaic, n. j., to.
day for breaking into the house of Frank
Miles, and stealing jewelry valued at
800. Miles ten year old daughter dis
covered The burglar in the house and
gave the alarm. Neighbors heard her
cries and caught Wells after afight. His
pal escaped.
Mrs. Anna DeDison Smith, daughter
of the postmaster general in President
Lincoln's cabinet, and her son, Denison
Smith, who were taken into custody on
complaint of the manager of the Hotel
Navarro, in New York, who alleged
that they owed a hotel bill of 5000,
which they failed topay, were committed
in court today in default of $500 bail,
for examination tomorrow.
The Central Passenger Railway Com
pany started work on Virginia avenue,
below Pacific at Atlantic City, n. j.,
last night, and an army Of workmen,
laboring by the light of torches, tore up
the stone roadway from Pacific avenue
to the beach, and put down the ties and
rails at a rate that dazed the hotel men
and cottagers who have been opposing
the enterprise. Work was commenced
at 10 o'clock last night in order to pre-.
vent another injunction againt the con.
struction of the railway.
The executive committee of the Navy
Athletic Association, at Annapolis, Nd, ha,
awarded to midshipman Kenneth Whiting, Of
Iarchmont, n. Y, the presentation sword
given annually to the best individual athlete
at the academy. Whiting has won the sail.
ing championship in small boats for two
seasons, and has also won two boxing cham
pionships.
Ricardo Arias and j. Morales, special COM
missioners appointed by Panama to receive
s., 000, 600 on account of the canal concessions
arrived in New York today. Mr. Arias said
that il was the purpose of the commission to
invest the money in first mortgage bonds In
New York or IN some other locality.
The treaty signed several weeks ago in
London, by which Chinese labor is allowed to
be imported into South Africa, went into
actual operation today when the steamer
Tweedale sailed for the Transyaal with ,6Ot
Chinese aboard.
The receiver of the First National Bank, Of
Cape May, which closed yesterday, states that
the bank will probably resume. The action
Of the president, DR.. Physick, in fastening to
close the bank, is regarded as an error Of
judgment
The Sterling colliery at Shamokin, Pa,
was able to resume operations this morning.
The fire which broke out last Tuesday, having
been confined last night to an air-tight gang
way.
Four men were drowned in the Fayette
river, near Garden Valley, Idaho, yesterday
by the overturning of boat in which they
attempted to shoot the rapids.
At one O'Clock this morning the union
painters and decorators, Of Boston, voted to
strike today. Sixteen hundred men are at.
fected.
A big fire is raging in Yazoo City, Miss.