Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-27
News of the Day.

At Wilmington, n. c., yesterday Rev.
Robt. Strange, ID. d., rector ofSt. Paul s
Parish, Richmond, was elected coadju-
tant to Right Rev. A. A. Watson, ID.
D.. bishop Of the East Carolina district
of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
AN offer by G. II. Cramp to lay bare
the secrets of the Cunard contracts with
the English government created a stir
among the representatives of maritime
and commercial interests assembled be-
fore the Merchant Marine Commission
yesterday in the Philadelphia Board OF
Trade.
The Methodist General Conference at
Los Angles, CAL, yesterday devoted its
time to the election of the general con-
ference officers, including publishing
agents. secretaries and assistant secre-
taries of the various societies. In sew
eral cases the first ballot failed to show
an election, and the second one was
taken, the result of which will not be
announced until today.
By unanimous vote and amid great
enthusiasm the Methodist Protestant
Conference in Washington last night
indorsed the proposition TO begin negoti-
ations looking to the amalgamations
of the Congregational United Brethren
and Methodist Protestant churches.
But in spite of the overwhelming senti
nlent in favor OF amalgamation, there
was great diversity of opinion on the
method to be pursued in bringing about
the desired end.
The Shan Khai Kwan correspondent
of the London Daily Chronicle sends a
report received from Niuchwang that on
MAY 90, thinking that the japanese had
retired from Feng Wang Cheng, $4,000
Russians from Haicheng and Llaoyane
marched toward Feng Weng Cheng.
They were surprised by 80, 600 JAPANESE
in the Tatung Pass. The Russian
casualties were 4, 900 and over a thous'
and Russians surrendered. The report
does not state the japanese losses.
While suffering from nervous prostra.
ton, aggravated by fears that she hac
contracted serious lung trouble, which
her family physician says were almost
groundless, Miss Frances Louise Neser,
81 years old, cut her throat yesterday
morning from ear to ear in the bathroom
of her home in Baltimore. She used
large butcher knife, with which she was
last seen in the kitchen preparing the
meat intended for the midday meal ofthe
family, and almost severed her head from
her body.
In Baltimore yesterday the jury
in the Eareckson- Radcliffe case, in
which Mrs. Sallie G. Earackson, OF
Stevensville, Kent county, sued Mrs.
Anna (Nancie) Radcliffe, of Baltimore,
widow of the late William H. Radcliffe,
of Dorchester county, for $40, 900 dam
ages for the alleged alienation of the
affections of the plaintiffs husband,
Thomas b. Eareckson, returned a sealed
verdict in the Court of Common Pleas
for 81, 500 in favor of the plaintiff. An
appeal will be taken.
A dispatch from Cape Haytien says
a serious battle was fought yesterday be-
tween the Dominican troops and the
revolutionist at Esperanza, on the road
from Monte Cristi to Santiago, near
Mao. The revolutionists were victorious.
Many we're killed CT wounded on both
sides. General Raoul Cabrera, minister
of war, who commanded the govern
ment troops, was killed. The revo-
lutionists are before Navarette, where
another battle will be fought. The
United States cruiser Detroit and the
gunboat Newport are off Monte Cristi