Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-28
News of the Day.

Hard times have struck wall street
New York and, according to one OF the
largest operators on the Stock Exchange,
more than $500 clerks have been
dismissed from various offices in the last
two weeks.
George Jay Gould, it is reported IN
New York, is about to enter politics
He is a strong republican, and, 1t IS
said, will run for Congress from the
Lakewood district, in which he lives, 10
New Jersey.
The report of the British Royal Com
mission on the volunteer and mailtla
forces practically recommends conscrip-
ton as the only means of providing q
home-defeDse army adequate for the pro-
lection of the country in the absence OF
partial absence Of. the regular troops.
Revolver in hand, George Patterson,
president Of the Excelsior Trust Com
pany, in Philadelphia yesterday gave
chase TO aud captured William +. rs
sick, who, it is alleged, had attempted
to fleece the bank and one of its custom
ers out of thirty dollars by means OF a
worthless check.
T. S. Ingraham. first assistant grand
chief engineer of the International
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
dropped dead al his desk at the conven-
ton in Los Angeles, CAL, yesterday,
from apoplexy. Mr.. IDgraham was at
sorbed in work when he lost conscious
ness and fell from his chair. He ex-
pired almost Immediately. His health
had not been good for some time. The
deceased was resident of Cleveland.
By the decisive yea and nay vote Of
AL to 1873, the Methodist General Con-
ference in Los Angeles, CAL, yesterday
decided not to make any change in the
church discipline in the matter of pro-
hibited amusements. +. NJ. Randall,
of Tacoma, Wash, was elected secretary
of the Epworth League, and J. I. Nc
Farland, of Topeka, Kan, secretary OF
the Sunday union. Both elections were
holly contested, and it required half a
dozen ballots in each case to arrive 0t a
choice.
After an exciting debate in which
Premier Combes and Foreign Minister
Delcasse set forth the action and pur-
poses Of the French government towards
the Vatican, the Chamber of Deputies
Yesterday, by an overwhelming vote, APP
proved the course Of the government in
recalling NJ. Nisard, ambassador to the
Vatican, and rejected all propositions of
the extreme element for an immediate
dissolution of the church and the State.
The vote approving the action of the
government was 427 to 90.
In clash between the police and a
crowd of negroes in west Sixty-second
street, New York, early yesterday one of
the offenders was shot after he had as.
saulted an officer. A woman spectator
who sat in a window was struck by a
stray bullet, razors we're drawn and
bricks were thrown and pistols fired by
an angry crowd of men who perched on
roofs or in the windows ofhouses adjoin-
ing the scene of the trouble. None of
the injured was fatally hurt. TIL etrouble
was caused DO policeman attempting TO
dispense a crowd OF 20 negroes who were
creating disturbancein front of a dance
hall.
As was stated in the Gazette, the
General Assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States, by an
overwhelming vote, in Buffalo, N. Y,
yesterday adopted the report of the com.
mittee on union with the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. The resolutions
adopted included not only favorable
action on the report, but recommended
certain other steps to be taken to secure
the union of the churches and TO make
plain the position of the church. The
question OF proposed basis Of union will
now go to the presbyteries Of the Cen
eral Assembly. If it is approved by a
vote of two-thirds of them, the neces-
sary steps will be taken at the next Gen
eral Assembly to effect the union.