Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-13
News of the Day.

Mr.. Nelson Perm, the well-knOWn
6nancier and street-railway magnate,
died at his home, in Baltimore yesterday.
The District of Columbia Equity
Court Yesterday decided in favor Of the
Burns-Hicks faction in the long-pending
Knights of Labor dispute.
Frederick A. Walpole, the botanical
artist of the Department Of Agriculture,
died Wednesday of typhoid fever, at
Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, Cal.
He was considered the best plant artist
in the United States.
Fire, which is thought to have been
of an incendiary origin, completely de-
stroyed the large warehouse of the
Shippers Box Company, at Warner and
Dock streets, Baltimore, shortly before
O'Clock last evening.
An inquiry into the volume and nego-
table securities in the country has been
determined upon by Mr.. North, the
Director of the Census with the approval
of the Secretary of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor.
Miss Margaret Ridgely, youngest
daughter of the late Charles Ridgely OF
Baltimore, has decided to become mis-
sionary. and has chosen Liberia as the
field of her labor. She will sail for that
country in the autumn.
The Indiana democratic State con-
vention yesterday elected delegates to
the St. Louis convention, and instructed
them for Parker for President Endorsed
Thomas Taggart for national committee
man. and recommended him to the
national committee as its chairman.
Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple, second
daughter of President Tyler, during
whose administration she was mistress
of the White House, on Wednesday
celebrated the eighty fourth anniversary
of her birthday at the Louise Home, in
Washington where for nearly quarter
of century she has lived.
Nine persons barely csc aped death in
the burning of Mr.. Edwin Kiefir's
home, Calvert avenue and Pimlico
road. near Baltimore at $3.50 clock yes
terday morning. Mr.. and Mrs. Kiefr
and their seven children, ranging from
6 months to IS years, were obliged to
fly for their lives in their nightclothes.
A Selma, Ala, special says the Selma
Portland Cement Company, OF Boston,
has purchased from J. 7. Milhouse a
tract of land in West Orville, Dallas
county, and will erect there a cement
works plant to cost 5000, 900. The plant
will have a capacity of $50 barrels day
which will make the works the largest In
the world.
At general meeting of glass bottle
manufacturers at Pittsburg yesterday II
was decided to close the factories on
June IS for 90 days and to demand a
reduction of 10 per cent. in wages on all
bottles up to eight ounces, with an adj
ditional per cent. cut on all sizes
above eight ounces. Other reductions
were also agreed upon.
The Thibetans have taken the offensive
against the British mission camp at
Gyangtse, Thibet. From a fort about SIX
furlongs away they steadily bombarded
the camp with half-dozen guns carry.
ing solid cannonballs of pound weight.
Another large gathering of Thibetans is
reported from the ROng Valley, and,
although the British communications In
the rear are still open, the mis- sion /;
practically besieged.
A special term of the Columbia county,
Ga, court will be called Immediately to
try negro named Ben Thomas for crimi-
nal assaultupon Miss Alice Glen, daugh'
ter OF a prominent farmer, in order to
prevent a lynching. Three nights age
the negro entered the room where the
girl slept, choked her, committed the
crime and escaped before the other in
mates knew OF the deed. He has been
quickly chased since and was captured
Wednesday night. Heis now in Jail and
has confessed the crime.