Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-25
News of the Day.

125 years old, died at Washington, Ca,
yesterday. He went to Georgia 80 years
ago as a slave from Virginia.
According to the views of Jesse T.
Hill, prominent coal operator and a
leading figure in the recent convention
of the miners and operators at Knoxville,
a big coal strike is imminent and after
Sept. all mines in eastern Kentucky
and Tennessee will probably be closed
down.
Mrs. Lawrence c. Phipps has return.
ed to Pittsburg, Pa, from Chicago and
saws she was unable to come to an
agreement with her husbands repre-
sentatives to consent to divorce. An
other suit was filed againt him IN
Denver on Tuesday. She says posi-
lively that she must have the custody
of the children.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
the panic at Asuncion is Understandable.
Foreigners in all parts of Paraguay are
leaving under the protection OF the dlp-
lomatic corps. Preparations for HOSTILE
ties and negotiations looking to the set
Element of the question9 at issue between
the revolutionists and the government
are proceeding simultaneously. The
belief is growing that the government
must yield.
The Paris Mathis correspondent at
Amsterdam, Holland, has interviewed
NJ. Katayama, the japanese delegate to
the International Socialist Congress, who
is quoted as saying that the socialist par
ties are seeking to end the Russo-Japa
nese war and recently sent representa-
tive to the United States to make an APP
peal to President Roosevelt and the
American people to intervene with the
great powers toward concerted interven-
ton.
Justice Stafford, of the Supre me
Court of the District of Columbia, yes
terday issued a rule directing Mr..
Thomas E. Waggaman, well-known
Washington business man aud treasurer
of the Catholic University, to show
cause on September 6 why he should
not be adiudged bankrupt, as request
ed in the petitions filed yesterday by the
Second National Bank, National Bank
of Washington and the Metropolitan
Bank.
The State Department has received a
report on the trades unions in Germany
from Consul General Guenther, at
Frankfort, Germany. Each year there
has been an increase in membership, ex-
cept during 1901. The largest fund OF
hand. about 81, 900, 600, is that Of the
printers union. Next comes the masons
union, with about 1920, 900. He says
the total funds of all the German trades
unions at the end of 1903 were trlfie
less than SO, 900, 900.
George Harden's livery and boarding
stables at Raleigh, n. c., were entirely
burned at o'clock yesterday morning.
Seventeen horses, mainly owned private
". were burned in stalls, not one escap-
ing. The Waterman was asleep. The
fire destroyed a score of vehicles, nearly
all private, and Quilted w. a. Myatt S
warehouses, adjoining, in which were a
carload OF sugar owned by Hayemeyer *
Co.. grain, and nails and moving ma
chimes in carload lots none insured.
Philip Weinseimer, president of the
Building Trades Alliance in New York,
who is under indictment on the charges
of extortion. has consented to lead the
Labor Day parade next month. Efforts
are being made, however, by opponents
of Weinseimer to organize separate
parade. Last years parade was led by
Sam Parks, leader Of last years big
building trades strike, who has since
died in Sing Sing prison, where he was
serving a sentence for charge similar
to chat on which Weinseimer has been
indicted.
The republican campaign text book,
issued by the republican national com
mittee. draws attention to the fact that
nearly 5000 negroes are employed in the
public service, and they receive salaries
aggregating nearly $4,000, 900 a year.
The figures presented as to the employ
ment of colOred persons in the service OF
the United States government places 10
colored men in the diplomatic and con-
sular service, and they receive salaries
aggregating $50, 900. In the depart
mental service in Washington there are
9, 669 negroes, whose salaries are 81, :
O56, 1877.
The public's vision of big profits in
the New York wheat market was dis
turbed yesterday by one of the most Sc
rious declines the market has had in
weeks, amounting to over cents a
bushel there and II cents in Minneapo-
lis. The break was caused seemingly by
a rush to sell by longs who were over
loaded. The market constantly met fresh
stop loss selling orders until at the close
it was little short Of demoralized and at
the low point of the day December sold
at LOST against $1.l2l last night, rep
resenting about ST cents break from the
top price of the season.
Perry Belmont returned to New York
Yesterday from White Sulphur Springs,
where be went after attending the noti-
fcation of Henry q. Davis. During his
stay in the South he conferred with many
of the Southern democratic leaders and
on his way North he paid a visit to Mr..
Davis at his home in Elkins. "What
is the prospect in West Virginia y
| Mr.. Belmont was asked. "Mr. Davis s
extraordinary popularity on both sides is
very evident all over the State" Mr..
Belmont replied, "and there is every
reason to believe that he will bring i!
into the democratic column"