Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-24
News Of the Day.

News Of the Day.
Ex-senator Allen, of Nebraska, pre-
diets the denomination and reelection
of Grover Cleveland to the presidency.
The Blair-Ryan-C Coolidge syndicate, it
is said. aims at absolute control OF he
Seaboard Air Line Railway, and to that
end will shortly announce new imam
cial plan.
The Porte has yielded completely to
the demands of the powers for redress as
result of the Armenian prosecutions.
The Sultan, however, has not ratified the
Porte's decision.
Rev. DR.. Randall Thomas Davidson,
archbishop of Canterbury, has accepted
an invitation to attend the general conven
ton of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
Boston next October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Allison V. Armour and other Americans
whose yachts are taking part in the re-
gatta at Kiel, dined yesterday with the
Emperor and Empress on their yacht.
1t was reported in Trenton, n. j.,
last night that ex-President Grover
Cleveland had been murdered at his
home in Princeton, and much excite
ment was occasioned until it was ascer-
tanned that there was no truth in the
rum0r.
Graziallo, at II to in the betting, won
the Sheepshead Bay Handicap, one
mile, at Sheepshead Bay, New York,
Yesterday, defeating first-class field in
the fast time of 1:3S 40 Savable and
Rochampton ran head and head to the
stretch, where Martin sent Graziallo to
the front. Savable was second, length
in front of Ingold.
While on his way to the quarries. OF
the Hudson River Bluestone Company
about eight miles from Kingston, N. T.,
Yesterday, o. @. Longyear, paymaster,
and friend, David Markie, were held
M and robbed of 81, 776 by four masked
Italians. Longyear and Markle were then
gagged and bound their highwaymen
makingtheir escape withthe teams driven
by the men.
United States Senator Thomas O..
Plat, of New York, and j. Plat I'm
derwood, of Chicago, were made defend
ants in a $1,000, 900 damage suit filed
in Chicago yesterday by James Dono-
van, Chicago attorney, who is the
surviving member of the lumber firm OF
Donovan & Co., a corporation doing
business in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Donovan asserts that Plat and Under
wood, who are officials of the Tioga
Manufacturing Company, cut SO, 900, 600
worth of timber from DOnovan's lands
in Wisconsin and Michigan, when they
had no title to the land.
According to Otto Won Gottberg, war
correspondent TO- the Lokal Anzelger,
of Berlin. who is returning home on
account of i'll health. the japanese are
superior TO any European army force.
In an interview he said Japan wants
Korea. The official statement given out
that the Mikado merely wishes to secure
a protectorate over Korea is only dip
lomatic excuse. Every prominent Jap
anese government and military official,
from Gen. Kuroki down, has at different
times admitted that the aim OF japan is
to annex Korea and have it as part of
the Mikado's possessions.
Miss Julia Sharp, the youngest daugh.
ter of Col. Thomas r. Sharp, of Sharps
station, N. c., was killed by the acct
dental discharge of a pistol at an early
hour yesterday morning. The young
woman had been in the habit of sleep
ing with the pistol under her pillow,
the weapon being transferred to a place
on the bureau each morning for safe
keeping. 1t is presumed that the trigger
was pulled while the transfer was being
made. A similar accident came near
depriving the young woman of her life
several days ago. At that time she was
preparing to shoot at fowl. A small
house party, composed principally of
women of Danville, Va, was visiting at
the Sharp home at the time of the acct
dent. The party was broken up in con-
fusion.