Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Burglars cracked a safe within one
blo ok of the stationhouse in New YORK
early Saturday morning.
There is a movement in Nebraska to
push Mr.. William Jennings Bryan for
United States Senator, to succeed Senator
Dietrich.
A dispatch from Dover, Del, states
that J. Edward Addicks has lost the
great policical and financial power he
once welded.
A shortage has been found in the ac-
counts of G. F. Utterback, cashier OF
the Sigourney Ia.) Savings Bank, who
committed suicide.
William O'Brien, the well-known
nationalist member of Parliament tor
Cork city, has resigned his seat in the
British House of Commons.
The members of the democratic ma
tional committee are complaining of I'M
reasonable rates asked by st. Louis
hotels for the convention period.
Marquise de Monsters Merinville,
formerly Miss Mary Gwendolin Byrd
Caldwell and a benefactress of the Catho-
lie University, is i'll in New York.
A London chemist named Brotherton
claims to have discovered apoison, a form
of %arsenious gas, a single Whit Of which
| will cause death and leave no trace.
The Dominican government troops,
| after a sharp attack, entered Porto Plata,
causing the fight of General DeschamP,
who took refuge in the United States
consulate.
An aged woman, who, with her
daughter, had been evicted, and bad
tramped the streets of New York after
their furniture had been stolen, died
yesterday from starvation.
The increase of the price of antit-oxin
by the combination was characterized by
the secretary Of the Chicago Health
Department as a traffic in human life.
The price has been doubled.
The Kentucky House committee on
suffrage and election has decided to report
favorably the Hefin suffrage bill. This
measure, in effect, disfranchises the ne
gro on the ground of illiteracy.
The ELEPHANT breaker and washery OF
the Delaware and Hudson Company, at
ELEPHANT, was destroyed by fire yester-
day, throwing $500 men out of work
and causing a loss of about $40, 900.
The general closing of Chicago
theaters and amusement halls has thrown
5, 900 persons out of employment, in
Guiding 500 chorus girls and 1,5OO
other people connected with the stage.
Prof. Robt. NJ. Allen, secretary OF the
Natioca Pure Food Association, recently
returned from Europe, says 60 per cent.
of the French wines aud 80 per cent. OF
their champagne are authorizations or imi-
tations.
Diplomats in Paris express the belief
that Japan has been increasing her de-
mands upon the belief that Russia is de-
sirous of avoiding war, and that it is
therefore safe for Japan to push her de-
mands to the farthest limits.
In one of the mostdisastrous fires ever
experienced in Wheeling w. Va. an en-
tire block in the heart of the city's bust
ness district was last night, within the
space of one hour. reduced to ruins, en-
failing a loss of nearly 5000, 900.
A curious phenomenon has been no.
ticed in the tropics that can never be
seen at a higher latitude. A mining shaft
at Sombrerete, Mex, is almost exactly
on the Tropic of Cancer, and at noon on
June q the sun shines to the bottom,
lighting up the well for a vertical depth
of 100 feet or more.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, a grandson of the
Italian patriot, was discovered among
the revolutionists who were captured last
August at Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela.
When President Castro learned of this
fact and after Garibaldi had been recog-
nized by the officials of the Italian Lega-
ton, he ordered his release.
Baron Hayashi, the japanese minister
at London, after a consultation with the
British Foreign Office, significantly said /:
eff we 90 to war, it will be for Issues
wherein both America and England have
insisted automatically. We have re-
ceived no pledge from any country that
in the event of defeat it will step in and
save u.s."
Robbers attempted to wreck passen-
ger train No. 3 on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, at Mulat, Saturday
night at $3.50 o'clock. Cross ties and
other distractions were piled on the
track, but the attempt was discovered by
a section hand before the arrival of the
train. Mulat is about 30 miles from
Pensacola and in Santa Rosa county.
A dispatch from Louisville, KY, says
that eighteen delegates to the conven-
ton of the National League of Commits
sion Merchants were thrown into the icy
waters of Echo river, which winds
through Mammoth Cave, and we're saved
only by the GOODNESS of the guide, John
Nelson, and the heroic work Of Charles
A. Muehlbronner, of Pittsburg, Pa.
Dispatches from Ohio river points
last night indicate new ice forming, while
the gorges between Evansville and Louis
vile were already firm, and also those
between Madison and Cincinnati. The
same conditions exist for 20 miles above
Cincinnati, where the gorges are almost
continuous, and at some places icebergs
80 and 40 feet high exist. Navigation
on the Ohio and its tributaries has been
suspended for almost six weeks.