Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-05
News Of the Day.

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ere, France, yesterday, declared for a
complete separation OF church and state.
United States Minister Barrett has
made a special report warning intended
corners that there is no boom in business
on the Isthmus of Panama.
The Superior Court in Chicago has de-
cided that operators who formed corner
in wheat, oats or other commodities can
not enforce payment against those caught
in the squeeze.
Charles Finney CLARK, president OF
the Bradstreet Company, of the United
States, died in London Saturday OF
heart disease caused by an attack ofin-
digestion, aged 81.
Moses Graham, owner of the High
wood lumber mill, in Jones county, Miss.
deliberately dynamited and wrecked the
machinery of his mill rather than accede
to the demands Of about 100 employees for
higher wages.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, has refused to call
meeting of the national executive coun-
Gil to recommend general sympathetic
action of unionists in support of the pack
ing-house strike.
Charles w. Dorsey, prominent young
member of The EIlicott City, Md, bar,
committed suicide Saturday night by
shooting himself through the head at the
home of his brother. Mr.. Philip Dorsey.
near Oakland Mills.
Seven persons were killed and nineteen
we're injured, two probably fatally and
nine seriously, by the collision Saturday
of Wabash Worlds Fair shuttle train
with a suburban electric car at the Sarah
street crossing, st. Louis. There were
twenty-five passengersi in the car and none
escaped injury.
Before a crowd of twenty-five thous-
and, Stalwart 70 to p won the 800, 600
Century Stakes, one mile and half, at
Sheepshead Bay Saturday, defeating the
IL to 20 favorite Ort Wells, in one Of
the closest finishes Of the year. The
time, 1881 1-5, is a new record, two-ffths
of second faster than the best previous.
made by Waterboy last year.
Five persons are dead and an equal
number seriously injured as the result
OF a quantity of nitroglycerine in a we'll
near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, yesterday.
The accident occurred while an oil
we'll shooter was engaged in lowering
the nitroglycerne. At the time his as
sistants and others were grouped about
the we'll. The cause of the explosion is
unknown.
Bitten on the finger by her daughter
three months ago, Jennie Williams, COL
Ored, about seventy years old, died at
the Garfield Hospital, in Washington,
Yesterday morning from tetanus, result
ing from the lacerated finger. Rose Craig,
the daughter, is in the workhouse, serv-
ing out a sentence for vagrancy, lodged
against her for an offense committed sub
sequent TO the fight with her mother.
After weeks of negotiations the break
has come between the Washington mu-
sicians and the theater managers. AT
meeting of the union, yesterday after
noon, at 91O Pennsylvania avenue, it
was decided to instruct the members not
TO play in the theater orchestras unless
they receive wages according to The new
scale, SIS in houses giving but one per-
Torrance day, and $40 in ''two-a.day"
houses.
Five men were drowned 10 Lake
Erie Saturday night as the result OF the
capsizing of a 22'foot naphta launch, in
which they were en- route from Cleveland
to Vermilion to attend yacht races at
the latter place yesterday. When the
boat was found it was stripped of every
thing that could serve as a buoy for the
the occupants, and there was a hope
that some Of the party might, have re
NAMED affoat but yesterdays develop
ments indicate that all went down.
The union butchers OF New York and
vicinity, about 3, 500 men, have declared
the strike against the beef trust at an
end. All men for whom places can be
found will return to work tomorrow.
The open shop will henceforth be the
rule, and the best workman will get the
preference. President Donnelly, of the
Chicago butchers union, says the return
to work of the strikers in New York city
will have no material effect upon the
general situation in the Chicago stock
yards strike.
Neil Sellers and Dave Brown, charged
with the assault and murder of Mrs.
George Packer at Clarkton, n. c., Satur-
day, were placed in Jail at Elizabethtown
yesterday, after evidence had been Sc
cured that they were the men wanted.
They were moved from Clarkton by
ruse on the part of the officers which
doubtless saved their lives, as a large
crowd had collected and the determine
ton was to lynch the men. 1t is not
thought that the men are in any danger
at Elizabethtown.
In a sudden fit of insanity yesterday
Mrs. Minnie Mckenzie tried to kill her
husband at her home, in East Boston,
Mass, then shot and fatally wounded
Patrolman Alfred NJ. Sturdivant, and
finally barricaded herself in the front
room of her tenement, where she remain
ed for more than five hours. standing off
squad of 10 policemen. She was final
ly captured by the use of germicide in
jected through holes in the barricaded
door. When overcome by the fumes she
was found to be armed with two large re-
YYlYers and had large amount of am