Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-02
News Of the Day.

The shut down of the collieries in the
Schuylkill region of Pennsylvania threw
90, 900 miners out OF work.
1t is officially denied in Berlin that
Germany has sent an ultimatum TO Vene,
zuela demanding the payment OF interest
on the indemnity.
A man who is believed to have been
John L. Rice jumped from the footpalh
of the new Williamsburg, New YORK.
bridge yesterday afternoon and was in
stantly killed.
Ia a signed statement To- the democrat
ic voters of Tennessee ex-Gov. Benton
McMillin withdraws from the race for
United States Senator to succeed Gen.
William Il. Bate.
The comparative statement OF the
government receipts and expenditures
Tor the month of July, 1904, shows
deficit of sl7, 407, 72S, as against deh-
cit of $7,776, 6lS for July last year.
Clayton Green, ofWeissport. Pa mis-
took his mother for burglar yesterday
morning. aud fred three reyolyers shots
at her, two of which took effect. Grave
fears are entertained for the woman's re-
covery.
B. Frank Butler, writer, bohemian,
we'll known in upper Broadway and
nephew of the late Gen. Benjamin +.
Butler. was taken to the Rivercrest San
itarium, Astoria, n. Y, Saturday, pro-
nounced incurably insane.
The Panama Minister yesterday called
at the State Department and made a
formal protest against the construction
given the canal treaty by the commission.
Objection is made to location of post
offices and to customs port.
In the House of Commons the liberal
leader, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman,
Yesterday moved vote OF census be-
cause of the prominent part taken by
Cabinet members in the proceedings Of
the liberal-unionists council.
Surrounded by passengers in crowded
car attached to a train on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad. Edmund F. Ritter NOR
tally wounded his wife and killed him
self Yesterday as the train was approach
ing the depot at Mauch Chunk, Pa.
Ritter's act was inspired by rage at his
wife's refusal to live with him.
The Building Trades Alliance, made
up of II unions, declared strike yester-
day against the George A. Fuller Con.
struction Company and work was tied
I'D on a large number Of buildings
in New York. The reason given for
calling out themen was because OF
claim that the Fuller Company has
been using stone from non-unlon quar-
ries and trimming yards.
Rioters stoned the Deering street police
station in Chicago late last night, and
for an quarter of an hour the police bat
tied with the crowd of 1000 men and
women as it charged the station repeated
ly with sticks and stones, shouting ven
eeance againt the police. The trouble
started when the police went to the as
sistance of Frank Castellano, a strike
breaker employed in the stock yards,
who had been dragged from street car
and severely beaten.
Bishop Potter assisted at the open
ing of drinking room in New York to
day. when the Subway Tavern, at No.
No. AZ Bleecker-st., was publicly dedI-
Gated. His subject was temperance.
The tavern, which takes lis name from
the subway entrance near its door, is to
be run on the plan of the Earl Grey
public houses of England, where the
consumption of liquor is minimized by
doing away with the middleman's
profits. The idea IS TO provide poor
mans club, where those who are in the
habit of drinking will be able to get
pure beer in healtbful surroundings.
Bishop Potter delivered a strong adj
dress on the saloon question. Bishop
Potter told of his visit to the Tivoli
Gardens in Copenhagen, where the
whole population of the city might be
found any evening sitting around the
tables and drinking and listening to
good music and where drunkenness
was unknown.