Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-15
News of the Day.

! ther effort to recover the S0V,eOO men-
toned in the Bennett letter.
Alexander Cochran, millionaire of
Quaker City, Ohio, was struck by train
in Wheeling, w. Va, yesterday and
killed.
In spite of a heavy wind at New York
on Saturday, Major Delmar equaled the
Empire track record of 2:O2i, made by
Cresceus.
Walter Hamacher, of Washington was
drowned at l O'Clock yesterday morning
at Colonial Beach in an attempt to swim
in shore from the end of the pier.
The British torpedo-boat destroyer
Decoy sank off the Scilly Islands satur-
day night, as the result of a collision
with another destroyer. The crew was
saved.
George Clinton Gardner, the distin-
guished railroad man and engineer, died
Yesterday at his home in Richmond hill,
New York. He was born at Washing
ton in 1884.
A representative of the Maryland
Academy of Sciences will shortly deliver
in Baltimore piece Of coral five feet
long and weighing about a ton which
has been located in Jamaica.
A TIE Deum was said on Saturday in
Kazan Cathedral, in ST. Petersburg, and
all the Russian churches in honor of the
birth of the heir-apparent, who was made
honorary colonel OF the Finland Guards.
James R. Keene's Delhi won the Sar-
atoga derby on Saturday, his only oppo-
nents for the So, 900 stake being Stall
wart and ST. Valentine, both from the
stable of +. r. Thomas, time 2:lS 2-5.
Mr.. Abraham Bell, VINO on July %
last celebrated the one hundredth ami
versary of his birth, died yesterday at the
home of his son, Mr.. Joseph V. Bell,
in Baltimore. When young man has
lived for time in this city.
The British bark Inverkip, from Mel
bourne for Queenstown, was sunk and
20 persons were drowned as the result
of collision of Fastnet Rock, Ireland,
Saturday night, with the British ship
Loeb Carron, from the Clyde.
Rev. C. L. Amy, an unattached min
lister of the Christian Church, fell on
Charles street, near Barre, Baltimore,
yesterday, and received several decorations
and contusions. When pickedIup tell
tale bottle of laudanum fell from his
pocket.
Imperial clemency, prompted by the
good fortune which has given to Russia
an heir to the Muscoyite throne, will
liberate half the prisoners in the empire
and mitigate the punishment of others.
Rejoicing, therefore, is even more
marked in prisons aud dungeons than in
the churches and public places.
The fftieth annual convention of the
International Typographical Union was
adjourned at st. Louis on Saturday.
The convention upheld the action OF a
New Orleans foreman for charging a
printer on the grounds of alleged incom-
potency. This action establishes pre-
cedent which will make it necessary for
a man working in any department OF a
union printing Office to be absolutely
competent to perform the work required
of him.
Fresh paint on one Of the big gas
tanks of the Consolidated Gas Company's
works, in New York, caught fire Satur-
day night, and in an instant the big
cylinders were enveloped in sheet Of
flame. A terrible explosion of the gas
was prevented only by theprompt action
of the fire department. The blaze was
the signal for wild stampede Of the
residents for blocks around to get out of
the neighborhood. In their panic PEG
pie left their homes, shops and belong
ings, some even forgetting their children
in the excitement.
Five men had n most miraculous es-
cape from death early yesterday morn
ing in a terrific collision between
freight engine on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road and trolley car in Philadelphia
II was about 1870 O. clock, when, with ire
mendous force, the engine, which
had previously been uncoupled from
some freight cars, ripped through the
body of the car. For about $50 feet the
heavier vehicle carried the trolley car on
its fender. Then the car tumbled down
steep enbankment, finally resting in
the swamp below. All of the five men
who were in the car at the time were
injured, but none seriously.
After prolonged Pourpariers and con-
siderable hagging on the part Of Tur-
key, a satisfactory solution of the Ameri-
can school question has been arrived at.
This matter, which is the most import
ant of the American demands, was set
tied by extending to American schools
the same treatment as that accorded TO
schools under the protection of other
powers. A settlement of other matters
affecting American interests in Turkey
of secondary importance has also been
effected, and Minister Leishman has tel
egraphed TO Rear Admiral Jewell, in
command Of the United States squadron
sent to Smyrna, instructing him to salute
the batteries on land and depart
Race Trouble in Georgia.