Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The Czarina of Russia has recovered
from her recent illness.
The President yesterday nominated
w. II. Mosby to be postmaster of Brad
ford City.
There are now said to be 1000 O0
persons in Macedonia homeless and
without support for the winter.
Thirty-6ve hundred employees OF the
Illinois Steel Company atSouth Chicago
returned to work yesterday after a
months idleness.
Andrew Carnegie has given $15, 900
to build a library at Talladega College,
Talladega, Ala, an institution for the
education of the negro.
The arrest of some riotous women In
BOSWELL, Pa, yesterday, brought GU a
conflict between deputies and strikers, IN
which one of each party was injured:
Hon. William J. Bryan in a speech
at Lincoln, Neb., last night declared for
the Kansas City platform with the adj
dition Of new issues which have arisen
since.
The Uruguayan revolutionists have
been defeated after a s%anguinary battle
at IIlecos. General Saraiva, the reyolu-
ttonary leader in Uruguay, has been
wounded.
A duel was fought yesterday between
Jean Stern a sportsman, and Count
Robert de Montesqaieus -Fezenac, poet
and writer, in Paris, and the latter re-
ceived three sword wounds.
The historic Knepp Castle, at Hors.
ham, Sussex, England, was burned, and
Lady BurrelI, a daughter of Waiter
Winans, an uncle of Ross Winans, of
Baltimore, made a narrow escape.
Baron Won Friesen, tax assessor of
Leipsic, has been sentenced to six
months imprisonment in a fortress for
fighting a duel with his brother-in-law,
Court Chamberlain Won Carlowitz.
The death is reported of Gen. Flung
Fuh Slang, the former commander-in-
chief of the northern armies of China,
whose active sympathy with the Boxer
movement caused him to be degraded.
Great interest is felt in the beginning
in Norfolk today of the work of the sub
committee sent by the State democratic
central committee to investigate the Dey-
Trehy executive committee primary con-
test matter.
The Oxford Female Seminary, at Ok
ford, n. c., was destroyed BY fire yes
ferday afternoon. There were eighty
Young lady students in the building and
all escaped. The loss is $50, 600 in
surance, $40, 900.
Seven people, all colored, were killed
instantly yesterday by the explosion OF
a boiler in a sawmill owned by S. F.
Sullivan, in James City, n. @. The
mill was demolished and all the mashin-
cry practically destroyed.
Capt Henry Waterman died Sunday
night at his home in Gainesville, Md.
The remains will be sent to Norfolk.
Thursday night, ard the funeral will take
place there Friday morning, interment
10 DC made In ElmwUUu cemetery. The
deceased was 70 years old and was born
in Matthews county, being a son ofThos.
w. and Elizabeth p. Waterman.
Representative Harry L. Maynard, of
the Second Virginia district, will at
tempt to have an amendment tackled on
to the agricultural bill providing for a
weekly Geographic report to the Depart
ment of Agriculture on the condition
throughout the United States affecting
truck gardening similar to the reports
now made on cotton, wheat and other
agricultural products.
Fire in the Y. NJ. G. A. building, on
G street northwest Washington, shortly
before midnight caused a damage of
several thousand dollars, and for a while
threatened to wipe out the building
from basement to attic. Secretary
Pierce says that the loss will not exceed
So, 900. The fire started in the engine
room, and IS supposed to have been
caused by an overheated lue.