Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-11-16
News Of the Day.

The first days session at Hull yester-
day of the British inquiry into the Dog
ger Bank affair brought out nothi ig TO
justify the Russian attack; the Russian
government was represented.
The revolutionary movement in Brazil
has been partly crushed. A number OF
leaders have been arrested. Many per-
sons have been killed or wounded. The
students OF the military school at Rio
Janeiro reyolted.
It is reported that DR.. William d.
Welsh, professor of pathology, at John
Hopkins University, Baltimore, will be
elected to the chair of medicine upon
the departure OF DR.. William Osler, who
goes to take the place of regius, Profes-
sor of medicine 10 Oxford.
A cableg-am from the japanese head
quarters in front of Port Arthur says it is
reported that General Stoessel, the Rus
sian commander there, is 10 hospital,
but continues to direct his troops, and
has ordered them to die rather than to
surrender. 1t is also stated that the sol
diers in the forts are kept at their posts
by officers who threaten them with
pistols. A dispatch from General Ku-
ropatkin's headquarters, below Mudken,
states that a japanese advance on the
Russian lett flank is daily expected.
All democratic negroes at Fairmont,
w. Va, have been warned By the re-
publicans of their own race to leave the
CITY upon pain OF being driven out. Al
the election last week some OF the ne
groes voted the democratic ticket, aud
their votes we're responsible for the elec'
ton Of Scott Lowe, democratic candidate
for prosecuting attorney. Since his cleo
ton a notice has been published in re-
publican paper warning the democratic
negroes to leave FairmOnt, and stating
that if they do not leave voluntarily
within ten days they will be forced out.
The democratic negroes are standing
their ground, and the outcome is awaited
with Some apprehension OF trouble.
When the battleships of the Russian
second Pacific squadron fred into the
English fishing feet in the North Ses
it appears, according to Vice Admira
Rojestyensky's report, that the Russian
shots also struck the Russian cruiser
Aurora, one of the shells fatally wound
ing q priest, il vas at first given out
BY the Russians that The shot that struck
the cruiser came from one one OF the
mysterious torpedo boats. Russian ma
val officers, however, still insist they
saw torpedo boats. In the British in
ouiry, conducted at Hull. the comman
der of the fishing fleet testified there
we're no strange vessels among the fee
that night. Ii appears from the lates
admission of the Russians that they mus
have mistaken some of their own war
ships for japanese torpedo boats.
A blaze which started from an IN
known cause and which had gained con-
siderable Roadway before it was dis
covered, last night Quilted the upper
floors of the building occupied by NJ.
Schiff g. Sons, merchant tailors, and A:
Leham & Co., ladies' tsilOrs, III aud
1873 north Eutaw street, Baltimore, the
damage being probably between $50, 600
and $50, OOC. Considerable anxiety
was occasioned 10 the management Of
Ford's Opera House, half block away,
as the performance OF Tolstoi's "Kesur.
rection" was going on at the time, and
il was feared that if the news of the
proximity of the FIRE got into the audi
forum some trouble might be expert
enced 10 controlling the large audience.
This danger was ayerted, however, aud
for 10 minutes the play continued with
the flames darling through the roof OF
the burning building nearby and the
fire apparatus rumb ling through the
streets outside.