Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-08
News of the Day.

Operations have been suspended at the
four steel hoop plants of the Carnegie
Steel Company.
By ruling OF Judge Holdam the city
of Chicago is not liable for injuries aris-
ing out of the Iroquois Theatre fire.
A gift of $50, 900 from Henry Phipps,
to aid in the fight against consumption,
is announced by Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai in Baltimore.
The Car will leave st. Petersburg
Saturday for the Volga region to bid fare
we'll to the Fifth and Sixth Army Corps,
which will start for the far East.
Col. Henry II. G. Dunwoody, next to
General Greedy, the senior officer in the
signal corps. was yesterday appointed a
brigadier general in the army and retired.
In Petersburg yesterday the Virginia
Passenger and Power Company filed its
answer to the receivership proceedings
instituted by George Z. Fisher, of New
Y ok.
Four persons we're hurt yesterday, two
perhaps fatally, by bolt of lightning
which seemed to explode in parlor in
Flushing, l.. 1. A woman's body was
turned many colors.
Chief Judge Parker, at Esopus, was
warned yesterday in letter from the
West that there was plot against his
life. but he was not disturbed thereby,
and passed a quiet day.
The Philippine scouts seized one of the
gates at the Worlds Fair yesterday and
admitted wagons loaded with ice for the
Philippine exhibit, which had been bar
red by the fair authorities.
Mr.. George S. Crenshaw was chosen
by the finance committee of the Rich
mond City Council Wednesday night as
CITY accountant, to succeed Captain Carl
ton Mccarthy, elected mayor.
Fifty thousand dollars worth Of jewell
ry at CooperstowD, n. Y, belonging to
Mrs. Potter, wife of Bishop Henry c.
Potter, of New York, was stolen yester-
day from safe in the Office of the Clark
estate.
William T. Hastings, telephone line
man, while stringing wires on a pole in
front of the Woodland Hall Hotel, in
Baltimore, yesterday, came in contact
with live wire and was killed by the
electric shock.
Fire yesterday evening destroyed the
block of frame buildings within the
Chautauqua assembly grounds, at Chau-
tauqua, n. Y, where the various supply
houses are located. The loss will not ex-
coed $40, 00e. The postofiice was burned,
but the mails were saved.
Sadie Brengle, aged 10 years, of Fred
erick, Nd, after quarrel with her sis
ter, who scolded her for staying out I'M
til nearly midnight, at 1890 O'Clock
Yesterday morning shot herself through
the left breast. She died yesterday
evening. The girl was daughter of
George E. Brengle.
Gen. Thomas b. Howard died late
Yesterday afternoon at the residence OF
his daughter in Washington. General
Howard was born near Wilmington, n.
c., in the year 1921. He was the third
son of Thomas Baltimore Howard. He
fought in Texas against the Mexicans,
and served CALAMITY in the Confederate
army under Gen. Magrudcr.
Disaster was narrowly averted yester-
day evening, when the steamer Grand
Republic, sister ship of the General Slo-
cum, scraped the side of the Coney Island
boat Dreamlaud in a dense fog of Sea
Gate, Coney Island. Both boats ca
reened dangerously from the impact, and
the passengers, mostly women and chill
dren, were thrown into a panic. The
paddle box of the Dreamland was torn
off.
Lightning and rain were responsible for
damage amounting to many thousands OF
dollars in Philadelphia and vicinity yes
terday. The lightning set off 80, 900 rifle
and revolver cartridges at the Frankfort
Arsenal, the explosions, which continued
fully 30 minutes, having set the country
roundabout in CONSERVATION. Fire was
started, but luckily no one was near
enough to be injured.
Rev. DR.. Silas G. Swallow, the prOhi-
bition nominee for President, last night
sent the following telegram to William
J. Bryan: "And Moses said unto
Hobab, the son of Raguel, the INDIAN
ite, Moses father-in-law, We are jour
neying unto the place of which the Lord
said, | will give it you; come thou with
us, and we will do thee good, for the
Lord hath spoken good concerning Is
rael. ~ Numbers y, 20.
After reconsidering its action in in
dorsing the candidacy OF President
Roosevelt for reelection in place of
making its own nominations, the ma
tional negro liberty party in st. Louis
yesterday nominated William T. Scott,
of East st. Louis, and w. G. Payne, of
Warrenton, Va, for President and
Vice President, respectively, of the
United States. The platform advocates
unrestricted suffrage for all American
citizens without distinction or qualifica-
tions. 1t asks for the addition of two
negro regiments to the regular army,
urges non-interference in the affairs of
the far East until the government is
able to protect the citizens at home, and
advocates the government ownership OF
all public carriers.
District Conference.
At yesterdays session at Manassas OF
the district conference of the M. Z.
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