Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-01
News Of the Day.

The Lewis and Clark Centennial Ex-
position was opened by Vice-President
Fairbanks today.
There was an advance of nine cents
a bushel in May corn in the Chicago
market yesterday.
Some thief recently stole jewels valued
at $50, 900 from the apartments OF the
Duchess of Westminster, in Grosvenor
House.
At Marshall, NO., yesterday, Charles
G. Patterson, former editor, shot and
fatally wounded E. ID. Martin, former
State Senator.
In spite of his disapproval of many
acts of the Mckinley administration, he
voted the republican ticket, because he
believed the triumph OF Mr. Bryan would
be a menace to American institutions.
According to statistics gathered by
the Southern Cotton Association, there
is decrease of 1913 per cent. in the
cotton acreage as compared with that OF
last year. The crop outlook is bad.
Agents of the Armour Packing Com
pany. of Chicago, are paying the farmers
near Norfolk and in the North Carolina
district for Strawberries which spoiled at
the railway stations for lack of transport
tatiOn.
The annual meeting and election OF
the Maryland Civil Service Reform AS
ISOLATION was held in Baltimore last
night, and Mr.. Charles j. Bonaparte,
named by the President yesterday as
Secretary Of the Navy to succeed, in the
near future, Secretary Paul Morton, was
reelected president.
During the trial in Washington yes
terday of w. G. Crawford, accused Of
completely with A. W. Machen in the
postal frauds, George f. LOrenz, al.
ready under sentence for two years,
turned states evidence and declared
that he, Machen and Crawford formed a
combination to secure contracts for let
ter-carriers' satchels, the profits to be
divided among themselves.
| King Victor Emmanuel yesterday re-
ceived in private audience Senator A.
O. Bacon, of Georgia with whom he con-
versed most cordially, showing perfect
knowledge of American affairs. The
King said a President of the United
States enjoys more power than King OF
Italy. Referring to emigration, Senator
Bacon said Italians were welcomed in the
Southern agricultural States.
Because Rev. John Gordon, president
of Howard University, Washington, and
a white man, has raised the race ques-
ton at the negro college by declining to
associate on social equality plane with
the student body and faculty, and has
sought to emphasize the Importance OF
manual training, committee OF alumni,
backed by the entire undergraduate
BODY, yesterday preferred charges against
him and petitiOned the board of trustees
for his immediate removal.
Mai George A. Armes, United States
army, retired, was sued in the District
of Columbia Supreme Court yesterday
by Mrs Mary Wine Armes, his bride
of about three months, who seeks to have
the court order sale of the equitable
interests in his country place, 'Fair-
field" a. Connecticut avenue and Grant
Road, Washington. Mrs Armes separated
from Mai. Armes about week ago, and
is now residing with her father in Vir'
ginia. According to her petition, GER
tain irreconcilable differences have arisen
between them.
The Gar yesterday summoned the
members of the imperial family to a con-
! ference and also called Admiral Alexieff
and the members of the Cabinet to an
extraordinary council The questions
discussed were the opening OF negOtla'
tons for peace and the summoning Of a
representative assembly. All OF the
members of the Cabinet except the min,
listers OF war and marine are said to be
in favor Of pence. The impression pro-
duced everywhere by the completeness
the Russian disaster in Korea strait is
that it will serve to stimulate the desire
for peace on the part OF The vanIuished.
A conflict between strikers and Cos
sacks occurred at LODI, Russian Poland,
Yesterday. The soldiers were stoned by
a mob of men, who were trying to bring
out some weavers who were at work,
whereupOn the troops fired, killing two
men and wounding six. condition al
most approaching anarchy exists at
LODI. The strikers appear TO have su-
preme control. They are forcing The
manufacturers to close their mills, and
the manufacturers are urging the gov
eminent to proclaim martial law. In
one instance strikers forcibly elected
military guard from a mill. A regiment
of cavalry has arrived.
At least FIVE men were killed and two ser
iously injured by the caving in Ct the Gun
nisOn reclamation mine tunnel at Mon
trose, Ohio, yesterday. Q. Taylor and Fred
Gross were pinned under heavy timbers
and terribly injured. They would have
been drowned but for the efforts of their
entombed companions, who improvised
a dam to hold back the water which
poured into the tunnel for a time.
Twenty-one men were rescued uninjured,
but exhausted. They were hoisted with
ropes through shalt which had been
sunk sixty feet in less than tyenty-four
hours. The rescuers worked in three
minutes relays until the tunnel was
reached.
A dispatch from Greensboro, N. c.,
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