Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-10
News Of the Day.


DIR. William Rainey Harper, it is re-
ported. will resign as president OF the
University of Chicago on the advice OF
his physician.
The number of killed at the collapse
of the department store in Albany Tues
day is lS. A commission has been APP
pointed TO investigate the cause OF the
accident.
King Edward yesterday celebrated the
anniversary of his coronation by review
ing the combined French and British
fleets, aggregating about 20 ships, at
Portsmouth.
In the extent of its chemical and tex
tile industries, Philadelphia will main
tain first place among the cities Of the
United States in the forthcoming national
census of manufacturing industries.
1t is reported that upon the retirement
of Secretary of the Treasury Shaw the
first of next February the President will
appoint as bis successor Charles Il.
Dawes, Of Chicago, former comptroller
of the currency, and at present president
of a large trust company in the western
metropolis.
WI Ting Fang, former Chinese min
lister to the United States and now vice
president of the board of affairs at
Picking, in an interview yesterday said
that the Americans are too harsh in
their treatment of Chinese tourists and
students. He says his government does
not object to our exclusion of coolies.
Full details have finally been obtain
ed concerning the exact loss from tho
devastating flood which wrecked more
then 500 buildings and homes and
caused damage amounting to at least
SO, 600, 900 to the city of Guanajuato,
Mexico, on July /. In all 200 bodies
have been recovered, but it is estimated
that at least 500 persons persisted.
Twenty. -four religious denominations
numbering 100000 communicates
have each appointed from five to fifty
delegates to moet in New York on No
vember 10 next to take part in an inter
church conference on federation. The
meeting will be held in Carnegie Hall for
week, the object being the federation
of the Protestant forces in America.
Grin w. Potter, the Chicago mil
lionaire and steel trust director, at the
age of 20 years took a second wife yes
terday in New York and an hour later
sailed for Europe. Mr.. Potter's wife
died a year ago and his new wife was d.
yorced from her first husband, also a
Chicago man, six months ago. Mrs.
Elizabeth c. Bell, Mr.. Potter new wife,
formerly was well known in Chicago as
a masseuse and hairdresser.
The rumors of serious trouble at Riga,
Russia, were yesterday officially con-
frmed in St. Petersburg. Twenty thou
sand men are on strike there. Many of
the strikers are DESTROYS of working, but
the socialists deter them with threat sof
murder On Tuesday night numbers of
shopkeepers had to stop work under COM
pulsion. The agitatOrs sacked a meat
market because the owner refused to join
|rhe strikers. Two million dollars worth of
perishabIe merchandise is awaiting load
ing or reloading, and the merchants
have applied for soldiers to act as
stcvedores in order to save this property.
General Linevitch, in a telegram to
the Emperor dated August s, reports that
the Russian forces operating to the east
ward of Mandarin road advanced August
towards a defile near the village of
Chagon, a miles south of Taulu. The
japanese assumed the offensive and
turned both TANKS, compelling the Rus
slams to retreat to the nOrthward. The
japanese followed in pursuit and again
encountered part of the Russian force
which halted in the NadOulin Gorge,
but after hot fusillade they returned to
the southwark, The Russians in the
Hailungcheng district, the general says,
occupied the village of Yulangtse after a
skirmish.