Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-02
News Of the Day.

Glenwood NJ. the racing stallion, has
been sold at Providence, K. l., 70 Eng
lish parties for so, 600.
Gov. Cox, of Tennessee, has invited
the governors of the southern states 10
hold a conference to discuss uniform
immigration and quarantine laws.
The opinion is expressed that it may
take months for the commissioners OF
Sweden and Norway to agree on the
terms of separation Of the two countries.
Sixteen thousand new freight cars,
which will cost $40, 900, 600 and insure
full work for all car building concerns
well into next yea., were ordered yester-
day by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany.
The Supreme Council Of the Royal
Arcanum held a brief secret session In
Putin Bay, Ohio, yesterday, on which
nothing was given out. The hearing OF
the protesting members was then con-
tinued.
Mr.. Robert B. Smith, aged 20 years,
a well-knOwn retired jeweler, committed
suicide at his home, in Baltimore, yes
,crday, by firing a bullet into his heart
and then pointing the pistol to his head
and blowing out his brains. Business
troubles are said to have caused the act.
Harry R. Wardell, an American, en-
ployed by the Panama Railroad as a
boilermaker, was seriously i'll last night
with yellow fever in the Quarantine Hos
pital, on Swineburne Island. Wardell
arrived in New York Thursday as first
cabin passenger on the Panama railroad
steamer Havana, from Colon.
Figures made public at the Depart
ment of Commercein Washington yester-
day show that l,O26, 499 immigrants ar
rived in the United States during the
fiscal year ended June 80 last. This is
high water mark, as the arrivals are in
excess of those of 1903, when S37, 046
immigrants landed at ports in the United
States.
Information has reached London from
Sofia that 500 Bulgaria Macedonian in
surgents, followers of Boris Sarafof,
have left Sofia and are expected to raid
Turkish territory. 1t is supposed in Sofia
that some big movement is on foot, and
the Turkish authorities fear serious dis
turbances. The Bulgarian bands in Mac
edonia are extremely mobile.
Killer Bolts, 90 years of age, went to
Austin, Tex, from his home, near G on-
zales, for the purpose of marrying Mrs.
Elizabeth Mobley, "a years of age. He
found that members of Mrs. Mobley's
family were opposed to the marriage,
and the old but spry couple arranged to
defeat all opposition by an elopement.
They slipped off Thursday evening and
went to Lockhart, where they were mar
ried.
Albert Ryan Colvin, an electrical en-
gineer, is dead at Thomas, w. Va,
where he was employed by the Davis
Coal and Coke Company. Some Italians
let drop on him car wheel, the unload
ing of which Colvin was experimenting.
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dropped the weight upon the engineer in
retaliation for the discharge of some of
their counirymen. They were in a re-
vepgefu mood and had made threats.
They have decamped.
An agreement for an armistice was
signed at Portsmouth, but at the request
of the japanese it will remain inOpera-
tive until the treaty Of peace is signed.
Numerous protests are being made at
Toxic against the peace terms as report
ed there and the newspapers are clamor-
ing against national disgrace. The Lon
don weekly papers agree that Japan was
magnanimous to foregoing an indemnity,
but outgeneraled when she agreed to d.
vide Sakhalin Island.
The government report for the past Aug
ust shows the total receipts for the month
are S47, 400, 1872 and the expenditures
s52, $50, 493, which leaves a deficit for
the month of 81, 5000 Last month
the deficit was S13, SS5, 663, and for
August, 1904, the deficit was Sc, 343, 2l2.
The monthly statement Of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
August 81, the debt amounted to ST.
COS, 524, 595, which is an increase As
compared with last month of 80, AS, 594.
Marshall Field, of Chicago, ILL.,, a
merchant prince, the richest man in all
America outside New York, said to be
worth 5000 600, coo, and 20 years old,
has taken out license in London to
wed Mrs. Della Spencer Cation, Of Chi
cago. The marriage will take place in
St. Margare's Church, Westminster,
London, next Tuesday. 1t is possible
that Whitelaw Reid will give the bride
away The only other persons expected
to attend the wedding are Mrs. Reid,
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter and Spencer f.
Eddy.
DR.. Franklin Clarke, of Boston,
Mass, who was arrested at Kingston,
Jamaica, July II, and tried Thursday
before the Chief Justice for breach OF
of the Official Secret Act by taking pho
tographs of the Qualifications at Port
ROYAL, was liberated yesterday. After
proceedings Thursday the Chief Justice
summed up in favor Of the prisoner, but
the Jury failed 20 agree, resulting in the
remanding of DR.. Clarke on bali until
Yesterday. The crown prosecution saw
that his case was hopelessly weak, and.
accordingly, nolle prosqui was entered
by the Attorney General yesterday.
1t was learned in New York yesterday
that subpoenas to appear before the Arm
strong legislative insurance committee