Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-12
News Of the Day.


tits reported that President Alexander,
of the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
will be obliged to retire from office and
that whole new set of officers will be
elected.
The John d. Rockefeller Institute of
Medical Research, founded by the Stand
ard Oil millionaire after the death of his
little grandson, is rapidly nearing COM
ple.ion, in New York,
A cannon WAS used yesterday and
holes were shot int, the burning oil
tanks at Downs, w. Va. The burning
LIQUID was then fenced in by earthen
trenches and further damage prevented.
As result of the conference of demo-
cratic leaders at Senator Germans home
in Washington on Wednesday, 1t was
announced that the negro will be the
dominant issue in the coming State cam
paign.
The President reached Washington
shortly after midnight, three hours
errlier than was expected, the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad officials having put forth
an extra effort to shorten the trip from
Chicago.
Twenty persons are known to be dead
and more than hundred others we're
injured in the railroad wreck and dyna-
mite explosion on the Pennsylvania
Railroad near Harrisburg, Pa, yesterday
morning.
A tornado struck the town of Over
brook. IL miles southeast of Topeka,
Kan, yesterday, and passing through a
thickly settled farming community wreck
ed several houses and barns aud unrooi-
ed others. So far as known no one was
killed.
In the midst of the performance OF
WalIace's circus at Marietta, Ohio,
Yesterday afternoon, lightning struck the
main pole of the side show tent, killing
William TuIIins, of Lowell; seriously in
juring four others, and stunning more
than hundred spectators.
The fact that about one-half of the
export trade of the United States with
Germany, exclusive of raw cotton, will
be directly affected by the new German
tariff law and reciprocity treaty is caus-
ing much concern among officials in the
Treasury Department and the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor.
Premier Baliour stated in the House
of Commons yesterday that because of
the changes in the sea power OF other
nations a redistribution of the British
feet and army was desirable for colonial
defense. Progress of Russia toward the
Afghan frontier compelled the British
government to take a serious view of the
situation.
Mrs. Alexander Schafer and her six
year-old SOD we're struck and fatally in
ured by lightning at Lancaster, Ohio,
Yesterday. Mrs. Elizabeth Scbafer, who
was also in the house, was uuinjured.
The house was wrecked. -Four distinct
electral storms broke over the city, do
ing great damage to trees, isolated barns,
and telegraph poles.
Veterans OF the Union and Confeder-
ate forces gathered in Washington yes
terdav for two days social and nom
political rally. The meeting is intended
to be preliminary to permanent fracter-
nal organization, national in character,
Of the Blue and the Gray, and with tine
idea of holding in Washington in 1906,
a grand reunion and review.
The death list of Wednesday nights
tornado at Snyder, Oklahoma, will prob
ably exceed 100 persons. Eighty-five
bodies have been recovered, dozen per-
sons are missing and given up for dead,
and of the Al seriously wounded several
are likely to die. More than 100 other
persons suffered less severe Injuries. In
several instances whole families persisted
in the ruins Of their homes.
Reports of a remarkable tidal wave
along the west shore of Lake Michigan
were received in Chicago yesterday.
The wave seemed to be the highest at
Kenosha and Racine, Wis, where a
wall of water swept in causing much
damage and alarm along the docks. At
Chicago the wave simply raised the
stage of water and caused very heavy
current down the drainage canal. Boats
navigated the river with the greatest diff
ficulty as a result of the high current.