Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-05
News Of the Day.

The public debt on June 30 was $3.50, =
500, 772, decrease in the past month of
$40, 4S9, 1856,
1t is estimated that the country spent
$l5, 900, 600 celebrating the Fourth of
July with fireworks.
The Swedish foreign minister declares
that no aggressive measures have been
taken or are contemplated by the Swedish
government.
The French cruiser Jureen de la Ora
Were is anchored at Canton Hollow, Bal
timore. 1t is one of the finest vessels in
the French navy.
The historic tower of st. GATHERINGS
Church, at Dantzic, Germany, built in
1926, was destroyed by lightning, Mon
day, and the bells were melted.
Altogether five deaths we're recorded
in New York yesterday as a result OF the
days's celebration, and the number ofac-
cidents reaches into the hundreds.
United States Senator r. A. Alger, of
Michigan, announces that he will not be
candidate for reelection to the Senate
when his present term expires, in 1907.
Union woodworkers employed by l3
bar and Office fixture companies went on
strike in Chicago MONDAY to enforce de-
mands for an increase of cents an hour
in wages.
James Jackson Higginson, banker and
broker, of New York was robbed Of $685.
600 worth of diamonds and jewel.y. Fri
day night, his house being entered while
the family was at the theatre
United States Senator John II.
Mitchell, OF Oregon, was convicted at
Portland of a charge of accepting pay
for practicing before a Federal depart
ment while serving as Senator.
The performance at New York yes
terday Of Sysonby, the horse owned by
James r. Keene, stamps him the great
est racehorse of the year. He made the
mile and five furlOngs yesterday in 2:47.
Seven boys were injured, five of them
MORALLY, in Fourth of July accident
in New York last night. The little
victims were blown up by gnnpowder,
fired by a lighted cigar, which a man
carelessly tossed into the street.
During the ceremony of firing the
national salute of 45 guns at Fort War
rem, Boston harbor, yesterday, the
charge of the sixteenth round exploded
prematurely, injuring two privates of
the Ninety-sixth Company, Coast Ar
tillery, one probably fata lily.
While sitting in front of her home at
$40 Tenth street northeast, Washington,
last night, Mrs. Annie Devine was shot
in the hip. The shot was fired by one
of four men who we're passing the house.
The bullet was extracted and the wound
is not serious. The man who fired the
shot has moi been located.
The President has COMMITTED the sen
fences of William l.. Kendig and VIII
liam NJ Jacobs, Of Lancaster, Pa. who
were sentenced in 1900 to be imprisoned
- years in the Eastern Penitentiary at
Philadelphia and to pay fine of s., 900
for connterfeting. They were later
transferred to the penitentiary in At
lanta.
SO great has become the desire Of the
summer girls to meet his highness Prince
zoe, son OF the Emperor of COrea, that
more than one hundred OF them inter.
rupled the plunge of the prince and his
suite in the surf al Atlantic City Monday,
and to escape, he led them merry chase
up the beach, with the merry, laughing
crowd ofbeautes trailing close behind.
Gov. Robert D. Glenn, ofNorth Caro-
lima, made a speech and a letter from
Judge Alton b. Parker, democratic can
didate for the presidency last year, was
read at the Fourth of July celebration of
Tammany Hall in New York, yesterday.
The former sees danger ahead and Judge
Parker's letter declares the tariff to be
the root of all evil and wants business
and politics divorced.
Formal exercises were held in Wash
ington yesterday in Continental Hal, the
new building dedicated this spring by
the Daughters of the American Reyou-
ton. Addresses were made by Mrs.
Donald Mclean, president of the
Daughters, and by William +. Andrews,
auditor for the Treasury Department.
The United States Marine Band played
patriotic airs, and the children of the
American Revolution sang.
In a collision at Wiley. four miles
from Lexington KY, between a west
bound Chesapeake and Ohio and an east
bound Louisville and Nashville passen-
ger train yesterday, twenty-five persons
we're injured. The Louisville and Nash
vile was to take the siding at the station,
and the Chesapeake and Ohio was due
to pass without a stop at $3.50 p. m. The
Louisville and Nashville train crew -s-
sert that the Chesapeake and Ohio was
a minutes ahead of time.
John w. Priestley. a wealthy retired |
mill owner of Philadelphia, was Monday
committed to prison at Camden, n. j.,
without bail by Recorder Stack house on
a charge ofarson. Mr.. Priestley was ar
rested on Saturday shortly after the burn
ing of Schimer & Sons worsted mill at
Camden which caused loss of S75, 900. |
Mr.. Priestly at first gave a fictitious name
but later made known his identity. The
police say he admitted setting fire to tie
mill, but said it was an accident.
The government crop report, showing
the average condition Of cotton to be but !
II, when it was expected to show at least