Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-11
News of the Day.

ed in Chicago yesterday as result troy
the intense heat and humidity SD lcf
have prevailed for several days.
At the conclusion of hssrisg in tn,
District OF Columbia Supreme Co .urt yes
terday Justice Barnard del AIRED tn,
Standard Dairy and Ice Gem psny, thu
affairs of which have been before tn,
local courts for several weeks, TO b.
bankrupt.
According TO p saessage received a
Vienna from Copstanlinople, the Sui
tan's indisposition made necessary the
cancelling OF Yesterdays selamlik. Il
is reported the Sultan must undergo al
operation, and il is even declared he al
ready has doIe so.
At the eGd of the year 1904 the las
for which figures have been returned,
1879, 773 person were under restraint 10
the 1923 Warehouses; in the country. Nc
account was taken of the hopelessly in
sane returned TO the insane wards of the
county poorhouses throughout the
country.
President Roosevelt has decided thai
Chinese labor shall be given thorough
test on the Panama canal. Contracts
calling for 9, 500 Cinnamon for cana
work have been prepared, and advertise
ments will be issued by the lsthmiar
Caual Commission in q few days asking
for proposals from labor agents.
The naval court martial sitting IN
Washington in the case of Surgeon h.
l.. Brown, u. s. N, returned verdict
yesterday afternoon after being oul
twenty minutes, but The result of theil
deliberations will not be known until
the Judge Advocate General of the Navy
and Secretary Bonaparte have gone care
fully over the proceedings of the court.
1t was announced 10 Wilmington,
DEL, yesterday that the Dupont Powder
Company will within a few days begin
loading steamer in the Delaware river,
off Wilmington, with 45 carloads Of
powder. The shipment will be cousign-
ed to San Francisco. The high rates
and exacting rules of railroads for the
shipment OF explosives caused the Du-
pont company to charter steamer and
arrange to send the whole quantity by
water.
fire daughter of General Printz, girl
about IS years old, registered yesterday
morning at the Hotel ST. Petersburg, adj
joining the palace of the governor gen.
eral, General Kaulbars, in Odessa. Yes
terdsy evening she inquired for the gen.
erals residence and proceeded to.
ward the palace. When but a few
yards from the entrance she dropped her
reticule, which contained bomb. The
missile exploded but did not injure the
girl, who rushed back to her hotel and
shot herself dead.
The Spanish government continues to
maintain firm attitude ON the church
and State question. AT the first sitting
of the Parliament the government will
introduce bill making the religious or
ders amenable TO the law controlling in
dustrial corporations, and will also in
t.Cdlce q bill providing that members
of orders recently expelled from France
will be required to become naturalized
or leave Spain. Iii said that the cabinet
is determined to carry out these meas
ures and does not fear papsl excommu-
nication.
Passenger train No. IL, north bound,
on the Southern Railway, struck an
open switch as it was leaving the yards
at Spencer, n. c., about 10 O'Clock last
night. Three Pullman sleepers, which
the engine was pulling, turned over,
but not p single person was injured. An
unusual feature CT the accident WAS the
fact fiat gleepers in the middle of the
train we're overturned, while the two day
coaches 10 front and two in the rear re-
maIned on the track, as did the locomo-
tive. The sleepers were well loaded
with passengers aud that nobody was
hurt seems little short OF miraculous.
The main line track was badly torn up
and the running gear of the sleeping cars
damaged.