Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-22
News Of the Day.

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China will pay 5000, 900 indemnity
for the murder of six French Jesuit mis-
sionaries last February.
While uuprepared at present, German
manufacturers have been warned by their
association to get ready for tariff war
with the United States.
The first arrival of new wheat at
Baltimore yesterday sold at Sl.25 a
bushel, an increase of 10 cents over last
wear. 1t came from Lancaster county, We.
The New York Evening Post prints
the following special from Washington
"Senor Diego Mendoza, the Colombian
minister at Washington, has been with
drawn by his government to show Col
ombis's resentment at the failure OF the
United States to pay her for the loss OF
Panama"
Csblegrams reporting the destruction
of Sagua la Grande, town of about
10. 900 inhabitants, in Santa Clara prov
ince. Cuba, we're received in New Or
leans Wednesday. Two messages were
received, the first announcing that the
town had been flooded, and the second
saying that it had been entirely destroy
ed by FIRE. The messages came from
Havana. No additional information has
been received.
No vote was taken in executive ses-
sion of the Senate yesterday on the
nomination of B. F. Barnes as post
master OF Washington. At the request
of Mr.. Tillman the vote was postponed
to to. morrow. The House agreed with
the Senate in emitting the construction
of monster battle ship this year, and
after disagreeing to several other Senate
amendments, thus OveTturning the naval
committee, the naval bill was sent back
to conference.
William Lee, alias George Scott, col
ored. the confessed assailant of Mrs,
Robert G.. Barnes and Miss Frances
Powell, of Kingston, Somerset county,
Md, is now locked up in the Baltimore
Jail, and it is probable that he will be
tried there, as Sheriff G.. w Brown, who
brought the prisoner to Baltimore, stated
Yesterday afternoon that to take Scott to
Princess Ann for trial would mean a
Iynching, as the people there are deter
mined to have aim.
The French foreign office has been adj
vised that China on Wednesday signed
treaty according complete satisfaction ia
France for the massacre of six French
Jesuit missionaries at Nancharg, Kiang-
81 province, in February last. China
pays S20O, 900 indemnity to the missions
and 800, 900 indemnify to the DECEASED
missionaries families, builds a memorial
hospital and pubishes the ringeaders OF
the riOting. In addition, poslhumou'
honors, which the people of Nanchane
demanded, will not he granted to the
Chinese magistrate whose suicide was
the signal for the outbreak. The French
gunboats in the vicinity of Nanchang
will now be withdrawn.
The spirit of discord is breaking out
in many parts of the Russian army, Off
GERS, in one or two cases, having been
killed by their men. Two regiments at
SevaJtopoI became mltinols, and 1t is
feared the sailors there also are disaiect-
ed. The BOlschof regiment at Ryason
drove out its officers and turned the
armory. Members OF the Russian cab
met admitted 10 the lower house of the
Douma Yesterday that minor officials
connived at the Jewish massacre at
Bialystok. Agrarian troubles are spread
ing in the provinces of lula, Orel and
Knrsk, and it is rumored ex-Procurator
Pobiedonostseff has urged the Emperor
to issue manifesto to the peasants.