Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-28
News Of the Day.

and Colombia have agreeu W w Aintaib
the status quo in the Putup va river
district.
1t ia reported from VII inipeg that
Earl Gray, the Canadian G Governor Cen
sral, was painfully hurt Sunday night,
by an electric light bup which exploded
almost in his face.
The last three Spf lnish ships captured
by Admiral Dewe Us feet at the battle
of Manila Bay h We been sold az junk
for grand total of sl32.O5. Alter de-
Quoting the exp'snse OF selling them the
receipts amount to s10S. 30.
Frost was n ported in Iowa low lands
yesterday for the first time this season,
although it is not thought the great low
corn crop will suffer damage because OF
it. The mercury dropped as low as 40
at Cedar Rapids and Creston, the coolest
August day for Is years.
It is reported in Pittsburg that the
notorious Hartje divorce case is about
to be settled. Harije has made an offer
of $3.50, 600 TO his wife to allow the mat
ter to be dropped without the court Civ
ing a decision and that she will allow her
husband to get divorce for dsseriion.
The American Federation of Labor
of Porto Rico was yesterday denied rep
resentatiou on the legislative ticket of
the unionist convention at Porto Rico,
the majority holding that lawmaker
subject to the dictates of the federation
would be burtful to party politics and
public interests. The republican party
maintains similar position.
Nine years ago Mrs. John Coleman.
30 she claims, murdered her two year-old
daughter in Towards, Pa. For nine
years she kept the secret 10 herself. She
has been wanderer and an outcsst, pur-
sued wherever she went by the thought
of her crime. Two months ago she wa@
sent to the Pentrostal State Mission by
Recorder Roberts. Last Thurs.iay dur
ing the revival camp meeting at Port
Dickinson she made public confession
of her alleged crime.
The Dowager Empress Of China has
appointed committee to consider the
reports of the Chinese commissioners
who recently returned from abroad, and
to make recommendation upon the sub
iect 10 the throne. The majority OF the
committee are elderly conservatives. The
organization of an upper house of par
lament from among the Chinese Off
Gals as a beginning of a parliamentary
government, and afterwards, In some
years, electing lower house OF parlia-
ment, is being discussed at the Chinese
capital.
Mr. Miyaoks, the japanese charge,
called at the State Department yesler'
day aud advised acting Secretary Adee
that Japan will open Dalny to the com
merce of all nations after September l.
II is TO be free port and no import OF
export duty will be levied on articles o
commerce imported into or exported
from Kwan-to-Shu through Dalny
From the same date ships of al nations
will be permitted 10 ply and engage II
traffic between Dalny or Tairen, as th'
town is now called, and all the port
of Japan that are open TO foreign com
aerce.
Distinct progress has beea made to
ward the settlement of the dispute be
tween Turkey aud France with regar'
to the frontier of Tripoli adjacent to thu
French Sahara. An official note giver
out in Paris last night announces tina
Turkey, in compliance with the reqnes
of France, has ordered the evacuation
Of Djanet, or, If not yet occupied, TN
instant return of the Tur kish troops
marching TO that place. The status
quo ante, the note also states, is re
established until an arrangement can b
made to fix the boundary between tb
Chat Oasis and the French possessions.
The correspondent Of the Berlin Loka
Anzeiger at Seoul has had an Interview
with the Marquis Ito, the japanese resi-
dent general. who said that many gapa
nese wanted TO annex Korea to Japan
but the Emperor of japan aud the Mar
cuts Ito wanted TO restore ITS lndepen
dence rs soon as Korea was strOnl
enough to defend herself. Japan, tn
marquis added, could not allow ano,he
nation to attain predopinant power u
Korea, but all nations are 10 enjoy tn
open-door policy. The Marquis Ito, il
conclusion, said he hoped in time l'
bring Korea into State which woul'
satisfy all nations.
A dispatch from Huntington, W. Va
says that Capt. Walter Davidson, o
Ironton, o., a conductor on the NorfolI
and We,teru Railroad, on Sunday nigh
shot and killed John and Howard Pope
brothers. The Pope boys were on Day
idsons train, endeayoring TO steal ride
so it is alleged, and when the condncto
discovered them a row began, which
ended in the tragedy. 1t is stated b,
Captain Davidson that the Pope boy
drew pistols to shoot him and that h'
shot in self defense The conductor sur
rendered to the officials of Mingo county
The shooting occurred just as the traiI
was pulling out of Naugaluck station
The Bishop of Bayonne, France, hs'
sent circular to the clergy of his do
cese, with reference TO The Pope's en-
cyclical on the law providing for tn
separation of church and stale, which i
attracting considerable attention in view
of the approaching second conference 0
the French bishops, whose action i
anxiously awaited by the clsricsls. Th'
Bishop declares that the church has nj
right to adapt its divine constitution t
'the Legislative fantasies Of short-sight
ed politicians, who are showing them
/ .lnan "a Ia onnnnina Of .he rennhlic hS