Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-17
News Of the Day.

Government clerks do not like the new
civil service law which requires three
wears of service in one department be-
fore they can be transferred to another
Some Baltimore banks are requiring
customers to sign an agreement to nam
tain balances at certain poirt, below
which the customer cannot cheek OF
withdraw.
The convention of the republicans oil
the Eighte EN- h Illinois congressional dis
trict assembled at Danville yesterday.
They renominated Hon. Joseph Il. Can
Don for the eighteenth consecutive time,
this being his seventeenth nomination by
reclamation. The convention unanimous-
ly Endorsed Mr.. Cannon for President OF
the United States.
The following officers were elected 81
the meeting of The Grand Army OF the
Republic 10 Minneapolis yesterday:
Commauder-in-C Chief, R. B. Brown,
Zanesvile Ohio; Senior Vice Com
mander, William II. Armstrong, In
dianspolis; Junior Vice-Commander,
E. B. Fentou, Detroit; Cbaplain-in-
chief, Archbishop John Ireland, st.
Paul; Surgeon General, W. ID. JohD-
son, Lincoln, Neb
A dispatch from Kingston, Island OF
st. Vincent, says an earthquake was ex-
perienced there on the nigh. of August
IA and several shocks and tremors were
felt on the Island ofSt Lucia. There were
four shocks an Kingston on the night Of
August 2, and on the Island fist. Lucia
within the space of eight hours there
were 81 distinct shocks. The continu-
GUS nature OF the earth tremors since
the severe shock at last February, chief
" in 81. Lucis, is causing considerable
anxiety
A special from WylaD, in the Pratt
mines district, of Alabama, says pro-
visions were distributed yesterday as
usual to the striking members, but the
miners were informed that this would be
the last distribution and that The strike
at the mines OF the four big furnace COM
panies, which has been on for twoyears,
will be called off next Monday as the re-
suit Of the special convention OF the
union miners held in Birmingham this
week. The strike has cost the miners
organization more than 81 900, 900
Twice during the present week have
young white girls been seizsd by negroes
while passing along dark streets OF dun-
;:ngton, w. Va, but cries from the
children have caused the negroes TO
drop them and beat hasty retreat.
Noah Bradford, % years old, a negro
porter, was yesterday afternoon identified
as The man who Wednesday night seized
Ella Wright, aged IL. while the child
was seated on her own porch at home.
He ran halt a square with her before
letting her loose. Bradford, after being
identified, WAS quickly hustled to jail,
as Indignation was great. There are
rumors now OF lynching bee.
Feigning illness, three negroes, Alonzo
Goodwin, Hammond Wilson and Geo.
Kenney, convicts serving long terms on
the chain gang Of the sanitary and drain
age commission work near Ashley Juoc-
ton, near Charleston, S. O., stopped 10
the stockade yesterday, and about 2
O'Clock, having asked for water, seized
and overposered H. G. STEELE, the white
gusrd, and cut his throat with butcher
knife. Two "trustees" at the stockade
were locked in by the men, who ran
sacked the guards rooms, donned civil
liam clothes, aud escaped into the near
by swamps The men, contrary to rules,
we're moi chained in the stocksde. The
"rusies" broke out and spread the alarm.
A sheriff's posse is securing the woods
with hloodhounds.