Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-13
News of the Day.

htDOllo lCcACidhl VI P~'SOSo
in the waters AROUND New York while
on Sunday cuttings reached total OF
nearly dozen.
II is said that Mrs. Stanford White,
widow OF the architect whom Harry
Thaw shot to death lest year, is engaged
to marry her late husbands partner,
Charles FOllen McKim.
The union printers at the newspaper
Offices of Columbus, Ohio, notified The
management yesterday that they will
not set up copy sent over the Western
Union wires by non.union operators.
Ia his address on Japan at All Souls
Church in Chicago Saturday night Prof..
Frederick Starr, OF the University Of
Chicago, in declaring that Japan could
whip the United States in case of war,
made the following statement; Japan,
from our standard, has no superior as q
world power today"
William Fl. Edwards, better known
as Chilly" Edwards, who WAS for many
years The champion lightweight of the
world, died yesterday at The home of his
brother, Joseph Edwards, in Brooklyn.
Edwards was also private detective at
the Hoffman House, in Madison Square,
Tor fifteen years or more.
A company of 50 japanese troops,
with two machine guns, had I've men
killed and five wounded Sunday night
on landing at Kang Wham Island, IL
miles north of Chemulpo, for the pnr-
pose of disarming small Korean garri-
son Of 40 men, which were supported by
several hundred rioters.
The widest break in the New York
stock market since the present wave of
selling started occurred yesterday. 1t
carried stocks down from l to II IL
points, in some cases to new low records.
About one-half of the entire number of
issues dealt in on the exchange sold at
new low prices for the year.
u. 5. Attorney Siimson in New York
yesterday filed petition in the United
States Circuit Court 10 an effort to force
f. H. Hartman and Ouo II. Kahn to
answer those questions to which they
Lefustd TO reply at the Inquiry by the
Interstate Commerce Commission into
the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cifc, in New York.
An uncharted comet has been OBJ
served in the east during the early morn
ing hours by officers and passengers of
incoming steamships arriving at New
York from the West Indies. The comet
has the appearance OF an illuminated
geyser, and is Is degrees east-northeast
of the star Aldebsrsn. The wsnderer is
said to be visible about 2 O'Clock in the
morning in the eastern sky.
Caid Sir Harry Maclean has been
handed over By his captor, the bandit
II isuli, to the Elkmes tribe, who, 10
thtif turn, set bin at liberty. Mclean,
of the bodyguard 10 his
msjesty, the Sultan of Morocco, was
by the brigand chief and free
booter, Mohammed Ahmed ben Mo-
manned ell II lisuli while negotiating
with the latter for his surrender and par
don, on July last,
The Korean Supreme Court has pass
ed sentence upon the members Of The
Hague deputsiiOn. LII Sang Sol has
been condemned 10 be hanged and vi
Wi Chow and Vi Chun have been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life. Prince
vi in an interview in New York yester-
day blsmes the japanese for this action
# the court. He says he will not re-
urn TO Korea, but will work for its re-
Through the death of Max Gordon,
ixteen years old, at GOuverneur Hos
'ital, New York, early yesterday, Jacob
Brown, the boys nearest friend, is
.harged with homicide. Brown is only |
fifteen years old. he collapsed COM
,letely when he learned that bis chum
lad died. The boys went there recently
rom Lynchburg, Va, and the trouble
3 said to have originated over a girl.
IOrdon was stabbed with paper cutter.
A Widespread revolt of blacks 10 the
J)ngo Independent State, which, 1t is
laimed, was carefully planned as a blow
o King Leopold's authority, is reported
y passengers on the British packet AL
which arrived at Antwerp,
esterday from the Congo. They say
he revolt is alleged to have been melted
y Engliih missionaries, who are circu-
lting in the BeDgali and Abr districts,
nd who urged the negroes to stop work.
A special dispatch from Petoskey,
lich., says that the resort town is greatly
xcited over murder ard assault COM
lifted there yesterday. The decapitated
Ody of an unidentified woman was
'und on the Grand Rapids and Indiana
iilway tracks, and there were ev-
Iences that the woman had been as. a,
Iulted. 1t is believed that her body &
as then placed on the track TO cover 6
p the previous crime. A man with 8
volver entered the home OF Fred Mitten- t
srg during the night and chlorOformed C
rs. Mittenberg aud assaulted her. There /
no clew to the assailants. C
A dispatch from Hampstead, Long a
land, says that Mrs. Hezekiah Whaley, C
e aged grandmother Of Floretta Whaley g.
no, on April 90 last, clipped with Jere
node Cooke, then rector of st. Georges
piscopsl Church, of which August
slmont is senior warden, knows abso- y
tely nothing of her granddaughter BE- I,
& in ssnitsrium in Canada, as was \
ported. Mrs. Whaley says she had 7
ard nothing from Floretta since few /.
VS. after her departure, snd has sent q
II no money 10 return 10 her home. Il
othing is known in Hampstead of the q
frOcked preachers whereabouts. =,