Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

the close OF the last nsca year was S'i,
2S5, 375.
Major Thomas B Gather, theveteran
deputy clerk of the Superior Court OF
Maryland died suddenly last night at his
home in Baltimore.
President Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, promises eventually schedule
of three and quarter hours from Baltl-
more to New York.
Bernard Fraser and Arthur Thorold,
English society men, were yesterday IN
London sentenced to prison for corrupt
ing the morals of youths.
Four jockeys were thrown at the Aque-
duct track in New York yesterday and
not one of them we're seriously injured.
The BOYS were Redeem, Boissen, Can
non and Sailing. All we're bruised.
A woman, supposed to have been Mrs.
Alta Westerman, of NewYork committed
suicide last night by jumping from the
ierryboat Kentucky on its 10 o. clock trip
from Broadway, Williamsburg, to Twenty
third street New York.
Laura Biggar, the famous actress and
chief legatee under the will of the late
Henry NJ. Bennett, accompanied by her
counsel, Samuel Frankenstein, of New
York, arrived at Freehold, n. j., yester-
day and was placed in the hospital ward
of the Freehold Jail.
Daysd Fuller, sixteen years old, was
shot and instantly killed at Henderson,
Me-, Yesterday by Arthur Bagley, who
mistook him for deer The fatality
occurred at Little Brosseau Pond, about
three miles from Askwith station, on the
Canadian Pacific road.
Councilman George Gebelein, who
represents the Seventh ward in the First
Branch of the Baltimore City Council,
was placed under arrest yesterday on the
charge of criminally assaulting Maggie
Gunther, 10 years of age, who for more
than four years had been employed in
his home as domestic.
A rate war between the Clyde line of
Philadelphia and the Washington
Southern Railway was announced at
Richmond yesterday. The rate cutting
is confined entirely to sugar, and is now
two-ffths of the rate which has hereto
fore obtained, or II cents against 80
cents a week ago.
The cost of sending the Pennsylvania
National Guard into the mining regions
during the coal strike will exceed
81, 900, 600, which is more than twice the
cost of maintaining the troops at Home
stead during the great steel strike in
1892. This does not include subsis-
tence, transportation, etc, which will
amount to several hundred thousand dol
lars.
Count and Countess Boni de Castellane
entertained King Carlos of Portugal at
a shooting party yesterday at the Chat
eau Marias, near st. Cheron. The bag
included 461 pheasants, 20 partridges
and 20 hares. On the return 10 the
chateau actors and actresses from the
Capucines Theatre played in opera
bouffe. This entertainment was follow
ed by grand dinner.
The Supreme Court yesterday in effect
affirmed the decision ofthe Supreme Court
of Michigan that the silver dollar is a
legal tender. The case arose over the
tender by Stephen Baldwin, of Oakland,
Mich, Of $50 silver dollars in payment
of mortgage, which Fred A. Baker de-
clined to receive, on the ground that the
legal tender provisions of the law Of
1878 were unconstitutional.
The new "Jim Crow" car law, sep
arating the whites and negroes in the
street cars, went into effect in
Mobile Sunday and in New Orleans and
throughout Louisiana yesterday. In
Mobile the negroes boycotted the cars.
In New Orleans a much smaller number
of negroes took the cars, the better class
of negroes avoiding them. The law pro-
duced much confusion and discomfort
mainly among the whites.
DR.. Pierce Butler Wilson, ST., who
was for a number of years city and State
chemist, and who had acted as expert on
that subject in celebrated trials for muir
der in Maryland and other states, died
at the age of 81 years in Baltimore yes
terday. DR.. Wilson was an ardent Con-
federate sympathizer, and during the
Civil War superintended the making Of
all the gunpowder used by the Confeder-
ate State5 during the struggle. He had
headquarters at augusta, Ga, and ranked
as major in the Confederate army.
Three long-term men in the penitenti-
ary-"1ndian Bil'' Jefferson, "Wash"
Fields and Nose" Dennis-all negroes,
attempted to escape from the Richmond
penitentiary at o'clock yesterday
by cutting a hole through the
brick wall. In the same celfwith these
men were II other men who would also
have gotten their liberty had the plot
The men cuta hole through
the heavy brick wall about 10 by "a
inches. This work was done with a
screwdriver, which they obtained in the
of the prison. The fall of
prick made noise and led to the dis
,overy Of the plot.
The Century Magazine for November
las been received from its publishers in
New York. Below is the table of con-
ents: The New York Police Court,
Travel, Confessions of Wife, Football
1t Chebanse, A Forasken Temple, Gus
avo Salvini, The Gray Norns,
The Swartz diamond, The Happiest