Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

distance.
Right Rev. DR.. Thomas J. Conaty,
rector of the Catholic University, ID
Washington. has decided to retire IRON
educational work. He homes to obtain
a diocesan position.
Sabina Arana, leader of the autono,
mist party in Spain, who was charged
with sending to President Roosevelt
congratulatory dispatch as to Cuban IN
dependence, was tried and acquitted on
Saturday.
Speaker Henderson will not retire
until he lets the gavel fall at the close
of the short and final session OF the
Fifty-seventh Congress. This statement
is made upon the authority OF tue
Speaker himself.
A letter written to a Hiawatha, Kan,
paper states that an old miner who re-
Gently died in Seattle, Wash. left an
estate worth one million dollars to 8
Lizzie Boyce, of Brown county, because
she had shown him kindness when he
was i'll years ago.
Football games on Saturday resulted
as follows: Harvard IL, Pennsylvania,
0; Carlisle Indians "a, Susquehanna D;
Lehigh University 81, University oil
Virginia 6; Brown %, Columbia 0: Cor
nell so, Washington and Jefferson U;
Navy IL, Lafayette IL.
After her husband had attacked her
Mrs. Enoch Hink, of Port Dickinson,
n. Y, shot and killed him early yes
terday morning. They had been married
% wears. For some time Hink had
been Jealous of nephew, Frank Hink,
who has boarded at the Hink home,
and this brought about quarrel.
Two masked burglars, supposed to be-
long to the gang that terrorized residents
of Baltimore county, Nd, sometime ago,
went through several houses in Aberdeen
and at Perrymans, Hartford county, on
$ .turday night. One of the thieves
fought a duel with Mr.. Slice through a
window of the latter's bedroom. AT the
home of Charles Baker they robbed his
two sons of watches and money.
The Colombian government 'gunboats
Bopota and Chucinto have sailed IRON
Panama in search of the revolutionary
vessels, with orders to engage them.
While General Vargas-Santos, director
of the revoluionists, did not attend the
proposed peace conference, he says he is
willing to make peace, providing the
government will recognize the civil and
political rights of the liberal party.
John Mccormick Gibson, of Cincin-
natl. who on Saturday the lst instant,
at Ashevillc, N. c., married Mis-:
Henrietta Cecilia Wolfe, of Providence,
r. l.. on what was considered his death
bed died at Asbeville yesterday. He
had made a will leaving his estate,
valued at 81, 900, 600, to his bride. Mr..
Gibson's first wife was a victim OF the
Windsor Hotel fire in New York city.
While at the Windsor she had introduced
Miss Wolfe, who was her friend, to Mr..
Gibson.
While celebrating the marriage Of
John Woitko at the home of John
Wrahl. in Reading, Pa, last night,
John Mortuar and John Ondigausky
accused the bridegroom of being too at
tentive to the daughter of their host.
A fight ensued. Wojtko was beaten to
death with a club. Several peacemak-
ers we're seriously injured. The muir
derers escaped but Ondiaiausky was ar
rested two hours later. He is said to
have struck the fatal blow. Mortuar is
still at large.
In football game at Cooperstown,
n. Y, Saturday between Cooperstown
and Franklin teams, Harry Stockley,
captain of the Franklins, was injured
and taken to the hospital unconscious.
After an examination the doctors de-
clared his neck was broken and nc
would die. Late Saturday night when
all the physicians in the village gath
cred for consultation Stockley sat up,
insisted upon leaving the hospital, and
was finally allowed to go. He went
home on a chartered trolley car.
George o. L. Perry, a negro, Is years
old, of Cambridgeport, Mass, was arrested
Saturday night in connection with the
"Jack the Slugger" murder case in Bos-
ton. The arrest was made on the charge
of pawning both of the watches taken
from Miss Agnes McPhee and Miss Clara
A. Morton, the two victims of the "slug-
ger" whose injuries proved fatal. He
said that Alan G. Mason, who is now
under arrest on the charge of numbering
Miss Morton one week ago in Waverly,
gave him both watches to pawn.
BENJAMIN G. Hill, a city guide, fired
three shots at his wife on Saturday night
in Washington at the supper table at
their boarding house. He walked into
the room and said: "Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen" simultaneously
rushing toward his wife and pointing a
revolver at her. All of the shots took
effect and it is almost miraculous that
the wife escaped with her life. Some OF
the guests during the excitement that
followed were about to run. Hill de-
clared that he would shoot the first one
who moved. Bertha Marsden, a child
of Mrs. Hill by former marriage, ran
from the room and the infuriated man fired
at her. The bullet went wide. AT the
Casualty Hospital it is said that Mrs.
Hill has chance for her life. Jealousy
is given as the cause of the shooting.
Hill was committed to Jail today.
The elephant Mandarin, belonging to the
Barnum d Bailey circus, was executed by
strangulation in cage ON the steamship MIN
neepolis in New York yesterday. A two
inch hawser with the end attached to steam
winch was used for the purpose. The cage
containing the dead beast was taken out to sea
and sunk. Mandarin had recently bee ONE
unmanageable.
An autopsy of the body of Nellie Corcoran,
who died In New York several days ago after