Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Mormons are reported to hold political
control of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and
Colorado.
Barry tombstone, who recently shot
and killed Kate Hassett, the actress, and
then shot himself in Philadelphia, died
in that city yesterday.
Governor Taft has established concen-
tration zones in Rial province, Luzon.
as the first step in an aggressive cam
paign against ladrones.
Friends of President Roosevelt are
canvassing certain States to learn
whether there is formidable opposition
to his nomination in 1904.
Mrs. Mary Hollingsworth Morris
Davis, widow of the late Henry Winter
Davis, the distinguished Maryland states
man. died in Baltimore on Saturday
from ailments incident to old age.
During a most violent coughing spell
Mrs. Mary Ellen Dryden, wife of MIR.
James Dryden, burst large blood
vessel in her chest yesterday morning at
her home, in Baltimore, and died almost
instantly.
While father lay on cot in Belle
vue, New York, yesterday seven strips OF
skin we're taken from one of his legs and
grated on the head of his son, who lay
on an adjoining cot, and who had been
seriously burned.
A doctor, said to be of a wealthy
Atlanta, (Ga.) family, was seized with
religious mania in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel dining room in New York yes
terday evening, fought six men, partly
wrecked a cab, and was finally landed
in Bellevue.
Putnam Bradlee Strong, son of the late
ex-Mayor William L. Strong, of New
York, and May Yohe, the divorced wife
of Lord Francis Hope, arrived in New
York Yesterday on the Cunard liner
Umbria. The couple were married in
Buenos Ayres.
The Postofiice Department has begun
to issue the stamps bearing the Martha
Washington portrait. These stamps
will replace the present eight-cent stamps.
1t is expected that about $4,000, 600 of
them will be distributed to the postof-
fees of the country within year.
A most interesting man hunt is in pro-
gress at Bayside, Long Island. 1t is
being conducted By two women, both
widows, and mother and daughter.
Both men they are seeking are wanted
for husbands. Both women have adj
vertised extensively, telling just what
kind of a man she wants.
United States Consul General Thomas
Mast died at Guayaquil, Ecuador, yes
terday from yellow fever. The deceased
was born in Bavaria 81 years ago and
came to this county with his parents
when but six years old. He was cele-
brated as cartoonist and was employed
on leading New York papers at different
times for over forty years past.
The worst train wreck in the history
of the Intercolonial, the Canadian gov
eminent railway, happened on Saturday
at Belmont station, seventy miles from
Halifax, n. s., when the Canadian
Pacific express for Montreal rolled down
an embankment, killing at least six per-
sons, injuring a score of Others, and
completely wrecking the locomotive, the
postal, express and baggage cars, and
several passenger coaches.
The French Chamber of Deputies was
the scene of violent disturbance on Sat
urday, during which general melee oc-
CURED in the space in front of the
tribune, requiring the summoning of the
military commandment of the Palais Bour-
bona with a platoon of colonial infantry,
who forcibly elected two disorderly MEM
bers who declined to retire after an order
for their temporary expulsion had been
voted. The affair was the outcome OF
much feeling, which has been aroused
lately between the governments sup
porters and the minority, and the trouble
was precipitated by the majority's efforts
to vote recess. The feeling became
intensified by the attacks made on the
government by the revisionist Deputy
Gauthier for its laxity in the prosecution
of parties connected with the Humbert
scandal and as a result NJ. Syveton and
Minister Vale will meet in a duel.