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

NEWS OF IHE DAl.
President John Mitchell, OF the mine
workers, declares emphatically that he
would not accept the presidency Of the
American Federation of Labor.
Mr.. w. F. Porter is interested in a
movement to form the graduates OF the
southern universities and colleges resld-
ing in Baltimore into an alumni associa-
ton.
Representative David Fl. Mercer,
republican. of Omaha, Neb., who was
defeated for reelection by the Rosewater
faction of his party, is to be candidate
for clerk of the House.
1t has been practically determined, as
result of the recent election, that the
Tammany and Brooklyn democrats will
act in close alliance in the big political
game for the recapture of the munic-
ipal administration next year.
Asa Needham, jr., aged 81 years, at
one time one of the most widely known
employees of Baltimore steamboat COM
panies, and who has been familiar
figure in the neighborhood of Light
street wharf for many years past, died
yesterday morning of paralysis at his
home, in Baltimore.
The winter bull-fghting season opened
in the City of Mexico Sunday, the first
fighting being attended by large crowd,
including many Americans. The SEN
sation Of the spectacle was the serious
horning of Parrao, one of the matadors,
by the third bull. Parrao received a
deep wound in the abdomen, and may
die. The fight was not interrupted. Ten
horses were disembowled.
DR.. Rufus Hubbard, the well-known
clubman, petitioned Justice Scott, in
New York yesterday to annul his mar
riage. His wife is wealthy in her own
right and a member of prominent
Pennsylvania family. DIR. Hubbard
ground for the petition is the claim that
his wife is legally the wife of John A.
Murphy. A peculiar part of the case is
that Mrs. Hubbard has DEGREES of separa-
ton from both Mr.. Murphy and DIR.
Hubbard, granted by the courts of Bos-
ton. Counsel for DIR. Hubbard holds
that these DEGREES are not binding in
New York.
After searching 25 years for rare
color with which to complete his master.
piece and at last successful, Oscar Fer.
| ling, gray-haired and friendless, secured
room in a Fifth street lodging house in
New York, became suddenly insane and
in his rawlings destroyed his picture.
Ferling was a German, educated in
Heidelberg University. He has been
taken to Bellevue Hospital. He said
that when mere boy he had had q
dream of woman whose ethereal beauty
had never yet found its way on canvas.
For a number of years, he said, he had
endeavored to reproduce on canvas the
glory of this dream, but because of a deli.
cate and subtle shade of blue he could
not inspire the eyes with certain
heavenly glow.
A dispatch from Melbourne says that
the British steamer Elingamite, bound
from Sydney, n. S. W., for Auckland,
has been wrecked on Three Kings Is
lands. Forty-one of those on board
the steamer were saved and ninety-six
are missing. The lost steamer carried
10 passengers. She was wrecked Sun
day morning. The steamer Elingamite
belonged to Huddart- Berker & Co..
of Melbourne. She was used in the
general passenger and mail service car
ried on by this company between the
colonies and along the coast Of Austria
liza. She was built in 1887, at New
castle-on-Tyne, and was of ,675 tons
net register. She was $40 feet long, 40
feet wide, and 10 feet deep. Three
Kings islands is group of small islands
80 miles northwest of New Zealand.