Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-06-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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peritonitis.
Ernest Gray, son Of DR.. G. W. Gray,
of Washington, committed suicide IN
Cripple Creek, Col, yesterday.
In the House Saturday services were
held in memory of Representatives
Amos J. Cummings, of New York, and
Peter J. Otey, OF, Virginia.
During terrific electrical storm Sat
urday night the tugboat J. L. Patterson
was upset in the hafbor of Washington,
n. c.; and five men were drowned.
Irish. Lad, won the Great Trial Stakes
DISCO, 900 for two-year-olds at Sheepshead
Bay Saturday. Turner was the jockey,
and Irish Lad was quoted at II to IN
tle betting.
Thomas Price, the carpenter who fell
from a scafrolding on a building at
Sandy Springs, Md, on Friday, died at
the Emergency Hospital, Washington,
last evening.
While crossing the Pennsylvania Rail-
road tracks in Washington last evening,
Vincent Ullman, an npholsterer at the
Capitol, was run into and instantly kill
ed by a passenger train. .
Tom Williams, colored, charged with
the murder of Henry Barton, also color
ed, is now confined in Jail at Upper
Marlboro, Nd. He has been removed
from cell No. l to No. for safety, as a
rumor of lynching was talked of among
his race.
The unwilling ola tablet to the mem
ory of the late President Mckinley at
the Metropolitan NJ. f. Church, Wash
ington, yesterday morning, was attended
with appropriate ceremonies. President
Roosevelt was present, accompanied by
Secretary Courtelyou. o..
In fit of anger following her threat
to have him arrested for abandonment,
George Slater, a New York butcher, cut
his wife's head open with a butcher
knife early yesterday morning. The
woman died three hours later in st.
Vincent's Hospital. Slater also cut
both his own wrists in an attempt to
end his life, but will probably recover.
Slater at one time was q wellto-do bust
ness man, but lost his butcher business
through drink.
AT 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon an
excursion train from Cripple Creek COL,
with 500 passengers was wrecked alta
siding near Creole Station, Ute Pass.
Francis NJ. English, we'll known
cricket player and musician, was in
stantly killed, and some thirty Others
were injured. Three coaches were
smashed, one being reduced to kindling
wood. These three coaches contained
81 passengers. They were Overtbrown
and telescoped, hence the escape OF so
many from death seems miraculous.
On July the Southern Railway will
take charge of the South Carolina and
Georgia Extension Railway, which ex-
tends from Camden, $. c., to Marion,
n. c., a distance of 175 miles. The
Southern was empowered to buy the
road by an act passed by the last sec-
sion of the South Carolina legislature.
The road will give the Southern a direct
liae from Asheville to Charleston, and
work has already begun to extend the
line from Marion to johnson City,
Tenn, and thence to the big coal field
districts
Senator Hale announced in the SEN
ate Saturday afternoon that he had
hoped to keep the Senate in session
until an agreement on the naval and
general deficiency appropriation bills
had been reached. As this was impOs-
sible, he thought it unnecessary for the
Senate to remain longer in session, but
desired that when an adjournment was
taken it be to meet at IL O'Clock today,
so that the Senate might have ample OPP
portunity to dispose of its business that
day. He believed that a final adjourn
ment of Congress might be reached this
afternoon or early on Tuesday. The
Senate thereup6n agreed to meet at ii
a. m. today,