Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.


At Providence. r.. |. yesterday Dan
Patch paced mile in 1881, only a
quarter of second slower than the
worlds record.
The marriage Of Prince. Nicholas OF
Greece and the Grand Duchess Helen, a
cousin of the Car, took place at 81
Petersburg yesterday.
The President went out into the wilds
of the Austin Corbin Park near New
port. n. H., with Senator Redfeld
Proctor last night and shot a big wild
boar.
A combination Of the foremost NAL
leable iron concern of the country, WIN
a capitalization of $25, 600, 600 is under
consideration and will probably soon be
effected.
Judge Sanborn, in Milwaukee, decided
Yesterday that federal judges can I'M
prison county judges for contempt OF
court and the President cannot pardon
them.
Colombia will formally demand OF
Nicaragua an explanation in regard to
the latter country's alleged participation
ia the revolution. Actual war is not
feared.
General Manager Lord, of the Amerl-
can Iron and Steel Manufacturing Com
many. at Lebanon, Pa, refused to grant
the demand of the strikers that colored
non-union men be removed.
1t is stated that in view of the In
crease of Catholics in the United States
the Pope has decided to create another
American cardinal to reestablish the
equilibrium in the Sacred College.
The French Minister of Finance pro-
noses to meet the financial deficit by re-
ducing the amount of untaxed alcohol
hitherto allowed producers and by aboi-
ishing exemptions from the tobacco tax.
Captain Won Frankenberg and Lieuten-
ant Numbauer, of the First Regiment,
German Field Artillery, have been di, =
missed from the army on account OF
demonstrations to pardoned duellst.
A mortgage for so, 900, 900 made by
the Bethlehem Steel Company of Penn
sylyania in favor OF the Colonial Trust
Company of New York to secure all
issue of a similar amount of 2O-year
per cent. gold bonds issued by the
United States Shipbuilding Company
and purchased by the New York Irusi
Company, has been received at Jerse!
City.
Representative Reese Calhoun DE-
Grafenreid, of Texas, died suddenly a
the Riggs House, Washington, at 1926
O'Clock last night Mr.. De Graf
fenreid's death is believed to have beer
caused by apoplexy and the bursting o
a blood vessel in the brain. He hac
been sick but few hours, and yesterday
morning looked the picture of robus
health.
OF the six candidates for Senator Me
Laurin's place voted for in the democrat
/ ic primaries in South Carolina none re-
ceived a majority. The highest two,
Congressman Asbury C. Latimer anc
ex-Gov. John G. Evans, will be voted
for in the second primaries. In guberna,
torial race the candidates in the second
primary will be ID. c. Hayward, of Collie
ton, and Congressman W. Jasper Talberti
of Edgefeld.
Mrs. Jack Frost, wife of a prominent
business man and politician of Blackwell,
Okla, was arrested last night, charged
with poisoning Mrs. Alice Combs and
her eldest son, Ernest, and with the In
tent to hill the entire family of seven
persons. The crime was committed last
Tuesday in the absence of the Combs
family. The house was entered and q
liberal quantity of arsenic was sprinkled
in the coffee pot. The next morning
Mrs. Combs and Ernest were poisoned
by drinking the coffee. None of the
other members of the family used coffee.
Mrs. Combs and her son are in critical
condition. The alleged motive of the
crime is a family quarrel.