Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Bolivia has agreed to all the Brazilian
demands regarding Acre.
The Senate yesterday passed the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill.
John G. Rose, who was well-known
in Washington, dropped dead in Anacos-
tia yesterday.
The Navy Department will secure
naval bases at Guantanamo and Bahia
Honda, Cuba.
Germany has decided not TO buy the
warships which Chilli and Argentina are
building in Europe.
A plot has been unearthed among
girl inmates of the Utah State Reform
School to poison the teachers.
George Nicholson, colored, a Wash
ington barber, committed suicide yes
terday afternoon by hanging himself.
Generals Botha, Delarey and Shuts
have refused to accept the governments
tender of seats in the legislative council at
Pretoria.
Col. Robert Boyd, prominent in civic
and military circles, died Thursday night
at his home in Washington in his seven
ty-frst year.
DIR. Franklin A. Gardner, one of the
leading physicians Of Washington, died
last night. The cause of death was
typhoid fever. He was forty-hye years
old.
During the debate on the Elkins bill
in the House yesterday Mr.. Cochran de-
nounced one of Mr.. Hepburn's assertions
to the effect that he had misstated a
question as deliberate lie. The Incl
dent passed off without any further scene.
Bitterly cold weather prevails over
Nevada, northern Utah, southern Idaho
and western Wyoming. Wells, New,
reported temperature of 420 below zero
Thursday night and $50 below was re-
corded at Winnemucca.
The regular republicans in the Della
ware Legislature have framed PROPOSE
ton to the Addicks faction agreeing to
the election of one regular republican
and one Addicks republican Senator,
with Addcks eliminated
Rather than face the disgrace attending
the discovery that he had robbed his
employers for years, Henry E. Hughe-
son, who was GO years old, shot and kill
ed himself at Williamsburg, n. Y.
1t is believed that his systematic steal
ings, which extended over term Of
years, amounted to nearly 800, 900.
In frightful wreck at Vienna station
near Washington, Pa, on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, yesterday,
three men were killed, the train to
which they belonged was piled in a con-
fused mass on the tracks, which were
torn up for several hundred yards, and
all traffic both east and west is blocked
on the road. An east-bound freight
train struck large bowlder lying on
the track in the cut Just west of Vienna
station. The dead men were all en-
ployes of the road.
Miss Ora Montgomery, daughter of
Washington Montgomery, of Western
port, Allegany county, Nd, and teach
er in the Westernport school, fell down
the school steps yesterday and was killed.
Her neck was broken by the fall. Miss
Montgomery had told Miss Sullivan, a
pupil, to remain after school, for some
violation of the school rules. At the
close of school Miss Sullivan started TO
go out Of the building and Miss Mont
gomery ran to intercept he.. In doing
so she tripped on her dress andfell down.
stairs with the result stated above.
Mr.. c. G. Daye, of Centerville, n.
c., was found dead near the Southern
Railroad track yesterday morning, two
miles below that place. He was not
positively identified until last night,
when the coroner and his jury went
after the body and made an inyestiga-
ton. Mr.. Daye was about ffty-eight
years old, and leaves widow and sew
eral children. From the evidence pre-
sented it is alleged that Mr.. Daye was
intoxicated, and, while walking along
the railroad track, was struck by the
train. Both legs were broken and
bruises were found on the body and
head.