Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-06
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Vice Chancellor Stevens, of New Jer-
sew, has appointed Willard p. voorhees,
as temporary receiver for the Perth
Amboy Shipbuilding company.
Fire which broke out early this NOM
ing destroyed several business houses jim
the heart of the Point Pleasant village
and completely Quilted another, causing
a loss which is estimated by losers, at
S175, 900
Samuel J. Park, walking delegate for
the housesmiths and bridgemens union,
was found guilty in the court of special
sessions in New York today for assault
ing Peter O'Neil, plasterer. Three
hundred labor men were present in
court when the verdict was rendered
Parks will be sentenced next Thursday.
The brutality of her minister husband
is the basis on which Mrs. Mary Wan
arke. of Elizabeth, has secured the
recommendation Of q master in chancery
in Trenton, n. j., that she be allowed
a decree of divorce from the Rev. Ernest
r. Wanarke of Hudson, New York.
Mr.. Wanarke was not long ago the pas
Tor of the German Emanuel Lutheran
Church at Hudson. The wife claims
he was forced to resign because of his
i'll treatment Of her. The Master finds
that the husband was unsociable, obsti-
nate and never loved his wife.
Mrs. Breckenridge, wife of John
| Cabell Breckinridge, of California, to-
dav give birth to son, in Paris. Mr..
Breckenridge is the son ofMrs. Frederick
Sharon. widow of the late Owen Breck-
inridge, of the Kentucky Breckenridge;
and now the wife of Fred X. Sharon,
whose father was the late millionaire
Senator Sharon of San Francisco. Mrs
Breckenridge is the daughter OF ). IT,
Murphy. a San Francisco millionaire
Breckenridge and Miss Murphy elopeC
from San Francisco in July Of last years
and fled to San Jose where they wer'
married.
Three torpedo destroyers. were seen Oh
Vinal Haven, Ne, this morning, anothe-, IN
| Dale, was at SWANS lN'duus hO nv
er, lie Cambridge LEFT Camden early IN Tn
morning for Portland, where she was late
reported. The fact that the destroyers ar
scouting in that vicinity lends color to the re
port that the attacking squadron IS expec'e
10 be head from in the Rockland vicinity
William strack, feeble minded ragplcRRe
who was brought into court at YORK, IA
Yesterday. on a larceny charge, confessed Z
firing through motives of revenge, the Laiea
Paner Mill. which fire resulted in q loss q
:95 O0O. Strack said that the day before
E had perpetrated the deed some Of the bose
At the mill struck him and compelled MN
leave the building.
II was stated at the Archiepiscopal residenG
, in Baltimore. Yesterday, that Cardinal GlI
hons would arrive in the city in time, for u
annual retreat of the clergy Of the archdioces
which will open at St. Mary's Seminary o
August &c and continue until the foilowin
: Sunday.
Machinists employed in the. Allstol
5 Springfield and Rensselaer, shops OF the 30
ton and Albany division of the New 1or
I Central railroad voted last night to stflt
+. SATURDAY, providing the corporation does ID
Grant them satisfactory increase IN wages.
t Miss Alice Roosevelt, the daughter OF u
j. President, was the guest OF honor az uinn
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Fulton C1un
!. At Newport r. l., last night. MISS hoos
Welt proposes 70 sail one Of the yachts toda
I should the weather prove propitlous.