Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
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The bill appropriating 500, 900 for
the st. Louis exposition was ordered to
third reading by the Massachusetts
House.
Two fires early this morning in Bos-
ton, onein the table mandatory of Brown
q Symonds, and the other in the build
ing Of Hillson & Sons, tin manufacturers.
did damage to the extent of $50, 900.
DIR. Edmund Souchon, president .of
the Louisiana State Board of Health,
gave out a statement today in which he
said Louisiana would not relax her quar-
antine regulations to conform with the
Uniform system of quarantine which
Mississippi and Florida seek to establish.
The impeachment proceedings instituted
against Mayor Van Devort, Of Parkersburg,
w. Va, after he gave orders to the police and
fire departments not to oppose the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad in its attempt to lay a
track in Avery street, came 10 an abrupt end
last night.> The committee appointed to in.
vestigate charges against him made report
recommending that the mayors resignation
be demanded. No one moved to adopt the
report, and the matter will be dropped.
Mrs George Peace is reported to have died
at Iuckahoe, W. Va, last night from wounds
inflicted by her husband dag or two ago.
Peace, who was a railroad engineer, after
vainly trying to get bis wife, who had de-
serted him, TO live with him again. shot her
and then swallowed laudanum. Peace died
few hours later but his wife lived until last
night. Mrs. Peace was stopping at her
fathers house, when the tragedy occurred.
Excitement Of tie extraordinary kind
marked the opening of the dog show at the
First Regiment Armcry, in Chicago, yester-
day. There was fist fight between lawyer
and an editor in The afternoon, and when
evening arrived constable came TO grief in
an effort to serve a serve writ of attachment.
He was uneeremoniously thrown into the
street. A second attorney was given q sound
chastisement.
Another sensation is promised as a result of
number of indictments returned by the
grand jury in ST. Louis Wednesday. A man
closely connected with the work of the grand
jury said white slave traffic is a most COM
mon thing iu st. Louis, and il is the intention
of the grand jury to indict all who have en-
gagged in it"
The United States Steel Corporation filed
in Trenton, n. j., today merger Of three new
companies, the corporation has acquired
since the original formation Of the trust. Sixty
three million dollars is the capital stock OF the
new company, which assumes the name Of the
National Steel Company one of the merged
concerns.
At Putnam, Conn.,. today the jury in the
case of Mrs. Mary Lillian Manson, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Julia Wilson, Of
Ashford, on December Is last, after remaining
out all night, reported that they were unable
to agree. State Attorney Hunter says Mrs.
Manson will be tried again.
A post norton examination revealed the
strangest cause death in the history of the
Michigan asylum for the insane, at Kalamazoo.
Six pounds Of nails, buttons and other rubbish
were taken from the stomach of Fred Cerrow,
a patient committed from Branch county,
Michigan.
As result of family feud, David Gaines
last night shot two Of his sons at Franklin,
Ind. One Of the boys will die. Gaines left
home and is being hunted by two other sons,
who are armed and swear they will shoot him
on sight. The officers are also on the outlook
for him.
John J. Omahally, of New Bedford Mass,
aged rs, was arrested at CranstOn, X. l., last
evening for attempting to murder his wife, her
employer and child. and burn the house. He
had a revolver fully loaded in his possession
but was overpowered before he could carry
out his threat.
While joking with another relative Miss
Nellie O'Day, of Chicago, picked up "a small
rifle yesterday afternoon, accidentally touched
the trigger and the weapon was discharged,
killing Der aunt, Mrs. Margaret O'Day.
The schooner William Da, Idson, bound
from Virginia for New York, lumber laden,
stranded early this morning one mile south
of Indian River Inlet, near Lewes, Del.