Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Right Rev. George Montgomery,
coadiutor of San Francisco, has declined
the post of archbishop to Manila.
Governor Murphy, of New Jersey, has
revoked the charters of nearly thousand
corporations which have failed to pay
their State taxes.
Four persons dead, two fatally hurt
and several Others injured, is the result
of a head-on collision on the Intercolonial
Railway near Halifax, yesterday morn
ing.
Rev. DR.. John A. Zahm, of Indiana,
provincial of the Congregation Of the
Holy Cross in the United States, is in
Paris making arrangements to send large
numbers of the members to the United
States.
1t is announced that Assistant Attor-
ney General James NJ. Beck rendered his
resignation to President Roosevelt before
the Presidents departure for the west
Mr.. Beck will become a member OF the
firm of Sherman & Sterling.
Brigham Young, president Of the
council OF twelve apostles of the Mormon
Church, died in Salt Lake City, Utah,
on Saturday night after lingering i'll
ness. He was born in Kirkland, Ohio,
in 1886, and was the eldest son of Presi-
dent Brigham Young.
Mrs. Alice Matthews, aged As, was
murdered, and her daughter, aged 10,
fatally wounded, in their bed at Shreve-
port, La, on Saturday. Their heads
were crushed with an axe. Edward Por-
ter, negro, strongly suspected of the
double crime, was shot to death by po-
licemen while he was trying to escape.
Nathan Morris, one of the best known
attorneys of Indiana, and Frank Haas,
the 2-year-old son of DR.. Joseph Haas,
were burned to death at indianapolis,
at 3 o clock yesterday morning, and Mrs.
Joseph Haas, Miss Belle Haas, Miss
Rose Haas, Louis Haas, and Grace
Lemon, a governess, were injured more
or less seriously. The Haas residence
was nearly burned to the ground.
A double wedding took place in the
New Carrollton Hotel, in Baltimore on
Saturday, when Miss Ruby Belle Toll
board, 16 years old, was married to MIR.
RAYMOND Clinton Anderson, of Wood
stock. Va, and Miss Mary Emma Car
ter, 81 years old, to Mr.. Marvin Duvall
Mauck. also of Woodstock. With these
ceremonies eliminated a most romantic
escapade, in which the lodging of detec-
tives and police figured prominently.
Ten passengers and the motorman and
conductor on the electric train going to
the barns in Chicago shortly after mid
night Sunday morning on the North
Grand avenue line were held up and
robbed of every portable article by three
men. masked and bristling with weapons.
The plumber was not large, as majority
of the victims were clerks who worked
late in the stores. The robbers were
disguised with the loot and cursed the
passengers roughly for not carrying
larger sums of money.
Gen. Emil Schaefer has sued his wife
for divorce in New York, naming Cor
man A. Worth, her companion in her
trip across the country during the last
two months, as the correspondent. Mr..
Worth SAYS a divorce suit between Mrs.
Worth and himself has been pending for
more than year. He will not state
who the correspondent is in that action.
The two little daughters of the Schaefers
are now in the possession of their mother,
but she is in the custody of her counsel,
who is bound to produce them in the
Chancery Court of New Jersey on May2