Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A reward of 81 900 has been offered
for the arrest of the murderer of Agatha
Reichlin, of Lorain, Ohio.
Pope Leo XIII received ex-Congress-
man w. Bourke Cochran, of New York.
in private audience, yesterday.
The airship constructed for the
Lebaudy brothers made a highly sue
cessiul trip in Paris yesterday.
DIR. Albert A. Ames, ex-Mayor of
Minneapolis, who was convicted of ac-
cepting bride, has been released on bail
of $2l, 900.
A dispatch from Lima, Peru, say
terrific snowstorm and hurricane at Cutico
has killed 10 persons and destroyed
many houses.
The New York Supreme Court has
affirmed verdict of 100000 damages
against the New York Central Railroad
Company in favor of Mrs. Jennie NJ.
Legs, whose husband was killed in the
tunnel wreck of January, 1902.
There are now 125 vacancies in the
grade of second lieutenant in the line of
the army. Under the rule of the War
Department these vacancies will be filled,
first by the graduates of the military
academy, next by the promotion of men
from the ranks and lastly by appoint
ments from civil life.
Judge Pardee, of the Circuit Court of
the United States, at Atlanta, has signed
an order appointing j. S. B. Thompson
receiver of the assets of the Atlanta and
New Orleans branch offices of the Con-
solidated Dental Manufacturing Com
pany, of New York. The receivership
proceedings arose from bill alleging in
debtedness to the main company on the
part of the branch offices.
Baron Won Loew, a lieutenant in the
Fifth Uhlans, was sentenced to Is
months imprisonment yesterday at Dus-
seldorf, Prussia, for having "lied like
gentleman" in SANDER proceedings in
volving the reputation of Frau Eek,
wife of a distinguished engineer. The
Baron and Frau Eek swore in court that
they had done nothing improper. She
drank poison at the moment of her ar
rest for perjury and died from the effects.
A dispatch from Bluefeld, w. Va,
say that further information from the
Eggleston tunnel disaster shows that
10 dead bodies have been recovered from
the debris so far removed. It's claimed
that there still remain several bodies in
the tunnel which there is no hope of res
cuing alive. A report current in Blue
field yesterday was to the effect that 10
men in all were killed, while three were
fatally injured and several slightly hurt.
Miss Louise Hadley, a chambermaid
at the Hotel English, at Indianapolis,
Ind, has been discharged by the mana
cement as a result of the recent visit of
Booker T. Washington to Indianapolis.
When he went there to lecture Wednes-
day and stopped at the hotel, he was as
signed to one Of the rooms in charge of
Miss Hadley. Thursday morning she
refused to enter the room and rearrange
the bed. The head chambermaid re-
ported her to the manager. She was
told that such insubordination would not
be tolerated, but she declared she would
not make any negro's bed and her dis
charged followed.
Results to date of the Postoffice De-
partment investigation are as follows:
George w. Beavers, General Superin-
tendent of the Division of Salaries and
Allowances, resigned; James n. Tyner,
Assistant Attorney-General for the Post
office Department, removed; George A.
C. Christiancy, Acting Assistant Attor-
ney-General for the Postofice Depart
ment, given leave of absence, at his own
request, pending investigation; A. w.
Machen, General Superintendent of the
Division of Free Delivery, relieved of
his duties at the request of Fourth As
sistant Postmaster-G General Bristow, pend
ing investigation.