Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The wife Of James Cuddy, who lett
her husband in Albany 26 years ago,
returned to find Mrs. Cuddy No. in
stalled in his home.
E. Blankman Levy, of New York,
discovered among some old papers an
autograph letter written by George
Washington in 1888.
Mrs. ]. X. Lord, wife Of the professor
of theology in the University OF CALI
fornia. was attacked in Chicago yes
terdsy by colored kisser.
The Ladies' Hermitage Association OF
Nashville, Tenn, has bought the Her
mitage, the home of President Andrew
Jackson, and will have it preserved.
A special grand jury in Denver has
indicted several city and county officials,
and condemned the entire city govern
ment for laxity in conducting affairs.
Intense excitement has been produced
at Bogota by cablegram reporting the
probability of the United States dealing
directly with Panamaiu the canal matter.
The Colombian Senate has appointed
a commission to prepare a bill authorlz-
ing the government to negotiate canal
treaty without violating the constitution.
The home of Mrs. Melcrone and her
daughter, in Brooklyn, was set on fire
on Saturday, it is charged, by bomb
placed there by some person who wanted
to blow the house up.
Entry has been refused to a shipment
of white wine from Bordeaux, France,
because it contained salicylic acid. This
was the first enforcement of the recently
enacted pure-food act.
Pennsylvania, as in former years, has
the greatest number of pensioners. No
fewer than lO1, 1874 citizens of that State
are on the pension rolls, and last year
they received Sl3, $50, POI.
Mrs. James w. Smith, who, while the
wife of Francis L. Higginson, the Bos-
ton banker, caused a sensation by elop-
ing, has returned and been again re-
ceived in Back Bay society.
A Chicago physician. confirmed NOR
phine victim, has had himself locked up
in hospital cell and is trying to cure
himself and benefit medical science by
a treatment of his own discovery.
The referee in divorce suit in New
York has rendered an opinion that UNI
chastity of the wife before marriage,
which she had concealed from her hus-
band. did not entitle him to a divorce.
Commander Peary, u S. N, has
planned another expedition TO reach the
North Pole, and has secured a three
years leave of absence. President RoOse-
welt and acting Secretary Darling ap-
proving his enterprise.
The arrest in Lebanon, Pa, Of Con-
stable John L. Fisher for the murder OF
J. Marshall Funck resulted from dreams
of Mrs. Funck and Eli Atwood, to
whom Funck appeared in vision and
declared that he had been murdered.
In the last year 4O,907 pensioners
were dropped from the rolls for one
cause or another, the chief being death.
The pensions granted on account of the
Spanish war, great in number as they
we're, are not sufficient to Offset this fall
ing of.
John Wise, hanger-on at the camps
of the oil operators at Smithfeld, II
miles east of New Martinsyille, w. Va,
was given coat of tar and feathers Sat
urday night by a mob of indignant citi-
zens. He had made improper proposals
to Mrs. l.. Perrine.
One of the worst wrecks on the middle
division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in
years occurred Saturday night at Ryde,
Fa. One eastbound freight train ran
into another, and forty cars were scat
tered over the tracks, with their con-
tents. Three men were injured.
Dnring a thunderstorm in Plainfield,
n. j., Saturday afternoon five hundred
people assembled in baseball grand
stand at the Crescent Oval were thrown
into a panic when the structure was
struck by lightning. Seven persons
we're stunned and burned by the bolt
Survivors of the Hungarian steamer
Voskapn, destroyed in the Black Sea by
explosions attributed to the Bulgarian
reyoutionists, state that two men, sup
posed to have embarked at Varna, threw
dynamite bombs in the stokehole and
under the bridge. Fifteen peasons were
| killed.
]. B. Haggin's Waterboy won the
$4,000 Century Stakesat Sheepshead
bay, Saturday. He broke the track
record for one mile and half by cover
ing the distance in 2:91 9-5, which is
two-fifths of second faster than the pre-
vious time made by J. B. Haggin's
Water Color in 1901. Waterboy was
third choice in the betting. closing at
4 to l.
A telegram to Secretary Hitchcock
from United States District Attorney
Horace Speed, of Oklahoma, says the
United States grand jury has found three
indictments against Contractor Stokes
and the three county commissioners for
Kiowa county for making false vouchers
and false certificates for the purpose of
defrauding the government in connec-
ton with the building of bridges.
w. II. Floyd, an excursionist from
Windsoryille, York county, Pa, met
horrible death on Saturday evening. at
$50 O'Clock, by having his brains dash
ed out against a telegraph pole while
leaning from a-window of Maryland
and Pennsylvania Railroad train. The
accident took place near the corner Of
Twenty-pinth street, and Falls road