Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Clyde Walker Dawson, assistant agent
of the Board of Children's Guardians Of
the Distrsct Of Columbia, was drowned
in the surf at Cape May yesterday
An important move in the textile
workers strike was made in Philadel=.
pnia on Saturday, when !, 500 women
and worsted yarn workers decided TO re-
turn to work today.
Advices from. Colombia are that the
President of the republic sent a message
to Congress favoring the construction of
+the proposed interoceanic canal by the
the United States government.
Africander, owned by G. F. Dwyer
and S. Deimel, won the Advance stakes,
for three-year-olds and upward, at
Sheepsbead Bay on Saturday. African
der broke the track record for one mile
and three furlongs, covering the dis
lance in 2-19 fat.
DIR. A. B. Richardson, superintend-
ent of the Government Asylum for the
Insane at st. Elizabeth, was stricken
with apoplexy Saturday night while
calling upon his friend, DR.. L. o. How
ard, and died at midnight at the Emer-
gency Hospital, in Washington.
Senator Lodge denies the report thai
he will succeed Senator Hanna as chair
man of the republican national COM
mittee. He says he would not take the
place if it were offered 10 him, and be-
lieyes that Senator Hanna will be re-
tanned as the republican campaign man
ager.
The new cup challenger, Shamrock
III, was given her first test in American
waters on Saturday in an informal trial
with Shamrock / off Sandy Hook. In
the first 10 miles of a l5-mile beat to
windward, in a very light air, the new
boat beat the old one about 10 minutes,
and in run of Is miles to leeward 9
minutes.
While cleaning an engine at the
North White plains, n. Y, yards, yes
terday an employee of the Harlem Rail-
road Company found the diamond breast
pin worn by Mrs. Mary Agnes Hall Pot
ter when she was killed on Thursday
evening tightly fastened on the front Of
the engine cab, between the boiler and
the window.
The Master Tradesmen OF Charleston,
S. c., have posted notices in all build
ings which they are constructing that
thew will not employ any w0rkmen who
is member of Builders Trades COun-
ell. The contractors declare they will
stand firm, and say that the unions
cause so much trouble that they can not
endure them longer.
Jim Dougherty, who was to have
been hanged at Hot Springs, Ark, on
August II for the murder of Chief of
Detectives Donahoe, cut the throat OF
Roger Williams, fellow prisoner with
razor Saturday, inficting injuries from
which Williams died. A mob gathered
around the Jail for the purpose of lynch
ing DOugherty when it was found he
had cut his own throat and was dead.
He had taxed steel tips from his shoe
strings, and Aattened them, with which
he opened the jugular vein. A razor
had previously been found on Dougherty
and he believed Williams was instru-
mental in informing the warden.
In feud fight Saturday night near
Daisy Dell. Breathitt county, KY, Hiram
Barnett was killed and John Henry
Hecker and Joseph Hecker we're serious
" wounded. The men, with Samuel
and Silas Barnett, met at the home OF
Miss Leila Burns, niece Of Burns Fitz-
patrick, who was the only juror against
the conviction of Curtiss Jet. While
discussing the course of Juror Fitzpatrick
John Henry Hecker, the friend of Miss
Burns, resented what was said, and all
soon began shooting. There have been
no arrests, and no one can tell who fired
the shots that took effect. For the first
time in many months evening church
services were held yesterday. Prior
to this time the citizens were afraid to
leave their homes after dark