Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-11-21
News of the Day.

Yale defeated Harvard II TO 0 in the
football game at New Haven, Conn,
Saturday.
Mrs. Leopold Damrosch, mother Of
the famous musical conductor, died in
New York Saturday.
The admission at the Exposition last
week totalled 552, 0l9, making 1884,
905 persons who have attended since
April 80.
President Roosevelt has offered Sena-
tor Cockrell, of Missouri, place either
on the Canal Commission or Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The mystery of the theft Of $50, 600
from the Forepaugh g. Sells Circus
ticket wagon at Tarboro, N. c., Satur-
day, is still unsolyed and there is no clue
to the robbers.
Mr. Henry G. Davis likes Washing
ton and is going TO live there this winter
despite the fact that he will not hold an
official position. He is going to live on
Massachusetts, avenue.
DR.. Seth S. Ullrich, well-known ply
stefan in Baltimore and major in the
Fourth Regiment, Maryland National
Guard, died very suddenly yesterday OF
neuralgia Of the heart.
Fire caused loss yesterday in the
central part Of Cincinnati approximstiDg
500, 900. 1t started about noon in an
abandoned building in the rear of the
Pounsford Stationery Company.
The steamer Sicilian Prince, OF the
Prince Line, was yesterday stranded on
the Long Island shore. There were 600
Italian steerage passengers and IL cabin
passengers on board. 1t is expected
that the vessel will be aoated today.
Fire broke out during performance
at Speirs' Opera House, Westbrook, Me-,
Saturday night, and before it could be
controlled the building was Quilted. The
flames shut of escape by way Of the
main entrance, but an exit was found at
the rear for the 200 people present.
Several people we're injured, but none,
it is thought, dangerously.
William Allen White, editor of the
Emporia Kansas Gazette, and a we'll
known Kansas author, was horsewhipped
by Mrs. Eta Meffort, divorced woman,
ia front of his Office Thursday afternoon.
The story of the affair was suppressed by
White and his friends The Gazette had
contained articles iDtimating that Mrs.
Mefort was guilty Of flirting.
A japanese shell has exploded a Rus
sian magazine at Port Arthur and the
fighting continues there. The japanese
are hurting among the Russian trenches
receptacles which burst, releasing foul
gas which causes the soldiers to faint,
but does not kill. Along the Shakhe
river General Kuropatkin is trying to
lead Marshal Oyama into taking the ag-
gressise.
A dispatch from Denver, Col, says
that three deaths, including her own,
are charged to Elsie Gesterling, by the
friends Of c. A. Parker, vice president
of the Pere Marquette Railway, and his
son. From sanguine, happy man vino
abhorred suicide she converted the elder
Parker into morose individual who
spoke lightly of death. The liaison ex
tended over eighteen months in Denver.
Shot dead in an automobile by bank
robbers, whose plot the victim OF the
tragedy had discovered and whose plans
be had frustrated, is one explanation Of
the mysterious death of William Bate,
chauffeur, whose corpse and machine
were found on lonely road near Chi
cagO, Saturday. The idea is that two
men who hired the automobile Friday
night were bank robbers and contem
plated raid on bank in some small
town.
The Missouri State building at the
Worlds Fair was destroyed by fire early
Saturday evening, resulting from the ex-
plosion of hot water heater in the base
ment. Instantly the flames shot up
through the rotunda, and the north wing
and cupola were solid mass of flames
within ten minutes after the explosion.
The building cost $l45, 900 and in it
were $75, 900 worth of furnishings, the
most valuable of which were protraito Of
all former Missouri governors and Su-
preme Court Judges. The most valu-
able OF the paintings and books were
saved from the fire that destroyed the
the Missouri Building at the Worlds
Fair and the loss will be only about
$50, 600. One fireman was killed.
Hugh S. Thompson, former governor
of South Carolina, died at his residence
in New York, last night. He was born
ia Charleston, S. c., in 1886. In re-
cent years he was comptroller of the
New York Life Insurance Company.
After four years as given, during which |
time be was reelected once, he resigned |
to become Assistant Secretary of the |
Treasury Department under President
Cleveland. Mr.. Thompson's next office
was that Of democratic member of the
Civil Service Commission, to which he
was appointed in 1889. Mr.. Thompson
leaves a widow, who was Miss Elizabeth |
Clarkson, sister OF DIR. H. NJ. Clarkson,
now Of Haymarket, Va, and to whom
ne was married April 0. 1858. Five |
sons and two daughters survive.
Cardinal Gibbons. President Roose-
welt and Commissioner mcfarland we're
the speakers at the open-air celebration
at st. Patrick's Church, in Washing
ton, Yesterday evening, on the occasion
of the formal dedication OF the new
narochiaI hnildin0s The church alao