Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-17
News of the Day.

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Edward at Marienbad, Bohemia, yester-
DAY.
Gossip in financial circles connects
the Gould interests with the proposed
pool of Seaboard stock.
Southern wheat sold at 81 in Balti-
more yesterday Tor the first time since
March. In New York wheat sold at
$L0S.
The Dubois Heitfeld forces regained
control of the Idaho dem ocratic conven-
yesterday, routing the Mormon forces
after a fierce fight.
George Sweitzer, of Philadelphia,
yesterday snatched two boys from the
approaching hoofs of FIVE horses, tossed
them out of harms way and was so badly
mangled that he died four hours later.
Judge F. A. Guthrie, of the Seventh
West Virginia judicial district, died at
Point Pleasant yesterday. He sat on
the bench continuously for "a years and
was one of the ablest jurists in the state.
The old colonial building on the
James Howard McHenry estate, known
as the Sudbrook Mansion, pear Pixies
vile, Md, occupied as boarding house,
was completely wrecked by fire yesterday
afternoon.
Gen. E. A. McAipin, lifelong repub-
lican and for many years one OF the
prominent officials of the New York re-
publican State organization, has inform
ed his friends that he will not be able 70
support Roosevelt for President.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has again changed its district SUI
perindent within a year. f. Z. Clary,
who succeeded Col. j. b. Tree, retired
last fall, has now been superseded in
Richmond by Superintendent Maxwell,
long in charge of the Savannah office.
Kingston, the 7-year.old son Of ID. G.
Flynn. of Parkersburg, w. Va, died
Yesterday morning of gangrene of the
lung. A month ago in eating an apple
he swallowed a blade OF grass, which
worked into his lungs. An operation
removed the grass, but gaDgrene fol-
lowed.
Henry Buchner was shot by his brother
in.law. Lawrence Welsh, in Baltimore
yesterday, and died at the Maryland
University Hospital from the effects Of
the wound. Mrs. Welsh, wife OF the
man who did the shooting and sister o.
Buchner, said at the hearing that bel
husband meant to shoot her.
By a singular coincidence, a widow
living in the little town of Oxford, n.
J.. received yesterday by different ves'
sells which that day had arrived at New
York at the same time, the bodies CT heI
two sons, %ho died accidentally within
six days of each other, in widely sepa'
rated cities of South America.
DR.. William Osler, professor of medl'
cine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti'
more, has been appointed regius probes
sor of medicine at Oxford University,
England. The appointment has been
approved by King Edward, and DR..
Osier has accepted and will take up bis
residence in England and begin work III
the spring.
Detectives and police of the Weehaw
ken station, New Jersey. are searching
for pretty Mrs. Clark Noble, the wife o
well-known sculptor of that name, who
has disappeared with her 5-year-olC
child from 113 Old Boulevard, Weehaw
ken. Considerable mystery surrounds
the disappearance of the woman and be-
child. and the husband and father ba'
given the case into the hands of the Pc
lice.
Lillian Walker. a girl of %, wei
gowned and with every appearance o
refinement, is dying in Bellevue Hospi
tal New York. She was run down by
an automobile yesterday when she wen
TO the aid of woman she had neve
seen before who had been arrested b,
detectives. The detectives resented he
interference and threatened to arrest her
In her fright she darted directly acros
the street and fell in front of the fas
moving macnihe'
Chicago couples wishing to be marrle'
within the next three weeks may ask Il
have the ceremony performed in del
of lions, and if they emerge alive an
uninjured the West Madison Carnl y,
committee will present them with tn
complete furnishings for a five,room fla
in which to continue their welded live
A wedding such as this will be one o
the features of the street carnival, AM
already Al have asked the privilege O
being the bride and bridegroom. Rev
G. H. Markham, a South Side pastor, ha
volunteered to perform the service, pro
vIded lie is allowed to remain OUTSIDE
the bars of the den. The couple will b
chosen within the next few days.
Richmond i'm an Eclipse.
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