Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-19
News Of the Day.

News OF the Day.
"Kid" Sullivan, OF Washington, fairly
won l5-round battle with Tommy DAILY,
of Brooklyn, last night.
Representative Hearst yesterday in
troduced resolution in the House pro-
viding for an investigation of the trust
question.
British submarine torpedo boat No. l
was run down by an ocean liner yester-
day and all on board the boat we're
drowned.
About $50 p. m. Wednesday the town
of Avalon, on Tlghman's Island, Nd,
was visited by fire and, with a single ex-
ception, every house in the place was
destroyed.
Converted from Lutherism to Nor
monism by the testimony given in the
Reed Smoot case, Gottlieb Gassmann, OF
Allegheny, Pa, with his wife and child,
have left their home for Salt Lake City
to Join the "saints."
Robert Hooker, the man who initiated
the Prince of Wales, now King Edward,
into the third degree of Masonry and
fought and won the Earl of Derby's first
political battle, died in San Francisco
yesterday.
A hasty youth recently engaged him.
self to New York girl, having been
her only by gaslight. On discovering
the next day that she had a glass eye
and could hardly be considered a beauty
he refused to wed her and has entered
suit for the engagement ring.
The Foraker and Hanna factions in
the Fourth Ohio district split yesterday
and two conventions were held, two
candidates for Congress nominated and
two seats of delegates to the national
convention elected; both conventions,
however, Endorsed the President.
For three days forest fire has been
raging through the Augusta district of
Georgia, destroying miles of heavily
timbered land, fences aud isolated houses.
In some places, large quantities of ferti-
lizers have been destroyed. The loss so
far is we'll up in the thousands, and the
fire is still raging.
As stated in the Gazette Daniel j.
Sully, the "cotton king" failed in New
York Yesterday. Immediately alter
ward there was a panic on the floor, IN
which cotton dropped from 25O to 2S3
points. He held 5000 bales and was
carving the markets. Thousands OF
southerners lost in the sudden slump.
In connection with the administra-
tons new plan now before Congress for
the consolidation THE record and pension
and adutant generals Office of the War
Department, a rumor is current that
this is only the beginning of presiden-
tial movement for the abolition of the
Pension Office and the transfer of its
duties TO the War Department.
Expert cracksmen secured between
5000 and $500 in money and several
dollars worth of stamps from the safe
in the postoffice at Mount Washington,
Nd. yesterday morning. The explosion,
which wrecked the safe, is supposed to
have taken place at 2.22 O'Clock, as a
clock on the wall over the safe had stop
ped at that hour.
The House committee on war claims
has reported favOrably the bill providing
for the reimbursement of the States in
the various sums expended in mobiiz-
ling troops at the outbreak of the war
with Spain. The bill was introduced by
Representative Loudenslager, of New
Jersey. The government has hitherto
refused to pay the cost of transporting
troops from their home stations to the
place of muster-in as there was no au-
fhOrization for payment in law.
By renouncing Freemasonry on his
deathbed, DR.. William j. McDermott, a
Freemason for so years, and one of the
most active members of the fraternity in
the Bronx, New York, has given shock
to the members of that organization.
The physician died on Sunday after
short illness. The members of Wyom-
ing lodge of which he was the founder
and first MASTER planned to give him
Masonic funeral, but on inquiry learned
that Just before his death he had re-
ceived a visit from Father Parks, of st.
Thomas Roman Catholic Church, who
administered the last rites of the church
after his disavowal of Masonry.