Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-01
News of the Day.

announcement.
Shocked by the belief that the daugn-
ter whom she had been nursing had
died suddenly, Mrs. Sweeney dropped
dead from heart disease beside her I'M
conscious daughters body in their home,
in East Newark, n. j., yesterday.
The fourth of the stipulated $500, 600
semi.monthly payments to liquidate the
government loan of$4, 600, 900 was made
yesterday by the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition Company at st. Louis. The
total amount refunded to date is 81, 4OS,-
149.
A trolley car which left Boynton
Beach Yesterday on the Railway and
Woodbridge branch of the Public Ser
vice Corporation line near Railway, \. ):
was stalled by potato bugs just south of
the New-Jersey Reformatory while on
the way to Railway.
Senator German was in Baltimore
Yesterday and conferred with number
of the democratic leaders relative to the
political situation in Maryland. He
expressed himself hopefully of the
democratic outlook and may take an
active part in the campaign.
One result of Tuesdays primaries in
which Tsmmany lost in Brooklyn is that
the organization will not have a candi-
date for the democratic nomination for
Governor, nor will it ask for any other
place OH the State ticket. Ills was an ,
bounced yesterday by Charles F. Muir
ply himself.
The steel strikers at Sharon, Pa, have
discovered that there we're spies in their
ranks. men who have been working in
the mills for the last two years. They
assert that these men have been spying
on the actions of the strikers and report
ing to the company everything that they
have done and said in that time.
Alfred Thurston, a snake, frog and
glass-eater out of a job, appeared in the
barroom Of the New York Hotel in
Niagara Falls Thursday. He had a
huge diamond-back rattlesnake with
him in a box. He took out the snake
and placed its head in his mouth. The
snake bit him on the tongue and the man
died seven hours later in agony.
At the convention of the United Irish
League of America in New York yester-
day member of the committee of ways
and means read a report from the COM
mittee, in which it was stated that 1T Is
the intention of this committee to raise
$50, 900 before the first of next year for
the general election fund, to be used in
England and Ireland.
Justice Stafford, of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia, yesterday
discharged the rule issued in the case OF
NJ. Agnes Gardiner, requiring Thomas
f. Waggaman to show cause why re-
ceiver should not be appointed. Justice
Stafford also refused to appoint areceiver
in the bankruptcy proceedings Instituted
against Mr.. Waggaman by three OF the
national banks of Washington.
James Selden Cowdon, formerly a
clerk in the Internal Revenue Bureau,
and at one time clerk in the Pension
Office, in Washington, has been ad-
judged of unsound mind and committed
to the Government Hospital for the In
sane, near Washington. Cowdon few
wears ago announced himself a candidate
for Governor of Virginia, and has twice
run for Congress in the Eighth Virginia
district on his own ticket.
Carroll d. Wright, who has been the
head of the Bureau Ct Labor Statistics,
now attached to the Department of Com
lnerce and Labor, will retire from that
Office on December l. After that time
Mr.. Wright will devote his attention to
his duties in connection with the presi-
dency of Clark College at Worcester,
and to the preparation of the "Econo'
mic History of the United States"
which he has undertaken for the Car
negie institution.
Nine people were killed and % others
injured in the headon collision on the
Grand Trunk Railway, near Richmond,
Que, Yesterday. The trains involved
were a special excursion from Montreal
bound for Sherbrooke and passenger
train No, s. running between Island
Pond. VT. and Montreal. The collision,
it is claimed, was due to neglect OF
orders on the part of the train crew OF
the excursion train, which left Richmond
without awaiting the arrival of the
passenger train.
The will of the late Mary Almaralia,
the negro foster mother of Louis and Jo-
seph Alexander, two white boys, the
former of whom claims to be the son of
distinguished southern man whose
name is yet undivulged, was fled in
Washington yesterday. According to
the instrument, which is dated March
IL, 1904, the greater part of the estate
of about $25, 900 is to be divided equally
between the two Alexander boys. The
will states that the testatrix leaves no
blood relatives.
While incarcerated in Jail at Weimer,
Texas. Oscar Lee Tucker, a 17-year-
old negro, under arrest for attempted
rape, was mysteriously lynched. The
officials are unable to determine just
when or how the act was committed.
Minnie Schultz, the 19-year-Old daugh-
ter of wealthy farmer, was attacked by
Tucker He was arrested soon after
wards and placed in Jail. Three hours
later, when the officers went to the cell
to take the prisoner into court, they
found him hanging by his neck, dead.
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