Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-08
News of the Day.

ranges throughout the country.
As an advocate of peace Philadel-
phia member of the Society of Friends
refused TO supply leather to be used in
the navy.
Mr. NJ. E. Ingalls,, president of the
Big Four Railroad, made a speech yes
terday in behalf OF Alton B. Parker at a
big meeting in Indianapolis.
Hon. John Sharp Williams has issued
a statement denying the insinuation Of
President Roosevelt to the effect that
democrats in Congress opposed reciproc-
ity with Cuba.
The international Peace Congress in
session 10 Boston yesterday decided to
hold the next convention in Lucerene,
Switzerland. A scheme for an inter-
national court was proposed.
The 5000, 900 international Mer-
camille Agency, whose former president,
T. N.McCauley, is fugitive from justice,
was sold at public auction in New
York, on Thursday for $3.50 which
is less than | per cent. Of the capital
stock.
Peter Sells, the well-known Snowman,
died Wednesday night at his home in
Columbus, Ohio, of apoplexy, aged IS
years. He was stricken six weeks ago.
He, with his brothers, Ephraim, Allen
and Lewis, established the Sells Broth
ers Shows in 1872.
A dispatch from Fort de France,
Island Of Martinique, says that the re-
port that there has been serious erup-
ton of Mont Pelee is not true. There
has been great activity on the mountain
during the last few days. and week
ago the volcano emitted enormous guam
titles of steam and ashes, but no damage
has resulted.
About 1880 o'clock yesterday after
noon. Deputy Sheriff Garrett V. Cham.
berlain, while in a wagon with bis wife,
was shot, near his home at Tacoma,
Fla, by a negro. He died instantly.
His wife was proSrated and could not
talk. Excitement is at the highest
pitch and the sheriff with blood hounds
Is searching for the murderer.
Charles Taylor, a prosperous and
wealthy farmer and bachelor, aged sixty
six years, residing alone on Red Lick
Run, two miles from Jacksonville, w.
Va, was murdered Thursday shortly
after the noon hour. The murderer is
unknown. Feeling is running high,
aud if the man is caught he probably
will be lynched. Robbery is the only
motive that can be given.
Information has reached Cody, Wyo.,
that James Wilson and nephew, both
of Pennsylvania, who were travelling in
Yellowstone Park, came suddenly upon
bear 10 a timbered part of the park,
which attacked them, The boy was
crushed to death, and Wilson was so
badly torn and bitten that he died soon
after being rescued by other travellers.
The bear was supposed to be one OF the
number of tame animals kept in the
park, and the boy fired shot at it. The
animal became Infatuated. and attacked
the boy, killing him. Wilson went to
his nephew's rescue, and was himself
fatally burt,
Pope Plus y appears among the I'M
secured creditors OF Thomas E. Wagga-
man, The item due him, as reported by
Mr.. Waggaman in his schedule of debts
filed in the Bankruptcy Court in Wash
ington, Thursday, is referred to as check
No. 240, 08l, not presented for payment
1t is stated to be for $3.50. Among the
other creditors of the bankrupt estate
disclosed by Mr.. Waggaman's return are
Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Donohue,
Bishop Garrigan, and other well-known
churchmen. The pulpit fund" and
.''sa1ctuary fund.- deposited by Rev.
Thomas S. Lee are also in the list of
debts, and the Sisters { the Visitation
of Georgetown are credited with large
sums.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs. Lucy Will
holt, Mrs. Myra McHenry and Mrs.
Lydia Mountz, who made the recent
joint raid in Wichita, Kansas, were
found guilty 10 the City Court yesterday
of destruction of property. As stated in
the Gazette, Mrs, Nation was fined $3.50
and given six months in jail, Mrs. Nc
Henry and Mrs. Wilholt were fined
$3.50 each, and Mrs. Mountz was fined
$50. They gave notice of appeal. Mrs.
Nation and Mrs. McHenry, immedi-
ately after having been released from
Jail on an appeal bond, went down the
street knocking cigars out of the mouths
of the men they met. They were again
arrested, and are in the city Jail on the |
charge of disturbing the peace and OBJ
structipg the sideyalk.