Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-25
News of the Day.

President, who highly enlogized his pub
lie services.
The Rosotofu ferryboat, while crossing
Khoper river "a tributary of the Dam,
sank Yesterday with all on board. Sixty
bodies have been recovered and 100 per-
sons are missing.
No clue has yet been found to the
whereabouts of Kent j. LOOMS, who dis
appeared from the steamer Kaiser Will
helm. He was carrying the Abyssinian
treaty to King Menelik.
Two poolrooms, said to be branches
of a New York poolroom syndicate,
we're raided by the police in Philadel-
phia yesterday, and the reputed hackers
and 81 betting men we're arrested.
The Gar has ordered the investigation
into the murder of General Bobrikof,
late governor general of Finland, taken
out of the hands OF the Finnish courts
and intrusted to the prosecutor OF the st.
Petersburg tribunal.
The French minister, NJ. Deprez, has
received letter from the Haytian gov
eminent apologizing for the action OF the
palace guard in stoning the Minister
while the latter was driving past the
palace Wednesday. The incident, there
fore, is regarded at Port au Prince as
closed.
Through the recent victory of NJ.
Thiery, the French automobilist, 1t has
become known that Emperor William,
of Germany, has set his heart upon a
visit to France next year. When told
that a Frenchman had won the race, the
Emperor threw his military cap into the
air and exclaimed "Good / will
now witness the race next year in
France"
Ion Perdicaris, the wealthy American,
and his stepson, Cromwell Marley, an
Englishman, who were captured by the
bandit Raisuli have arrived at Tangier.
Perdicaris suffered many hardships while
in the hands of Raisuli, although he says
he does not think that these were the
fault of the bandit chief, and that he
had every comfort possible under the
circumstances.
In Paris, Friday, Colonel Gourand Sc
cured Judgment far 1925, 900 against
Lebaudy, emperor of Sahara" for
back pay due him as Governor General
of the 'empire." M. jacques Lebaudy,
who was Emperor of Sahara" for a short
time only, is one of the wealthiest young
men of France. He tired of the Joys OF
ordinary every day life and pined for
regal rights and glories. He cast his
eyes about for an empire IN conquer,
and finally decided that the desert OF
Sahara was bis point.
At 5:45 yesterday morning just before
adjournment of the prolonged night ses-
sion, Robert 2. Glenn was nominated in
Raleigh by the democratic convention
for governor of North Carolina. Fran
els d. Winston was nominated yester-
day for lieutenant governor, together
with a full state ticket. The dele
gates 10 the st. Louis convention go I'M
instructed excepting to vote as unit.
A resolution demanding division OF the
school fund between the races on the
basis of taxation WAS defeated.
With great bullet woundin her head,
her face turned and smothered in the
pillow, Mrs. Daniel Kelly, bride OF =
few weeks, lies in the hospital in New
canaan, Conn, refusing to tell how she
was shot. She was found lying in the
woods near her home bleeding profusely
from the wound. Mrs. Kelly, only 10
years old, is famed for her beauty in
Stamford, where she lived before her
marriage, and is spoken of as one of the
most beautiful women in New Canaan,
if not in all that neighborhood of Con-
necticut.
The first important arrest in the Pan
anna canal zone was made Thursday. n
Frenchman named Murati, late chief OF
a section of the canal at Colon, just as
he was about to sail for France had an
alteration with man named Placeau
and some employees of the canal. The
Frenchman was seriously wounded and
Placeau had leg broken. Murati i'm
mediately embarked on the steamer
Canada, but Governor Davis ordered his
arrest, as the alteration occurred within
the limits of the canal zone. Murati
was unable to secure pail and is pris-
oner in Colon.