Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-24
News Of the Day.

Crown Prince Frederick William of
Germany has sent his betrothed, the
Duchess Cecilia, pearl necklace cost
ing 50, $50.
Mrs. Catherine Rover, aged II years,
died yesterday while attending the fune-
raj OF her husband, Samuel Roger, at
Mount Joy, Pa.
Counsel for Nan Patterson will try
to have her bail reduced to $40, 600 and
they hope to secure this. 1t is expected
that District Attorney Jerome will insist
on new trial
There was rumor in financial circles
in New York yesterday that J. Pierpoint
Morgan, the New York magnate, was
after the Seaboard Air Line, but nothing
definite could be learned about it.
The new Grand Central Station in
New York will cover more than 9 city
blocks aud will cost. together with the
eauipping Of the lines with electricity
for 80 miles from 10000, 600 to $685.
900, 900.
The combined pack of sweet corn in
Maryland aud Virginia during 1904 is
estimated at 2,055,277 cases of two
dozen cans, as compared With $50, $50
for 1908. The total pack for the United
States for 1904 was IL, l62, 800 cases,
as compared with 1851, LAG for 1908.
The total pack for Canada in 1903 was
/ 60, 600 cases, and for 1904, 300, 900.
Three men were bitten and several
thousand shoppers were thrown into n
wild panic Yesterday when recently
captured bear carried to Cincinnati for
sale, broke away from its captors and
ran amuck in the heart OF the shopping
district. The beast was caught three
times, but broke away and resumed the
attempt to escape, finally being overcome
by weight OF numbers, and being led
away with a sack over its head.
Rev. Richard Lewis Howell, a promi-
nent Episcopal clergyman and the first
rector of st. Margarets Church in
Washington, has bought three apart
ment hotels in New York city at cost
of 81, $50, 600. The three hotels are
Breton Hall, the Hotel Regent, aud
Hotel Aberdeen. The deal in one Of
the biggest that has been made in
New York realty within the past three
wears, and it is said the properties
will return rentals aggregating $3.50, GOO
a year.
With the consolidation on January !
next of the manufacturing chemical
firms of Powers & Weightman and Ros-
engarlen g. Sons Gnc.) }, in Philadelphia,
Mrs. Anna NJ. Walker, owner and pre-
sent head of the Powers & Weightman
Company. who recently inherited 500
900, 900 from her father, William
Weightman, will retire from active busi'
ness. The concerns are two ofthe Oldest
and largest chemical manufacturing con-
Germs in the country, and many millions
are involved in their consolidation.
While the Russian Admiralty pro-
fesses ignorance of English reports that
eight Russian torpedo-boat destroyers
recently escaped from Port Arthur dur
ing snowstorm, it is thought that the
destroyers, with the aid of a collier, may
have fled southwark to join the second
Pacific squadron. japanese advices the
early part of the week detailing the dis
abIing of the batlleship Seyastopol and
other large warships intimated that GER
tain torpedo. boat destroyers known TO
have been at Port Arthur sometime ago
had not been located, and were believed
to be unchanged. The japanese war
ships reported cruising in the vicinity OF
Singapore may be on the outlook for
them. In face of heavy artillery fire, the
Russians yesterday advanced the posi-
ton of their siege guns four miles south
ward along the road from Mukden.