Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-06
News of the Day.

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score down with the disease and several
deaths have already occurred.
Asa result of charges brought by the
Civil Service Reform Association, in New
York. Mayor Mcclellan demanded the
resignation OF the whole municipal Civil
Service Commission in that city and
made Bird S. Coler chairman Of the new
board.
1t is stated that the japanese govern
ment has determined to place contracts
at once for some 20 warships, to be COM
pleted at as early a date as possible. 1t
il further stated that the greater num-
Der of these ships are to be constructed
in this country.
Rev. DIR. Randolph II. McKim was
yesterday chosen presiding officer OF The
Episcopal House of Deputies at the
General Convention in Boston. In the
House OF Bishops, Bishop William
Lawrence, OF Massachusetts, was elected
chairman to assist the presi ding bishop,
DIR. futile, of Missouri.
Elections of State and county officers,
members of the legislature, judges and
solicitors were held in every county in
Georgia yesterday. There was practi'
cally no opposition to the democratic
candidates for State officers or county
judges and attorneys. Gov. Joseph nj.
Terrell was chosen for another term.
The accident to the passenger train on
the Augusta Southern Railroad, reported
In yesterdays Gazette, was caused by
the train running into burning trestle
near Mitchell, Ga, SO miles from Au.
gusta. One man was killed and eight
others injured. The 6O-foot trestle was
entirely destroyed by the fire and the
tender, compartment cur and two
coaches were also burned. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Rev. Francis Wiesok, the priest who
was arrested in Baltimore on Tuesday
evening, charged with sending obscene
letters through the mails, was arraigned
yesterday before Commissioner Rogers.
After listening to the evidence, Commits
sioner Rogers released the prisoner on
$500 bail tor the action of the United
States Court of the Central District Of
Pennsylvania, as the evidence showed
that the letters mentioned 10 the case
had been mailed from Morris, Pa. De-
spite the fact that he stated he would
not press the charge against his cousin,
Rev. Thomas Morys, who swore out the
warrant for Father Wieszok's arrest, was
the main witness 10 the case.
A remarkable story was told at the
London Hospital, London, Tuesday,
when Mr.. Wynne E. Baxter held an in.
quiry concerning the death Of Alfred
Dodd, aged 92. grainer and writer by
trade, lately residing in Holloway road,
Leytonstone. At CONCERT in Legion
stone few weeks ago he was singing
the song "What Will the End Be-"
which tells the story Of a gamblers life.
In the last verse the singer is supposed
TO commit suicide by shooting himself
with a pistol containing a dummy car
fridge. The pistol used on this occasion,
however, would not go off at the proper
time, and while Mr.. Dodd was examin-
ing it it exploded, and he died next day
from lockjaw caused by the injury to his
hand.
A student named Anton Czernevics on
Tuesday night shot himself in dramatic
fashion after playing the piano at stu
dents concert at Temesvar, Hungary.
Czernevics, who was a fine musician, had
been in the best of humor all the even
ing, and had played piece which was
much applauded, when he suddenly
turned to the instrument again and be-
gan playing the dead March in Saul. "
The audience, amused at the freak. al
lowed him to play to the end, when he
rose and declared that he had been aban-
doned by his sweetheart, and life was
no longer worth living Mounting a
chair, he then showered a handful of
gold coins among the students, and beg
ging them to accept the money as
memento of himself quickly produced a
revolver and shot himself dead.
At a late hour yesterday the janitor in
the Pythian Castle in Wheeling, w.
Va, was startled on hearing a revolver
shot ring out from the lodge room on an
upper floor, where John Shannaman,
keeper of records and seal of Black
Prince Lodge, knights of Pythias, was
working on his books. Rushing up, he
was Mortified to find Shsnnaman sitting
at his desk holding a smoking revolver
and gasping for breath, blood pouring
from wound in his left breast. Shan
naman managed to articulate the one
word, doctor" and the minute the
janitor left to summon physician
Shaunaman fred again, this time with
more success, the bullet crashing through
his brain and causing almost instantane-
Gus death. Shaunaman left letter ad.
dressed to his wife, which the coroner
refused to make public.
United States Attorney Morgan II.
Beach stated yesterday ia Washington
that he had instructed his assistant, Mr..
Ralph Given, to have William J. Pull
liam arraigned in the Police Court on
charge of perjury in connection with the
issue of a marriage license Tuesday. Pull
liam eloped from finders, Va, last Mon
day night with Miss Lee Emma StOvall,
a daughter of Augustus ID. Stoyall, of
that place. They undertook to secure
a marriage license from the clerk of the
District Supreme Court, but word was
received from the father of the young
woman in time to stop the issue Of the
license. The pair were arrested, and
thereby nreyented from carving out