Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-15
News Of the Day.


Rev. Franklin Spencer Spsulding WAS
yesterday consecrsled Episcopal bishop
of Salt Lake. The ceremony took place
in Erie, Pa.
After all, Governor Vardamsn, of
Mississippi, has been invited to attend
the Inauguration, as have the govern orS
of all the other States.
The inaugural committee yesterday re-
ceived a request from committee of the
Tammany organisation of New York
asking to be given good position in the
inaugural parade.
Mr.. John Brown, senior member Of
the firm of John Brown & Sons, hard.
ware dealers, died in Baltimore yester-
day after few days illness Of pneumonia
complicated with general debility Incl.
dent to old age.
To introduce into society her daughter,
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, the elder Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt threw open the
family mansion. st Fifth avenue and
Fifty. seventh street, New York, last
night aud gave brilliant dance.
Mr.. H. r. Delaney, accompanied by
Mr.. Bradley, the referee in the Wsgga-
man case, appeared yesterday before
Judge Andersen, sitting in Equity Court
No. /. in Washington where he received
the approval of his appointment as trus-
tee by the Court.
The Birmingham, Eng, POst learns
from an official source that the full terms
of the draft of the AngloAmerican ar
bitratiou treaty are expected to be set
tied upon today. Drafts of the treaty
will be dispatched to America in next
Saturdays mail.
John Morley, the member OF tie
British Parliament, who has just re-
turned from a visit to America, where
he had been studying industrial condi-
tons, today denied the report that be
would write series of articles on bis
American experiences.
The widow Of "Caessr" Young, of
whose murder Nan Patterson is accused,
was on the stand at the trial If the ac-
lress in New York yesterday. Mrs,
Young was on the stand onlv long
enough to identify packet If letters
from Miss Patterson. She was then ex-
cused for the present.
Because his beautiful wife OF eight
months Tilted him and eloped to New
Orleans with bookmaker, Edward Eg-
bert, 20 years old, committed suicide by
taking opium; in his room. at the Pros
pect House, Philadelphia, yesterday.
He was discovered in an unc Inscious
condition by the proprietor, George
Misch, and sent to the Hahnemann Hos
pital, where he died an hour later.
In Baltimore yesterday the members
of the Presbytery of Baltimore discussed
the proposed unien between the Presby-
terrain ana the Cumberland Presbyterian
churches, upon the ground OF the West
minister Confession of Faith as revised
in 1903 and passed judgment upon the
question by voting 26 to lS in refusing
to accept the overtures of the General
Assembly proposing the amalgamation
of the two church organizations.
The Maryland Board Of Public Works
met in Annapolis yesterday to act upon
the bids for the States interest in the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, but decided
to defer action until Thursday, Decem-
Der %, in order to seek the ad ice of the
Attorney General on the point suggested
by Treasurer Vandiver as to whether or
not the purchaser Of the States interest
would succeed to the exemptions from
all taxation insured by legislative act to
the owners of the canal company's
charter.
By deciding to throw out the vote of
Precinct 7, Ward 8, of Denver, COL, in
of frauds committed there
1t the late election, the Supreme Court
Of that State yesterday established a
precedent that may be applied to many |
other precincts in which, it is alleged,
he courts injunction order was violated,
and thereby vitality affect the results OF
he late election. Should similar action
De taken in other cases to the extent de-
handed by the republicans lawyers it
will result in the election of the entire
republican legislative ticket in Denver
county and give the republicans control
# both branches of the legislature. On
he face of the returns the republicans
rave majority in the House and the
democrats majority in the Senate.