Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-08
News of the Day.

Great Britain will send the whole OF
the years supply of new field and artil-
lery guns to India, as being the only
possible place of contact with great
European army.
Judge A. B. Parker will probably be
the choice of New York democrats for
President, and Mr.. C. F. Murphy is
willing for him to be named if Mr..
Cleveland will not take the nomination.
The story of the Mormon wife, living
in state of polygamy, was told on the
witness stand of the Senate committee
on privileges and elections, in Wash
ington, yesterday, by Mabel Barber
Kennedy, Mormon by inheritance and
at one time a plural wife, who subse-
quently repudiated polygamy.
Rev. William Munford, formerly a
colonel in the Confederate army, died
last night at his residence in annapolis,
Md. He is survived by his widow,
formerly Miss Mary Francis Ball, de-
scendant ofthe Washingtons ofVirginia,
and by four daughters, one son and a
brother, Gen. Thomas I. Munford,
formerly in the Confederate army.
Two delegations were elected yesterday
to the democratic State convention from
Will county Illinois. Two conventions
were held, and a free-for-all fight took
place, during which DR.. Martin Cushing,
chairman of the democratic county COM
mittee, was knocked down by Michael
Binzen, jr., brother otthe chief ofpolice,
and was struck with chair by Clinton
E. b. G. Cutler, one Of the candidates
for representative.
Joseph Clay Hillery, IA years old,
disappeared from his home, at Cherry
dale, Alexandria county, Sunday and ii
is supposed that he drowned himself. The
boys brother, Rennie Hillery, died
Sunday afternoon and his death came as
great shock to Joseph. He disappear
ed shortly afterward and later his coat
and hat were found on the banks OF a
creek that empties in the Potomac above
the Aqueduct bridge. Friends of the
family dredged the stream yesterday,
but the body was not recovered.
Mrs. Sophia Schliemann, the widow
of the distinguished archaeologist, is
seriously ill from shock, caused by being
shut in her husbands mausoleum, at
Athens, Greece. She lett her home
unattended, entered the miusoleum and
sat down. Immediately the iron door
was slammed shut by a passing
cemetery keeper, thinking it had
been left open accidentally. Itwas hours
later before search for her was made and
she was released. When the door was
opened she was found lying in a swoon
beside her husbands sarcophagus.
Gustave B. Turner, after cutting his
throat and wrist with a razor, leaped
from a fourth-story window of the Hotel
johnson in Washington early yesterday
morning. His roommate went to his
room about 1890 and found the follow
ing note: any poor, mutilated body
is out of the window. God have mercy
on nv soul" Turner was found in a
standing position in the areaway. He
was removed to the Emergency Hos
pital, where it was found that his left
hip had been dislocated and his face cut
by the fall. He was also suffering from
shock and weak from loss OF blood.
Notwithstanding these numerous injur-
les the physicians at the hospital say
that Turner is getting along nicely and
will recover. Turner is from the Eastern
Shore of Virginia. Dependency be-
cause of sickness, it is said, led him to
attempt to end his life.