Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-19
News of the Day.

The Uruguayan revolutionist are said
to be weary of the struggle and to have
asked for conditions of peace.
Joseph Jefferson has Cancelled all bis
dates for this winter on account of his i'll
health and will spend the winter at Palm
Beach, Fla.
Father Agius, the new apostolic dele
gate to the Philippines, was consecrated
in Rome yesterday archbishop of Pol
mira, Cardinal Merry Del Val oficiat-
ing, assisted by Archbishop Chapelle, of
New Orleans.
The relief expedition sent to search
for the Arctic exploration steamer Amer
lea returned to Tromsoe, Norway, and
reports having failed to reach Franz
Josef Land, the ice conditions being in
surmountable.
Thirteen monuments in memory OF
thirteen Pennsylvania regiments which
participated in the battle of Antietam,
were dedicated Saturday by Pennsyl-
yania veterans on the famous battlefield.
1t was the forty-second anniversary of
the battle.
Another section of the democratic
campaign book, devoted to tariff and the
trusts, was made public yesterday. In
it Carroll D. Wright's statistics regard
ing wages and the cost Of living, and
Secretary Shaw's Wilmington speech on
the same subject are vigorously assailed.
The first wife of DR.. Montgomery
Hunter, one OF Georgetcwn's best known
practitioners, has brought suit against
him tor divorce, naming his present wife
as correspondent The legality of DR..
Hunters divorce and subsequent mar
rage to Miss Cora V. Drury is attacked.
Mrs. Hunter claims in her petition that
the decree of divorce obtained by her
husband in Nebraska is null and void.
DR.. Hunter is charged with fraudulent
representations to the Nebraska courts
Twelve of the men alleged to have
been implicated in the killing of Deputy
Sheriff Thrift surrendered to Sheriff
Herndon, Saturday. They we're quickly
started for Jack onville on special train
under guard of the military. As the
horsemen came to give themselves up
the funeral cortege with the body Of one
of their victims started for the cemetery.
The authorities of two States want the
men who created a reign of terror. An
artillery company is at the Jail guarding
the men.
At a matinee of the Gentlemen $
Driving Club at Chenille track, at
Cleveland, o., yesterday, Lou Dillon
was driven half-mile by Willard San
ders in So ga seconds, breaking the
worlds record for that distance. Afri-
cander won the 500 Brighton Cup,
distance two and one-quarter miles, at
Brighton Beach Saturday. He was Sec
ond choice at 2 to !. McChesney, the
favorite, and admirably ridden by Red
fern, was second, and Major Daingerfeld
last. The time-3:S5-was very slow.
The New York wheat market literally
went to pieces Saturday. In little more
than an hours timeit lost fully3 cents a
bushel, making cents decline from the
highest point Of the week. Traders who
bought around ST. 18and higher, ext ct.
ing TO sell out around 1925 considered
themselves fortunate if, in the democrat
lied prices of the forenoon, they got bet
ter than $I.14. December sold to ST.
1875 before there was any check to the
drop. 1t closed at night at SLIGO In
Chicago there was drop in prices Of 4
cents.
The jury in the case of DR.. Julian Nj.
Baker, on trial for the murder of DR.. Ii.
T. Bass at Tarboro, n. c., after being
out since Saturday evening, yesterday
afternoon returned verdict. of acquittal.
Self-defense was the plea of the defendant.
The homicide occurred March 16, 1903,
and was the outcome of bad feeling for
some time previous. The testimony show
ed that the men engaged in fight at
the postofice, when Baker drew his
pistol and shot Bass three times, death
ensuing some hours later. Both men
were prominent physicians.
Napoleon Shipley, former postmas-
ter at Washington, and for years one of
the most successful and largest oil
spectators of the country, died on
Thursday at the city poor farm, Mar
shalsea, Pa, aged 85 years. Although
the possessor of a large fortune, it was
lost through investments, over 5000, 900
being sunk in a single oil venture.
Shipley was prominent in political cir
cles at the national capital at the time of
the civil war, and when he died had
well-to-do relatives in Baltimore, Cleve-
land, Psrkersburg, Pittsburg and NeS
Orleans. His body was claimed by his