Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-13
News of the Day.
Parker is ahead in Texas.

10 cOnITOl inc IhlncIal PiVuuOei'h VI
America.
Mr.. Conrad c. Fink, aged 40 years,
senior member of the firm of c. c. Fink
& Co., wholesale -four merchants, OF
Baltimore, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with a razor yesterday morn
ing.
King Carlos, accompanied by his staff
and the minister Of marine, was enter
tanned at breakfast Saturday by Rear
Admiral Barker, on board the United
States flagship Kearsarge, at Lisbon.
As a result of friction over the election
of teacher for a public school at Elk,
a small town ten miles north OF Waco,
Texas, bloody street fight occurred
there Saturday, during which r. b.
Terrence was killed and Others danger
ously wounded.
James Meade, "a years old, a book
keeper, was shot and killed in Paterson,
n. j., yesterday morning. The police
have in custody four men and three
women who were present when the
shooting occurred.
A. G. jenkins was shot by his eleven
year.old daughter in Norton, Kan, Sat
nrday. jenkins was insane and had
often threatened to kill his whole fam
lily. He was whipping his wife when
his daughter killed him.
Clifford Boylan, twenty-four years old,
is believed to be dying at the hospital,
at Canton, O., and William Fl. Harrier
and Daniel Fitzgerald were shot and cut
and bruised as the result of a fight be-
tween negroes and white men alter a ball
prove satisfactory to Russia, and will add
game yesterday
Organized labor in Chicago yesterday
through its central body, the Federation
of Labor, passed a resolution appealing
to President Roosevelt to send federal
troops to Colorado to restore order in the
| Cripple Creek district. The resolution,
which declares that the lives Of the
miners are in danger under present con-
ditions, was mailed to President Roose-
welt last night.
SPORTING circles in San Francisco all
are agog over the fact that the champion
ship fight scheduled for next Friday
night between Champion Jefiries and
Jack MunrOe may have to be postponed.
The champion is suffering from a sore
knee that became such source OF pain
on FRIDAY that a doctor was summoned.
After an examination the big fighter
was ordered to bed.
Miss Gladys Anne Bright, pretty
young factory girl, and William H. Rust,
young man who who moved in the up
per circles ofsociety, were drowned while
out rowing shortly before last midnight
in Antietam creek. at Watts, Park two
miles from Hageratown. The couple had
been sweethearts for seven years, although
the young mans family was violently OPP
posed to him paying attentions to the
girl.
Mystery surrounds the find of the
body OF Joseph Loveday, formerly a
clerk in the Treasury Department in
Washington, D. c., and of prominent
southern family, in the hallway of a
clearinghouse, in Philadelphia, Satur-
day night. What caused the aged
mans death neither the police ,nr
Coroner Dugan will say. They are,
however, making an investigation into
the matter.
The Richelieu and Ontario Navi-
CATION Company's steamer Canada,
bound from Quebec for Montreal, came
into collision with the Dominion Coal
COmpany's collier Cape Breton six
miles below Sorel early yesterday.
Twenty minutes later the Canada went
to the bottom. At the time Of the col
lison there were 10 people on board
the Canada. Five were lost the others
we're rescued.
A riot occurred on the Northern Pa.
cifc passenger train near Burke, Idaho,
Saturday night between union miners
from the Hercules nine and nOn-uniOn
men from the properties of the Federal
Mining and Smelling Company. No one
was killed, but several on each side were
badly injured. The trouble was the out
growth of an argument over the Cripple
Creek explosion, in which two former
Coeurd' Alene miners were killed and
several injured.
Rounding curve at Van Courtlandt
Park New York, yesterday afternoon a
train on the Yonkers division of the New
York and Putnam Railroad crashed into
an automobile owned by George Noakes,
a restaurant keeper. Frank B. Read,
paper manufacturer ofNew York was kill
ed, the sixteen year-Old daughter of Mr..
Noakes had her left foot cut off by the
train, and John Spencer. a negro, the
chauffeur, was so badly injured that it is
believed he will not recover.
A desperate attempt was made Satur-
day afternoon by four masked men to
rob Superintendent w. II. c. Ramsey
and Secretary Frank Howard, of the
JohnstOwn, Pa, Water Company, OF
about IS, 900 in cash, which they were
conveying to the new Dalton Run Dam,
near JohnstOwn, to pay Oft the 400 men
employed there. The two men made a
plucky run for it and fortunately es-
capped, but not until two horses had been
killed and about twenty-five shots had
been exchanged.
DR.. Victor c. ThOrne, who married
Katherine, daughter of the late Presi-
dent Henry Sanford. of the Adams
Express Company, at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
and from whom he was later divorced,