Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-04-27
News Of the Day.


1t is stated that Senator McComas
may be appointed United States circuit
Judge to succeed the late Judge Simon
ton.
Fire, which threatened to destroy the
heart of the retail district of Portsmouth
yesterday, caused a loss Of nearly
so, 900.
Flames virtually wrecked the hand
some new Union Station at Harrisburg,
Pa, yesterday. The loss, it is esti-
mated, is 100000.
As a result of the scare caused by the
recent great cOnfagratiOns in America,
German insurance companies trading in
the United States have decided to with
draw.
Representative Lamb, of Virginia,
introduced a bill yesterday appropriating
$500, 900 for the purchase and preserya-
ton by the government of jamestown
Island.
Miss Eliza NJ. Rufin, daughter of the
late Frank G. Rufin, died at the resi-
dence of her cousin, DR.. William r.
Randolph, in Charlottesville, yesterday,
aged 60 years.
A heavy rain, hail and wind storm
visited the Northern Neck yesterday.
Hail the size of cherries fell for about
20 minutes. Great damage was done to
the fruit and wheat crop.
The collapse of cage in the Robinson
mine near johannesburg precipitated
49 natives 2,O09 feet to the bottom. All
were killed. The bottom of the shaft
is a quagmire of human remains.
G. l.. Casey, charged with robbing the
postof1ice at Tazewell, was committed at
Roanoke yesterday for the federal grand
Jury. He confessed to the robbery and
admitted that he got about 5000 worth
of booty.
Brigadier General Joseph Dickinson,
the last of the acknowledgement of the
Army of the Potomac and chief of staff
under Generals Hooker and Meade dur
ing the civil war, died in Washington
yesterday after an illness of three
months. He was seventy-three years
old
Rev. John Ridout, who recently re-
signed the rectorship of Grace Episcopal
Church in Petersburg, has accepted a
cali to the responsible position of curate
at St. Andrews Church in Richmond.
In addition to his other duties he will
have charge of the important institution
al work of that church.
Although the weather was unpropi-
tious, Countess Cassini's garden fete in
Washington for the Russian Red Cross
attracted hundreds of visitors yesterday,
and the affair is an assured success. All
the diplomats except the japanese we're
present. The fete will be held again
today.
John w. Kennedy, who is under ar
rest at Niagara on suspicion, has adj
mitted that he is wanted in Stanton,
Va, for the wrecking Ofan express train
and the killing of the engineer two years
ago. Kennedy had been convicted and
sentenced to be hanged on March 18th.
Two days before his execution he es-
capped. He says he will fight extradi'
ton, not realizing that the law gives
him no protection.
Further complication in the Morse
Dodge divorce troubles arose in New
York yesterday when Justice Vernon
NJ. Davis, in the Supreme Court, denied
the application of Charles w. Morse,
former president of the American Ice
Company, to annul the introductory
judgment obtained by Clemence Dodge
Morse annulling her marriage to the
"1ce King" Justice Davis's decision |
continues the introductory decree which |
Mrs. Dodge-Morse obtained last Decem-
Der annulling her marriage to Morse and
at the present time she finds herself the
wife of neither of the men she had
formerly married.