Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-26
News Of the Day.

The Standard vi company mas ad-
vanced the price of petroleum.
Cardinal Gibbons yesterday dedi-
Gated st. Marks Church at Piscataway,
Prince Georges county.
Louis Fleischmann, the millionaire
baker and philanthropist, died at his
home in New York yesterday of pa
rslysis, aged GO years.
The vestry of St. Mary's Protestant
Episcopal Church, North East, Nd,
will continue the use of the Bible pre-
scented to the church by Queen Anne Of
England.
Society people OF the North Shore,
Mass, are expecting an announcement
of the engagement of Miss Alice Roose-
welt, daughter of the President, to Rep
resentative Nicholas Longworth, of
Ohio
Rear-Admiral Fernando p. Gilmore
died in New York yesterday of Brigbts
disease, which he contracted during ac-
tive campaigning in the Philippines,
and because of which he was retired
from active duty on November 2, 1902.
Rev. R. Johnson Campbell, pastor of
the Washington Square Methodist
Church, ,Hagerstown, Nd, has de-
termined to sever his connection with
the Methodist Church to enter the
ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
q. R. Lewis, who was convicted Of
murder in the second degree at the July
term, 1904, of the Circuit Court of Nell
son county, and sentenced to imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for twelve
years, was on Saturday refused writ Of
error by the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Fire in creamery at Pottstown, Pa,
Yesterday reduced 1900 pounds of butter
to liquid, and, sizzling with heat, it
flowed in a rivulel on Manatawny street.
The ire, which originated in the engine
room, totally destroyed the creamery
and ice cream factory of Plrdon
Brothers.
A crowd of Laurens citizens brought
into Greenwood county, S. c., Friday
night young negro named james
Stuart and lynched him. Stuart had
attempted assault on the fourteen-year-
old daughter of Doc Hughes, we'll
known white farmer. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hughes were absent from home, leaving
the younger girl and older sister there
alone.
Saturday being the last Saturday OF
September, marked the passing of the
Saturday half holiday granted govern
ment employees in Washington by the
executive order which was promulgated
in the early part of the summer, and
until the hot weather season comes
again the clerks and other attaches of
the departments will resume the old
schedule of hours. The working day
will be from 8 O. clock in the morning
to 4:30 in the afternoon.
George Stevens, secretary of the local
council of the Amalgamated Meat
Butchers Union, was on Saturday in
Omaha fined $3.50 and costs by United
States Judge Munger, for violating an
Injunction Of the federal court restrain
ing the packing-house strikers from in
terfering with non union men who
sought employment during the recent
packing-house strike. Thirty-four OF
Mr.. Stevens associates were fined $50
each and proportion of the costs. They
were all ordered committed until the
fines were paid.
The controlling interest in the Citi-
zens' National Bank, which a short
time ago absorbed the West End Ma
tional Back, both of Washington, has
bren purchased by some Boston capital.
lists, who will take possession Thursday
next. 1t is stated that the only changes
in the management at this time will be
the retirement of F. @. Stevens, the
president, and the election of A. A. APP
pleton, of Boston, to that position. The
sale is believed 10 foreshadow the mer-
ger of the Citizens National, Traders
National and the American National
banks,