Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-16
News Of the Day.

/ Inc LOulsldud uiCudoc EApOolllOu
has paid 1908, l40 Of its "a, 600, 900
Indebtedness to the United States.
Hon. Henry G. Davis arrived at the
White Sulphur Springs yesterday and is
ready for the notification tomorrow.
Street riots occurred in New York
Yesterday in connection with both the
building trades trouble and the local
beef strike.
The boiler at the sawmill OF j. +.
Arnold, five miles from Senoia, Ga, ex-
ploded yesterday afternoon, killing four
persons and injuring several others.
The general resumption of the glass
chimney factories, scheduled for yester-
day. did not occur, owing to the failure
to reach an agreement on the wage scale
for the machine.made product.
Careful inquiry at the State Depart
ment develops the fact that no invitation
has passed through that department TO
any king, prince or pctentate to attenu
the Worlds Fair, at st. Louis.
The Baltimore and Southern Railroad
Company, or, as it is better known, the
Drum Point Railroad, was put up at
auction in Baltimore yesterday and bid
in for Edward Lanterbach, of New York,
at $50, 900.
Joe Bornschien, who died recently in
Paducah, KY, left $40, 900 to each of
seven fremen who had fired under him
while he was engineer on the Illinois
Central Railroad. BOrnschien was
wealthy before he took to rairoading.
The whistling of "Bedelia" caused a
riot at Mayfeld, Pa, yesterday in which
an Italian drove an umbrella into John
Nolan's eye. The whistlers were young
men lettering on street corner. and the
tune was struck up just as three Italians
came along. The Italians took it as a
personal affront.
While searching for "Kruger's mill
lions" alleged to have been sunk with
the steamer Zululand, off the Natal
coast, three years ago, the coasting
steamer Penguin was wrecked and 20
persons were drowned. The boatswain
is the only survivor. Four previous
expeditions with the same object in view
have ended disastrously.
Walter Finney, of Churchville, Har-
ford county, Nd, formerly cashier OF
the Second National Bank at Belair,
will have hearing before Commissioner
Rodgers in Baltimore on the charge OF
making false report on March 2S last
to the Comptroller of the Currency re-
garding the condition of the bank, it
being alleged adiscrepancy of $22, 6l2.26
existed
-Four times a bigamist, Charles H..
Williams, 81 years old, conscience
stricken at Salvation Army meeting,
surrendered himself at tine Central
Detail Police Station in Chicago yester-
dav and has made a confession. Five
wives. deserted in Illinois aud Kentucky
during a period Of As years, were adj
mitted by Wilkins, who said he wanted
to be set righs'before the world before
he died.
The thirty-eighth annual encampmeut
| of the Grand Army of the Republic has
begun in Boston. A reception to the vari-
Gus Confederate guests, rendered by the
Edward w. Kinsley Post, of Boston, at
the Algonquin Club, and a shore dinner
at Point Shirley in Honor of Detroit
Post, No, 1884, given by New England
manufacturers, were the chief event of
the afternoon. In the evening a dinner
was rendered the Confederate officers
in Faneuii Hall.
The trial OF the negroes charged with
the murder of the whole Hodges family
was begun yesterday at Statesboro, Ga,
the accused being guarded against lynch
ing by Georgia troops. 1t spite OF wild
rumors to the contrary, all was quiet at
the trial. The brother of the man who,
with his wife and children, was MUIR
dered, opened court with prayer pleading
that the law might be allowed to take
its course. One OF the defendants was
tried and very quickly convi cted and
the court took recess till today,
An added interest was given to the af-
fairs of the Seaboard Air Line in Balti-
more yesterday by the announcement
that holders of the common and preferred
stocks had been asked to deposit their
holdings with the Fidelity and Deposit
Company of Maryland. This move is
being engineered by two local banking
firms, and the purpose Is 10 get the in
diyidual owners of these stocks in a
position to act in concert in any future
plans in the development or possible
change of ownership in the company.