Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-18
News Of the Day.

Knights OF Pythias' Uniformed Rank
was abandoned at Louisville yesterday
for lack of horses.
Edward NJ. Shepard visited Judge
Parker, at Rosemount, yes terday and it
was said to be likely that he would be
nominated for Governor of New York.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
has entered upon the second halt of its
entire period and the total attendance
up to date is, in round numbers, 1000.
900.
In Chicago yesterday wheat, Septem-
Der delivery, was quoted at sl.O9, and
for December delivery at $l.1O. In
New York September wheat was quoted
at $1.144.
Upon being threatened by her mother
with whipping, Ethel Asty, a pretty
maiden OF Is years, drank laudanum in
Chester, Pa. She died in the Chester
Hospital Tuesday night.
The four-year-old daughter OF Mrs.
John Elbrecht, of New York was killed
yesterday while being tossed by her moth
err. The little one fell and received injur-
les which proved fatal.
Ex-Governor E. E. Jackson, who was
nominated for Congress by the demo-
cratic convention of the First Maryland
district, has sent letter to Mr.. Henry
r. Lewis, chairman of the notification
committee, declining the nomination
Mr.. William T. Dixon, president of
the National Exchange Bank and the
Dixon Bartlett Shoe Company, and one
OF Baltimore's most useful and beloved
citizens, died Tuesday night at Hyannis-
port, Cape Cod, Mass, where he had
been spending vacation.
Demurrers TO the indictments found
against them by the federal grand jury
in connection with the Slocum disaster
were filed in the criminal branch of the
United States Circuit Court in. New
York yesterday by Former Steamboat
Inspector Henry Lundburg and Inspec'
tor of Hulls John I. Fleming.
Col. Frank Markoe, for years COM
mander of the Fifth Maryland Regi-
ment, was yesterday morning stricken
with paralysis while transacting business
at his Office in Baltimore. His physi-
clans entertain the hope that he will re-
cover. Colonel Markoe gained an en-
viable record during his military career
in the Confederate army.
A cut in first and seco nd class rates on
all its ships was announced in a circular
sent out in New York yesterday by the
management of the Cunard line. The re-
duction in the first cabin rates ranges
from $50 to $40 on the various steamers
while in the second cabin rates the cut
ranges from 81. so to $l2. so. The White
Star line Immediately met the cut, so far
as second cabin rates are concerned, by
a reduction of from 81 to $40 on each
of its ships.
Four people were killed. another fatal
ly hurt, and twenty-three severely injur-
ed in the collision late yesterday after
noon between an express train on the
Chicago Great Western Railroad and a
train of three trolley cars bound from
Chicago for the Hawthorne race track.
The accident occurred at the crossing OF
Forty.eighth avenue and the Chicago
Great Western tracks. The train was
going into the city, and according to
some witnesses of the accident, was run
ming at a high rate ofspeed. Others, and
the train crew declare that it was not
going over twenty miles an hour. The
air brakes refusing to work caused the
accident.
An unknown white man yesterday
evening attempted to assault Elmina the
eight.year-old daughter of John II.
White, of Hagerstown, Md, while she
was on her way home from grocery store.
The stranger met the girl at a point
where thsre are no houses, and told her
he would give her five cents and some
fruit if she would show him the location
of several vacant lots, where, he said, he
desired to pasture some horses. A short
distance from the street be grabbed the
girl and dragged her into a cornfeld.
Her screams are thought to have fright
ened the man, who fled after her had torn
of her dress.