Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
News Of the Day.

| lQe mousse III w dchAuBSOu OuCc OCCu-
pied by Daniel Webster is to be torn
down and the site used for police court
building.
Peter Sells, one Of the most widely
known circus men in America, is dying
at his home in Columbus, o. He was
stricken with paralysis Friday.
Mrs RStevens, wife Of President George
w. Stevens, of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, died of heart disase yesterday
at her summer residence, Glen Isle, near
Natural Bridge.
William F. Fuller, bookkeeper of the
Second National Bank, of Baltimore,
was arrested Saturday on a charge of
stealing 81, 500 from the bank. After his
arrest, Fuller admitted his guilt.
Thomas Herring, dumb aud para
| lived old man living with his son-in-law
in London, was so overcome with fright
when fire broke out in his bedroom
Saturday that he suddenly began to
speak.
An orchid which blooms in the shape
of all old fashioned cradle containing the
head and throat of bird, and named
the "Cradle of Venus" has created much
interest at the Boston Horticultural Ex-
bibition.
In a head-on collision between two pas.
senger trains on the Pittsburg division
of the Baltimore and Ohio, near Glen
wood, Pa, last night, four persons were
severely hurt and 10 or II Others sus'
tanned minor injuries.
The Austrian government has respect
fully declined the offer of the Vatican to
replace France as q protector of the
Catholic in the far East. This is ex-
pected to result in each country's look
ing after its own Catholic citizens here
after.
Evidence was taken on Saturday be-
fore the Georgia court of inquiry into the
recent lvnchburg to show that although
the negroes, being taken to the stake
passed within thirty yards of the military
camp no effort was made to arrest the
mob.
The two aeronauts who made ascen-
sions at the Worlds Fair Grounds,
Saturday, though aiming for Washing
ton, sailed of in a due westerly direction.
. Later one of the balloons descended and
Yesterday one was seen floating east of
st. Louis.
Mrs. Kate Tabb Blackford, vile Of
James V. Blackford, manager OF Buck
roe Beach Hotel, died yesterday of blood
poisoning. She was % years old and
leaves a husband and an infant child.
Mrs. Blackford was Miss Kate Tabb, OF
Baltimore.
! Timothy O'Leary and ]. H. Jones,
i prisoners in the Roanoke Jail, were Sc
S yerely cut in a fight which took place
r Yesterday in cell in which they were
, confined. Each claims to have been at
tackled by the other. The floor of the
Q cell in which they were confined was
\ covered with blood.
| The Great Northern liner Minnesota
r arrived at Newport News Saturday night
E and will go into the drydock to have her
e bottom cleaned and painted She will
then take on a cargo of 5000 tons OF
= ,al and 5000 tons additional in heI
. bunkers, after which she will proceed
S around Cape Horn to the Pacific coast
! At least five, and perhaps six, person;
have lost their lives during the past two
DAYS while fishing in the southern par
e of Somerset county, Maine. -Four were
, drowned Saturday at Hayden lake
S while the bodies of two others were dis
e covered in pond at May6eld, 25 miles
to the north.
The discovery of distractions on thu
) track of the Danyile & Western division
of tie Southern Railway Saturday pre-
vented the loss of many lives. Johr
: Cox, youth, whose dog had been kill
ed by the train, was arrested and i'm
plicated Pete Harston, colored. Bott
pleaded guilty, and were held for thu
= grand jury.
Cabbages are worse than drug on thu
Il Nashville market at present, for they
:. cannot even be given away, because
4 there are threadlike snakes or worms IL
:. them. The first intimation of the pres
ence of snakes in the cabbages came
from Henry county, when little boy
and a negro cook died from eating soul
made of the vegetable.
!, The installation OF typesetting INA
, chimes in the government printing otfic'
in Washington will soon be accomplish
ed. In anticipation of the arrival o
thirty-fve new machines, a force o
Yorkmen, under the direction of Foreman
Berg and his assistants have cleared a
o greater part of the Record room. Many
. of the compositors on the congressional
daily have been released and the iron
frames have been sent to the several d.
visions of the Office.
| Blinded by the dust thrown by the
swiftly moving machine Of A. G. Webb
. of Toledo, Ohio, Barney 0ld6eld, Of
/, Cleveland, Ohio, lost control of his ma
: chine in false start of the fifth event o.
the Worlds Fair automobile speed con-
q test in st. Louis yesterday, and, crashing
, through the outer fence of the course, in
+, stantly killed John Scott, Waterman
= employed at the park, and inflicted in
iuries, upon Nathan Montgomery, ne
gro, from which he died few hour;
j later. Odfeld was painfully injured
and his machine completely demolished
Pythian Lodge Sued.
law suit the outcome of which will