Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-25
News of the Day.

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Manila.
A saIoonkeeper of Elizabethtown. KY,
on Saturday, hit Carrie Nation with
chair-leg after she ha said he was en-
gagged in dirty business.
Fitzsimmons and O'Brien fought
six-round draw at Philadelphia on Sat-
urday. The fight was in the open air
and was witnessed by about G, 900 people.
The directors of the American Steel
Foundries Company have accepted the
resignation of Charles M. Schwab, who
recently disposed of his stock in the
company.
Mayor Elias Price, of Poolesville,
Md, died yesterday. He was a Con-
federate veteran, having served in Col.
Elijah Whites battalion, of Virginia.
He was about 60 years old.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
granted a writ of error in the case OF
james Howard, under life sentence for
the murder of William Goebel. The
case will go to the Supreme Court.
The national temperance society, at
its meeting at Ocean Grove yesterday,
decided to memorabilia Congress to stop
the use OF narcotics and exercise super
vision over gold-cure establishments.
Charles Miller, one of the experts Of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in
Washington, has gone to Lisbon, Portu
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plant for the Portuguese government.
After 10 days of welded bliss Mrs.
Myer Loeb, of New York, eloped with
Morris Petchaf, the best mau. Now
two suits are pending, one for divorce
and another for alienation of affections.
The old monitor Miantonomah, which
was to have been brought to Washington
for the annual cruise of the District
Naval Battalion, was badly damaged by
fire Saturday night at the League Island
navy yard, and probably rendered unfit
for service.
As result of crap game between
negroes at Takoma, near Washington,
yesterday, Edward Knobs was killed
and George Morgan, another negro, was
shot in the groin. Arthur Robinson,
who did the shooting, was arrested and
charged with murder. He was sent to
the Rockville, Nd, Jail.
The Rome Tribuna says it is reported
that Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal
secretary of State, has rendered his res
ignation, owing to the hostility Of the
cardinals, which indicates that they &C
cuse him of rendering impossible an ac-
cord with France, and that the Pope has
refused to accept the resignation.
The bud of love which Mrs. E. j.
Williams found in the Garden of the
Gods, and which became a beauteous
flower within few short weeks wither-
ed and died when she found that the
new acquisition in the form ola husband
had deserted her in Chicago, leaving
her poorer, she declares, by 100.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Swain, director OF
the Baltimore Drydock and Shipbuilding
Company, died suddenly of heart disease.
Saturday, at Lake Champlain, n. Y.
He was a resident of Philadelphia and
son of the late William NJ. Swain, who,
with the late A. S. Abel, founded the
Public Ledger, Of Philadelphia. Mr..
Swain was born in Philadelphia, July
7, 1849.
A delegation representing Mayor Car
ter Harrison, of Chicago, called at ESQ.,
pus yesterday to invite Judge Parker to
speak at monster meeting in that city
on the same platform with Mr.. Bryan.
Judge Parker said he could not give a
definite answer until after he had receiv-
ed his official notification. He did say,
however, that if be accepted any invita-
tons at all, he would visit Chicago and
that it would give him great pleasure 80
60 il it were possible.
John Green, aged "a, farmer of good
reputation living near Berlin, n. H., sur
rendered himself to the police yesterday
stating that he had shot and instantly
killed Mrs. Spurgeon Lockhart, aged 30
on the outskirts of West Milan Saturday
night. This was the first knowledge the
police had of the shooting Green ex-
planned that he killed the woman in fit
of jealousy and while under theinhuence
of drug, which be said Mrs. Lockhart
had been accustomed to give him.
About 900 women and children who
attended the matinee at Proctor's Theater,
in New York, on Saturday afternoon,
we're thrown into state of panic by a
couple of mischievous boys, who thought
it would be fun to ring the fire alarm.
Fortunately, they chose time between
the acts when the house was illuminated
and the orchestra playing. As it was,
there was a wild rush for the exits, and
it was due only to the prompt action of
the police and the ushers that the audi
ence was finally Gained and assured that
there was no fire and not the slightest
danger.
For four hours on Saturday Alonzo
Haggard, lunatic, held a big crowd
breathless with horror round the court
house ct Liberty, Mo-, while he swung
himself crafty round the statue Of the
Goddess of Justice $50 feet above the
street None dared try to reach him or
his airy perch, for there was no footbold
and struggle there could have ended
only in the fall Of the mailman and his
would-be rescuer to the street. Late in
the afternoon he was decOyed down to
tba naranet of the dome by his sister and