Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-03
News Of the Day.

summer complaint, for the development
of which John ID. Rockefeller gave large
sums, is declared ia lure.
At the New York theatre last night
the baseball championship pennant was
presented to the Giants, State Senator
Grady making the speech.
Overcome by Joy at the receipt of
tidings that she had fallen heir to 81, coo,
Mrs. Elizabeth Dougherty. of Philadel-
phia, died on Saturday night from heart
disease.
Officials of the National Metropolitan
Bank and the Citizens Bank OF Wash
inglon Saturday signed the merger
agreement which has been negotiating
for some time.
Rather than reveal his name and thus
bring disgrace upon his parents, an Is
years.old pickpocket, dOcketed as
Charles Wilson, will spend at least two
years in the State prison In Hartford,
Conn.
Dainty, the Is to 5 second choice, in
the Oriental Handicap, one mile and a
quarter, was the feature of the closing
day Of the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs au-
tumn meeting Saturday. Lord of the
Vale, paying to 2 for the place, was
second, and Proper third.
The New York Herald received last
night dispatches from its correspondents
ia a number of States on the outlook for
the presidential election. These dis
patches indicate that West Virginia and
Indiana will go democratic, while Della
ware and Wisconsin will be carried by
the republicans.
The conspiracy case against V. f.
McBee and K. S. Finch Saturday was
polle pressed at Raleigh, N. @. The
conspiracy charged was the obtaining of
a receivership for the Atlantic & North
Carolina Railroad and acts previous to
obtaining stock in the road. The State
has leased the road, and all litigation
about it is over.
Congressman j. Thomas Hehin, Of
the Fifth Alabama congressional district,
inflicted severe chastisement on his re-
publican opponent, Capt. B. W. Wal
ker, yesterday afternoon at the railway
station at Opelika. Walker, 1t is said,
has made many bitter attacks on Helm
in his campaign speeches, and the Con-
gresham demanded an apology. This
was refused and Walker was knocked
down.
The bridegroom and the brides father
were gored to death by bull during
wedding festivities at st. Quentin,
France, yesterday. After the breakfast,
while the wedding party were taking
stroll in the fields adjoining the house,
the BRIDES father noticed bull eating
his newly gathered pears. He attempt
ed to drive the animal away, when it
turned upon him and drove its horns
through his body, death being instsn-
taneous. The bridegroom, who rushed
to his father-in-law's assistance, was
himself twice tossed in the air, and had
his back broken.
The Pittsburg, Pa, police are wrest-
ling with what appears to be a mysteri-
Gus murder case. The body OF young
woman, richly appareled in silks, laces
and velvets, was found in the Allegheny
river yesterday short distance below
Union bridge. The body, which had
evidently been in the water but few
hours, bore three wounds on the fore
head, such as might have been made by
blunt instrument, and several small
cuts, evidently made by razor. The
woman was apparently about twenty-five
years of age. On her fingers we're rings
containing two rubies aud ten pearls.
Rivermen who occupy lighthouses near
where the body was found report having
heard two men on the wharf talking in
excited tones about O'Clock yesterday
morning.
Thomas Bennett and Jacob Rosen-
stein had a thrilling experience in a
Worlds Fair automobile at st. Louis
yesterday. The machine became un-
manageable, and after two-mile wild
ride was brought to a sudden stop and
the passengers were thrown out. Bennett,
the more seriously injured, suffered two
severe scalp wounds and internal iDjur'
les. Rosenstein escaped with a cut
over the right eye and broken nose.
The automobile got beyong the chauf-
feur's control while turning corner.
The speed increased until the chauffeur,
TO stop the machine, guided the front
wheels on the sidewalk, bringing the
front end against telephone pole. A
negro was Knocked down and run over
on the sidewalk and seriously injured
Fifteen other passengers in the machine
we're thrown ont and more or less in