Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-29
News of the Day.

Dan Emmett, who wrote "Dixie,
died in Mount Vernon, o., yesterday.
General Miles has publicly declined
to be the prohibition presidential candi-
date.
Congressman House, once member of
the Confederate Congress died in Clarks-
vile, Tenn, yesterday.
Attorney General Knox and Secretary
OF Commerce and Labor Cortelyou took
leave OF their Cabinet associates at the
semi-weekly meeting yesterday.
The personal estate of the late Levi
q. Letter, of Chicago, is appraised at
SO, 466, 6l0, which includes neither the
real estate in the District of Columbia
nor the assets of the estate in other
jurisdictions. The whole estate is valued
at S18, 900, 000
Syracuse sprang surprise at the
Poughkeepsie regatta by winning the
varsity and freshman Fights. The times
made were slow. Cornell was second
and Pennsylvania third in both races.
Georgetown was fifth in the varsity eight
and last in the four.
News reached Dallas, Texas, last
night of the drowning of an Indian
chief and his wife in the Kianitia river
in the Choctaw Nation yesterday. The
couple we're trying to ford the swollen
stream and the woman slipped from
her saddle. While the CHIEF was trying
to rescue her both horses became un-
manageable and the couple we're drowned.
A man accused of an attack on girl
thirteen years old, near Morristown, n.
j., was taken from his house, though
the girl and her-mother fred into the
mob to defend him. He was drenched
with ice water, beaten into insensibility
by men and women, strung up and left for
dead. Later the girl and her mother car
riep him into the house where all three
lived.
Martin La Boucherie, the negro who
attempted to assault Mrs. Martin Thiba-
daux, of Garyville, La, Monday, was
overtakon by pursuing posse yesterday,
25 miles from the town, as he was seek
ing refuge in a swamp. La Boucherie
showed fight and fred at his pursuers
with a repeating rifle. He was finally
surrounded and, as he proved defiant,
was shot to death.
George B. Mcclellan has been given a
boost by the New Yorker States lei
tuug, which has come out for the Mayor
for President Its editor, Herman Rid
der, who is president of the German
| American Reform Union and who is a
leader of power among the citizens OF
German birth and descent, will go to st.
Louis to work for Mcclellan as he
worked for Cleveland in 1892.
George w. Williams, the Baltimore
negro arrested on suspicion of committing
criminal assault on Miss Laura Knode,
near Harper's Ferry, was positively iden-
tilted as her assailant by Miss Knode
herself. He was carried to Hagerstown
to keep him from being lynched, but
there was no authority to keep him there.
He was then taken to Cherry Run and
while being pursued by mob he escaped
from the Sheriff near Hancock and is
now at large.
Secretary of War Taft declared in a
speech at Harvard yesterday that he was
against promising independence TO Fill
pinos, and Mr.. Olney answered him at a
dinner. Among other things Mr.. Olney
said: "Another search is needed to find
In American law any right in strong
nation to appropriate the sovereignty OF
territory of weak nation. Is not rule
which is good for nations, good also Tor
individuals, and why may not the lives
and property Of weaker or inferior citi-
zens be rightfully appropriated for the
benefit of the stronger or superior"