Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-03
News Of the Day.
Wyoming democrats in convention
,ardav Instructed for Hearst.

Yesterday INSTRUCTED lVI IlediSt'
Mrs. A. NJ. Woodward, wife ofthe
president Of the South Side S'ete Bank,
at Minneapolis. died yesterday as the
result of a folding bed accinent. The
ped suddenly closed during the night.
A desperate effort on the part of the
leaders to break the deadlock in the
Illinois republican State convention fail
ed yesterday, and the assemblage took a
recess until today, without having nomi-
mated candidate for governor
Divorced from his wife, broken in
health and spirit, and convinced that
life was no longer worth living, Herman
S. Pettibone, college graduate and free
lance newspaperman, prepared and swal-
lowed a mixture of aconite and morphine
about 2 o'clock yesterday morning at
Mann's Hotel, in Washington.
Jesse E. Baker, the bookkeeper of the
Howard National Bank of Baltimore,
who disappeared very mysteriously from
his home, and returned subsequently,
making no explanation Of his conduct
is held by the United States authorities,
charged with making false entries on his
books covering a shortage of Sl2, 500.
Mrs. A. NJ. Woodward, wife of the
president of the South Side State Bank,
of Minneapolis, died yeste day, as the
result of folding-bod accident. The bed
suddenly closing in the night, Mr.. Wood
ward reached one arm out aDd beat on
the floor until help came. When the
pair was released it was found that three
of Mrs. Woodward cervical vertebrae
were broken. She lived only "a few hours.
The Oaks Stakes of 5000 soyereigus,
the classic event of the English turf,
second only in importance to the great
Derby stakes, WAS run at EPSON Downs,
Eng, today, and won by Major Eustace
Loder's Pretty Polly, ridden by Lane.
F. Alexander's Bitters, with X. Cannon,
who had the winning mount in the
Derby, up, finished second, and Lord
Falmouth Fiance, ridden by Watts, was
third. Four horses ran.
Chairman Sherlock Swami and Messrs
Charles X. Lord, Reuben Foster and
John T. Graham, composing the Burnt
District Commission, called on Mayor
Timanus of Baltimore yesterday and
placed their designations at his disposal.
| The Mayor informed the members of the
commission that he would give the mat
ter his most careful consideration and
would inform them as soon as he had de-
cided what action he would take in the
matter.
Two yipers escaped from parcel post
packet lying ia the sorting-roOm of the
postoiIice at Eisonstein, Austria, We'd
nesday. The postmaster Killed them
before they could ges away, and then
cautiously examined the pocket, which
was found to contain Is moro o. these
dangerous -eptiles. The addressee was
notified, but declared b mself quite igno-
rant Of the matter, and Mortified at the
thought that be might have received the
packet in the ordinaiy way, and opened
it in the midst of rs family.
A dispatch from Vienna says young
clerk from Vienna nj I'D Adal5ert
Za'cei, was az ming the .amous water
fall a. Liienfcld. Wednesday, when he
slip ped over the edge of the cliff above
the fall, and fell over 100 feet into the
boiling caldron at the feet. He was
subsequently found lying with his head
in the water, and both a. MS and legs
broken. Curiously enough, the doctor
said death wa, due to heirf disease and
not to d OWN and hat Ili,ek prob
ably die while falling through The air.
The Italian thiri-class cruiser Dogali
arrived at Tangier, Morocco, yesterday.
A delegation of chiefs Of the Angerra
tribe las lett there to make personal
appeal to Roi-ou!i, the bandit chief, to
release Mcssrs. pesdicu.5 and Marley,
Gin order to prevent the debarkmentand
permanent occupation OF Morocco by
foreigners opposing the Moslem faith
and the expulsion Of the native Moham-
medans." The natives are greatly ex-
cited by the arrival Of so many foreis
~arshps. Rear Admiral Jewell and
United States Consul General Gummere
visited the representative of the Sultau,
Mohammed el Torres, al noon, and were
saluted by the town battery. Moban
med retired the visit at the consulate,
the flagship Olympia firing salute in
his honor. Admiral jewell subsequent
" called on the British minister.