Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-27
News Of the Day.

Rev. John Mackenzie Bocon, lecturer,
scientist and aerOnant, died Sunday at
Coldash. Newbury, England, Of pleurisy.
He was born in 1916.
While trying TO stab the town marshal
in Blackshear, Ca, Saturday, Darling
Altman, who had been drinking, ac-
cidentally killed his father.
Mr.. William Kemp Tabb died in
New York last Friday. He was Con-
federate soldier. He was brother Of
the late Colonel Tabb, of Hampton.
F. j. Mackey, multmillionaire of
New York, is hurrying by special train
as fast as possible from California to
London, where his wife is said to be
fatally i'll.
II is estimated that it cost Chicago
more than 500, 200, 600 to celebrate
Christmas this year. Never has money
been expended so freely in celebrating
holiday in the history of the city.
Three men were killed and three more
seriously hurt in crash of two ice boats
speeding before a gale Of wind at the
rate OF fifty miles an hour on Onondaga
Lake, at Syracuse, n. y, Sunday.
The cardinals were received by Pope
Plus aud presented their Christmas
greetings Sunday. 1t is said to have
been settled that German cardinal
will be appointed to reside at The
Vatican.
Made desperate by The failure of the
American Fuel Corporation, of which be
was the secretary. George :. Evans,
broker and promoter, ended his life in
a hotel in Jersey City Yesterday by
Ii ,oting himself in the head.
As a result of man dancing with
another mans girl without asking his
permission a quarrel occurred followed
by general fight in which four men
were killed and two seriously injured at
Changers, Logan county. w. Va.
The republican majority in the Colo.
RADIO legislature plan to throw out the
entire vote Of Denver city and declare
Governor Peabody reelected. BY
eliminating that vote the Governor
would have 2, 900 plurality in the State.
While celebrating Christmas in Rich.
mond yesterday three brothers, Charles,
William and Thomas Ferguson, were in
iured, and large hole was blown through
tie side of their house by the explosion
of cannon that they had taken to the
room.
Tie Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is prepared to spend $50, 600, 600 in the
construction of a new station in Chicago.
Twenty million dollars of this sum will
he spent in acquiring land adjoining the
present Union Depot, and so, 600, 600
FIR buildings.
The Car has issued an imperial ukase
which promises an equitable enforcement
Of existing laws, assures the zemstovos OF
the fullest possible measure Of self govern
men,. extends the liberty Of the press
and promises a full legal trial of all
persons accused,
1t is understood that Mr. Whitelaw
Reid will succeed Mr.. Choale as ambas-
,ador TO England; that Mr. f. II. Con-
ger. minister to China, will succeed
/ General PoNe Clayton as ambassador
to Mexico and that w. w. Rockhill,
head ofthe bureau ofAmerican republics,
will become minister to China.
/ Mr.. w. Hall HAMS, Of the law firm
of Harris & Thompson, was appointed
postmaster of Baltimore by President
Roosevelt yesterday. The selection came
a, great surprise TO the republicans Of
7 Maryland, and particularly to the party
/ Leaders, who we're completely ignored in
the matter. The presidential choice was
attributed to Senator McCOmas, whose
action was adversely commented upon.
a portion Of the Acadia Powder
Company's work at Waverly, 10 miles
! from Halifax, n. $, blew up Yesterday
and the conclusion shook the country
and broke windows fer 20 miles around
Fortunately no one was killed or seriously
injured, although about 20 Of the EN-
ployes who had Just left the powder
works when 'he explosion took place
were thrown violently TO the ground and
stunned.
Mack Nimarck, his wife, child, and
Anna and Massaun Cole, Nimarick's
sisters-in.law, all Slavs, were burned to
death near Old Town, Md, yesterday.
in a shanty in which fifty laborers
employed on the Wabash Railroad con-
s!ruction work were housed. The men
were employed by subcontractor
named John Nichols. An explosion of
coal oil is supposed to have caused
the accident Foul play is suspected.
The passenger train which left st.
Louis at Q O'Clock Saturday night on
The Southern Railway was in collision
with passenger train from Louisville,
near Mauds station, H., Sunday. One
passenger and six employees we're killed
and two passengers and eight employees
were slightly injured. The accident was
caused by the failure Of toe operator at
Browns. Ill.,, to deliver to the east bouE1
train an order naming meeting point
for the trains
Fire of mysterious origin broke out
in the forward hold of the North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Brandenburg. Capt.
c. Steunken, which was tied up at Pier
9, Locnst Point, about 8 O'Clock Satur'
day morning. In the hold were $50 |
bales of cotton and 35 hogsheads of
tobacco, all of which were damaged.
The majority of the cotton was thrown
overheard and the rest of the cotton and |
tobacco damaged by water. Under the !
hold WAS sfnwed AWAY 2 600 barrels Of |