Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-01
News Of the Day.

Minnie Tate, a clerk in an Anderson
Qnd. department store, has been adop-
ted BY DR.. James L. Johnston, Califor-
mia millionaire.
Governor Peabody, of Colorado, has
issued an address explaining and defend
ing his acts during the labor disturb
ances in the Cripple Creek district.
The coming report of the Geological
Survey will show that the United States
exceeded all previous records in the pro-
dnctiou of coal in 1908. The output of
the United States was 959, 42l, 81 short
tons.
The remains of NJ. Won Plehve, the
murdered Russian minister, we're buried
Yesterday after impressive services, IN
the cemetery adjoining the Eovodevichy
Monastery. The widow tainted during
the services.
Robert Mayors, 7 years old, was
clawed and bitten by bear in Cad
wallader Park Trenton, N. j., yester
day afternoon and be may be crippled
for life as result. He had attempted
to feel the animal when it attacked him.
Michael A. Kennedy, 60 years of age,
a native of Baltimore, one of the best
legitimate comedians on the stage and
who played with the great actors Of the
days of Edwin Booth, died suddenly of
heart trouble Yesterday at sanitarium
near Baltimore.
Lou Dillon, the famous trotting mare,
who last year broke all the worlds rec
ords by going mile in l.5S4, is dying
at Cleveland. Such is the opinion of
the experts at her stable at Chenille
Saturday night. She was the first horse
to trot mile in two minutes.
A trolley wire on Germantown avenue
at Clapier street, Philadelphia, broke last
evening and one end of it fell on crowded
Chestnut Hill car, set it afre and started
panic in which seven persons, five OF
them girls and women, were Injured a
number of them quite seriously.
At Wilmington, Del, on Saturday
Judge Bradford, on the application of the
Mercantile Trust Company of New York,
ordered the Harlan and Hollingsworth
plant of the United States Shipbuilding
Company to be sold and appointed James
p. Winchester master to arrange the SALE
The second $6OO,O0O instalment TO
liquidate the 1900, 600 government
loans TO the st. Louis Fair will be prompt
" met today, according to Secretary
Walter B. Stevens. This will constitute
the fourth payment, making the entire
amount paid to the government 81, 4OS,-
l49. or nearly one-third of the entire
loan.
Miss Jessie Gregory, beautiful daugh-
ter of Judge Gregory, of Halifax, n. g.,
will come in possession Of an estate val
ued at $500, 600, left to her by Mrs.
Anthony, an old woman whom she be-
friend while travelling abroad. Mrs. An
thony died last week, leaving the bulk of
her estate to the North Carolina girl. 1t
consists of bonds and Philadelphia real
estate.
Fire last night destroyed the terra
Gotta works of Conkling, Armstrong IL
Co., at Wissahickon and Bristol avenues,
Nicetown near Philadelphia. The loss
is estimated by Thomas Armstrong at
800, 900, fully covered by insurance.
A number of firemen were hurt by fall
ing walls, and one boy, whe was among
tue spectators gathered on the tracks of
the Reading Railway, fell under train
and his right arm was severed.
The wages of the employees in the
Norfolk navy yard will not be increased
during the present quarter. The Off
cials OF the Navy Department in Wash
ington have declined to grant the in
crease requested by the mechanics and
in returning their report on the subject
state that on account of the unsettled
labor conditions and the limitations i'm
posed by Congress on apprOp riations, it
will be impossible to satisfy the de-
mands made by the men employed in
that navy yard.