Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-13
News of the Day.

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away at New York yesterday were saved
by a tug the third sank; all on board
were saved.
The employment of negroes as rout.
abouts ia New Orleans seems to be
doomed because of frequent strikes.
Northern white men have been SUBJ
stituted.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago,
visited Judge Parker in New York
Yesterday and told him that the demo.
Gratis have a good chance to carry
Illinois.
Walter Finney, former cashier of the
Second National Bank of Belalr, Me-,
was indicted yesterday on the charge Of
making false returns to the Comptroller
of the Currency.
William J. Bryan was greeted with
enthusiasm by Indiana democrats on bis
entry into the State yesterday, and his
trip from Terre Haute to that city was
one continued ovation.
Valuable models and art treasures
worth 800, 900 were burned in a fire
which destroyed one of the studios of
Augustus st. Gaudens, the sculptor, in
New Hampshire yesterday.
In Baltimore yesterday Edward G..
Darlington, jr., and William II. Evans
were appointed receivers ofthe Hammond
Ice Company with the assent of the
company, and gave bond for $3.50, 600,
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
filed has been against Sweetzer, Penn
brook q Co., one OF the Oldest wholesale
dry goods houses in New York, and
which is now in process Of voluntary
dissolution.
William F. Fuller pleaded guilty in
the United States District Court in Bal
timOre Tuesday to a charge of embez-
zling 81, 582. IL from the Second Nation
al Bank, in which he was a clerk, and
was sentenced by Judge Morris to five
years in jail, the lowest penalty allowed
by law for the ofense.
Miss Blanche Keck, OF Norristown,
Pa, who sued Rev. Edgar J. Heilman
for $40, 900 damages for breach of
promise of marriage, was yesterday
awarded $4,000 oy the jury. Rev. Mr..
Heilman admitted breaking the engage
ment but declared he had ceased to love
Miss Keck. The judge told the jury
this was not good excuse in law.
By the will of Der husband, Henry
Grinnel Russell, who died 10 days ago
in Providence, r. l., Mrs Russell be-
comes the richest widow in New Eng
land, as the estate is reputed to be
worth at least 500, 900, 600. The estate
will eventually revert to the Goddard
aud Brown families, and young John
Nicholas Brown, "the richest baby in
the world" will be on the list of future
heirs.
Henry Hogancamp, driver of
popcorn wagon, went to the door OF
Richard OdeIPs saloon in Buffalo, N.
Y, yesterday evening and asked TO see
Margaret Mari, alleged to be his wife.
The woman had left him three weeks
ago to work az cook 10 the saloon.
Hogancamp asked the woman to return
to him, and when she refused dropped
a paper-covered parcel. A terrific ex-
plosion followed, and ten. foot section
of the sidewalk was blown out Into the
street. Hogancamp had both eyes
blown out. and the woman had the
flesh torn off her arms TO the bone.
Hogancamp will probably die, but the
woman may recover. The police do
not know whae sort of explosive was
used.
William F. Villas, ex Senator and
former Cabinet officer, made his first
speech in the present campaign before a
large crowd in Waukesha, Wis, last
night. Mr.. Villas spoke principally on
national issues. He characterized the
fundamental principles of the democrat
ic party as the safest, most satisfactory
and the truest touchstone ofjudgment on
the part of citizens. The question of
trusts he considered as overshadowing
all others. Referring to the republican
party in Winconsin, Mr.. Villas said there
was nothing but bitterness and strife,
which was increasing with every hour.
He termed the primary election system
a machinery Of politics and entreated
the democrats to vote against such a
measure. He favored State tax COM
mission. In closing, he referred to
Judge Parker as plain, honest, able and |
statesmanike.