Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-12
News of the Day.

Gen. Frederick Funston mas peeh give"
command of the Department OF the East
Robert B. Armstrong, assistant secre-
tary of the Treasury, will probably re-
resign to enter business in New York.
Eight thousand persons struggled TO
enter Holy Trinity Church, Chicago, yes
terday to receive the papal blessing from
Cardinal Satolli.
In Washington, it is said, President
Roosevelt feared the nomination OF
Judge Parker more than any other man,
except Grover Cleveland.
Right Rev. Frederick ID. Hunting
ton, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese
of Central New York, died at his sum-
mer home at Hadiey, Mass, yesterday
aged IS years.
The investigation of the burning OF
George w. Vanderbilt's private car at
Biltmore, n. c., showed that 1t had
been used as a gambling den by SPORT
ing men of Asheyille.
John X. Messersmith, the well-known
cotton broker. was released FROM the
Maryland penitentiary, having been
pardoned by Governor Warfeld a few
days previous to the expiration of his
term.
The most powerful German feet ever
seen in English waters arrived at Ply
mouth, yesterday, and when eight bat
tleships and seven cruisers steamed into
the harbor the spectacle was witnessed
by thousands of people.
NJ. Souvorin, manager ola leading Rus
sian newspaper, declares that it is not
Manchuria nor Korea Tor which Russia
is fighting, but it is for her position IN
the far East, where covetous hands are.
stretched out by the United States and
Great Britain.
Following ten days shut down most
of the cotton mills at Fall River, Mass,
resumed operation yesterday. 1t is ex'
pected that the manufacturers will short
" announce a revision in wages. The
textile unions expect the revision Will
be a reduction OF at least 10 per cent
but they will take no action until the
notices are posted.
DIR. George P. Huntington, professor
of Hebrew at Dartmouth College, n. H.,
died last night of slow fever. Death oc-
Cured only few hours after the receipt
there of the intelligence of the death at
Hadley, Mass, that afternoon, OF DIR.
Huntington's father, Right Rev. Frede-
rick Don Huntington, bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Central New York.
Mother Mary Theophila, the superior
of Notre Dame Convent OF Maryland,
in Baltimore, died at 8 O'Clock last
night at the convent after short Ill,
ness. Heart trouble was the immediate
cause OF her death. She was IS years
of age. Mother Theophila, known IN
the world as Crescentia Baur, was born
August Is, 1929, at Schonberg, near
Munich, Bavaria.
Unless unexpected obstacles are raised
by the representatives cf the steamship
lines at the further conference to be held
in London with the president OF the Board
of Trade, Gerald Balfour, the emigran'
rate-war will be settled withina few days
This means that the $40 rate will immed'
lately be abandoned, and that emigranis
bound for American must pay $2l. 90, The
rate charged before the struggle began.
Senator William A. Clark, of Mon
tana, was married to Miss Anna f. La
Chappelle, OF Butte, Mont, in Mar
settles, France, on May %, 1901, ac
cording to an announcement just giver
out in New York. 1t is also announced
that Senator and Mrs. Clark are the
parents of a o.year-old daughter
Mrs. Clark is the daughter of DIR. La
Chappelle, a physician, who died II
Chicago several years ago.
The end has come in the romance o
the Rev. j. F. Cordova, formerly paste
of the Methodist Episcopal Church a
South River n. j., and Miss Julii
Bovine, the pretty soprano OF the churcl
choir, with whom he eloped on May |
last. The girl has returned to the hom
of her parents, and it is supposed tina
the minister has been joined in New
York city by the wife and three childrel
whom he deserted in his fight, the vii
having forgiven him.