Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

George Lockhart, a Snowman, was
crushed to death by an elephant in Lon
don, yesterday.
Eight sailors were drowned Saturday
in the wreck of the schooner Augustus
Hunt, near Shinnecock Light.
A poll ofthe 211 democrats in Congress
on Mr.. Bryan's proposition to reaffirm
the platforms of 1896 and 1900 shows
1862 against 7 for and AZ non-com-
initial.
Ex-Governor William H.. Taft reached
| San Francisco from the PHILIPPINES on
| Saturday and started for Washington,
| where he vii! succeed Mr.. Elihu Root as
Secretary of War.
The wife of Warden Gotwals, of the
Norristown pa Jail, yesterday intimi-
dated with an unloaded revolver two
prisoners who had beaten the warden
and a keeper into insensibility and were
attempting to escape.
An order signed by Judge Dennis in
the Circuit Court of Baltimore on Satur-
day provides for the sale of all the prop
erty of the Catholic Mirror Publishing
| Company, which is now in the hands of
receivers.
The commission has elected the TRAN
gle at the junction of Pennsylvania ave.
nue. and Thirteenth street, northwest,
Washington, for the statue of Pulaski,
and one of the corners of Lafayette
Square for that of Won Steuben.
l.. Wolfson's large dry goods store at
San Antonio, Tex, which carried a
stock of goods valued at 1888, 600, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. The build
ing was valued at SS5, 600. Consider
able damage was done to surrounding
property.
Col. Arthur Lynch, who commanded
the Irish Brigade against the British forces
duriug the war in South Africa, and who
was afterwards convicted Of treason and
sentenced to Imprisonment for life, was
liberated con license" Lynch has not
received the royal pardon.
Maddened by the intense cold, which
had frozen its ears and trunk, an ele-
plant belonging to an animal show
which had been exhibiting at a
theatre in St. Paul, Mimi, yesterday,
almost killed its keeper, Conrad Castens,
and partially wrecked the Milwaukee
freight house.
Jules Blanc Nelson, who ran away
with his bride, Miss Marguerite Wall,
from her fathers home in New York,
was enabled to plan her escape through
the help of Miss Wallis devoted maid.
The couple is now in Philadelphia and a
reconciliation of both the bride and her
parents is expected soon.
Extreme cold weather was recorded in
the northwest yesterday. The cold wave
extends over a wide area, embracing
the upper Mississippi and Missouri val
leys and the western lake region. Par
ticulsrly severe weather is reported in
the Dakotas, eastern Montana, north
western Iowa, northeastern Nebraska,
northern Illinois and Indiana and parts
of Wisconsin and Michigan.
Mr.. Kurino, japanese minister to St.
Petersburg, declares that Japan is not
pressing for an immediate reply to her
note, and that "Russia will be given all
the time she needs" Russian officials
discredit reports from the far East that
a Chinese army has been sent beyond
the Great Wall to preserve order in
Manchuria. The Chinese Minister to
Russia says the talk of China going to
war with anyone is absurd.
One of the boldest diamond robberies
in the history of the national capital oc-
Cured after 6 O'Clock Saturday night on
Fifteenth street, opposite the United
States Treasury. The robber got away
with Over a thousand dollars worth of
the gems, belonging to William Nord-
hoff, jeweller. At $50 o'clock a man of
dark complexion entered the store and
asked to see some diamond rings. He
seized the case containing them, ran off
and disappeared.
At Allentown, Penn, on Saturday,
Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, the aged mother
of Mabel Bechtel, who was found MUIR
dered last October, wa acquitted of the
charge of being an accessory to the MUIR
der after the fact. Martha, her young
est daughter, and her sons, John aud
Charles, are under indictment on a SINH
lar charge, but their trials have been
postponed. Alois Eckstein and David
Weisenberg, who were rivals for the
affections of Mabel Bechtel, were both
tried for her murder and both were ac-
quilted.