Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-25
News Of the Day.

EA-I It-lutli NiCNt'ahtt HAO
intimate friend and admirer OF the late
Joseph Jefferson, paid a touching tri-
butte to the memory of the deceased in
referring to his death yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Campbell, 80 years old,
was struck by a West Jersey express
train at the Lands avenue crossing at
Vineland. n. j., yesterday and hniled
twenty feet. She died from her injuries
soon after.
Testimony was begun in the Nan Pat
terson trial in New York. yesterday, OFF
| GERS Junior and Quinn testifying. The
latter identified j. Morgan Smith as
having come into the sta%tion-house and
talked 10 Miss Patterson after her arrest.
Capt. George W. Pegram died in
Petersburg yesterday, morning after a
short illness of angina pectoris. He was
SO years old. Captain Pegram was a
well known man, the last ofthree brothers
who have all died during the past three
months.
If an operation in plastic surgery, per-
formed at the Medico- Chirurgical Hos
pital, in Philadelphia, yesterday, proves
successful, Thomas Dunlevy, of North
Adams, Mass, in a few weeks will have
a new nose fashioned from a flap Of skin
from his left arm.
Az unknown man walked out into the
rapids of the Americn channel above the
Goat Island bridge at Niagara Falls
Yesterday afternoon and WAS caught by
the swift current and carried over the
falls. The suicide was witnessed by q
large number Of people.
Miss Gladys Seligman, daughter Of the
late David Seligman, was married yes
terday in New York to Henry Wertheim,
head of the banking firm Of Pobst- Wet
Ter & Co. Mr.. Wertheim is a natural
lied Hollauder. and a member OF the
Dutch Reformed Church.
Mrs. Thomas L. Moore, ofRichmond,
died in Los Angeles, Cal, Sunday, as the
result of a sudden sickness requiring a
surgical operation, in one of the local
hospitals. Mrs. Moore was the daughter
of the late James w. Allison, millionaire
merchant and manufacturer.
Amos Madden Thayer, United States
Circuit Judge Of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit, who wrote the opinion in the
Northern Securities case, died at his
home in st. Louis last night after an
illness of four months. Judge Thayer
was born in Nina, n. Y, October H.,
1871.
Both the Russian and japanese mill
tary commanders in Manchuria await
the result of the expected naval battle
before resuming land operations. At
Toxic the belief prevails that the Rus
sian warsbips will continue north from
Kamanh bay until they reach Chinese
waters.
Frank G.. Bigelow, president OF the
First National Bank of Milwaukee, was
arrested yesterday, charged with the
embezzlement OF over 500, 600 OF the
banks funds. The arrest Of Mr.. Bige-
low followed his confession to the board
of directors of the bank that he was a
defaulter to the extent Of 81, 45O, 600.
Four steamers were entered yesterday
at the Custom House, at Baltimore, with
cargoes of bananas to the local compa-
mics. In the steamers Brookline, from
Jamaica, and Banes, from Banes, the
United Fruit Company received 1887
punches, and the Atlantic Fruit Com
panv received 90, 4SS punches in the
Freke and Bodo, from Cuba. The days
receipts of bananas reached 1850
punches, the record for one day at Bal
timore.
The oyster dredgers who have been
dredging for plant and seed oysters on
the beds in the lower part of the Potomac
out ofseasOn have been put to fight by
the Virginia oyster police. The work
was done by the steamer Rappahannock,
under the command of Capt. Hudgins,
who found the dredgers were Maryland
ers, and they were ordered to leave at
once. No arrests were made, as il is
stated no oysters or shells were found
aboard the boats.
Citizens of Kenilworth, d. c., and
of Tuxedo, Nd, adjoining suburban
towns, joined hands at a meeting last
night of the Kenilworth Citizens AS
ISOLATION, and determined TO fight to the
hitter end the establishment ofa proposed
pool room on the Maryland side of the
settlement. Committees were named to
carry the campaign before the Prince
Georges, Nd, county authorities and to
petition the District Commissioners to do
all possible to squelch the alleged enter
nrisa