Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-16
News Of the Day.

Richard RYAN, cluOman, "eH
known in this city and Washington, died
in the former city yesterdy.
The big Capitol Hill tunnel leading to
the union station in Washington, under
construction, was driven through Satur-
day. after lust a little more than fifty
two weeks of work.
John Frederickson, of South Norwalk
c., is on the hunt for William Barrett,
who ram of with his wife and $1,000 OF
his cash. He does not want his vile,
but does want his cash.
Rev. David Hillhouse Buel, 5. j.,
president of the Georgetown University,
Saturday issued an open letter on the
general subject of college athletics, in
which football as now played is often
fit only for thugs.
IlJohn G. Poor, treasurer of the Wash
ington Gas Light Company, died sud
denly of acute Indigestion and heart fail
ure at the Chevy Chase loop station OF
the Capital Traction Company shortly
before noon yesterday.
Secretary Root announces the reslgna-
ton of William Powell, cOlored minister
to Haiti, and the appointment of Henry
w. FurDiss, at present consul at Bahia,
to succeed him. Furniss is also colored
man and is a native ofIndiana. Powell
once taught colored school in this city
A bomb was thrown Saturday at the
villa of an English manufacturer at War
saw. The cook and gardener were kill
ed and the house damaged. The bomb
throwers fed, pursued by police. When
closed pressed the fugitives shot and
killed three policemen and then escaped.
The executive committee of George
Washington University in Washington
has accepted the resignation of Henry
ST. George Tucker, dean of the law depart
ment. William Reynolds Vance, who
has been acting dean since the opening
of College, was elected to succeed Prof.
Tucker.
The natives of British East Africa
have risen in insurrection. According
to trustworthy reports, which arrived at
Hamburg from Zanzibar, the Randi
tribe threatens the destruction of the
Uganda Railway. Severe fighting he's
already taken place between the British
troops and the rebels.
Five trainmen we're killed yesterday at
Seaton, H., when heavy doubleheader
freight train, eastbound on the Iowa
Central Railroad, ran into cattle on the
track at a speed of twenty miles an hour.
Both locomotives and eleven freight cars,
loaded with grain and lumber, were piled
in heap beside the the track.
Mr.. William J. Bryan and family,
who arrived in Yokohama Saturday,
will spend two weeks in Japan. They
will make a visit OF FIVE days to Toxic,
and Marquis Ito, President of the Privy
Council, and Count Okuma, the foreign
Minister, will invite Mr.. Bryan to din
ner The Japan-American Society will
invite Mr.. Bryan TO address its members
at the Young Mems han Octooer H.
Count Okuma will preside at this as
semblage.
". Scott Hancock was arrested at
Hyattsville Prince Georges county, Md.
Saturday evening, accused of being ac-
cessory to the death of Emma Smallwood,
a white servant in the Hancock family.
Following the arrest have been a num-
Der of sensational developments. AT
9 o'clock last night warrant was sworn
out for Mrs. Amanda Mackall, Hancock s
sister, whom the police charge with hav-
ing been an accessory to the crime. Han
cock, is a son of Col. John Hancock,
chief of the Stationery Department OF
the United States Pension Office, and
nephew of the late Gen. Winfield Scott
Hancock, U. S. A.