Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-28
News Of the Day.

Mrs. Edward Gustason, an insane
woman, who shot her husband in South
Norwalk, Ct, Sunday, committed sui
eide in a sanitarium yesterday.
Mill No. 4, of the plant of the Inter
national Pulp Company, located at
Hailesboro, n. Y. was totally destroyed
by fire, yesterday, entailing a loss OF
800, 900.
An explosion in the mixing house and
in one of the packing houses at the Key
stone Powder Works at Emporium, Pa,
Yesterday, destroyed the entire works.
killing nine men and injuring several
others.
The President has decided to retain
Mai. John Biddle, Corps of Engineers,
in the office of engineer commissioner of
the District of Columbia until the COM
pletion of certain engineering works in
which be is engaged.
The new German financial budget es-
Inmates for 1906 show expenditures to
be 1901, 500, 900. an increase of $47, =
$50, 900, and the new taxes to be i'm
posed are expected to increase the reve-
nue. by $50, 100000
Americans on the Isle OF Pines Satur-
day ratified the election of delegate to
Congress and territorial officers. II was
understood, however, that there will be
no assumption of any office except by
the United States authority.
The Russian authorities hope to starve
into submission the mutinous sailors at
Sebastapol, realizing that the troops, If
ordered to do so, would not fire upon
the men. The mutiny is spreading
among the crews of the Biloxi Sea fleet.
The Rooseveltian creed is being con-
spicuously exempted in the household
Of Mr. aud Mrs. George Homer, of Lin
den Hall, Pa. The eighteenth child, a
son, has just been born to them, though
the mother is but Al and twins have
come but once.
The court martial which recently tried
Commander Lucien Young, United
States navy, on charges growing out OF
the boiler explosion on the gunboat
Bennington, in San Diego harbor, has
recommended that Commander Young
be reprimanded, but receive no further
punishment.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, who appeared in
"Zaza" at the Belasco in pittsburg last
week, left for Philadelphia Saturday
night, guarded by private detectives.
These unusual precautions were taken
by Mrs. Carter on account If wealthy
New Yorker who has been following her
all over the country.
The Postoffice Department has f1ally
decided the vexed question of the post
mastership at Charles Town, w. Va.
Capt. H. c. Getzendanner, who had the
recommendation of Senator Elklns for
the place, will be appointed by the
President. The incumbent, George
POrlerfeld, will be allowed to serve out
his term, which does not expire un-
til 1907.
Amid great excitement cotton prices
advanced 26 to 80 points in New York
Yesterday to above the - cent mark,
breaking the records for more than a
year. The bulge was due to panic
among the bears, whose leader, Theodore
II. Price, announced his retirement, on
the ground that "it is idle to ignore the
fact that the size of the cotton crop has
become a political and sectional ISSUE
1t is said that President Roosevelt is
by no means occupying the position of
the relentless victor in the railroad fight
that certain friends of rate legislation
represent him to be. Indeed, it is said
on good authority that the President re-
CARDS the fight for rate regulation far
from won and that he expects quite as
much trouble from the shippers asso-
Citations as from the railroads. He also
is working for a compromise.
Fl. Morgan Campbell, ir., of Pitts
burg, son of a wealthy steel magnate Of
that city, wants 10 be freed from his
chorus-girl wife and has asked the Con-
necticut courts to divorce him. Papers
in the suit were served on Mrs. Camp
bell last week. Campbell alleges that
he was married January 2, 1902, and
that his wife deserted him February 10
of the same year and has refused to live
with him. Desertion is the only ground
alleged.
On motion of counsel for the defense,
Judge Van De Vanter, in the U. S. Cir.
cult Court in St. Louis, yesterday, post
poned until Wednesday morning next
passing of a sentence upon United States
Senator J. r. Burton, Of Kansas, con-
vicled of having acted as The paid atlor-
ney of the Rialto Grain and Securities
Company before the Postoffice Depart
ment. On Wednesday the defense will
present its reasons for asking a new
trial.
Because of disappointment in love
affair. Miss Martha Blackburn, daughter
of a prominent citizen of Huntington,
w. va, threw herself under the wheels
of a Camden Interstate Railway car near
her home Sunday night and was crushed
to death. Her body was horribly
mangleG, both lower limbs being sew
cred. Miss Blackburn, it is said, was in
love with John Walsh, a young man of
Kenova, to whom she was engaged. A
short time before her suicide she saw him
walking with another girl, and this is
believed to have been the cause OF her
sudden and successful attempt at suicide.
Gen. Joseph Lancaster Brent, who
fought in the Confederate army, died