Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-25
News Of the Day.

The President and his family will
leave Sycamore Hill next Saturday for
Washington.
Six horses were burned in fire that
destroyed the stables of Henry Zurich
in Washington Yesterday.
Senator Foraker's speech is regarded
as the opening of the fight against the
Presidents plan to regulate railway
rates.
A New York merchant was obliged to
change cars at the New Orleans quaran-
tine in his psjamas, having lost his
clothes on the train.
Secretary Shaw's order postponlng
pay days from the LIST to the Sd, and the
18th to the 18th of the month caused a
stir among the clerks.
Col. Daniel A. Fenton, ex-Confederate
and former commander of the First Regl-
ment Maryland National Guard, died in
Baltimore yesterday after a lingering
illness.
Because he married chorus girl one
day after he had met her, Lawrence
Browne, an inspector in Oklahoma for
the Interior Department, was requested
to resign.
Fire yesterday destroyed half dozen
of the principal business buildings on
West Park street in Butte, Mon, aud
the public library building on Broadway.
The total insurance loss is fully 5000,
900 and the fire loss in excess ola. mill
lion dollars. ;
Twelve thousand spectators ola bull
fight at Mines, France, yesterday broke
up the chairs, other seats and the boxes
and sci fire to the barriers surrounding
the arena because the mstadors refused
to kill another bull as an encore after they
had dispatched five.
The Navy Department announced
Saturday that Capt. Eugene II. G.
Leutze, of the Naval BOARD OF Inspec-
ton and Survey, would succeed Capt.
f. G. Pendleton as commandant of the
Washington navy yard and superinten-
dent of the naval gun factory at that
point.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road Company, to be held October 2, A.
J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad
will be elected president of the Cumber-
land Valley to succeed the late Col. L.
B Kennedy. The other incumbent Of.
ficers will remain as they are now.
The election in Cuba Saturday for
members of the boards of inscription
passed off quietly. There were few
small riots here and there, but no seri-
Gus trouble has been reported. The
moderates, the party of President Pal
ma, claim to have made almost clean
sweep, electing their candidates nearly
everywhere.
Elw0od V. Amos, who went to Balti-
more from Orange, Va, and had recent
ly been employed as an engineer on a
traction engine at the Maryland Steel
Company's works, was found dead On the
tracks of the Sparrows Point Railroad
Yesterday evening at Turner's station.
The body was horribly mangled, train
having cut some of his limbs from his
body. Relatives of the dead engineer
claim that he was robbed and killed and
his body then thrown on the track The
police give credence to this theory, as
Amos bad received his pay on Saturday,
aud only few cents we're found on the
body.
A mob of 20 persons, at Williamson,
the county seat of Mingo county, W. Va,
on Saturday night broke down the Jail
door and, prying open cell, took out
Moses Lovern. negro. They proceeded
at once across Tug river into Kentucky,
where the negro was tied to tree and
whipped with withes, producing terrible
wounds. The negro was then hauled
back to the Jail. The MOI was masked,
but the identity of several are known,
and arrests will probably occur. Lovern
had struck james Butcher, a prominent
business man, with club on the street
Saturday inhicting dangerous wound.
The negro is still alive, but his wounds
NAV prOve fatal.