Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-29
News Of the Day.

The Panama Canal Commission is
said TO have split over the question
whether sea-Ievel or lock canal should
be built.
An attempt to destroy the Sungari
river bridge, which would have cut OH
General Linevitch's retreat in the event
of his being defeated south of the river,
was frustrated.
ID. B. Henderson, formerly speaker OF
the House of Representatives, is con-
! fined to hotel apartments, at Dubuque,
Iowa, suffering from slight primary
stroke of paralysis.
In a terrific explosion near Emporium,
Pa, yesterday afternoon, zine men were
killed and twenty injured, and the mix
ing and packing houses of the Empor-
ium Powder Company were destroyed.
George Shields, of Chester, w. Va,
is in search of his handsome young wife,
whom be charges with eloping with his
nephew, Calvin Dewes. He says Dewes
exercises hypnotic power over his wife.
The Pennsylvania Board Of Psrdons
finally disposed of the case Of Mrs. Kate
Edwards, the Berks county woman un-
der sentence of death for the murder OF
her husband, by refusing to grant her
communication.
District Attorney Beach in Washing
ton Yesterday entered a non pros. in
the cases against James I. Metcalf,
Harry G. Halenbeck and Norman b.
Metcalf. who were accused of being
involved in the postal frauds.
The mobilization of 10000 men has
begun in st. Petersburg and Moscow,
and many reserve men who did not re-
spond were seized at night at their
homes. The revolt at Odessa and other
places is growing steadily worse.
Mrs. Mamie Leech, OF St. Adams,
VT, a direct descendant of Abraham
Clark, one of the signers Of the DeclaTa.
ton of independence, has been married
seven times, and as her husband recently
died she may yet have an eighth.
George Baum, an aged retired million
aire leather merchant, Of Philadelphia,
was married to Miss Elizabeth Johnson,
his housekeeper, yesterday. Immediately
after wedding breakfast the bride
groom of 20 and the bride Of % departed
upon a weeks honeymoon trip.
For the second time in its history
Columbia Post, No. FOG, G.. A. r., Of
Chicago, has given a camp fire in honor
of Gen. Stephen ID. Lee, of Vicksburg,
commander of the Confederate Veterans
Of the South. All of the Confederate
organizations of the city joined in the
event.
The issue of intercollegiate supremacy
in rowing as between Cornell and SYRIA
cuse was definitely settled for some time
to come at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, yester-
day, when COrnell's crews all but swept
the river. In two races Courtney s
pupils came home easily first, and lin
the third only the narrowest of margins
separated the two crews.
The Ohio Democratic State Conyen-
ton yesterday nominated John NJ. Pat
tison, of Cincinnati, for governor, and
State Senator Louis b. Houck for lieu
tenant governor. The greatest demon
stration of the convention came at the
close of Chairman Daugher!y's speech,
when an impromptu tribute to William
J. Bryan as the party leader in the
nation brought out storm Of cheers.
John r. Mclean resigned from the
national committee. The platform de-
clares for rate control, tariff reform,
elimination of Graft from the State,
home rule for municipalities, taxation
Of franchises, &c.