Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-01-09
News Of the Day.

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A number of leading Russian officers
will voluntarily share the imprisonment
of their men in Japan.
Maud Letson had her marriage an-
nulled to Rome, N. Y, Saturday on
proving that she had innocently
married her uncle.
The House committee on military
affair shas practically completed the
army appropriation bill. 1t carries, in
round numbers, 500, 900, 900.
Senator Frye, of Maine, who has been
confined to his apartments at the Ham
ilton Hotel, 10 Washington, for several
days, is suffering from the shingles.
A call will be sent in a day or two to
Rev. DIR. Williams, of Trinity Church oil
Washington, to become rector of Christ
Church, an historic church in Phila-
delphia.
While the Ere department was fight
ing fire ia the barn Of George Wilkin-
son, at Ashland, Wis, quantity of
dynamite exploded in the burning build
ing, seriously injuring four hremen
and two spectators.
DR.. Pauashe, the German national
liberal leader, in an address to his con-
stituents Saturday made the astonishing
statement that Germany and Great
Britain were last week on the verge of
war, regarding a threat against Ger
many in The Army aud Navy Gatettel. "
A vast amount of damage was done
by tidal h-od that devastated watering
places on the English coast from Scar
borough to Doyeron Saturday. An inn
mense tide, driven up by the southeast
gale, flooded the beach front at Atlantic
City, Saturday, carrying drift far up the
avenues.
Bishops Ethelbert Talbot and Cort-
laudt Whitehead, Of the Episcopal
Church, preached at morning celebra-
tons in Baltimore yesterday of the
twentieth anniversary of Bishop Pareps
conservation to the episcopacy. Bishop
Paret preached his anniversary sermon
at the Episcopal Church of the AS
cension.
Hon. Lloyd Lowndes, former governor
Of Maryland, former member OF Congress
and one of the most prominent and
wealthy business men and workers Of
that state, died suddenly at his home in
Cumberland, yesterday. Death was due
t. heart disease, from which he bad
been asuiferer for some time. He was 60
years old.
The troubles of the Catholic Univer-
sity in Washington are likely TO begreat-
ly alleviated by Mr.. j. Pierpont Nor
gan, who, it is said, has had repre-
sentative there for some days looking to
a settlement of the Waggaman obiga-
tions. 1t is reported that he has offered
to assume Waggaman's debt and hold
the security at five per cent. interest I'M
til the principal creditors can realize on
their holdings.
Brodie l.. Duke, a son Of Washington
Duke, of Durham, n. c., the tobacco
merchant, and brother of James b.
Duke head of the American Tobacco
Company, was taken to Bellevue Hospital,
New York, on Friday night from the
Park Avenue Hotel, where he had peen
living with his bride, whom he married
only on December q. Mr.. Duke was
put in the psychopathic ward and kept
there until Saturday afternoon, when he
was removed to sanitarium on Long
Island. Mr.. Duke was committed to
the hospital on I'm order made by Justice
Wyatt in special sessions This order
was obtained on Friday afternoon by
counsel for one of Mr.. Dukes three sons.
More than twenty members Of the
chorus of the Metropolitan Grand Opera
Company in New York, .were seriously
injured Saturday night by the collapse
of the bridge in the street scene in the
opening act CT Carmen" None OF the
principals was on the stage at the time
of the accident, and the uninjured luem-
bers of the chorus heroieally massed at
the front of the stage and sang on in an
attempt to prevent the public from learn
ing what had happened. The curtain
was rung down as soon as possible, and
Heinrich Conried, the impresario, pre-
vented panic by urging the great
to remain seated and not be |
The injured were removed !
to hospitals.