Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-02
News of the Day.

Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, Of Chilli
Gothic, Mo-, returned to her home after
an absence of 13 years to find her prop
erty divided among her children.
Chester Whidder, youth, of Gardner
Fla. was forced, at the pistols point,
to give up his cousin, Eta Whidder,
whom he had carried off and married
against her will.
Superintendent Pearce, of Saratoga
county, New York, Saturday hled Pc
tition to have Mrs. Angelina 7. New
man, widow of the Methodist bishop,
declared incompetent
1t is understood that the President has
about decided to give the government
printing Office an entirely new man as
Public Printer to succeed acting Public
Printer Oscar S. Ricketts,.
President Roosevelt returned to Wash
ington Saturday evening from Oyster
Bay and was cordially greeted by the
crowds that lined Pennsylvania avenue
from the railroad station to the White
House.
Despondent because of separation
from his wife, Herbert Mccartney, 40
years old, killed his seven-year-old son
and himself at an early hour yester-
day at the home of his sister, Mrs. Carrie
DAILY, in st. Louis.
Sutherland NJ. Provost, third vice
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, died Saturday night at his
home, in Philadelphia, of complica-
ton of kidney and heart trouble. He
was sixty years old.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn,
says the "non-union or loyalist' COM
mittee of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church has sent an address to the union
committee of the Northern Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. in which it strong
ly opposes union of the two bodies.
President Roosevelt has made public
a letter which he had written to retiring
Assistant Secretary of State LOOMS, Civ
lag him a new coat of whitewash to re-
move all signs of the Loomis-Bowen
scandal, and preparatory to sending him
as Minister Of the United States either
to Mexico or Brazil.
President Roosevelts tour of the
South, planned for October, has, it is
said, great significance in its bearing on
the coming season of Congress. Mr..
Roosevelt is about to make an appeal
directly to the South for the support of
its Senators and Representatives of his
policies 10 reference to domestic and for
eign affairs.
The coasting steamer Hsiesho, plying
between Shanghai and Tientsin, struck
and was totally destroyed by mine 80
miles south of the Shantung PromOntory
Saturday morning. Fifteen persons on
board the vessel were drowned. The
foreign passengers aud a portion OF the
crew of the Hsiesho were rescued by two
passing steamers.
A collision took place at Bruenn,
Austria, yesterday, between rival meet
ings of Germans and Czechs, resulting
from the agitation by the former against
the proposed establishment OF Czech
university at Bruenn. Troops we're
compelled to intervene, but before order
WAS restored 100 persons we're injured,
some seriously. Several police stations
were partly wrecked and hundreds of win
dows were broken.
A 500 line passenger train from the
east, leaving the union passenger station
at st. Paul, Mimi, at 9:05 yesterday
morning, collided with Chicago Great
Western fast stock train at the Fourth
street viaduct. The force of the collision
sent five of the coaches down a twenty
seven-foot embankment. One passen-
ger is dead and five we're seriously in
iured, while score or more were slight
ly cut and bruised. That no more were
killed or injured is due to the fact that
the trsin was nearly empty, having dis
charged thegreater number of its passen-
gers at the union depot at st. Paul.
A fire broke out in an army store
house at Hiroshima, Japan, at l o'clock
yesterday morning and continued Tor
more than u hours, destroying 20 build
ings containing clothes and provisions.
Seven others filed with fodder we're de-
stroyed. Although the buildings were
constructed of light material, they con-
tanned an enormous amount of stored
goods, and the structures being Of in
fiammable nature the flames were diff
cult to extinguisb, despite the desperate
efforts of the troops and the fire depart
ment. The fire was probably of incen-
diary origin. The loss is variously esti.
mated at from 81, 900, 900 to So, 600, 900.