Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-06
News Of the Day.

Baron Speck Won Sternburg on Satur-
day began negotiations with the State
Department for new trade treaty with
Germany.
A tornado strnck Mountain View,
Oklahoms, Saturday, killing several per-
sons and injuring many others and dam
aging much property.
The Flat Top field Saturday suffered
auothe. disastrous explosion in one of its
mines, located at Vivian, W. Va, and
seven miners have succumbed to their
injuries, aud more are expected to die.
James W. Alexander, former presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, is so i'll that he has been re
moved to a sanitarium at Deer6eld,
Mass, and is under the care Of special
lists.
Rev. DR.. Ingram N. w. Irvine, late
ly deposed from the Protestant Episco-
pal ministry, was made priest of the
Holy Orthodox Church of Russia in
New York yesterday. He was made a
deacon on Saturday.
A Southern Pacific passenger train
dashed into the rear of train of tourist
cars at Santa Margaritta station, Cali
fornia, Saturday, the engine blowing its
way through one of the cars. Nineteen
persons were hurt.
Believing he was shooting at a burg
lar, Hayden r. Craft, a hardware mer-
chant of Uniontown, Pa, killed his
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Coddington,
at their home yesterday. When he dis
covered what he had done, Mr.. Craft
collapsed, and last night was in the hos
pital in critical conditi on.
Sixteen million dollars will be neces-
sary to complete the engineering work
of Notifications of the seacoasts OF the
United States under the plans of the
Endicott board, according to the report
of Brig. Gen. Alexander Mackenzie,
Chief of Engineers. There has already
been appropriated for this purpose $685.
500, 494.
Three children are dead and thirteen
people are injured, one fatally, as the
result of an explosion at Ishpeming,
Mich, yesterday, which completely des-
troyed the Miners National Bank. A
gas leakage in the basement of the bank
building was primarily responsible for
the Explosion and loss of life. Two
workmen went into the basement about
9 o'clock to make repairs. They struck
a match and the flames ignited the gas in
the basement, tremendous explosion
following.
The friction caused in the Presidents
Cabinet by the recent order directing
Cabinet members to refrain from dis
cussing Cabinet meetings with represent
atives OF the newspapers, has, it is said,
been removed by the understanding of
the Presidents position with re'pect to
the matter and the purposes he seeks to
accomplish. The restraint placed upon
Cabinet members applies only to matters
under consideration by the Cabinet, and
not in such shape as to admit of an Off
cisl announcement, and questions OF
policy, which have not been definitely
decided. All the members of the Cabi-
net acknowledge the propriety Of this
stand.
In Boston late Saturday afternoon DR..
Percy d. Mcleod, held at the Charles
street Jail on a charge Of performing an
illegal operation on Susan Geary, was
released on $40, 200 bail. A warrant
has been issued for the arrest of Mrs.
Dean, who was in charge Of the house
in which the victim of .Ds SUITCASE"
tragedy sought shelter. What is con-
fdently believed to be the head of Sus-
anna Geary, the dress suit case victim,
was recovered in a leather handbag from
the bottom of the harbor in Boston yes
terday. The head completes the body Of
the girl. The trunk was found on Sep
TENDER 81, and the limbs were picked up
October 81.
The Market.
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