Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-22
News Of the Day.

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cape payment of the stamp tax.
Judge Albion W. Tourgee, the well
known author and consul at Bordeaux,
died there yesterday from the result of
an old wound.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Isaac n. Selig-
man and II. II. Vreeland we're among
those arrested for autom obie speeding at
Ardsley, N. Y, yesterday.
Mrs. Alice Bowie, widow OF Oden
Bowie, ex-governor of Maryland, died
Saturday night at her home, Fairyiew,
in Prince Georges county, that State.
In a demonstration Of workmen at
Buenos Ayres yesterday socialists and
the police force came into conflict, and
in the encounter two persons were killed
and forty wounded.
Judge Morris has written the President
that his resignation as one of the judges
of the District of Columbia Court will
be in the Presidents hands in accordance
with his original letter.
An attempt to rob the stamp safe at
the San Francisco postOffice yesterday
was frustrated by Waterman William
O'Connell, who saw one of the burglars
drilling the safe. The burglars secured
81, 400 on stamps.
Manuel Montoya, a rich stockman OF
Los Alamosy, n. NJ, cut his wife's
throat with a razor on Saturday while
in an insane rage, tore down part OF his
house, broke much furniture and then
severed his own jugular vein.
Empress Augusta Victoria fell down
stairs at Wisbaden, yesterday and
was slightly injured on the forehead.
Though the hurt is not serious, the in
cdent has caused the postponement of the
departure of the Emperor and Empress
for Berlin.
Panic caused by the blowing out Of a
fuse on motor car in Philadelphia early
last evening resulted ia the injury OF
four women, one of them seriously. The
passengers who remained seated escaped
unframed. Only those who jumped
sustained hurts.
The New York Camp of the COnfede-
rate veterans held its annual memorial
service and placed flowers on the graves
of its dead at Mount Hope yesterday.
There were some fifty union veterans in
the line of march, from the railroad sta
ton to the towering shaft erected N the
cemetery to the memory of the Confede-
rate dead
Three thousand incandescent globes
will soon be placed in the dome Of the
Capitol, aud it will them outshine the
dome of the Congressional Library, far
famed for its great brilliancy. The dome
of the Capitol will soon rank as one of
the handsomest of its kind in The world,
so many are the improvements that are
being made.
The president of the federal Court Of
Cessation, of Venezuela, sitting as a
tribunal of first instance at Caracas Sat
urday, in the case of the government of
Venezuela against the New York and
Burmudez Asphalt Company in the mat
ter OF the Hamilton contract, dissolved
the contract and ordered the company
to pay damages.
Water caused $500, 900 fire in Will
kesbarre, Pa, yesterday, when the Wells
Building, one of the largest store and of
fee structures in the business section, was
destroyed. There were two fires. The
first, on the third floor of the building,
occupied as warsroom, was easily ex-
tinguished. Water used to quench the
fire followed wires into the basement,
where a short circuit was formed causing
flash from dynamo, which started
flames in dry goods.
The statements of Professor Schwenin-
ger, of Berlin, who was medical adviser
to Prince Bismarck, that recourse is had
to operations far too frequently nova
days, and that the physician is pushed |
on one side by the surgical handicrafts-
man, have created considerable interest |
among members of the medical profession |
in London. A noted West End physis
clan told an interviewer that a revusiOn
of feeling is taking place in regard to
tho use of the knife.
The celebration in Berlin of the we'd
ding of Crown Prince Frederick Will
liam and the Duchess Cecilia will last
four days, beginning June g. The duch-
ess will be received at the Brandenburg
Gate by the chief burgomaster and the
city fathers, and by 100 young women
of known families, who have been drawn
by lot from several hundred candidates,
and who will present flowers to their flu
ture empress. The girls will be dressed
alike in Gretchen costumes,
With both legs amputated just below
the knee, as the result ola railroad ac-
cident, Walter Walsh, II years old, of
Philadelphia, was the most cheerful
patient in the mems ward of the JEFF
ferson Hospital yesterday. at hurts a
little" he said, when the surgeon in
quired after his condition, "but what's
the use of making fuss? I'm mighty
sorry, though, that I'll have to stop
playing tennis. Still, | guess there's
lots of fellows in a worse fix than |
am, and he philosophically resumed
reading his paper.