Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-26
News of the Day.

effects we're sold at auction in London
Saturday under a bill of sale.
An express train near Beaver, Pa,
collided with 200-pound woman yes
terday and was nearly wrecked.
Airs. Carrie Bragg Graves, daughter
of General Bragg, the famous Confeder-
ate leader, died in New York last week.
James w. Alexander, of NEW York,
returned to the Equitable $50, OOG, his
share of the profits 10 the syndicate
deals.
1t is authoritatiyely announced that
by the terms of the deed OF trust the
Equitable Society will be made a mutual
company.
Iii understood President Roosevelt has
broken the supposed deadlock on the
peace question and suggested date for
the meeting in Washington.
At Appleton, Wis, Saturday, 9.year-
old Maria Derrick was skipping a rope,
and as she scored 100 she said: 81 have
finished" and dropped dead.
President Newman, of the New York
Central, having been convinced that the
wreck at Mentor was not due to the high
speed of the train, has ordered the resto-
ration of the 1S-hOur schedule.
About 200 retail banana dealers met
yesterday in Baltimore and decided to
buy no more bananas from the importers
for week. The retailers complain Of
what they denominate the high price de-
manded for the fruit by the importers.
The German government has purchased
site for its embassy in Washington,
opposite the property of the new French
Embassy, overlooking Sheridan Circle,
on S street, in the northwestern section
of the city, and will erect a splendid stone
structure.
Robert Kittle, a miner employed by
the Junior Coal Company, and Mrs.
John McCuffin, at whose house, in Coal
ton, w. Va, .Kittle was making cart
ridges, were frightfully burned by the
explosion of 2O-pound keg of powder,
Saturday.
In defiance OF Governor Folks orders,
Sheriff Herpel, of st. Louis county,
Saturday refused to raid the gamblers at
Delmar race track Herpel declared
that he does not believe in general
raids, and that he will not make them,
no matter what the governor says.
1t is reported in New York that Rev.
DR.. RainsfOrd will not return to St
Georges Church 10 that city because
he may consider a call he has received
from London to deliver addresses in the
larger London churches, including
Westminster Abbey, on the institutional
church
Lewis Stayton, Ga years old, of near
Caroline county, Md, died
yesterday under peculiar circumstances.
His son Charles Stayton) was arrested
on the charge of causing bis death. A
coroner's jury decided that the son had
choked his father, but did not say
whether the choking caused death.
Mrs. Hannah Parsell and J. n.
Hardy, of Plainfeld, n. j., we're mar
ried in New York on Tuesday afternoon,
The bride is IS years old and very
wealthy, it is said, while her husband
is 35 years old Both formerly lived in
New York. Hardy is said to have been
Mrs. Persell's secretary.
The awarding ola contract for ~ Ian
,tOn monotype machines for use in the
Government Printing Office has stirred
up q row between the successful corpora
ion and the Mergenthaler Company.
By order Of the President the contract
has been held up and an investigation
ntO the affair is being conducted.
Deputy Marshal John Dockery, aged
wenty-seven, son of United States Mar
hal Henry c. Dockery, was shot and
wounded in Raleigh, Saturday,
~ Policeman Isaac Rogers, who charges
lin with the betrayal of his daughter,
lula Rogers, aged about eighteen years.
Dockery has a bare chance for life. |
Rogers is in jail.
1t is reported that change is about |
o be made in the office of u. S. attor-
ley for the District of Columbia. There
ire said 10 be reasons for the belief that |
ir. Morgan II. Beach, the incumbent,
will cease to be the local prosecuting Off
er for the government and that his sue
essor may be named at an early date
t is understood that Mr.. Beach's resig
ation is looked for at the Department of
Justice Immediately.
A conference was held yesterday in New
FORK on Panama canal affairs, Secre-
iry Taft, Chairman Shonts, Engineer
Wallace and'Wiliam Nelson Cromwell,
he commissioners counsel, being pres
Mt. Beyond admitting it was of impor-
ince, however, none of them would re-
cal afterward any of the subjects dis
used or the decisions reached There
ill be other conferences before Mr.. Taft
arts for the Philippines.
President Roosevelt has issued a call
Or a meeting of the board of consulting
ngineers Of the isthmian canal commits
on for September |, in Washington. The
rder makes Gen. George w. Davis
hartman of the board, and provides that
deemed necessary the board may visit
lie isthmus. The work outlined for the
oard is to consider all plans which have
zen suggested Tor the construction of
lie canal and make recommendation to
Ie commission.
Suit TO recover 500 for alleged
each of promise OF marriage has been