Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-17
News OF the Day.

A large pigeon house belonging to
Mr.. VI. w. Pope, at Mount Washing
ton, Md, was burned yesterday with from
900 to ! 800 pigeons and pair OF
dogs.
Nan Patterson yesterday went TO the
Roman Catholic chapel in the rombs in
company with Mrs. J. Morgan Smith.
Ii is said TO be the first time she has at
tended religious services since she had
been in Jail.
DR.. Joseph Siverman, rabbi of the
Temple Emanuel, in New York, in 4
sermon yesterday advised against mixed
marriage as tending to unhappiness,
and said young people who contemplate
matrimony should be one in race and
religion.
Voting on the bill for the separa-
ton of church and State the French
Chamber of Deputies Saturday adopted,
by a vote of 1886 to 296, the clause by
which the republic shall not recognize
salaried or subsidized cults. Section 2
of the bin is now passed, and the de-
bate on Section 3, which concerns re-
ligious edifices, will be continued today.
Andrew Brown, an expert rubber"
and known among his fellow craftsmen
as "Fearless Andy" was killed instantly
Saturday, by falling from the northeast
transept of 81. Patrick's Cathedral in
New York to the eastern roof some
fifty feet below. Brown was engaged
in placing a huge marble turret on its
base, when he slipped from the bridge,
bringing the massive turret after him.
Private advices received at Norfolk
from officers aboard the cruiser Dixie, OF
Admiral Sigsbee's Caribbean squadron,
state that there is no further sign of
trouble in Santo Domingo. The Dixie,
which is doing duty as a transport for
marines. is now at Monte Cristi, San
Domingo. whittier she was dispatched post
haste from Panama, with battalion OF
marines for use as landing force in the
event of trouble in the island.
Since the American Oncologic Hos
pital for the treatment and study OF can
Ger and other tumors was established in
Philadelphia, last February, eight can
Ger patients have been discharged appar-
emily cured. This fact was reported to a
meeting of the directors held yesterday
in the hospital. There has been but one
death. That patient was suffering from
cancer of the stomach, and the disease
was in an advanced stage when the
treatment was solicited.
A reign of terror prevails in the town
of Valence. France, Within the last
three weeks eight mysterious murders
have been committed, the perpetrators
of which have not vet been discovered.
The circumstances in which the victims
have been found give rise 10 the belief
that the crimes were committed by men,
bers Of the same band. Friday night
another persona waiter named Chovet
was murdered, his body being found
early the next morning, riddled with re-
volver shots, lying in front Of the res
tauran. where he was employed.
Louis Heck, jr., musical director OF
Keiths Chestnut street tbeater, Phila-
delphia. ard his wife, known on the
vaudeville stage as Maybelle Eickert,
were found asphyxiated by gas yesterday
in the bedroom OF their fiat, at Carlisle
and Lombard streets, that city. Two
burners Of chandelier in the room were
turned on. Whether the couple had de-
liberately planned to end their lives to-
getber or whether their death was an
accident has not been definitely deter
mined, but the coroner is inclined to be-
lieved they died through accident.