Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-01-23
News Of the Day.

Charles Tuxhorn, q Kansas farmer,
Yesterday killed his two sons. burned
his house and Earn end committed sui.
eide.
A collision between two freight trains
at Shawnee, Tenn, yesterday resulted in
the death of four men and injury of four
more.
Frank Croker, son of Richard Croker,
former Tammany leader, died at Or
mond, Fla, yesterday of injuries sus-
tanned by being thrown from his auto
mobile.
Four Americans and one Mexican
were ambushed and killed by Yaqui
Indians on Thursday afternoon, the 10Th,
four miles cast of Cobachi, State of
Sonora, Mexico.
The residence of George Barnes, one
of the best-knOwn farmers of Iron River,
Wis, was burned yesterday. His wife,
two children and their teacher were
burned to death.
1t was announced last night as prac.
lically certain that NJ. Rouvier had
succeeded in framing a ministry, and
would today advise President Loubet of
his acceptance OF the premiership, with
the names of th ose forming the Cabinet.
A dispatch from Budapest, Hungary,
says that gendarmeries we're called out
Saturday to quel the disturbances fol-
lowing meeting of local liberals at the
village of Turopolya. The gendarmes
fred on the mob, killing four and wound
ing one of them.
Baltimore and Ohio Engine No. 1000
exploded about 9 o'clock yesterday
morning at a point just west of the
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) depot kill
lug two men, seriously injuring another
and piling up the engine and three cars
in tangled mass on the tracks.
While attempting 10 kill a marauding
cat that Was in his chicken house, Lud-
wig Weisse of st. James, N. Y, yester-
day shot and killed his wife, Ernestina,
65 years old. The shooting caused great
excitement in the village, and it was
first reported that murder had been
committed.
Celia and Cassie Olive, maiden women,
aged eighty and seventy-fve years, re-
spectively, were burned to death at their
home near Fultouham, Ohio, Yesterday
Cassie lost her life in attempting to
smother flames which were burning her
sisters clothing, which had caught from
an open fire. A brother was badly
burned in an effort to help his sisters.
Capt. Orlan Cullen, of Victoria, B. c.,
representative of the Imperial Marine
Association, of Toxic, received a cable
gram from Constantinople last night to
the effect that |, 500 Circassians had re-
vol.ed and killed the Russian guard,
numbering 200, at Slavini, IN the eau
casus, and that Russians anu Turks in
large numbers were crossing the frontier
into the Causcasus to spread revolution
in Tihs province Tihis city is practically
in state of siege, he said, and com.
munication is had only by dispatch
bearers.
Sight has been restored to the blind
eyes of John F. Martin, of New York
whe for IA years could not even distin-
guish light from darkness. Martin says
his sight was restored to him by mira
Gle through the agency of woman,
Miss l.. A. Churchill, and Miss Church
i'll says it was the Divine Spirit working
through her. Martin is the man who
was hired as a substitute by the late |
Charles Broadway Rouss. the blind |
to take all the treatments
offered when he made his famous offer
of $1,000, 900 to anyone who should |
cure him of his blindness.