Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-29
News Of the Day.

| A Cumberland wedding had to walt
Yesterday upon the appointment OF a
guardian for the groom, minor orphsn'
Encouragement Hugh Dinsmore was
fined 81 for striking Gov. Davis at
Fayettsville yesterday. He was, how
ever. fined $50 for carrying pistol.
Secretary Root has written letter to
an American, on the Isle of Pines, stat
ing emphatically that that Island Will
remain under the Cuban government.
Democratic members of Congress are
talking of Harvey Garvy, chairman of
the democratic State committee OF Ohio,
for next chairman of the congressional
committee.
10 Boston yesterday witnesses told in
court the grewsome story of how Susanna
A. Geary. the suitcase victim, died
under a criminal operation and how her
body was disposed Of
A blizzard which swept across the
northern lakes and the Michigan penins
sula yesterday caused much loss of life
and property, particularly in vessels,
and buried the country under 10 inches
of snow.
Rudulfe Castillo, mayor of the town
of Alduizar, was arrested in Havana
last night as he was taking train for
home. The charge against him is that
he is involved in the insurectionary
movement in the western part OF the
province of Havana.
Referee Remington, of the federal
bankruptcy court, in Cleveland, o., ssid
Yesterday that in accordance with the
request of Mrs. Chadwick he will name
an early date for reopening her case in
order to permit her to go on the stand
and give any additional information that
may be of service to her creditors.
Mayor Mcclellan in New York yes
terday gave his aid to the efforts OF
William X. Hearst TO have the ballot
boxes in New York's recent mayoralty
election opened and ballots recounted.
He announced that he had directed
Alton 3. Parker, his attorney, not to
appeal from the dicision of the Supreme
Court yesterday, which ordered five bal
lot boxes to be opened.
At meeting in Washington Yesterday
of the national committee on the pro-
posed change of Inauguration day it was
decided to recommend to Congress the
adoption of measure changing the day
TO the last Thursday in April. A statis-
teal report of the Weather Bureau was
read. in which the advantage of the lat
ter part Of April over the first of March
as the time for the Inauguration was
shown.
Samuel n. HOfbemer, nephew OF
Nelson Morris, the millionaire packer,
was arrested in Chicago last night, charg-
ed with having swindled S. w. Strauss
Il Co.. mortgage bankers, out of $780,
900. Being unable to furnish bond,
fixed at $3.50, 1000 by Justice Cochrane,
who issued the warrants for his ares,
Hofiheimer was taken to the Cook coun-
tv Jail. The alleged swinde operated by
Hoiiheimer is a complicated affair and
extends back over period of eighteen
months.
Ten thousand persons gathered in
Tournament Hall, Liverpool, last night
to bid farewell to Reuben A. Torrey and
Charles NJ. Alexander, the American
eyangelists, at the close of their success
full revival movement in the United
KinodOm. This movement. has covered
a period OF three years, during which
nearly 100000 converts were made.
The gathering included delegates from
many of the cities in which missions
were conducted by evangelists, Songs
were rendered by choir of 5000 and
the greatest enthusiasm was displayed.
Rev. George G. Ware, rector of the
Episcopal church OF Lead, S. D., on
Monday was indicted by federal grand
jury, charged with completely in defraud-
ing the government. of 1875, 900 acres of
land in Hooker and Thomas counties,
Nebraska. Frank Lambert and Harry
WEIGH ere made Joint defendants with
Ware. Each of the men is held in
SIS, 900 bonds. Gases are also pending
against Rev. Ware for alleged illegal
fencing. He is one of the wealthiest
men in Lead, and has been general
manager of the /. B. y. ranch, which
has several thousand head of cattle on
the range of western Nebraska.
District Attorney Jerome. of New York,
in a speech last night, said with few ex-
ceptions the justices Of this country are not
above suspicion" and in scathing words he
attacked the judges Of the Supreme Court Of
New York. He said. Worst of all is an
elective judiciary. | was educated to be a
lawye. and had instlled in me desire to
reverence the bench When a judge Of the
Supreme Court has to go to Charles Murphy,
a common bartender, and plead to be eleyat-
ed TO a position to pass on our lives, our
liberties and our property, it is something
| for the bar to think about"
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