Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-24
News Of the Day.

Forty-four countries are TO be repre-
sen,ed At tho international Railway Con-
gress. which meets in Washington
May 3.
Capt. O'Shea, whose divorced wife
| became Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell.
lied at Brighton, England, Saturday
night.
The republicans of the First con-
p~ressional district of Indiana, Saturday
nominated Judge Foster to succeed
James A. Hemenway, elected to the
United States Senate.
As the result of intense grief over the
death of her husband, which occurred
last Wednesday, Mrs. Anna Maria
Strauss, widow of Christian Strauss,
died suddenly yesterday morning OF
heart disease at her home in East Balt'-
more.
Several million square feet Of valua-
bic mahogany, quartered oak and birch
lumber valued at $500, 900, were Satur-
day night destroyed in a lire that COM
pIetely Quilted the dying kilns OF the
Skies Company, furniture manufactures,
at Philadelphia.
Mobbed by thousands of baseball root
ers pelted with br'ckbats and bottles, the
New York baseball club with "Muggsy''
McGraw at their head, sought safety in
fight Saturday afternoon at the eonclu-
sion Of the game with the Philadelphia
Club, on the latter's grounds.
One man was killed and two women
badly hurt when a big sightseeing auto
mobile, crowded with passengers, crash
ed into a high. billboard fence at Eighth
avenue and Fifty-seventh street, New
York, yesterday. The streets were
thronged with Easter promenaders at the
time OF the accident.
In a panic caused by a runaway dur
ing a circus parade at Columbus, Ohio,
Saturday, Miss Nellie Bennett was so
badly hurt that she may die; Raymond
Bennett. her ~ten-year-old nephew, was
painfully but not seriously hurt, and +.
Il. Shrum's leg vas broken. Many
Others were slightly injured.
After following the trail o%fblOodhounds
all night, Sheriff Shellenbarger arrested
George Copeland, aged is, a negro, at
his Nome nesr Mount Vernon, D., this
morning, on a charge of being connected
with the murder of Miss Miranda Brick
er. whose body was found at the Fair
child residence Sunday morning. A
launching was threatened.
For the first time in the history OF st.
Patrick's Cathedral, in New York, the
Easter musical programme yesterday was
rendered without the aid OF women's
voices. Mr.. John Finnegan, OF Wash
ington, who is well known in Alexan-
dria, sang at the service. Mr.. Finne-
gan has heen engaged as a regular mem
Der of Ten choir at a salary of $1,000 a
year.
William A. Weaver, ~forty-six years
old, who is believed by the police to be
suffering from some mental derange'
meut, attempted to end his life by drink
ing poison, and turning on the gas in
the toilet room OF the Ontario apartment
house in Washington Saturdaylnight. he
was found by the janitor of the building
in an unconscious condition. He was
revived at the Garfield Hospital, and
later taken to the First precinct police
station.
twenty-five persons were injured in a
wreck Saturday night on the Chicago
and Milwaukee Electric Railroad
at Greenleaf street and Fourth avenue,
Wilmette, a suburb, fifteen miles from
Chicago. Several university professors
and a number Of students OF North
western University, returning from the
baseball game between Northwestern
University and the University Of Chi
cago, at Ravina Park, were among the
injured. The wreck occurred through
the overturDing of a car.