Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-11
News Of the Day.

The annual convention of the Ma
tional. Council, Junior Order OF united
American Mechanics will begin IN
Washington Tuesday.
The Grand Army Of the Republic re-
ports diminution ofmembership OF A.
S85 during the last year But iHhas no"
232. 455 names on its muster rolls.
Baron Komura, japanese envoy, is i'll
in his apartments in New York and all
social engagements of the japanese en-
VOWS have been either Cancelled of indeb-
initely postponed.
Baron Rosen, for the Russian peace
mission, aud Mr.. Sato, for the Japanese,
Yesterday denied emphatically the re-
port that a secret treaty has been entered
into by the Gar and the Mikado.
Mr.. Henry McCafrey, formerly a
wel-known music publisher and dealer
and friend of many famous theatrical
people and others, died at his home, in
Baltimore, Yesterday, of general debility.
The Gen eral Synod of the Church of
England in Canada has decreed that DO
clergyman can hereafter solemnize mar
riage between divorced person and an
other so long as the other party to the
divorce is living.
Eighteen men from Norwich, Ct, had
narrow escape from death on the
Thames river near New London yester-
day. There was an explosion of gasoline
in the luanch they were in and several
of them were severely burned.
At Oyster Bay Saturday evening Presi-
dent Roosevelt babe farewell to the peace
plenipotentiaries of Russia aud Japan,
and expressed to them, on behalf of the
American people, qualification that their
mission here had been successful.
E. B. Whitney, the wealthy old Can:
adian who married Miss Anna Bennett,
a young telephone giri at the Grand
Union Hotel in New York, only few
months ago, is dead. His bride, undOubt-
eddy will receive large part of a fortune
estimated at from $40, 900, 900 to $50,
900, 900.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker, demo-
cratic candidate for President last fall,
has been retained as chief counsel by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company at a
salary of $40, 900 year, He has enter
ed into law partnership with John P.
Sheehau, one of his strongest hackers in
the presidential campaign.
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The arrest Of Antonio Fazia. aged
forty-six, in New York, followed by his
arraignment before Magistrate Breen in
the Tombs on a charge of blackmail,
came as a climax to a persecution that
has for FIVE months terrorized the COM
plainant, Cirino Nizarre, and his family.
Nizarre says Fazia is member of the
'black hand" and that he has received
several letters from Fazia, demanding
$500 on pain of death.
A typical western stage coach rob-
berry by lone highwayman took place
between Myersvile and Rengis, Wyo.,
on the Rocky Mountain Stage Com
pany's run, on Wednesday evening.
The highwayman took all the valuables
from the express box, robbed the mail
sacks and took the cash from the three
passengers and the driver, after which
he started the coach down the trail,
with instructions to keep going without
looking back on pain Of being shot.
The mystery which for six months en-
shrouded the life of Miss Penniall, the
mission. worker and Bible-reader, of
Greenwich, England, is mystery no
longer. She died at Maidstone on July
| 10 last, and was buried two days later.
Her baby girl Phoebe-named after her
mother-is alive in Maidstone. She is
being well cared for by her father, whose
name is given as Stanley. There in a
sentence lies the true cause of Miss PEN
Malls disappearance from her friends
in Greenwich and Deptford.
James r. Keen's champion three
year-Cld colt, Sysonby, easily icaptured
the Annual Champion Stake Of S25, 900
at Sheepshead Bay, where the meeting
ended Saturday. Sysonby was held at
TO 6, and galloped his field into the
ground in the first mile and quarter.
His time for the distance, two and a
quarter miles, was 1914 flat, which is
but two-fflhsof a second slower than the
track record, made by Igniter in 1903.
By the victory of Sysonby the
winnings this year of the James R.
Keene stable amount to little over
$21l, 900, a figure which has seldom
been reached by any one stable in one
year of racing.
Mr.. Ernest Gichner, a brother of DR..
J. f. Gichner ard brother-in-law of DR..
Charles L. Meyer, both of Baltimore,
and related to a number of prominent
Jewish families of Baltimore, was shot
and seriously wounded last Saturday in
the Office of the superintendent in charge
of the construction of the new marine
barracks in Washington. The shooting
is alleged to have been done by John F.
Beach, architect inspector, who is under
arrest in Washington charged with the
affair Both men were employed on
work at the new barracks, Mr.. Gichner.
being a sheetiron and cornice contractor.
lseach, it is said, fired fves shots at Gich-
ner. three of the bullets taking effect
One of the bullets struck just over the
heart, one passed through the spinal
cord and the other went through the
liver. The shooting followed trouble be-
tween Beach and Gichner about some
work. 1t is thought that Gichner will
recO yer.
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