Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-26
News Of the Day.

Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt is at work
on an automobile which he expects will
make $50 miles an hour.
The Pope has received 10 audience
Harry St. George Tucker, president OF
the jamestown Exposition Company.
Dr. Randolph Lowe Eliot, Of Wash
ington, highly esteemed business man
aud pharmacist, died suddenly Saturday.
Elphonzo Youngs, head of a grocery
firm on Ninth street, Washington died,
Saturday evening of pneumonia, aged 90
years.
The Washington navy yard Sunday
sent out wireless merry Xmas greetings
as far north as Maine and south to
Panama.
1t is estimated that not less than 2OO,-
900 of New York's needy we're supplied
with Christmas cheer by public and pri-
vale charity.
The japanese Admiralty announces
that it ex poets to feat the battleship
Mikasa, Togo's flagship, sunk by an ex-
plosion at Sasebo.
Dr. William n. Osler arrived in New
York Sunday and went on to Boston;
he purposes revisitihg Johns Hopkins
University this week.
Mrs. Hezekiah Home, Of Connellsville,
Pa, was on Sunday tortured by burg
lars with red-hot irons, but refused to
reveal the hiding place of her money.
Charles J. S. Miller returned to his
home at Franklin. Penn, Sunday and
declared the story of his elopement with
the wife Of Bob Fitzsimmons entirely
false.
Edgar P. Berry, cashier of the Farm
ers and Mechanics National Bank Of
Georgetown, died yesterday evening OF
heart disease, at the age of sixty-one
years.
Mrs. Jennie Armstrong, wife OF Mr..
James I. Armstrong, was strangled to
death by piece of meat lodging in her
throat at her clearinghouse, in Balti-
more, Sunday.
Fire Sunday destroyed the Vannuys
Broadway Hotel in Los Angeles, Cal.
The loss is estimated at quarter Of a
million dollars Many guests narrowly
escaped in their night clothes.
Ina rear-end collision on the Alabama
and Vicksburg Railroad, at Chunky,
Miss, last evening, two men were kill
ed, three Others seriously injured, and a
train load of passengers badly shaken up.
The shaft building of the Marquette
Third Vein Coal Company, three miles
from Spring Valley, Ill.,, was destroyed
by fire Sunday and 100 mules were suf-
located. The loss is estimsted at $780,
coo, with no insurance.
A factory fire in New York yesterday
caused hundreds OF families living in ten
ements nearby to move out theirC Christmas
trees and other belongings, and OCCASION
ed loss of $1,000 A six-story fact
cry building at 594 and 5SS west Fifty
ninth street was completely destroyed.
Just inside the Fifth avenue wall of
Central Park, at the Sixty-eighth street
gate, New York, a man about 80 years
old committed suic de Sunday forenoon
by cutting his throat with razor.
Hundreds of persons who were prom
enading Fifth avenue saw the man die.
Antique jewelry, diamonds, emeralds,
rubits, topazes and pearls, valued at
$3,975, were stolen early Sunday from
the show window of Dikyan Khan Kele-
khan, dealers in antiques, at No. 252
5th avenue, New York. The thief broke
the window and seized an antique jewel
box, in which all the missing jewels
were exhibited.
A dispatch from Barcelona says an at
tempt was made Sunday night by an
anarchist to stab Cadinal Cassanas
Pages, Bishop of Urgel, as he was COM
ing out of the cathedral. A priest frus-
trated the rttempt and the wOuld-be as
sassin was arrested. The Pope yesterday
expressed his deep concern over the at
tempted assassination.
At Washington, Pa, yesterday morn
ing, while standing at tue window ca
re- sing new doll, a Christmas present,
pretty Mary Kennedy, only daughter of
James Kennedy, superintendent of the
Hazlekirk coal mines, dropped dead
with bullet through her forehead.
Four men are in Jail who are suspected of
possessing information that would indi-
cate that some iend fred the shot to re-
venge himself on Kennedy for discharg-
ing him.
A check in the proceedings toward
reconciliation between w. Ellis Corey
and his wife is reported from Braddock,
Pa. Mrs. Corey's friends say she has
taken a positive stand and lie ignoring
the rumored gift Of 81 900, 600 and other
promises. A. a. Corey, Mr.. Corey's
father, with whom Mrs. Corey is now in
Braddock, has hired two bulldogs and
two watchmen, to make people "attend
to their own business" as he puts it.
BLOODY SCENES IN RUSSIA.
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