Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-08
News of the Day.

At Toxic II Is calculhleu lhaI Aunii
ais Rodiestyensky and Nebogatoff will
form a junction Of their fleets tomor-
row.
The part of he frieze around the dome
Of the Capital in Washington which has
never been completed will shortly be
painted.
President Roosevelt entertained his
hunting party at dinner at Glenwood
Springs, Col, yesterday and made an
address from the hotel balcony.
The remodeled Methodist Episcopal
Chapel, at Congress Heights, d. c.,
was dedicated yesterday with praise ser
vices, 10 which Bishop Earl Cranston
was the principal personality. -Four
services we're held during the day.
The police of San Jose, CAL, are look
ing for professor" Weber, clairyoyant.
who is alleged to have secured 81, 900
from Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Drew, both
of whom are DOW in santiarium as
result, it is alleged, of hypnotic sugges-
tons.
Gov. Blanchard of Louisiana has made
an offer OF rewards aggre5ating 81, 800 to
secure the arrest and conviction of men,
bers of the mob which on April 26 enter
ed the parish jail at Homer, La and
shot to death Dick Craighead, awaiting
new trial for the murder of Mrs. Nc
Kee and child.
Auditor West, of the Canal Commits
sion, died at Panama Yesterday of yellow
fever. Robert K. West was sent to
Panama as a deputy auditT for the
Isthmian Canal Commission in February
of this year. He resigned the auditor
ship of the government printing Office
in Washington to take the place.
Capt. w II. HOtville, of the United
Fruit Company's steamer s. Oteri, has
been suspended by the officials Of that
company for his alleged failure to render
service to the yacht Sylph, Of the U. 5.
navy, which he found disabled and with
scalded men on board while his vessel
was bound from Cuba for Baltimore with
a cargo of bananas.
All records were broken at New York
Yesterday in the number of immigrants
that passed Quarantine. Within II
hours IL, 0S9 foreigners arriving in the
steerage were permitted to enter New
York, indicating that the spring influx
of immigrants this year will probably
exceed the records for former years. Ten
transatlantic liners brought this army OF
immigrants to the United States.
Sarrion de Herrera, former king-at-
arms of the Spanish court, has been ar
rested at Madrid, at the instance of the
Brazilian Minister there on the charge OF
conspiring with others against the gov
eminent of Brazil. A search of the resi-
dence of Senior de Herrera resulted in the
discovery of a number Of commissions
for officers who were to organize an army
in the State of Kunani. The commits
sions bore the stamp of that state.
James w. Alexander, president of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, in
New York, last night made public
letter written by him to Edward A.
Woods, manager OF the society at
Pittsburg, in which he asserts that the
surplus of the society is held for the
exclusive benefit of its policy holders,
and not the holders of the stock. Mr..
Alexander also takes occasion in the
letter to deny the ru,nors that he will
resign.
Because several men who were play
ing acc rdeons and singing IN front OF
his home at an early hour yesterday
would not stop when asked to do so,
Peter Novelino, of No. 81 Meeker
avenue, Williamsburg, New York, shot
Patrick Ketchwa, of No. 20 Meeker
avenue, the leader of tho serenaders,
through the heart. The murder aroused
the Italian colony in the neighborhood,
and in the excitement that followed hun
dreds of shots were fired. No one else
was hurt. Ketchwa died in an ambu-
lance.