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

The are now ~, 9oz rurai lree-uehNeiy
routes in operation.
A tvphoon has done enormous damage
along the coast ofChina and some of the
ships ofthe Russian second Pacific squad
ron are reported TO have suffered serious
damage.
The care of Catholic immigrants and
the general welfare of the church was the
main question discussed at the annual
meeting of the archbishops of the Catho-
lie Church, which began in Washington
yesterday. Cardinal Gibbons presided.
The New Jersey board of pardons has
refused to commute the death sentence
of Mrs. Anna Valentino, OF Paterson, N.
J.. who was convicted tor the murder OF
Rosa Silva. The murder was prompted
by jealousy. Mrs. Valentines counsel
said that he would apply to the United
States Court for writ of habeas corpus,
on the ground that the woman did not
have fair trial.
James Hunter, a farmer living at
Bridgeman, MIMI, yesterday put some
dynamite, with which he intended to
blow out some stumps, in the kitchen
stove oven to thaw. He then fO-got
about it and went TO town. Shortly
afterward an explosion wrecked the
house and killed his wife and two chilli
rem. One of the children, boy, was
blown through window. When Hun
ter returned home and found what had
resulted from his forgetfulness he be-
came violently insane and is now under
restraint.
One of the greatest crowds that ever
gathered to see a thoroughbred race in
America was at Belmont Park yesterday
to witness the sensational running Of the
Metropolitan Handicap, in which James
r. Keene's three-year-old Sysonby and
o. L. Richards hardy four-year-old Race
King finished so close together the judges
were unable to separate them. Both
owners announced their satisfaction with
the result as it stood, and the purse,
amounting to more than 1000, was
divided. Sysonby was the favorite in
he betting, his stable mate, Delhi, hav-
ing been withdrawn.
Peter Hubbard, negro, aged twenty
two years, was placed in the Jail at
Clayton, suburb at st. Louis, yesterday,
after having escaped lynching twice in
twenty-four hours for having, it was
alleged, entered the room OF Miss
Myrtle Bennett, by whose father Hub
bard was employed. At two different
times crowds caught Hubbard and
were preparing to hang him. The first
time cooler judgment prevailed and he
was told to leave the country. The
second time, before daylight yesterday,
Waterman saved him by prevailing
upon the crowd to let the law take
its course, and Hubbard was placed
in Jail.
Capt. G. l.. Parks, of the Independent
Line steamer H. B. Plant, lies MORALLY
wounded a, his home in Hyde Park,
Tampa, Fla, and Harry Bomford, a
prominent plumbing contractor, is in the
county jail as the result OF shooting af-
fray which occurred yesterday afternoon
at the residence of former. Capt. Parks
found Bomford in his home with his wife,
and after bitterly upbraiding him for in
vading his home, shot him with re-
volver which he took from the mantel,
the bullet striking Bomford in the left
shoulder, inhicting only a slight wound
Bomford then drew a pistol and shO'
Capt. Parks just above the heart. Doc
tors believe the wound will prove fatal.
A deadlock, which developed at Hart
ford, Conn, last night in the caucus OF
republican members of the Connect ;ui
general assembly, called to nominate a
successor to the-late United States Sen
ator Orville H. Plat, was broken
on the thrty-seventh ballot early this
morning by the nomination Of Repre-
sentative Frank B. Brandegee, of New
London, by vote of 100, the number
necessary for choice. The republicans
have an overwhelming majority in both
Houses of the Assembly aud Brandegee
will without doubt be chosen as Senator
on next Tuesday, when by law the as
sembly, in joint session, begins voting
for the election of Senator Platts sue
cessOr.