Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-05-16
News OF the Day.

rive men were Olo"u W Pictcs W
dynamite which one of them dropped
in a colliery at Shenandoah, Pa, yesterday.
Mai. Barak @. Thomas, the most cele-
brated breeder OF thoroughbred horses in
Kentucky. died at Lexington yesterday,
aged 79 years.
Great Britain is removing from her
navy all but her really efficient warships.
In three years 4ObattleshiPs and cruisers
have been taken off the list. 3.
The House committee on irsular al.
fairs yesterday authorized favorable
report on bill extending United States
citizenship to the inhabitants of Porto
Rico.
A balloon containing Leo Stevens,
two companions aud a moving picture
outfit, which made an ascension 10 New
York Yesterday hit the Palisades and
fell ia the Hudson river The yoyagers
escaped with slight injuries.
Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio
and Pennsylvania Railroad Companies.
in testifying before the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Philadelphia yester-
day we're compelled TO admit that favor
ilism had been shown to certain coal
com panies with respect to Supplying
cars.
The six.story piano factory OF Jacob
Doll & Sons, at Nos. 402 20 4l2 east
Thirtieth street, New York, three
story building occupied by John H..
Carl's sash and door factory and The
Doll Compsny's planning mills, we're de-
slroyed by FIRE last night, with an sg-
gregate loss of $3.50, 0OO
The Association of American Physi-
clans, representing every section OF the
country, opened its twenty-frst annual
meeting 10 Washington yesterday. More
than two hundred delegates were 10 al
tendance. The session yesterday was
devoted to the reading and discussion OF
papers of purely technical nature.
Renie Rickmers, a 20-yesr old wo-
men, steered the largest sailing vessel
10 the world for hours at time 10 mid
ocean. The Rickmers arrived at New
York yesterday on her maiden trip from
Bremen, and once during the young
Wonan's "trick" al the wheel the YES
sci sailed l64 Knots per hour for I'VE
hours. The Rickmers is five mssed
square rugged vessel snd is the largest
sailing vessel 10 the world
Crszed by drink and by disappoint'
ment 10 love affair James h. CLARK,
a telegraph operator at the little town
of Chamblee, a dozen miles north oil
Atlanta, begin late Monday afternoon
q rampage of crime. In less than "a
hours he killed one man, severely wound
ed three others, slightly wounded a
fifth add dubbed sixth with a shot
gun. set fire to the home of one OF bis
victims, and when surrounded by
posse shortly after noon yesterday shot
himself through The heart.
Cordelia Botkin, Who sent poisoned
candy to Mrs. John P. Dunning which
caused her death, was sent to jail at Sar
Quentin CAL, yesterday to begin her sen
teuce If life imprisonment. The commit
ment was signed yesterday at the re-
quest of Mrs. Botkin herself. This ends
a legal battle which has been waged for
eight year,, involving two trials. Mrs.
Botkin was madly infatuated with Johu
p. Dunning, and thought that by remov'
ing his wife he would be free to marry
her. Not only vas Mrs. Dunning. killed,
but her sister as we'll succumbed to the
poisoned sweets sent to their home in
Delaware.
The old church al jamestown will be
restored by the Association for the Pres.
ervalion Of Virginia Antiquities and
when completed will be dedicated by
Bishop Randolph and taken under the
care of the diocese and, with the CO.
operation of the association, will minis
ter to its needs and open its doors TO
sister churches who may from time to
time desire to worship there. These
conditions were arrived at Monday even.
ing at meeting between the members
of the association and Rev. W. A. K.
Goodwin, of Williamsburg, aud Rev. Z.
Braxton Bryan, of Petersburg, repre-
senting bishop Randolph.
Miss Edith Roberts, aged nineteen, a
beautiful Wheeling girl, member OF an
old family, was cremated under the most
tragic circumstances Monday night. Ia
the country home OfMrs. Florence Zane,
her adopted mother, short distance
from that city. The young woman had
gone to the place on visit aud retired
ia an isOlqted room, having one small
wiudOS. She left an oil lamp burn
ing and about ii O'Clock it exploded,
casting flaming fluid over her bed. Her
screams aroused the entire household,
but by that time she bad been cut Oh
from rescue. The house was burned
over her body aud yesterday morning
few charred remains we're found.
CONGRESSIONAL.
With the exception of the Oulbusou