Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-16
News Of the Day.

Mrs. Edmund E. w. Pettus, wife of
United States Senator Pettus, died at
her home in Selma, Ala, yesterday.
1t is reported in Berlin that Emperor
William will send his fourth SOD, Prince
August William, to an American uni
yersity.
1t was announced at Newport, R. l.,
Saturday, that Aurel Bstonyi, the we'll
known whip, had married Mrs. Fannie
Burke Roche few years ago.
An Italian made an attempt TO run
away with q child on the boardwalk 81
Atlantic City, Saturday, and barely es-
capped violence at the hands of the crowd
Clifford w. Hariridge, the new counsel
for Harry K. Thsw, states the line OF
defense will not be disclosed before the
trial begins.
A boy was killed, four were injured
and Archbishop Quigley's residence
was set on fire by lightning in Chicago
yesterday.
A former sailor named Shetenok, who
was arrested yesterday at Sevsstopol,
confessed that he was the murderer OF
Vice Admiral Choukpiu.
Timothy E. Townsend, a Delaware
legislator, was saved from death on the
horns of bull yesterday by his little
son, who flashed the SUMS rays into the
beasts eyes with milkpail.
Albert o. Brieu, a tax collector of To-
iowa, N. j., shot himself dead Saturday
night as a constable was about to arrest
him on a charge of embezzlement.
A steampipe burst on the municipal
ferryboat Richmond just after it left the
Battery at New York yesterday, scslding
several men slight panic followed
among the passengers.
The council of the empire has adopted
the bill of the Russian lower house pro-
yiding fer famine relief, this action be-
ing regarded as an important victory for
the constitutional democrats.
Rev. Thomas N. Alderton, of Great
Cacapon, W. Va, dropped dead in the
pulpit at Greenwell Baptist Church at
Reefs Mills, nine miles from Frankfort,
w. Va, yesterday, while preaching.
Attorney General Julius NJ. Mayer,
of New York, has denied the application
of William Z. Hearst for leave TO insti-
tute an action to test the title Of Mayor
George B. Mcclellan to his Office.
Before sailing from New York Saturday
for LondoD, where he goes as delegate
to the International Parliamentary Con-
gress, John Sharp Williams, minority
leader in the House, gave it as his opin-
ion that President Roosevelt would con-
sent to run again.
The post-office at Glen Burnie, sta
ton on the Baltimore and Annapolis
Short Line Railroad, in Anne Arundel
county, Md, eight miles from Balti-
more, was robbed of about 81, 900 last
night, the robbers knocking senseless
the acting postmaster, Adam Wingert,
whom they bound and gagged before
making good their escape.
NJ. E. Ingalls,, who has just returned
to Cincinnati from trip abroad, where
he spent seVera months studying muric-
ipal ownership, discussed at great length
the results of his observations and also
the political situation in this country.
He has become an enthusiastic admirer
OF Bryan and firmly believes that he will
be the next President of the United
States.
1t is stated that Harry Tbaw has dis.
missed the law firm of Black, Olcott,
Gruber & Bonynge in ct of anger, and
that the firm Of which former Gov.
Frank s. Black is the head will not de-
fend the young Pittsburger in his trial
for the killing of White. Thaw objects
to their conduct of his case and opposes
the insanity plea.
The old stone mansion house on the
farm of Morgan Van Metre, in Berkeley
county, w. Va, which WAS erected in
1880, aud which WAS the Oldest house
in that section, was totally destroyed by
fire Saturday evening, together with all
the valuable old-time furniture and
jewelry and money of the fam
lily of Mr.. Van Metre.
Secretary Hitchcock has taken steps
to institute further investigation OF al
legged land-fraud csses in Oregon. 1t is
said that the secretary has ordered the
use of the dragnet and expects to catch
a number of prominent officials who
have thus far escaped indictment in con-
nectiOn with the prosecution Of the cases
which resulted in the conviction OF the
late Senator Mitchell and Representa-
tive Williamson, of Oregon.
Through a formal announcement at
Msss., Saturday, it became
known that two weeks ago Miss Vera
Schuyler Schermerhorn, heiress to the
millions of her widowed mother, Mrs.
Geo. ], SchermerhorD, OF New York, be-
came the bride Of Robert John Randolph,
one of the Randolphs OF Virgins. The
couple are now touring in the BerkshiIes
on their honeymoon. The elopement
was 10 an automobile, and only the
young woman's maid was taken into the
secret.
One of the most desperate encounters
between the police and a burglar 10
Baltimore in recent years occurred short
y after 5 O'Clock yesterday morning.
After a chase of more than six blocks,
during which the police exchanged shots
With the thief, Alfred G. Hudson, the
after was cornered in a yard, and,
rather than surrender, placed his pistol
n his mouth, pulled the trigger and |
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