Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-05
News of the Day.

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Albert Gorter, a well.known real es-
tate, club aud society man, Of Baltimore
died at his home yesterday after ie"
days illness of grip aud tonsil'lis, aged
81 years.
IL is stated the Sultan Of Turkey has
ordered the Copts to surrender the con-
vent at Jerusalem, which property has
been in dispute for centuries, to the
Abyssinians.
Rev. Dr. William :. Rsinsford has
resigned as rector of st. Georges Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, New YORK,
owing to continued i'll health. de is
still in Egypt.
A memorial service over the remains
of King Christian was held yesterday in
The "Garden room" of the palace at
Copenhagen, attended by al the mela-
bers If the royal family.
United States army officers who ar
rived at San Francisco on the transport
Logan report that The prospect of trouble
10 China is the chief topic of discussion
in army circles in Manila.
The handsome residence of Thomas
s. Janney, at Stevenson, in the Green
Spring Valley, near Baltimore, was de-
stroyed by fire early this morning. The
loss is about $50, 900. Mr.. Janney is
now in New Orleans on business.
Lady Grey, wife of Sir Edward Grey,
the foreign minister, who sustained con-
cussion of the BARN by being thrown
from her trap at Elingham, Nortbum-
berland, last Thursday, died in London
yesterday without having regained con.
seriousness.
At meeting of the sectional budget
committee held in Toxic yesterday a
delegate representing the government
said that Japan expected TO increase the
tonnage OF her navy to four hundred
thousand ton, by the end Of The fiscal
year of 19O7-0S.
Professor Tenney, the American who
organized the school system in Pe-Che-
Ii province, has been dismissed, and eff
forts are being made to drive out other
Americans because of their nationality.
The boycott is being revived, and there
is great apprehension among foreigners
at Canton.
Tho union elevator, at East ST. Louis,
ILL.,, containing million bushels OF
wheat, was destroyed by fire Saturday
night, entailing loss of more than
81, 900, 900. The fire spread to the stables
of the st. Louis Transfer Company and
200 horses and 200 wagons were burn
el, as we'll as the stables.
The Paris Figaro says that Nine.
Therese Humbert, notorious swindler,
was released from prison yesterday, and
that Roman DauIienac has left for Rem
mes, accompanied by nurse, to bring
her to Paris. The paper also adds that
the state o. Nine Humbert's health has
become much worse recently.
A fire Saturday in the paint shop OF
the HendersOn-C Crawford Buggy @ m
pany at Valdosta, Ga, caused n loss OF
! $40, 900. The property destroyed, be-
side the plant of the buggy company,
included the Georgia Southern railroad
freight depot. eight freight cars loaded,
sixteen cottages, the Valdosta laundry
aud the Armour Company's ware
houses.
General David B. McCreary. veteran
of the civil war, and father of Captain
Writ McCreary, u. ). NJ. c., died at his
home, Erie, Pa, last night, aged 80
years. General McCreary served as
lieutenant colonel of the l45th Pennsyl
vania volunteers through the campaign
of the Army of the Potomac, with the
exception of eight months spent in
southern prisons
Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson, parents
of Nan Patterson, with their daughter
Helen, and Mrs Harriet p. Lowell and
their granddaughter, Olga and Helen
Lowell, were carried from window on
the third hJor of the Berwick fats, in
Washington, down ladder by fremen
early Yesterday morning. The flames
had burned away the stairs and had fill
ed the house with smoke when the family
was awakened.
James Street, former president of the
Street Steamship Company, was arrested
in Jersey City, n. j., today on charge
of non-support preferred BY his wife,
who resides at Englewood with her six
children. The relations of Street with
his stenographer, Miss Edna Miller, a
pretty girl not yet out other teens, whom
be installed with her mother in apart
ments in New York, led to bis removal
from the steamship company.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
sent to the White House Saturday the
report on the Gillespie resolution, which
sought for all the inform lion in the pos
session of the commission as TO the
amount of stock held by the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad in the Baltimore and
Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio, anu Phila-
delphia, Baltimore ard Washington,
Norfolk and Western, Northern Cen
trail aud the Washington Southern. The
information furnished by the commission
is very meager and will undoubtedly
prove very unsatisfactory to large num-
Der of the House of Representatives.
The brilliant though bloody spectacle
of bull6ght in honor of the conference
on Moroccan reforms was the event OF
yesterday at Algeciras. Crowds came
from all parts OF Andslusia to the vast
stone amphitheater where the bull ring
is, and more than 5000 persons saw the
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