Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-05-17
News Of the Day.

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the d almond mine at Scranton, Pa =,
this morning. 1t was learned later thu
there was no loss of life. Several we're
badly burned.
eff, as reported, John D. Rockefeller
owns 33 per cent. Of the capital stock Of
the Standard Oil Company he has re-
ceived in dividends, since January /,
1898, approximately $1l3, 500, 900.
Pennsylvania Railroad officials testi-
fed before the Interstate Commerce
Commission, yesterday that they had
received checks and stock in coal COM
panies from the latter to be favored in
the matter of cars and rates.
DR.. Charles Brown said yesterday in
Washington that Senator Germans con
dition is now better than it has been for
a long time. He slept nearly eight
hours Tuesday night aud spent most
comfortable day. DIR. Brown is confident
of Senator Germans recovery.
DR.. Thomas S. Latimer, one of the
most widely known physicians in the
South and professor of medicine at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons
in Baltimore died yesterday at his resi-
dence in that city after an illness of six
months. DR.. Lstimer was born in
Sayanuab, Ga, June II, 1889.
The suit for an absolute divorce
brought by William NJ. Lawson, a
wealthy jute bag and burlap manuiac-
turer, OF New York, against Lena l.
Lawson is to be tried third time. The
second trial ended yesterday, after be-
ing on for seven days before Justice Gar
retsOn, in the Supreme Court, in dis
agreement of the jury.
United States Judge Cross, in Tren.
ton, N. j., today ordered the Unitfd
States Marshal to return plates and
papers seized on the plant OF John NJ.
| Rogers & Co, at Gloucester City, which
were taken under search warrant by
the secret service officers on misappre-
hension of being lottery paraphernalia.
The body of Mr.. Thomas Mason, Of
Charles county, Maryland, was buried
Yesterday in Greenmount Cemetery,
Baltimore. Mr., Mason was the last in
the male line of descendants of Thomas
Mason, of Woodbridge, Prince William
county, who was the fifth son of George
Mason, of Gunston. He was born in
March, 1928, on the estate of his great
grandfather in Charles county, Mary
land, where he lived until the close of
the war between the States.
The big double-decked ferryboat Bal
timore, of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, sank in her slip at the foot OF
Desbrosses street, North river, New York
last night after having been in collision
with a steam lighter in midstream. Fol-
lowing the crash the captain of the Bal
timore ordered full speed ahead and
rushed mis- boat into The New York slip.
The vessel had begun to settle before
the last of the $50 passengers and the
several teams on board had reached the
landing stage. All got ashore safely,
however.
The hearing of the Amea bill to regu-
late insurance in the District of Colum-
bia before the House committee on the
judiciary yesterday digressed during a
long session to discussion of campaign
contributions by insurance companies to
political parties Senator Buckley, OF
Connecticut, who is also president of the
Aetna Fire Insurance Company, frankly
admitted, in answer to questions by Mr.
DE Almond, OF Missouri, that his COM
pany had contributed S., 900 of its funds
in 1896 to the republican national com
mittee to assist in the de'eat of Mr..
Bryan.