Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-08
News OF the DAY.

The army appropriation bill as agreed
on by the House committee abolishes
the grade of lieutenant general.
The final arguments on the railroad
rate bill were made in the House, yer
terday, and all amendments voted down.
Francis Scott Key, a six-year-old
grandson of the author of the "Stsr-
Spangled Banner" died in New York
yesterday,
Secretary Bonapar!e yesterday recon-
mended 10 the President that Midship-
man Minor Meriwether, jr., convicted
of hazing, be pardoned.
The wedding gift from the Republic
of France to Miss Roosevelt and Con.
gresham Longworth will consist of rare
tapestries worth $685. 900.
A slight blaze in the shirtwaist fac
tory of FIoersheimer & Co., New York,
yesterday caused panic among 300
Young women at work in the place.
Miss Carrie Wo.mster, daughter of the
New York banker, thought she heard
mouse in her room, last night, screamed
and hid under the bed covers, while q
burglar carried off the contents of two
jewel cases.
Capt. james B. Clay, one of the most
prominent horsemen in the country and
grandson of Henry Clay, the statesman.
died on one Of the trains of the Chesa'
peake and Ohio Railroad yesterday
morning between Washington and Bal
| timore.
A blaze yesterday in an upper story
of New York warehouse where the
Henry Walters collection of Italian art
worth million was stored, reveals the
fact that the old masters and tapestries
are packed in vault under the build
ing, and we're uninjured.
Professor Walter NJ. Wolfe, former
teacher in Brigham Young College at
Logan, Utah, and an apostate TO the
church, declared at the hearing of the
case OF Senator Smoot, which was re-
sumed in Washington yesterday be-
fore the Senate committee, that, 10 the
best of his knowledge, "polygamous re-
lations have increased very materially
since Utah was admitted as q State"
Colonel Mann, of Town Topics, yes
terday turned on his solicitor for Fads
and Fancies, in the perjury case pending
against the publisher Of Town Topics,
the lawyers for the colonel drawing
from Moses Ellis Wooster, at the colo
neps suggestion, the fact that Wooster
married the wife of friend, was in 40
publications and originated the idea OF
Fads and Fancies.
Great surprise was created ia financial
circles yesterday by the announcement
that the Baltimore and Ohio had
declared a dividend Of 6 per cent. on
the stock of its Washington branch.
The news reached Annapolis at night
and caused much qualification to mem
bers Of the Maryland Legislature, who
say the declaration of the dividend was
the result OF the agitation at the State
capital.
Mrs Robert Whitemar, who resides
near Elizabeth, in Writ county, w. Va,
was arrested yesterday and is 10 jail at
Elizabeth, on the charge of numbering
Edward Deevers. The latter was the
favored sutton of Mrs Whitelhsn's daugh-
Ter, but was not approved by The mother,
who forbade him admittance to the
house. Mrs. .Whteman admits that
she shot him with rife, putting bull
lei drought his jngular vein at Il hum
drsd feet, when she saw him approach
ing the house.
| Pope Plus X. is named rs defendant
under his family name of Joseph SartO
in an action brought by Charles Koss,
of New York, as executor of the will OF
Marie Louise Phelan, for the construc-
| ton of the terms OF the will of her mother
by which the Pope became beneficiary,
he to receive $3.50 year on the death of
her last child. Mrs. Phelan left $50
year for the repose of her soul and 5000
a year to the Society Of st. Vincent
de Paul OF All Saints Church of New
| York.
Miss Louise Boyer, of New York, The
woman found on the banks Of the Mag
ara river early yesterday morning, said
she left New York city while respondent
over mouey matters, intending to throw
herself over Niagara Falls. Miss Boyer
left New York on Saturday, ostensibly
to writ relatives in East Aurora. She
went to Buffalo and Sunday afternoon
took a trolley for the Falls. Near La
Sale she got view OF Niagara and her
courage failed her. She left the car and
wandered to the river, which. she says,
had an irresistible fascination for her.
In the storm she became bewildered and
fell exhausted.
Several sticks of dynamite with partially
| burned fuse were found yesterday in the new
Aston Theatre, now in process Of construction
| in New York. There was a strike recently
among workmeD employed on the building
and some believe an attempt had been made
| 10 wreck the structure, Others think the
| dynamite WA placed where found by a prac
| teal joker.
Fannie Blan, who years ago was a fayorite
actress in New York, was sentenced TO Black
Wells Island. in New York, yesterday. for
vagrancy. Fannie applied the second time
| for lodging at the Municipal Lodging House,
and upon this fact charge Of ysgrancy was
preferred against her.
Robert Elwell a soldier, stationed at Castle
William, Governors Island. New York har-
Dor, died yesterday from drinking wood al
cOhol. Several other soldiers are in criti-
cal condition from the same cause.
Death of Job Hawxhurst.
Mr.. Job Hswxburst, of Fairfax
county, died at the residence of his son,