Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-03
News OF the Day.


in Russia with platforms to exclude the
Jews from all political activity and SER
vice in the army.
The 100000 collection OF jewels
owned Mrs. Jane Stanford will be sold 10
establish library fund for the Leland
Stanford. jr., University.
Brigadier- General Bell has generously
offered to forego promotion, in order
that an elder officer, Gen. j. w. Lee,
may succeeded General Corbin.
A dispatch from Honolulu says that
efforts to pull the transport Sheridan OH
the rocks have been abandoned, and 1t Is
now believed that the vessel will he q
total loss.
The scandal in the New York State
Institution for Deaf Muies is said to have
involved the moral conduct of not only
one but several of the faculty employed
in the school.
Gen. Tumenoff, commander of brig
ade at the garrison at Warsaw wss
wounded yesterday, but not seriously.
by five revOlutionist, who fired upon
him with revolvers as be was leaving bis
residence.
Governor Vardamsn has appointed
Miss Henrietta Mitchell IS abide
camp Oh his military staff, with the
rank of colonel. This is the first time a
Governor of Mississippi has thus honor
ed woman.
Rev. Peter NJ. Manning, of st. An
drew's Church, in Baltimore State chap
lin of the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
10 which organization he was very prOmi'
neut, died Saturday of paralysis, aged
fifty-fye years.
Although the government officials deny
il, the statement is made upon reliable
authority that if the Cuban government
is unable TO control the iusurrection by
September Is il will ask assistance Of
the United States.
William Lakelands brown colt, Elec'
tioneer, won the nineteenth Futurlty al
Sheershesd Bay Saturday by half q
length. James r Keene's lilly, Pope
Joan, was second, q head in front OF
Paul Rsiney's s45. 900 colt Demuud.
A special TO the Macon, Ga, Tele.
graph from Albany, Ga, says; Howard
Hayes, middle-sged man, yesterday
placed one hand over the eyes of his wife
and with the other fred bullet into
her head. lie then killed himself. The
cause of the tragedy is not known.
The holy see will stand firm in its
long-honored rights in France, and ad.
vices from Paris indicate that the French
government is equally determined to
grant il no quarter. A fsr-reaching con-
flict seems to be ahead, and some OF the
factions are discussing a mOdus vivendi.
George w. Hartman has entered suit In
Hagerstown, Md, for an absolute divorce
from his wife, Martha j Hartman, whom
he married in 1868 at Fuuksiown. Fol
more than 20 years they lived separate, al
though in the same house, but in that
time, though often eating at the same
table, have never spoken to each other.
They have six grown children.
No less than seventeen trains were re-
CURED Saturday to convey the lame and
the halt the sick and the suffering, on
the annual pilgrimage from the Orleans
terminus in Paris to Lourdes. The
"whi,e train" carried 400 helpless hu.
man beings unable to rise from recum'
bent positions, One girl thought to be
dead rose, walked and kissed the host.
J. Ogden Armour, head of the big
American packing firm, has broken
ground for one of the costlIest residences
10 Chicago or any of its suburbs. The
location is three miles west of Lake
Forest on a tract of 800 acres. Mr..
Armour has planned to get away from
the railroads in building an abode that,
in some features, will rival the famous
Blltmore of George Vanderbilt, at Ashe-
vile, n. G.
Miss May Bryant, pretty girl OF
Graniteville, S O., is dying at hos
pitsl al Augusta, Ga, in consequence OF
having been kissed with undue force by
her lover, Pheo Barton. A week ago
Miss Bryant and Barton went walking.
and when she returned her cheek was
bleeding. She said that she had scratch
ed pimPle. Blood poison developed
yesterday. The girl confessed that the
wound was inflicted by her lover while
he was kissing her. "Theo kissed ME, :"
said the girl, "and once playfully bit my
cheek. He bit harder than he intended
and caused the wound"
Mrs. Anna Edelhartz was killed aud
Miss Anna Robinson was seriously in
jured in a panic on a west Twelfth street,
Chicago, trolley car yesterday caused by
short circuit in Q controller box. Sew
ersl other persons suffered minor injuries
in An effort to escape from the car. The
car WAS running at high speed, and the
motorman swung the controller around
suddenly to stop. The current was short
circuited, and the woodwork of the car
TOOK fire. The passengers attempted to
leave the car, and Miss Robinson and
Mrs. Edehartz both fell on their heads,
each sustaining fracture Of the sdul
At festival in the Colored Methodist
Churci nj Norton Wise county Satur-