Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-04-09
News of the Day.

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returned 10 Washington yesterday from
their cruise 10 southern waters.
South American republics are TO force
the consideration ct Rio and The Hague
of the Calyo doctrine, which proclaims
against force in the collection of debts.
Edward A. Hall told the court in Los
Angeles that he bad given his nagging
wife 500, 900 nearly all he had, to he
rid of her He got his divorce and is
now q hsppy drug clerk.
John Alexander Dowie has rained
curses an bis vile and son, and says he
will drive them out Of Zion. Overseer
Voliva has issued a list of 81, 500, 900
expenditures by DOwie.
During fire in Pittsbnrg yesterday
Miss P. G. Fitzgerald leaped from a
third-story window and was fatally in
iurtd. She fell upon Policeman Charles
Hays, who was seriously hurt.
Bishop McCabe, OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in a public statement
declares himself to be opposed to labor
unions az now constituted, and says that
is also the position of the church
Bellamy Storer, the retiring United
States Ambassador to Austria, will leave
Vienna thss afternoon for France accom-
panied by Mrs. Siorer and they will
there be the guests Of their daughter
Col. Thomas Johnson, noted Confede-
rate soldier and last surviving member
of the Confederate Congress, died al his
home, in Montgomery county Kentucky,
Saturday night. He was 90 years old.
Field Marshal Oyama, chief Of the
general staff, will retire at his own re-
quest, and Gen. Baron Kodams, COVER
nor general of the Island of Formoss,
will be appointed chief of the general
staff.
Benjamin Wistar Morris, of Portland,
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church ior the Diocese of Oregon, died
yesterday. Benjamin. Wister Morris was
born at Marlborough, Pa May 30,
1919.
Robert @. Proctor, private secretary
of u. $. Senator Lodge, for whose ar
rest on the charge of embezzlement a
warrant was issued Saturday surrendered
himself in Bosto". He was released
on $500 bail
A tornado passed over Fayelle, Mo-,
yesterday, doing much damage. Many
house, we're unroOfed and blown from
their foundations and barns and small
buildings were blown away. Reports
say that the storm was general.
With no attempt at secrecy John ID.
Rockefeller went TO New York last We'd
nesday from Lakewood, n. j. He went
directly to the home OF bis son, John ID.
Rockefeller, jr., Is west Fifly-fourth
street, and greeted with much enihusi-
asm ard show of affection his grandson,
John ID. Rockefeller Sd.
One-third of the Russian National
Parliament was chosen yesterday. There
is not single reactionary candidate in
the l7S members elected :he peasants
in practically all the districts opposed
the aptocracy, and it seems certain that
the radicals will control Parliament by
large mojority.
Silas Books, mu ican, Snowman and
aeronaut, died Saturday a; the Burling-
ton, Conn, poorhouse, where he had
lived for several years. Brooks first
entered the show business in l848, when
p. L. Bsrnum's manager engaged him
to carry out a scheme of the great show
man 10 the shape of Druid band.
A resolution was INTRODUCED Saturday
by Representative Sims, of Tennessee.
providing that appointments TO Offices
relating 10 the local government OF the
District Of Columbia shall be made from
residents of the District. This Is on ac-
count of the recent appointment of one
of the Presidents secretaries, Mr..
Barnes, TO be postmaster at Washington.
A Mortified crowd watched Mrs. s.
Ives the wife of John Ives, leap to death
from the 9th story window OF her home,
9lS east 156th street, New York, yester-
day. The suicide is only accounted for
by some sudden frenzied impulse. The
young woman's husb band was within a
few feet of his wife when she jumped.
She had called him from the rear OF the
fiat to say goodbye as she plunged from
the window ledge.
Mrs. w. r. Sherwood, aged twenty
five, of Mabel, MINI, came to life hours
after being laid out for burial, and just
before she was to have been embalmed.
She was conscious the whole time Of
what was going on around her, but was
without desire or ability to interfere.
She had pneumonia. Early in the day
doctors pronounced her dead, and friends
laid her out At3 o'clock in the morn
ing the watchers heard sounds ia the
room and rushed in just in time to see
her arise with shrek. Mrs. Sherwood
was given prompt treatment and will
probably recover.
Winfield Scott Hancock, who had
been in Jail at Upper Marlboro, Nd
since late October, charged by coroner's
invuest with responsibility for the death
of Emma Smsllwood, domestic in the
employ of bis father, Col. John Han
cock, at COllngswood, near Hyattsville,
on or about October IL, 1905, as the re-
suit of an alleged criminal operation,
walked out Of the Jail Saturday a free
man. The grand jury, after rigid in
vestigation which began Monday, re-
ported to Chief Judge BriscOe that no
evidence had been produced to justify
presenlment, and requested that an or
der issue 10 Sheriff James A. Sweeney