Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-08
News Of the Day.

The Yerkes' hospital to be erected
in New York will go up ut once, and
is to be endowed with seven or eight
million dollars.
1t is rumored ia Chicago that Mrs. G.
T. Yerkes will waive her rights under
her husbands will and sue for her dover
in his $l5, 900, 900 estate.
Slight earthquake shocks terrified
residents of Topeka, Kan, st. Joseph,
Mo-, aud Lincoln, Neb., early las!
night, but little damage was done
Lord Ro.hschild. in q campaign
speech at Natford, England, declared
himself as free trader in favor OF the
negotiations of tariff treaties with other
countries.
Vincent T. Stanford, under indictment
in Atlanta, Ga, for the murder of Geo.
Wright, has entered suit for divorce on
account of his wife's relations with the
man be killed.
While France is now ON fair war
footing and prepared to resist any prov.
ocation from Germany, 1t is believed
that great game OF BLUFF will be played
at the Morocco conference.
Jack O'Brien, the pugitist, was re-
quested by the Hotel Netherland man.
agement in New York yesterday to
change his quarters, and he could moi
secure rooms in any Of the other big
hotels.
1t is believed that Charles Edwards,
the New Yorker, who was murdered In
New Haven, c., wa. slain for q diary
containing family secrets, which is miss
ing, and that be was shot outside the
rooms and dragged to the bed where be
was found.
Mas Romena Peyton, who danced
with the Prince Of Wales, now King
Edward VII, at the historic ball given
10 bis honor in New York when be visit
ed America, is dying. after spending the
last years of her life as match woman
on The streets of Atlanta, Ga.
The finding 10 the court-martial case
against Midshipman Trenmor Coffin,
IT,, charged with hazing Midshipman
Kimbrough at the Naval Academy, at
Annapolis, reached the Navy Depart
ment Saturday, and it is understood the
verdict, is guilty and Coffin sentenced to
dismissal.
q. Fl. Rogers was on the witness
stand 10 the Standard Oil case before the
United States Commissioner in New
York Saturday. He refused to answer
all the pertinent questions and the At
lo.ney General Of Missouri, who put
them, will appeal to the Supreme OoHrt
10 compel him.
From advance sheets OF the Official
Catholic Directory, published 10 Mil
waukee, it is found that the total Cath
ollie population of the United States is
~, 65l, 944, an increase OF 1879, l6l over
the previous year. The total number II
Catholic priests, including secular and
regulars, is IA, 4S4, an increase of 627.
There are in the United States papal
delegate, cardinal, IA archbishops, 80
bishops and 81 abbots.
The battle-ship squadron OF the Unit
ed States navy got itself all tangled up
10 the lower New York bay yesterday
morning. Before the tangle was straight
epsd opt, the Kentucky and Kearsarge
were aground and the Alabama had
struck the Kentucky glancing blow on
the starboard quarter, damaging her 10
badly that she was ordered to the Brook
Ign navy yard for repairs. The Ala
bama herself was damaged little. The
accident happened while the squadron
was trying to get Oh! Of New York har.
Dor on its way to Hampton Roads.
After having made an unsuccessful
attempt to end her life with poison on
her eighteenth birthday, pretty young
woman, giving her name as Marion Nc.
EacherD, daughter Of a wealthy steel
'naguate of Pitbburg, on Saturday told
a sensational story in the Grady Hospi-
tai, in Atlanta, declaring she was secret
ly married six months ago TO q we'll
known young business man of Atlanta,
and that her attempt at suicide was
prompted by the fact that members OF
her husbands family have kidnapped
him, end will not allow him to live with
her.
Joseph E. Willard, ex-Lieuteuant
Governor of Virginia, owner Of the New
Willard Hotel, Washington, aud mil
lionaire, walked from Fiftieth street to
Times Squire in New York Saturday
night beseeching policemen and kind
ly looking psssers-by to tell him
where he might buy such thing as a
shoestring The policeman showed the
Virginian to barber's shop, where a
bootblack furnished the shoelace and got
a fine tip. Shoestring vendors are gen.
orally numerous 10 New York aud at
times they prove an annoyance to per-
sons not in want of such articles.
1t developed from the questions asked
on Saturday by Attorney General Had
ley Of Missouri, of Henry Fl. Rogers, vice
president and director Of the Standard
Oil Company Of New Jsrsey, that one Of
Mr. Hsdley's chief purposes in conduct
ing an examination of officers Of that
company in New York before Commits
sioner Frederick H. Sanborn is 10 find
out whether that company owns q con-
trolling interest in the Standard Oil
Company OF Indiana, the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company Of Missouri and the Re
publican Oil Company. This, Mr.. Had
ley said later, he regards as step In the
direction OF excluding the three latter
companies from doing business in Mis-