Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-03
News OF the Day.

Mrs. Mary Z. COnlu, Wile Ol oicnhei
Couif, died at her home in Baltimore on
Sunday.
Eastern Shore bankers met at EastoD,
Nd, Yesterday and decided upon uni
form rate of interest, the interest being
fixed at 8 per cent.
After being imprisoned six days in a
flooded coliery in Wales two miners
were rescued. They had suhsisted for a
week upon few candles.
Leonard Boat, his wife, and six child
rem we're drowned while attempting to
ford the Animas river near Cedar Hill,
n. Mex, yesterday. The family had
started TO Durango to attend a street car
Dival.
Emperor William, in Mercedes
automobile, beat the Kiel express train
yesterday in an exciting race, covering
seventy-five miles in SO minutes. The
express, which makes one stop, was
eight minutes behind the Kaiser.
Mrs. Mary Scott Hartie, of Pittsburg,
whose husband is suing her for divorce,
declares that letters offered as evidence
against her are fOrgeries. To the divorce
proceedings Mrs Hsrtje's two coach
men, one colored, are named as core
spondents.
The Duke of Manchester gave q
luncheon yesterday at Blenheim House
to Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
who afterward visited Oxford in the
Duke of Manchester's motor car, and
thence went to London, accompanied by
Ambassador Reid and Mrs. Reid, TO q
dinner and dance given by Lady Dart
mouth.
In the Superior Court in Boston, yes.
terday, Judge De Courcey sentenced
Robert G.. Proctor, private secretary o.
United States Senator Henry Caboi
Lodge, to ten months in the house o.
correction. A new trial had been denied
Proctor was convicted last week of the
larceny of 1925, which John G. Bestgen
Of Quincy, claimed he had given Proctor
as a contribution to the republican State
campaign fund in 1904.
Public Printer Stillings hoo startled an
investigation of tho government printing
office to ascertain the exact cause OF the
delay in printing the omnibus public
building bill for Congress Saturday. HI
is also inquiring into the erroneous re
tenlion 10 the sundry civil bill OF thu
item appropriating $4,000, 900 for the
purchase of land in Washington for exec
utive buildings after both houses haC
voted not TO include it.
Visitors to Washington this summe
must cut out OF their programme of sigh
seeing the tour OF the White House, TO
the White House was closed yesterday ant
will remain barred to all visitors unit
late in the fall. 1t appears that yer,
elaborate repairs are necessary, and tn
visitors who generally throng the Whit
House in the summertime when tn
President is away will seriously interior
with the large number of workmeI
who will be employed there all summer
Two Italians we're murdered and on,
of the murderers is in a critical condition
from injuries inflicted by mob as a re
suit of brawl in a mining camp a few
miles east of Grove City, Pa, Sunda!
night. At mine No. 2 of the Shafor
Coal and Limestone Company, Antonio
Messarvia was stabbed to death, and hi
assailant was terribly beaten by Messar
Was friends. At the Red Row Mine
Michael Zoffila was also stabbed t
death. Following the murders a genera
riot occurred, in which a number o
other foreigners were badly cut and beat
en-. Zoffila's assailant escaped.
In an attempt to eyterminate his fam
ily, Charles Brewer, of Lucedale, Miss.
last night shot and killed his wife anC
his mother-in-law, wounded his wife
grandmother and his infant child, ant
then shot and killed himself. The trag
edy was prompted by anger. Brewer
wife left his home few days ago alleg
ing that he was treating her badly. Sh
went to her mothers home, where Brew
err called last night, and entreated her e
return to him. He became angry wher
his wife refused to leave her mother
house, and drawing revolver, begaI
shooting at the women. When his wifi
and her mother had been killed, Brewe
continued to shoot until he though
every other member of the family wa
dead, and then fred bullet into hi
own temple.