Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-11
News Of the Day.

in Honduras.
Government experts state that the
cottonseed production Of the South last
wear amounted to 4, 500, 900 tons, valued
at S75, 900, 900.
Three men were drowned in New
York bay yesterday, when the yacht
Lottie, with fishing party on board,
was capsized during a sudden storm.
Congressman and Mrs. Longworth ar
rived in London, yesterday and in the
evening a dinner was given in their
honor al Dorchester House by Ambass-
and Mrs. Reid.
In the House on Saturday Mr.. Clark,
of Florida, stated that the superintend-
ent of st. Elizabeth's Asylum, near
Washington, had the personal use of
three carriages, two horses and two auto
mobiles, all at public expense.
Practical jokers at Fairfield, Iowa,
Saturday night obtained a circus ele-
phant, labelled it &c. o. p" and drove
it into the republican convention. In
the stampede which followed several were
injured and many escaped by the win
dows.
Three hundred and twenty-five war
ships of the British navy have been
modified of the English coast for naval
manuevers and mimic warfare to test the
efficiency of the new admiralty system
for the defense of the British coasts and
commerce.
Because her form er husband wooed her
after she divorced him, and subsequently
married his pretty stenographer, Mrs.
Gertrude White, of Chicago, is suing
Garland T. White. a wealthy mer-
chant, for $25, 900 damages for breach of
promise.
Sometime between midnight and sun
rise during the present week Charles l..
Tucker is to meet death in the electric
chair at the Chsrestown. Mass, prison,
for the murder of Mabel Page, at Weston,
that State, Governor Guild having re-
fused TO interfere with the sentence.
Foster Dwight Coburn, who was on
Monday appointed by Gov. Hoch to be
United States senator, succeeding Joseph
r. Burton, has decided not to accept the
appointment. Gov. Hoch has offered
the vacancy to Judge A. w. Benson,
of Ottawa, who has accepted the posiii N
aud will start for Washington this week.
The report of the retirement of the
Goremykin ministry was definitely kill
ed late Saturday night, when the premier
returned to st Petersburg fro PeterhOf,
where he went that afternoon for AN
audience of the Emperor, and made the
statement that he did not tender his
resignation and had no expectation for
the present Of retirement from his posi-
ton.
VIM. Ashburn, about 80 years old,
who resides at Reedsville, Va, but who
was stopping at the boarding house of
Mrs. Charles II. Hughes, SlS X street
northwest, Washington, was taken to
the Emergency Hospital in critical
condition yesterday. He had inhaled
Illuminating gas while he slept Saturday
night. The physicians at tue hospital
hold out no hopes for his recovery.
The jury in the Kabal murder trial
were surprised at Appleton, Wis, Sat
prday, when Or. John Golden, of Chi
cagO, testified to burning human body
January 2S, on the Mccarthy farm, to
demonstrate that a body could be Gre
mated with a bonfire, as it is alleged,
Kabal cremated the body of Mccarthy.
Golden testified that the BODY cremated
by him was that of human about the
size of Mccarthy.
The belief that his former friend had
caused an enlargement between himself
and his wife is said to have been the
motive which prompted William j. Dit
mar, whose home was formerly in Balti-
more, to shoot and kill David Howard,
another Baltimorean, in SOmervile, \.
j., yesterday. Both men were employ
ed in the iron works there. The shoot
ing followed the leaving of Dttmar by
his wife, who ia now in Baltimore. The
crime was a deliberate one.
One Of the most remarkable religious
demonstrations ever witnessed in New
occurred yesterday when the
new 81, 600, 900 Christian Science tenn
pie, in the Back Bay district of Boston
was dedicated. From every State in
the Union, and from all parts of the
world, came members of that faith, to
be present at the dedicatoTy services. 1t
was estimated that more than 10000
Christian Scientists were in Boston yes
Lerday. Six services were held to &C.
the vast thrOngs.
The Baltimore and Ohio roundhOuse
at Ivy City near Washington, was struck
by lightning during the storm last Sa'-
nrday evening and collapsed, burying
Two Italian labOrers, who are still in the
ruins, and Charles Cannon, of Baltimore,
a locomotive engineer, was rescued ser
iously injured, as was Charles Oroma-
.aro, of Washington. Thirty eight Ilal
AN laborers escaped from the house un-
injured. Many houses in Washington
we're unrOOfed by the high winds which
prevailed. Trees in the Capitol grounds
we're seriously damaged.
The consular and diplomatic appro-
pristiOn bill carrying So, "a, 594, was
reported TO the Senate, Saturday. The
Senate passed the bill prohibiting fed.
sral corporations making campaign con-
.ributiOns. The Senate added an amend
nent to the District appropriation bill
Iorbidding the commissioners to use the
government carriages for their private