Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-05-21
News Of the Day.


imposing ceremony, but none of The
liberal memters of Congress attended.
Two men we're killed and FIVE injured,
two of them perhaps fatally, by the fall
of a mass of rock looseaed by blast in
the Belmont Tunnel at Thirty third street,
New York, this morning.
Max Cohen, editor of an insurance
paper in New York, on Sunday told the
House committee having the insurance
bill that all the mo1ey spent by Andy
Hamilton to block hurtiul legislation
was justifable.
Rosa Wisnick, twenty years old, q
Polish woman, was shot and killed at
Benwood w. Va, yesterday afternoon
by her brother, who claims the deed
was accidental. The young woman was
10 have been married 10 St. Johns Cath
ole Church tomorrow morning
Zions watch tower, the first structure
erected by John Alexander Dowie in
the city he founded, has been torn down.
The lumter is being used to repair side
walks. The structure was 80 feet high
and twenty feet square at the base. 1t
stood in the center of Shiloh Park.
The big garbage plant on Barren Is
land, where the refuse of New York
city is reduced to fertilizing material, was
swept by fire yesterday afternoon and in
less than an hour totally destroyed. The
plant was owned BY the New York SAM
tary Utilization Company. The loss
will be fully $1,000, 900
Two men were killed aud IA injured
as the result ola work train being wreck
ed shortly after O'Clock Saturday
evening on the new extension of the
Western Maryland Railroad, just east
Of Indigo Tunnel, few miles west Of
Pc. ire, Md, The accident was caused
by a rock, which rolled down the side OF
mountain and landed on the track.
After another short fibuster the
House Saturday succeeded in finally pass
ing the Lee private claim growing out
OF an election contest in the Forty
seventh Congress. The sn;i-graft bill,
originally passed by both houses as Il
resall of the cOtton-leak scandal, was
laid on the table by the vote OF lOl to
26. because, as reported by the con-
ierees, it included CongTessmeu within
its PROVISIONS.
The Car has refused to receive the
depulation with the address from the
d una in reply to his speech, and it
has been ordered that the demands Of
the parliament must be presented through
the imperial ministry. The members
of the Donna are enraged and trouble
is imminent. Dispatches from st. Peters
burg indicate that The Emperor does not
consider the address of the lower house
vs. being an ullimatum beyond the de-
mand for amnesty, which will take FIRST
place in his reply.
Bishop Potter, of New York, preach
ed Yesterday at All Saints Church,
Garsden, near Malmesbury, England,
where it is proposed to restore the monu-
ment to Sir Lawrence Washington. an
ancestor of George Washington. Rev.
Mr.. Collins, OF Detroit, Mich, and Rev,
Mr.. Hay, rector of All Saints, assisted
at the service. Bishop Potter's sermon
drew a comparison of Napoleon, Well
ington and Washington and was a
eulogy OF Washington, whose name, he
said, was idOlized iD Europe, and for
whos- memory it was intended 10 restore
the memorial and perpeiuate a great
name and lineage.
A triple tragedy occurred last night
at Linyille XIV. A visitor TO the ware
house owned by Mark Wilson, promi-
nent merchant, found the proprietor, his
brother, West Wilson, and Arthur Wesi
lying on the floor shot to death Reyol-
vers were found beside the bodies OF Arthur
West aud West Wilson Two citizens
reported that they had been at the ware
house shortly before 7 O'Clock yesterday
evening and left the trio apparently on
good terms, although all had been drink
ing The supposllion is that West VIII
son and Arthur West engaged IN a shoot
ing ARRAY, killing each one other, and
that one of the bullets struck Mark
Wilson