Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-04
News Of the Day.

Rev. Arthur b. kinsolVlng, OF Christ
Church, Brooklyn, n. Y, has accepted
the call TO old ST. PsuPs Church, Of
Baltimore.
The resolution requiring that supplies
for the canal be purchased in this coun-
try and 2S0 private pensions we're pass
ed by the Senate on Saturday.
Mrs. Isabella Wslcott, the venerable
actress, who was known TO the theatrical
folks a. the "Dowager o! the Lyceum
Stock Co mpsny" of New York, is dead.
The President has issued proclama-
ton opening to settlement aud entry a
portion of the 5h0shone Indian reserva-
ton, in Wyoming, the area of the lands
so opened being approximately l, $50, 600
acres.
1t is stated that SO Mexicsns and 6
Americans were killed dIring the two
days fighting at the mines at Csnsnea,
Mexico. The report that Col. dreeu
had been killed was untrue. The pro-
perty loss is quite heavy.
The German Builders Association
has protesled to the Chancellor against
any treaty arrangements with the United
States permitting increased imports Of
meat because of the alleged bad condi-
ton in the American Strengthening es-
Adjustments.
King Alfonso and his bride on Salnr-
day attended the bullfght, one Of the
spectacular features of the royal msr-
rage, but the new Queens royal Eng
lish relatives kept away from the fight.
The American Minister aud special En-
vOy Whitridge we're present.
Orders to drop the names of all alien
Japanese from the papers Of every war
ship in this country have been issued by
Secretary of the Navy Bonapsrte. He
further decides that the places Of the
japanese who have been employed as
stewards aud servants are to be tilltd by
American negroes.
An eastbound fast freight train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad WAS wreck
ed at Ingles Switch, near HsrPers Ferry,
yesterday morning. Seventeen cars
we're piled up aud much valuable meT-
chandise, consisting of lard, packed 10
barrels aud buckets, and meat, were
strewn over the mesdOwland below.
At Clintonyille, Pa, Yesterday Bertha
ColliugwoOd, aged IA years, WAS bitten
on the calf of the leg by large copper
head snake. The occurrence WAS wit
messed by Henry Corbett, an oil-well
pumper who knew the bite would prove
fatal unless attended to Immediately.
He bOpud the girls leg above and below
the wound aud carried her into Oh e
pump station, which is equipped with
suction gas pump. Placing the wound
over the end OF the pipes which admits
the air, he held the girl there until all
the poison had been sucked out. Physi.
clans say the resourcefu ness OF COrbett
saved The girls life and she will suffer
no III effects from the bite.
Alexander Dipaolo, a well-kuown
hotel man and real estate dealer, OF Rar-
itan, was shot through the head Satur-
day afternoon by Miss Flarin1o Illorio,
on the front pOrtico of her residence in
Somerville, N. J. Two bullets pene-
lraled his brain, and he died in the
Somerset Hospital an hour later. Miss
Illorio is locked up 10 the county Jail.
She says she shot the hotel man to
avenge a wrong. Dipaolo she asserts,
had deceived her aud then cast her of
He had recently tried to make up with
her, aud at the time of the shooting, ac-
cOrding to the woman's statement, he
knocked at the door of her residence and
wanted her to admit him to the house TO
talk over their troubles.