Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-30

The report that Buffalo Bill aud SIX
teen European aud American friends are
lost 10 the Big Horn Mountains Is
denied.
The fact that the Algeciras convention
has not yet been ratified emoarss'es
France and Spain in their action 81
Morocco.
William o. Robson, for thirty years
supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum,
died Saturday night at his home ID
Wellesley Hill near Boston, of pneumonia
aged sixty-two years.
Postmaster General Cortelyou is now
considering the feasibility of introducing
system of printing 90 the postage
stamps the names of the cities where the
stamps are sold in largest quantities
Miss Rosemary Sartoris, younger
daughter of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris
and granddaughter Of Gen. U. s. Grant.
was married to George 81. Woolston
yesterday in Calvary Episcopal Church
New York.
Mrs. Msgdalens Berger, aged sixty-hve
years, wife of Ora Berger, farmer re-
siding at Port Jergis, n. Y, was attack
ed aud killed by a. bup while gathering
frewood on her fsrfa shortly before noon
yesterday
The London Daily Mail saws it learns
that the, admiralty is contemplating the
construction of battlesbips larger and
more powerful than the Dreadnaught,
and having guns that will throw the lat
ter into the shade.
The cruiser Columbia arrived in har-
Dor at Havana. today, ready to assist in
transporting troops to the scenes OF re.
ported uprisines in case of necessity.
Reports telling Of revolution started by
negroes we're greatly exaggerated.
Attacked by fainting fit while wait
ing for an l. train at the Brooklyn ter
minal of the bridge, Arthur Edlin, was
pushed of the platform by crowd try
ing to get into an approaching train and
ground to-des,h under the wheels.
While gang Of negro laborers was at
work today in Montgomery, Ala deep
excavation for a sewer four inch water
main hurst, flooding the trench. Five
negroes were drowned before they could
escape from the excavation.
A Connecticut millionaire has been
ordered By court to pay his wife $50, 900
alimony and "a, 200 year in addition.
The Philadelphia North American adds
marriage may be failure. but divorce
seems TO be fire with all the insurance
policies paid up.
Eight persons, accused of being impli-
caled in the hold up and robbery 90 Sat-
urjay in which Russian custom house
cashier was relieved of -$l88, 900. were
executed today, having been condemned
by military court martial which found
them gnilty.
Germans are discussing the remark OF
Professor Burgess, of Columbia Univer.
sity, in his speech at Berlin University
that "our politicians do not have the
least notion that both doctrines, the
Monroe doctrine and the high protective
tariff, are almost obsolete"
Deserted ~ her husband three weeks
ago, and utterly unable to care for her
family, Mrs. Mary Rodacker, Of Chi
cago, the mother OF seventeen children,
wept in the Juvenile Court yesterday as
the last five of her offspring we're sent to
different homes by Judge Mack.
In Probate Oogrttat Findlay, o., yes
,erdsv Judge Banker overruled the mo-
ton filed by the attorneys of the Stand.
ard Oil Company for q new trial and
imposed a fine of $4,000 and costs of
the prosecution in the recent suit against
the Standard held there. An appeal was
taken.
Bishop Newton L. A. Eastman, leader
of the Gospel Workers of America, to
day at WORCESTER, N. Y, gave himself
up to answer an indictment charging
him with criminal libel He was I'D.
mitted to bail in the sum Ct $500. East
man is charged with being the author
of an attack upoh the confessional.
A dispatch from Seattle, Washington,
saws that three enlisted men of the bat
tleship Wisconsin are dead and two are
seriously i'll as the result of drinking bay
rum. Thomas F. Cox took the bay rum
from the ships bsrbershop and diluted
it with water, and, together with four
became intoxicated Friday |
night. Their condition was not discov-
cred until Sunday, when three OF the
men died on board the ship.
The first vote in committee OF the |
House of Lords on the education bill |
taken last night, and resulted in the |
defeat of the government by majority |
IF 200. The vote came on an amend
nent, which was offered by Lord Hene-
,ee (libersl9, makes religious instruc-
ion compulsory during part of the
laily school hours in all public elemen-
airy schools. Earl Crewe, speaking for
he government, refused to accept the
amendment, but, after most business
ike debate the amendment was carried
,y vote of 256 to 56.
Paul o. Stensland, wrecker Of the Milwau-
zee Avenue State Rank, was taken to Chi
ago today from Joliet penitentiary to appear
n court as chief witness against Henry w.
Herring, the ex-cashier of the defunct bank.
Shoemaker Stabbed to Death,
Louis Lorenz, 9 Brooklyn shoemaker,