Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-08
News Of the Day.


week.
CONSERVATION was created among the
telephone girls at the Cortland street,
New York, telephone exchange by an
order issued by the manager which for
bids the girls from wearing open work
hosiery, short sleeves, peek-a-boo waists
and Buster Brown waists
A decreee was signed last Monday by
Judge Wickes, in Circuit Conrt No. 2,
Baltimore, granting August Lemmert an
absolute divorce from Barbara NJ. Lem
inert. Mr.. Lemmerl, who is ieweler,
alleged 10 his bill for divorce that his
wife abandoned him to become a fol-
lower of DOwie, the self-styled Elijah.
Running at the rate OF forty miles an
hour, the westbound Pennsylvania
Limited at 2:40 O'Clock yesterday alter
noon, through the blunder of telegraph
operator, crashed into the Parkersburg
construction train on the Pennsylvania
cutoff, a mile east of Lancaster, Pa.
Three members of the Limited crew were
injured.
Susan Shelter, of YORK Haven, seven
miles from York, Pa, while laboring
under an affection of the mind, made an
ATTEMPT to kill her l6-year-od daugh'
ter, Nora, yesterday. The woman had
the daughter down, and with uPliiIed
butcher knife was about TO plunge 1t
into her heart, it is alleged, when a son
interfered and saved the girls life. The
woman was put under arrest.
The Imperial Statistical Office in Der
lin has issued monograph on the f.
nances of the German states and En-
pir,. The total states' debt in 1905
was SO, 045, $50, 900, aud that of the
Empire, 81, 567, 600, 900, plus $62, OOO,-
900 in short term-bills outstanding.
The value OF the State,owned railways
was So, 400, 100000, or slightly more
than The total Of the States debts. The
states own 1,74S, 465 acres OF cleared
land and IL, 230, Ala acres of forest.
The judicial authorities in Rome ha We
resumed investigation into the case OF the
disappearance of the famous Ascoli Cope
of Pope Nicholas ". which was bought
by J. P. Morgan, and subsequently re,
turned by him TO the government-with
greater energy than before, there SEEM
ing to be strong evidence that the cope
was sold by ecclesiastics of the cathedral,
with the connivance, or at least in CON
sequence of the negligence, of the Bishop
of Ascoli, who recently was removed by
the Pope.
A total loss of 800, 900 was caused by
a fire following an explosion in tobacco
factory in Hopkinsville, KY, yesterday
which for time threatened the destruc-
ton of the city. The fire followed the
explosion of boiler in Kennedy & FL
gins tobacco factory. The warehouse,
the plant of the Consumers Ice aud
Coal Company, J. c. JscksOn's residence
and several small buildings we're burned.
with 200 hogshea1s of tobacco and 3, 900
pounds of loose tobacco. The insurance
was $50, 900.
Rev. James r. Wylie, self-confessed
bigamist of Los Angeles, Cal, has been
sentenced to pay fine of 50 and to he
imprisoned at Folsom penilentiary for
one year. Wyie waA minister Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at New
York. where he married his first wife
eighteen years ago. Last year the Wykes
moved to a mining camp near Phoenix,
Ariz., and were visited by Mrs. Fannie
NJ. Gren, Of New York. The clergy
man sent his wife and an adopted child
TO relatives at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and
during their absence married the Green
woman at Los Angeles last August.
A dispatch from Lansdale Pa, says
that John Mckinley, retired merchant
and former borough treasurer, fatally
shot himself at his home shortly after
yesterday morning. He awak-
ened his wife to tell her that burglars
we're in The house. and insisted so
strongly that she went downstairs 10
investigate. Upon leaving the room,
Mrs. Mckinley heard two revolver shots,
and, returning, found her husband I'M
,on scious upon the bed, One ball had
zone wide: but the other had entered
his right temple and gone directly
through his head. He died yesterday
morning. Mrs. Mckinley would say
title, but her husband had been in
ailing health aud at times showed signs
,fmeIancbOlia.
Senator J. c S. Blackburn will be
elected TO succeed the late Senator Cor
nan as chairman of the Senate demo-
lratic caucus, which carries with il the
loor leadership of the minority. The
to promote Senator Black
,urn in the service Of his party collea-
.ues is a tribute both To his popularity
Ind his recognized ability as leader.
lie will retire from the Senate next
March, aud his associates desire TO give
testimony to the esteem 10
which they hold the Kentuckian and at
he same time utilize his experience snd
sgacity to the best advantage for their
,arty. The permanent minority leader
hip OF the Senate is still the subject oil
srious consideration. Messrs. Bailey
md Culberson are more frequently men
Toned for the place than anybody else.
A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says that
he Sunday Greek Coal Company, ;. Winder'
president, hiss ordered al its Ohio mines
,losed. Fifteen West Virginia mines Of the
company will he operated on the open plan'
A dispatch from Madrid says terrible
torn which occurred at san Lusar cshsen
he death Of ten persons and the injury OF
light others. Enormous damage to property
has resulted.