Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-04-23
News OF the Day.

Inc nearing OF the suit lOr ulVOrce
brought by James B. Duke against
Lillian N. Duke began at Newark, N.
J., today.
Brother Gregory yesterday dropped
dead of excitement during the fire at the
St. Francis Seraphs Protectory, just out
side of Cincinnati.
1t is reported that the Belgian training
ship Compile de Smet de Nseyr has been
lost in the channel. No details of the
supposed accident are given.
Reliable reports from San Francisco
are to the effect that insurance companies
there can stand their losses, and policies
elsewhere will not be affected.
Eulogies upon the lives of Represen-
tatiyes Castor and Patterson, of Pennsyl-
vania, were made in the House and the
usual resolutions were adopted.
J. Edward Addicks called on Sen
ator Alice in Wilmington, Del, Satug-
day and requested him TO resign in
order to restore republican harmony
in Delaware, but Alice refused.
Representative Keifer has introduced
bill to abolish within year the pres
ent government Of the District of Co
lumbia, and to provide representative
government in its place with Mayor as
its chief officer.
A procession of 1000 Catholics from
neighboring villages yesterday tried to
recapture their church at Lesnos, Russia.
A furious fight with Mariavites ensued,
in the course OF which IL persons we're
killed and 80 wouaded.
Weddings in great number have re-
suited in San Francisco from the recent
disaster. Women, driven out of their
homes and left destitute, have appealed
to the meu to whom they we're engaged,
and marriages have been Immediately eff
fected.
The administration of affairs at 81.
Elzabeth's Insane Asylum in the Dis
trict of Columbia is 20 I've investigated
by a committee Of the House Of Rep
resentatives clothed with full power to
conduct an inquiry of the most search
ing character.
Charles Augustus Seton, head of thu
gang of ioreers who put 81, 200, 600
worth Of forged stock certificates on the
market, on Saturday, just before being
taken to prison revealed a scheme TO
swindle fnanciers of this country and
Europe out OF $40, 900, 900.
Plans have been completed by Thorn
as F. Walsh for the erection OF what
will be the largest Office building in
Washington city. The new building
will be situated at Fourteenth street, be-
tween New York avenue and II street
and will occupy a site more than halt an
acre in extent.
The bill carrying the appropriations
for the District OF Columbia passed the
House Saturday afternoon practically as
reported, with the exception of matters
of proposed new legislation, which were
stricken out on points of order. The
appropriation for work on Anacostia
bridge was stricken out, as was sprinkling
between car tracks. Water meters also
were left out of the bill.
After begging the girl he loved, but
who would not marry him, to die with
him, Edward G. Vaudeville, OF st.
Louis, kissed her, drank from the car
bolic acid bottle which he had offered
her and died in her presence on a down
town sidewalk. Relatives of Vaudeville,
who was "a years old, say that trouble
with his family and excessive cigarette
smoking contributed to the worry which
led him to take his life.
The big "iertilizer trust is the next
combination that is to feel the stick of
the Department of Justice. Criminal
proceedings are to be instituted before
the U. S. grand jury that has been call
ed to meet soon at Nashville, Tenn,
and it is expected that indictments for
the violation of the Sherman antitrust
law will be returned. The Virginia.
Carolina Chemical Company is popular
" alluded to as the fertilizer trust. lis
headquarters are at Richmond, Va. 1t
is capitalized at SAC, 900, 900, of which
SIS, 900, 900 is preferred stock and $2S,
900, 900 common.
The opening ceremony OF the Olympic
games was performed at Athens yester-
day by King George of Greece. The
huge stadium WAS packed to its utmost
capacity when the royal procession ar
rived to the strains of the Greek and
British anthems. First came carriage
containing King George and Queen
Alexandra; then came carriage with
King Edward and Qneen Olga. These
were followed by carriages with Princess
Victoria, the Prince and Princess of
Wales and the members OF the Greek
royal family, with their brilliant suites,
and representatives of the various Euro
pean courts. All the participants in the
games then moved in procession around
the stadium, headed by bands of music.
As the 900 picked athletes of the world
moved past, presenting an imposing dis
play, they we're cheered 20 the echo.