Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-30
News Of the Day.


Three persons were killed and 60 in :
jured 10 a collision between a locomotive
and electric car Lear Pasadena, CAL,
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Longworth left Bay
reuth Friday for Nuremberg, Munich
and Paris; they expect to sail Tor New
York on Saturday.
Rev. W. Fl. Wampold, pastor of Grace
Lutheran Church, died this morning at
Shamokiu, Pa. He served his tftieth
year as a clergyman.
Major Fisher, chief of the clothing
department of the German forces 10 East
Africa, has been arrested on the charge
of accepting brides.
Congressman David A. De Almond
Saturday was nominated for reelection
by democrats of the Sixth congressional
district of Missouri.
A dispatch from Toxic says that
Baron Oku has been appointed chief of
the general staff tn succeed the late Wis.
count Kodama, who died recently.
The divorce case OF Mrs. w. E. Corey,
of Pittsburg, wife of the president OF the
United States Steel Corporation, will be
called in the District Court before Judge
Carver, at Reno, New, today.
Thirty-fiye million dollars worth of
diamonds we're imported into the United
States 10 the fiscal year which ended
June 30, 1906, against S27 900, 600 in
1905, $l9, 900, 600 in 1904 and $40, OOO,-
900 in 1908.
Judge Alton B. Parker declares that
William Randolph Hearst is using the
Independence League to- force the New
York democracy to support the editor
for the guberDstoriaI nomination.
Judge Parker properly opposes Mr..
Hearst.
Laura Bozarth, of Mount Holly, n. j.,
and Susie Stiltz, Of Smithville. were
drowned in Rancocas Lake Saturday
night by the upsetting of rowboat.
They were accompanied by Stacey
Gauntt and Raymond Rambo, who saved
themselves by swimming ashore.
Officials OF the Baltimore and Annap-
oils Electric Railway Company and the
Baltimore Terminal Company, who are
working to complete the work, say the
electric road between Baltimore and
Washington will be thrown open to the
travelling public on July 4 of next year.
Two yachts coming in from the fishing
banks capsized on Hereford Inlet bar of
Anglesea, n. j., yesterday, and so far as
can be ascertained eight persons lost
their lives. There we're 80 persons on
ore yacht, of whom 7 we're lost, and II
on the other, all of whom but one we're
saved.
Speaking to great audience at Thorn
aston, Ga, Saturday, Thomas E. Wat
son announced that he gould return TO
the democratic party for the purpose OF
supporting Hoke Smith in the present
campaign for governor. Watson has
been considered an irrecOncilable pop
ulist, having been candidate for Presi-
dent 10 1900.
Edward Day, an expert mechanic OF
HaddoDfeld, n. j., was fatally stabbed
at Cincinnati, Saturday by Elmer Pitt
mau, who, Day claims, won The aflec-
tions of his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Day,
and induced her to leave her hcme in
New jersey six months ago. The stab
biug occurred in front OF Mrs. Days
hone. spd she witnessed it from win
dow.
Miss May Klemmes, OF Brooklyn,
Miss Bertha Smith, OF East New York,
and Miss George Lspp, of williamsburg,
were drowned m Lake HOpatcong, at
Somerville, n. j., yesterday afternoon
by the capsizing of row boat. The
girls were 10 the boat with three young
men, when a storm arose and the boat
was capsized. rhs three men were
rescued.
Lightning struck the tent of camp
ing party during an electric storm at
Connesut Lake, Pa, yesterday, killing
Edward Kipsey and severely shocking
Robert Martin and A. w. Rupprecht
members of an outing club from Will
meTdiag, Pa The men were holding
the tent pole in an effort 10 prevent the
tent being blown away, when bolt
shattered it 10 their hands.
A dispatch from London says there is
a possibility that King Edward and
Queen Alexandra may visit the United
States unsfficialy, of course. some time
next year. tits one of the dearest wish
es of both to see some of the modern
wonders of America They have prac.
tically seen the rest of the world. The
visit TO the United States. if made, would
come after their visit To Canada next
year, and that visit is . most certainty.
Finding himself short Of funds on what
is said to have been almost the eve o
his wedding, Edward Hinklemau, %
years old, OF Baltimore, in fit OF de-
spondency committed suicide early yes
terdsy morning by hanging himself in
a carriage shed within 200 yards of the
home of his finance, at Evergreen, near
Roland Park. Before ending his life in
this manner he had attempted to commit
the act by drinking four ounces of lauda-
mum.
When Samuel Pease, well-known
resident of Washington county, Pa, re-
turned to his home from drive last
night he found his wife and two chill
dren dead. and a third child dying from |
bullet wounds. Who fred the shots has |
not yet been learned. Indications point
10 robbery as the motive. An attempt |