Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-24
News Of the Day.


Mr.. Stretchley Chinn died at his
home, near Winson, Loudoun county,
this week, aged 40 years.
The new Union station at Washing
ton, Baltimore and Ohio officials figure.
will be ready for occupancy by about
January l, 1907.
Lester Ruffner was convicted at Lursy
yesterday OF attempting TO kill his cousin,
David Ruffner, and was sentenced TO an
additional year in prison.
Secretary Bonaparte has accepted the
resignation OF Jerdon P. Kimbrough, of
Tennessee, the hazing Of whom was the
cause of the investigation Of Naval AGA
deny affairs.
WI Ting Fang, ex-Minister from
China to the United States, in an inter
view yesterday supported the boycott OF
American goods, but says this is not
anli-ioreign in its aim.
The Anchorage, the estate Of the late
Brig Gen. Richard Lee Page, located in
Clarke county, has been sold by its
present owner, Mr.. M. Foley, TO MIR.
George A. Pine. The price paid was
$4,000.
County Treasurer +. J. Hynicka, of
Hamilton county, Ohio, yesterday test
fed before the committee investigating
public affairs that he received $50, 900
as gratuities for depositing county funds
in certain banks.
Az stated 10 the Gazette of that day,
through democratic votes the Senate
committee yesterday decided to report
the Hepburn.Dolliver railway-rate bill
without amendment. Senator Tillman
is to have charge of the bill.
Mrs Josephine Ward Swami, widow
of Thomas Swami, former governor OF
Maryland, was stricken with paralysis in
the street, in Washington yesterday.
The stroke has rendered her helpless and
the attending physician says she cannot
live many hours.
To correct report that the date for
the coming reunion of United Confed-
crate Veterans in New Orleans had been
changed from April to May, Gen. Ste
phen ID. Lee, communicating chief of the
veterans, has issued an order to the Ell
feet that the dates first named, April %,
26 and q, will stand for the annual
gathering.
The entire electoral board of Rich
mond resigned yesterday. They came
in for heavy criticism during the prose-
cuiIon of the primary irregularities and,
while they would not retire while under
fire, they waited only long enough for
the matter to become quiet, and yester'
day morning handed paper to The clerk
Of the Hastings Court, withdrawing.
An clippers marrige took place at
Bristol, Tenn, at midnight Thursday
night, in a carriage drawn by galloping
horses and pursued by an irate mother
in another carriage. The contracting
parties were Miss Elizabeth Clark,
beautiful young woman from Max
Meadowe, Wythe county, who became the
bride Of F. NJ. Tate, an employee OF the
commissary department ofthe South and
Western Railway at Clinchport.
Another indictment was returned
against Representative Blackburn by
the grand jury in the United States Dis
trict Court at Ashyille, n. q yesterday,
in which Blackburn is alleged to have
received fee of $50 for compromising
the case OF w. z. Krider. 1t is alleged
that he secured recommendation for
compromise from the department "by
persuasion, representation and letter
writing" Mr.. Blackburn said in Wash
ington yesterday that he would go home
and face his accusers.
The Butte Coal and Iron Mining Company
was incorporated at Trenton, N. j., today,
The authorized capital stock is sl5,OOO,OOO.