Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-09
News Of the Day

Gaither), aged 81 years, vile OF Cnsrles
johnson, died in Baltimore Friday last.
Dreyfus's counsel refuses to accept the
damages which the law accords victim
of judicial mistakes and asks solely for
the restOr alton of his honor as an officer.
Benjamin F. Barnes, after fling his
bond for $3.50, 900 and taking the oath
of office, was formally indicted into the
Office OF postmaster Of Washington Sat-
urdsy night.
The death rate among the negroes OF
Washington, according to the monthly
bulletin of the City Board of Health, Is
slartlingly large, being nearly twice that
of The whites.
Editor Henry Watterson predicts that
the next tickets will be Roosevelt against
Bryan and that the former will suffer a
death blow to his ambition from the an
ti-third-term sentiment.
In a fire which destroyed the home of
Solomon Gobba, at Lafayette, Ind,
Saturday night, Mrs. Sarah Gobba and
her six children perish ed. Gobba was
badly burned, but will recover.
Augustus Hartje went to the Office Of
Alderman King in Pittsburg late Satur-
day afternoon and entered bail ID the
sum of SO, 900 TO answer to charge oil
conspiracy to defame the name OF Mrs.
Hartje.
Rev. DR.. Nathaniel West, widely
known minister of the Presbyterian
Church, died in Washington suddenly
Saturday. The cause OF death was
heart disease, superinduced by the recent
excessive heat. DIR. West was 81 years
of age.
Mr.. Waldorf As.or and his American
bride, who was Mrs. Mamie Langhorne
Shaw, and who were married in June,
we're passengers on the steamship Celtic,
which reached New York yesterday.
They will spend the summer in Maine
aud Virginia.
William Ballantyne, for years
prominent business man of Washington,
died at his summer home, in Siasconset,
Mass, Saturday. Death resulted from
an attack Of hiccoughs Mr. Bsllantyne
had resided in Washington since 1852.
He was born in Scotland 70 years ago.
Dave Simpson, secretary-treasurer of
the Gregory Vinegar Company, of Blr-
mingham Ala, shot and instantly kill
ed himself on the church steps of st.
Mary's on the Highlands, ut an early
hour yesterday morning. He leaves a
wife. No motive has been assigned tor
the deed.
Winston Churchill, under secretary
for the colonies, in a speech in London
Saturday urged the need of liberal unity
owing to the possibility OF serious
breach with the House of Lords. David
Lloyd George, president of the board of
trade, limited at the abolition of the up
per house.
A lone highwayman on Saturday held
up five stage coaches in YOSEMITE Valley
and relieved the passengers of their val
uabes. The highwayman directed all
passengers, in each of the coaches which
were some distance apart, to throw out
their money and jewelry, and when the
order met with compliance he directed
each driver to move on.
The announcement is made on good
authority that Senator Depew, who was
absent from his duties at Washington
almost the entire winter, suffering from
a nervous breakdown, has practically re-
covered. He is said to have no in
tention of resigning from the Senate,
but instead to be intending TO take a
trip to Europe for the summer, and
when he returns 20 resume his work.
Charles Fletcher, colored, 81 years
old, fred three tullets into the head of
his wife Della aud then attempted suicide
at their home, No. Sumner court,
Washington, late yesterday afternoon.
Both were taken to the Emergency Hos
pital, where the woman died. Fletcher
inflicted only slight wound in his hand
and after being treated WAS taken to No.
police station. The shooting was the
result of Jealousy.
While on train between Wilmington
and Stedmsp, returning from an excur-
sion early yesterday, q man named Ellis
ton, from Autreyville, n. c., rose in a
crowded coach and, showing himself
armed, announced his attention of kill
ing everybody in the car. A passenger
named Bledsoe, of Stedman, fred at
Elliston, striking him in the forehead
aud killing him instantly. Elliston
held a loaded revolver in each hand,
and between his legs was a jug of whisky.
Bledsoe surrendered himself to the au-
thorities
Plans have been completed and the
necessary capital practically enlisted for
the construction of an ice plant in Wash
ington capable OF manufacturing 300
tons Of ice day during ten months of
the year. A practical ice man who has
been in the business for twenty years is
back Of the movement. Not only
plentiful supply OF ice. put cheaper prices
are promised The American Ice Com
pany, which, it is cOntended, has prac'
ticslly dictated prices for the last ten
or twelve years, will be faced by COM
petition such as it has never met with
before.
Geo. Mitchell, the slayer of Franz
Edmund Creffield, the self-styleo
Joshua" leader of the band Of fana-
tics calling themselves the "Holy Roll
ers," is TO be presented with handsome
IL engraved gold medal as reward
for killing ICreffieid, in Seattle Wash,
a few days ago. When the medal is
presented Mitchell probably will be the
only man In the country who has been