Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-15
News Of the Day.

yesterday.
Loaded with European emigrsnts for
the Southern States steamship Will sail
from Bremen on October Is direct Tor
Charleston, 5. G.
An extraordinary session of the French
parliament has been convoked for Oclo-
Der 25 to deal with the church and state
separation question.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor will make
speeches in New York in advocacy OF
the election of w. r. Hearst as gov
ernor
Chss. Shiveley, supreme chancellor oil
the Knights OF Pytbiss, will recommend
to the Supreme Convention the consoti-
dation of lbe Ralhbone Sisters and the
Pythian Sisterhood.
The conflict between church and State
in Spain is growing worse aud the MIN
lister of Justice proposes that the bishops
nterpellate the government on the ques-
ton of civil marriages at the reassemb'
ling of parliament.
The Interparlismentary Council is
considering the Williams resolution
providing for the payment of salaries TO
mem ers of The Hague court and pro-
hibitng them from acting as counsel be-
fore the arbitration court.
In breeze blowing Is miles an hour,
II balloons started yesterday in the in.
ternational race for the cup offered by
Emperor William. They were sent
up from within an Enclosure at TegeI,
six miles northwest of Berlin.
The Chicago American Lfsgue team
won the sixth and what proved the de-
Gliding game of the worlds championship
with the Chicago Nationals, at Chicago
yesterday, by a score of s to 3. The
Sox had won Saturdays game.
Benjamin Bolin and Mrs. Fannie
James were married at Fulton, Mo-, Sat
urday. the groom being the BRIDES ninth
husband. He is 40 and she is AZ years
old. The bride of saturday has been d.
vorced from eight husbands, seven of
whom are still living, the other one be-
ing dead.
While preparing light luncheon,
Mrs. Josephine Benton, aged Is years
and bride of two months, came in con-
tact with the flames of gasoline stove
in the kitchen of her home, 1886 Hud-
son street, Baltimore, about 2:30 O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon a0d sustained fatal
injuries.
Mrs. Ada Mahsfey, OF Latonia, KY,
Yesterday morning shot and MORALLY
wounded DIR. F. w. Kolthof, at Okla
bona, a suburb of CoviDgton. Mrs.
Mahafiey previously bad threatened to
kill DR.. Kolthof, whom she charged had
ruined her health by giving her the
wrong kind of medicines
With deafeniDg report boiler of the
government boat Slsckwater exploded late
Saturday, at Pittsburg, completely wreck
ing the vessel, killing three men, iDjur-
ing six others and creating havoc in
Lock No. 4, where the boat was lying
when the accident happened. A derrick
boat lying alongside the steamer and
s1me reconstruction work being done at
the dam was considerably damaged by
the explosion.
The leaving of a favorite at the post
resulting in one of the worst riots in the
history of the French turf at the Long
champs course yesterday. Men and wom-
en were assailed aud injured, shots we're
fire d, and the mob, 10 the excess OF its
fury, resorted to incendisrism, joyfully
burning the betting booths and twice at
tempting to set fire to the grand stand.
The cause of the rioting was the crowds
belief that there had been false start
Benjamin F. E Bauscher in an appli-
cation for divorce fled IN Reading, Pa,
depIores an unusal condition of affairs.
Since May 80, 1899, he alleges that his
wife, Ellen, has refused TO speak to him.
They were married at Norristown OctOb-
er 10, 1871, coming to Reading, where
they have since resided. Nine years
ago, he says, her treatment forced him
to leave her and two years later she for
got that she ever knew him. having treat
ed him since as total stranger.
The seventeen months old baby girl OF
Mr. and Mrs. s G.. Rhodes, of Cham
berlin, 5. d., had narrow escape from
being carried away to be fed to eagles
Saturday. The little girl was left to play
while her mother went about her house
hold duties. Soon the mother heard the
child scream, and running to the door,
saw a great eagle with its claws fastened
in the baby's dress. The woman seized
a broom aud ran at the bird, which flap
ped its wings in her face and held on to
the baby. The woman hammered away
at the bird until it dropped the child and
flew away.
An unhappy love affair made life seem
not worth living to Jesse Cress, 81 years
old, of Roxbcrough, Pa, and be was
found dead in bed early yesterday with
the gas turned on. The tip of the gas
burner hal been removed aud the win
dows and keyhole stuffed with cotton.
Cress was engaged to wealthy German
tow u girl, whom he met while travelling
IS an attendant to her invalid father.
For a time the young mans suit pros
pered, but a lovers quarrel and opposi-
ton on the part of the girls father led
to a separation. Oress brooded' over the
affair until he finally determined to COM
nit suicide.
| After bidding members of his family
goodbye yesterday afternoon, James A.
!, mes, aged forty-oDe years, of 1921
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, went
to the corner of Pennsylvania avenue
| anI Thirtaanfh afreet sOut heast and