Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-09
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News Of the Day.

News Of the Day.
Lord Richie, Chancellor of the Brit
ish Excbequer from 1902 to 1904, died
at Biarritz, France, today. Paralysis
was the cause of death.
While dealing cards last night at
progressive euchre party in Stritzinger's
Parlor, fashionable assembly hall in
Norristown, Pa. Hugh McGinnes, a
wealthy paper manufactures. fell dead.
1t is thought that State Senator Ar
thur T. German, IT,, may be given the
chairmanship of the finance committee
of the Maryland Senate which carries
with it the leadership of the organiza-
ton forces at Annapolis.
J. Wilcox Brown, formerly of Balti-
more, and holder of $25, 900 policy in
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
has lost his suit for a distribution of
dividends, the court holding that he is
without legal rights in the matter.
J. Cabell Breckenridge, son of the late
John C. Breckenridge, who was vice.
president with James Buchanan from
1857 to 1861, died yesterday at the home
of his son-in-law, John G. Ten Eyck at
YoDkers, n. Y. He was born in Lex
ington, Ky.
The new tax list of New York shows
that real estate in New York is valued
at So, 400, 900, 900, and that Miss Grigsby,
whose name has been connected with
the late Charles Yerkes, is assessed 'or
more than John Jacob Astor or j. Pier
pont Morgan.
The engagement Of Miss Outline
Spreckels, daughter of Mr.. Gus Spreck-
lis, of San Francisco, and Spencer F.
Eddy, Secretary of the American En-
bassy at st. Petersburg, has been an-
nounced. II is said that she will inherit
$40, 900, 900 from her father and grand
father.
The entire Venezuelan matter is to be
presented to Congress as soon as the
State Department can prepare the mat
ter. The President has come to the end
of his resources. If anything further is
to be done to bring President Castro to
terms, Congress must indicate the method
to be employed.
Mayor Thomas II. McNally, of Cen
trail Falls, r. l., announced yesterday
that two men interested in gambling, ac-
cOmpanied by two politicians, called
upon him recently and offered him $500
a month if he would permit the opening
OF gambling house in Central Falls.
The mayor says he refused the PROPOSE
ton.
Making the blind to see, the deaf to
hear and many other marvellous cures
effected by the laying on of hands are at
tributed to a man named Saltzmann, who
has acquired an extraordinary reputation
throughout Brittany as worker of mir
acles. How much OF his reputation is
due to Breton credulity and how much
to his own powers is difficult to say; but
hundreds of persons are aocking to him
to be cured.
The appeal of senator Joseph Ralph
Burton from the sentence Of six months
Imprisonment and fine of 81, 900, i'm
posed by the Federal court at ST. Louis
for accepting compensation from the
Rialto Grain and Securities Company
for services in connection with proceed
ings before the Postoffice Department,
was filed in the Supreme Court ysster-
day This is the second time this case
has been before this court.
King Edward, who has been absent
in the country since Sir Henry Camp
bell Bannerman' U4binet was formed,
returned to London yesterday afternoon
and held meeting Of the Privy Council,
at which the proclamation dissolving
parliament was signed. Immediately
afterward writs were sent to the return
ing Offices for the election of the men,
bers of the new parliament, which, &C
cOrdiDg to law, will meet at Westminster,
February Is The first polling will take
place January l3 at Greenwich.
Deputy Sheriff Hutchins returned yes
terday morning to Winston-Salem, N.
c., from Pittsburg, Pa, bringing with
him the "Rev." n. l.. Glenn, colored,
who is accused of criminally assaulting
five colored girls who were members Of
his congregation while he was pastor of
a church IN Winston. Glenn is also
charged with alluring Mary Hairston
away from her husband and her daugh-
ter Pearl away from her father and TAX
ing them to Pennsylvania. He says that
the woman and her daughter went north
to assist him in his meetings.
Mrs. Stephen Leonard, bride of two
weeks, is dying in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
from bullet wound inflicted by her
husband, during what the police aver
was a quarrel yesterday. The husband
is under arrest. He declares that the
revolver WIS accidentally discharged
while he was cleaning it. Leonard is
twenty-one years of age. He has not
worked since his marriage. His wife
resumed her work at corset factory and
has been supporting her husband. Yes
terday she stayed at home, the police
say, to try to induce Stephen to go TO
work.