Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-04
News of the Day.

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The troops of the fugitive President
Morales attacked Puerto Plata Tuesday,
but were forced to retire.
Despondent because the young man
she was soon to marry ignored her at
dance New Years night, Daisy Richard
son, pretty twenty.yesr-old girl, end
ed her life at her parents home in Ben
ming, last night, by drinking carbolic
acid.
Thomas Wickbam, mechanic, about
fifty years Of age, was burned to death
during a fire which destroyed a small
house on the farm OF Thomas Magruder,
near Glendale, Prince Georges county,
Md, Saturday last. All that was left
of the victims body was the trunk and a
part of the head.
Mrs. Catherine L. Haywood, sister Of
Mrs. Cbas. T. Yerkes, returned to Chi
cagO yesterday from New York. She
had been in attendance upon her sister
and was present in The hotel apartment
when reconciliation was attempted but
it was too late. She says Mr.. Yerkes
valued women as he did pictures, only
when they we're pleasing to the eye.
The trial of Midshipman Decatur
came to an end at Annapolis yesterday,
arguments being heard and the findings
submitted to the superintendent. Lack
of identification and the alibi claimed to
have been established we're dwelt or by
The defense. The trial of Worth Wright
Foster will begin today, and is expected
to be more interesting even than that OF
Decatur.
News was received at Bristol yester-
day of cavern at the lower Pine Ridge
tunnel of the South and Western Rail-
road near Spruce Pine, n. c., in which
three men we're killed. The road is now
10 the course of construction, and work
has Just begun on this tunnel. The
heavy rains Tuesday night caused the
slide which swept over the mouth of the
tunnel, killing three men and fatally in
juriug two others.
Gov. Glenn, of North Carolina. has
made a requisitiOn on the governor of
Pennsylvania for N. L. Glenn, formerly
of Forsythe county, charged with Grim
inally assaulting six girls, aged from
thirteen to seventeen years. He is al
legged to have posed as holiness minis
ter The warrant charges him with as
sauling Rebecca Ellington, and Pearl
Harstone, aged fourteen years, also is
named as a victim. Mary Hairstone al
leges that Glenn induced her husband to
leave her.
A dispatch from Pittsburg says "Em-
ployed as domestic servant in this city
in preference to marrying rich old man
whom she did not love, but whom her
uncle insisted she should marry, Kathe-
rine Gray, daughter of former State Sen
ator Asbury Gray, of Virginia, has re-
signed her situation as a housekeeper in
family to go South and claim her
fathers fortune of from $500, 900 to
$500, 600, long supposed to have been
lost or stolen, but now recovered and
awaiting her as sole heiress."
Commissioner Koiner has strong hopes
of getting bill through the legislature
appropriating so. 900 for immigration.
His plan is to send agents direct into
The countries furni hing the most oesir-
able classes of labor and make known
the advantages offered. His correspon-
dence with England has been parti-
cularly satisfactory. There are said to
be 1000 900 unemployed in England,
who are near the starvation point, and
correspondence with the British authori-
ties indicates that many of these unem-
ployed persons could be induced to set
tie in Virginia.
The Maryland Senate and the House
Of Delegates organized by electiug the
officers nominated at caucus meetings OF
the democratic members. The orgaui-
cation men in the House were very
anxious, fearing deal between the
Queen Anne's independents and the re-
publicans which would prevent the cleo
ton of Mr.. Benson as speaker, so they
sent a committee on a special train after
Mr.. Meyers, Of Carroll county, and took
him to Annapolis from sick bed. AS
soon as it was certain that Mr.. Meyers
WAS on hand and the democratic crgani-
zaliOn codld elect its caucus nominees
Congressman Mudd gave his consent to
its going ahead.