Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-05-14
News Of the Day.

II Is now tnOuBnt W het iai'J 'nAt sue
is out of danger.
One man is dead, one is dying, and a
third is 10 a dangerous condition as a
result Of the fight Saturday night between
whites and blacks at Yonkers, n. Y.
All the dead and injured are whites.
Returns show that in the primary
election for United States Senator held in
Tennessee Saturday ex Gov Robert L..
TAYLOR won over Senator Edward w.
Carmsck by a majority of sbont 5000.
The committee of British policyholders
in the New York Mutual Life has ap.
proved the proposal of the North British
and Mercantile Company to take over
$45, 900, 900 Of policies of immediate,
full surrender value.
William Meyer and Sophie Christina
we're arrested on the arrival of the steam
er Graf WaIdesee in New York, Sstur.
day, charged with the murder OF the wife
of Meyer, whose body was found packed
10 trunk in Germany.
Work was generally resumed today at
practically all of the anthracite collieries
in Pennsylvania. All OF the imported
men have been shipped away and al
most all evidence of their occupancy OF
the colIieries has been removed.
F.S. Hibbs, for IL years Standard Oil
agent at Peoria, ILL.,, testified Saturday
before the interstate commerce cOm"is
sion regarding the use of cash and tricks
10 secure business for Standard Oil. de
said water and sand are used TO spoil
rivals fuel.
The Berlin Die Welt states that the
Kaiser in bis private conversation has
expressed the opinion that since Russia
has become a constitutional monarchy,
it will be impossible for Germany to
maintain its present reactionary system
of government.
Princess Ena's wedding cake, made
in London and just packed for shipment
to Madrid, is six feet high and weighs
$40 pounds. 1t will be the first royal
wedding cake ever seen in Spain. The
English custom was introduced by King
Alfonso as a compliment to his bride.
After paying attention to Mrs Caro-
line Christine SwansOn's l7-year old
daughter Juliet for several months, 49,
year-old Grover Cleveland White, OF
Somerville, Mass, Tilted the daughter
and was Saturday night married to the
mother, who is AZ and widow with four
children, the youngest OF whom is 10
years.
w. H. Ryan has been elected chair
man of the democratic State committee
of Kansas TO succeed w. F. Sapp, who
has held the post for two years. The
change was made because Col. Sapp in
a recent speech called the PRECEDENT "a
liar" and also because he wears, morn
ing, noon and night q silk hat and a
frork coat.
Norman z. Mack, national democratic
committeeman of New York, stopped
over in indianapolis Saturday long
enough to declare that the candidates
for president of the United States in
1908 will be Theodore Roosevelt and
VIM. Jennings Bryan. "And it is my
opinion that II will be a very close race, 4"
he added.
A dispatch from Atlantic City says
that Rosie Davis and Kate Walter, both
about IL years old. were drowned yes
terday at Clarks Landing, on the Mullica
river, by the upsetting of a sailboat in
which they were passengers. Frank
Sharp and Henry Cries, who were with
the girls. state that the rudder became
unfastened as a sudden squall overturned
the boat. They say the girls we're caught
under the boat and did not resppear.
The men succeeded in swimming ashore.
Mrs. Isabella II. T. Garfield, aged 81
years, widow of Ira @. Garfield, died
suddenly in Williamsburg, Pa, Friday,
where she was visiting her only son,
Mr.. Walter B. Garfield Mrs. Garfield
was famed throughout Baltimore city
fer her intense devotion TO charitable
work. She was also a devoted sympa.
thizer of the South during the civil war,
and in addition to her work for the
wounded soldiers of the Lost Cause, she
helped furnish the apartments of Jeffer-
son Davis, President of the Confederacy,
when he was confined as prisoner at
Fortress Monroe.
A dispatch from London says that five mild
earthquake shocks were fell. In the island Of
Guernsey this afternoon.