Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-05
News Of the Day.

Wi'tezind arrived at Charleston, ;. Z 4,
from Bremen yesterday with APO immi-
grants.
Mrs. Edgar Wilson Nye, widow of the
late "Bill Nye," died yesterday at the
home of her son-in-law on plantation
near New Orleans
Report. from New York point out
that the labor vote being almost solidly
for Hearst, Hughes great hVps lies in
democratic disafection.
Fire Yesterday threatened the destruc-
ton of The Carnegie Institute, at Pitts
burg, but was extinguishe1 after damage
Of $40, 900 had beea done.
The large riyeting building at the
plant of the South Baltimore Steel Car
aud Foundry Company, Curtis Bay, was
partially destroyed by fire Saturday night,
loss $50 900.
The typhoid epidemic at Wesleyan
University, at Middletown, Conn, is in
crossing. Prof. Conn, State bscteriolo-
gist. lays be is confident that the cases
originated from oysters eaten at the re-
cent fraternity banquet.
J. Christian EskilsoD, Of Chicago,
thrice supreme treasurer Of the Danish
Brotherhood of America, is missing and
simultaneously it is found that $50, 900
of the orders funds is gone. Eskison
has not been seen since October 90
Capt. Charles d. Hehry, who was
Uniied States marshal of the District of
Columbia during the administration OF
President Garfield, aud also dur
ing the trial of the famous st,r.rOute
cases, died Friday in Cleveland, o.
Tomorrow elections will be held in
all the states of the union except Oregon,
Maine and Vermont. These three safes
have held their elections. All of the
other states will elect members OF Con-
gress, most of them will choose their
governors and many will also elect men,
bers of the legislature
Gen. John Henry Ketcham, who bad
been nominated 10 times for Congress
by the republicans of the Twenty.first
New York district, and who was in Con.
gress almost continuously IRON 1866.
died yesterday in ST. Elizabeth's Hos
pitaI, in New York, after long illness,
following third attack Of paralysis,
aged rs years.
An effort was made yesterday by one
member of the family of Mrs. Alexander,
the Georgetown woman, who was robbed
recently of 81, 900. to cause the arrest of
another of the family, on the charge Of
having stolen the money. The author
tiles at the central office refused to make
the arrest, unless Mrs. Alexander herself
would swear out warrant.
Attorney w. II. HAYS, candidate for
governor of Kentucky in the democratic
primary tomorrow, appeared in police
court in Louisville, today and filed a
sensational motion asking that the court
remain 10 continuous session tomorrow.
In this motion Hays asserts that he is in
formed plot has been formed to steal
the primary in Louisville. The motion
was Overruled.
The officers of the freighter st. An
drews on Tuesday last saw large meteor
descend from the skies aud fall into the
sea near Cape Race, n. F. They say the
water boiled up TO height OF twenty
feet, and the vapor created by the steam
spread over space wider than the
leogth of the ship, and that is more than
$50 feet. 1t was nearly halt minute
before the sea went down.
A continuation of the plea of the
Countess de Caste.lane for absolute d.
yorce from her husband, Count BoDi,
and the custody of their children will be |
presented before the Tribunal Of First |
Instance of the Seine at Paris by Maitre
Cruppi, COUNSEL for the Countess, No
vember 7, after which the defense of
Count Boni will be heard. Some Of the |
sweetly worded missives to Boni from
married women read by Maitre Cruppi |
in OPEN count while presenting the Amer
lean counless's plea for divorce from the
gay Frenchmsn, show that he was a
ady-killer as WE'LL as a wife-beater.
Banker Jacob S. Schifi who made millions
in buying international bond issues outright /
and floating hundred million dollars stock
issue with the signing of his name, has become
a member Of the Journeymen Stone Mason's
and Settlers Union in order that he could
lay the corner stone of the new synagogue Of
the First Hungarian Church yesterday.
BacFed by So. 900, COO syndicate Myton T.
Herrick, Of Cleveland and Thomas +. Walsh,
of Denver, propose to harness the mountain
cataractS and streams Of the Rocky Mountains
and revolutOnize industrial conditions in the
West