Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-22
News of the Day.


such service.
The designations OF Midshipmen
Christopher A. Russell, of Boston; d.
Maupin, of Baltimore, and Edgar N.
Caldwell, of Glasgow, Ky, of the fourth
class have been accepted.
The wreck of the southbound Oregon
express train on the Southern Pacific
Railway by landslide, near Delta,
Cal, Tuesday night, resulted 10 the
death of at least four persons, and the
injury of several others.
An amendment TO the address reply
ing to the Kings speech proposing
changes in the government OF Ireland
was defeated in the British House OF
Commons yesterday, the government
scoring a decided victory.
President Mitchell, Of the mine
workers union, announces that he has
declared the Office of president of Dis
tricl No. 5, now held by Patrick Dolan,
and other offices vacant DE also rays
that there will be a strike in April.
The Pope held consistory yesterday,
chiefly to create IL French bishops in
the diocesses made vacant by the Franco
Vatican struggle. He also recognized
the Right Rev. w. II. 0Connell, CO.
adjutor TO the Archbishop of Boston, as
Archbishop of Constance and the Right
Rev A. S. Rernard as Bishop of st.
Hyacintb, Canada.
In the House yesterday the resolution
to investigate the relations of railroads
to the coal aud oil industry was intro.
duced. Representative Esch intrsduced
bill prohibiting the ownership OF com
modities by railroads. Chairman Hep
burn, 10 presenting the army bill to the
House, said the United States must bt
prepared Tor trouble 10 China.
Scenes of lively character we're en-
acted yesterday at the sessions in Wash
ineton of the congress for uniform d.
vorce laws. DR.. Fanny Leake Cum
mings, the only delegate from the Stat,
of Washington, in speaking on the sub.
Iect of remarriage after divorce, made
use OF language that several OF the wom'
an present so strongly disapproyed thai
they left the hall.
The body of a well-dressed man, ap.
parently about fOrty-6ve years OF age,
was found yesterday in the gutter at the
corner of Twenty-frst street and Calu'
met avenue, in the heart Of one Of the
fashionable residence districts on the the
south side of Chicago There was 8
bullet hole above the right car and
cheap revolver lay near the corpse, but
the police are unable yet to state
whether it is ease of murder or Of
suicide.
The first organization OF the Virgins
Alumni of Johns Hopkins University
will take place in Richmond Saturday
night. DR.. Ira Remsen, president o.
Johns Hopkins, will be the guest Of
honor and principal speaker. President
Edwin A. Alderman, of the University
of Virginia, is also expected. w. l..
Fonshee, of Richmond College; j. II.
Latane, of Lexington, and Albert Lefe.
vre, of Charlottesville, are the organizers
OF the alumni. There are over 80 alumni
in Virginia.
A well-dressed man apparently fifty
five or sixty years of age, was found dead
yesterday afternoon in room in the
Colorado Hotel, st Louis. There was
bullet wound in his head and the re-
volver with which he had shot himself
was elapsed in bis right hand. He had
apparently been dead for some hours.
From papers found in his trunk. the
man is believed t. be Charles w. Beers,
1926 Addison street, philadelphia. he
seemed to have been in good circum.
stances, we'll dressed, and had a bond
issued by the Hamilton Trust Company,
of Philadelphia.
One of the most remarkable dinners
given 10 New York of "a, tronomic freaks
was that last night in The Hotel AstOr,
given by Prof. Thomas A. Stillmsp,
director OF the chemical laboratory Of
the Stevens Institute of Technology. 1t
was designated as a chemical dinner
Excepting the meats and the cigars,
everything was prepared OF the spot by
Professor Stillman from chemicals.
Professor Stllman's object was TO dem
onstrate how substitute food products
which are absolutely spurious may be
put on the market TO be sold as genuine
foods, and which will furnish sustenance
Alfred NJ. Bard, nephew of the mill
lionaire ex-senator Bard, of California,
was murdered in Brussels, according to
Detective Fogarty, of the New York po-
lice force, Fogarty has been working
on the case in Brussels for some time
The detective was reluctant to discuss
the case, as the Brussels police have not
yet succeeded in arrtstiug the murderer,
but he admitted that a beautiful French
girl, with whom Bard became acquaint-
ed at the "penson," in Brussels. where
he was staying, is supposed to have kill
ed the young man in a fit of jealousy
when she found he was about to leave
her and return to this country.
The mangled remains OF three men
were found yesterday morning beneath a
high trestle Of The Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, leading to the bridge
across the Tennessee river. Several
hours later they were identified by DR..
G. B. Jones, of Scsrboro, Tenn, as
three young men who lived in his vi.
cinily. William Dunnaway, William
Turpin. and James Gamble. Duunaway
and Turpin were thirty years of age, and
Gamble ONLY sixteen. They were green