Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-25
News Of the Day.

Steamboat traffic between st. Louis
aud Kansas City has been resumed after
n lapse of 20 years.
A league Of American Catholics has
been formed to create schism IN Rome
and organize distinct Csllic4n Catholic
Church.
True Wing, backed down from 10 to
l to 4 to l, won the Speculation Stakes,
selling, at Gravesend yesterday, defeat
ing the fagori,e, Yves, by three quarters
of a length. Her victory YVES severe
blow to the ring, as she MAS one OF the
best played horses 81 the meeting. 1t
is estimated that $50, 600 was won on
her.
Mrs. Alice Perkins, daughter OF De-
iroit merchant and wife of Spencer Z.
Perkins, clubmaD, has disappeared
from her fathers home, and is vainfy
sought by Sheriff Burns. She had left
her husband, the reason stated 10 d.
vorce bill recently fled being that he
has negro blood in his veins. This is
Indignantly denied by Perkins, brunette
of rather the French type. His sisters
who have visited in Detroit are white
of skin and refined young women.
A boxing match at the Portland Audi
forum at Portland, Me-, last night, be-
tween Terry Martin and Jack Mckenzie,
both OF Philadelphia, which was wit
messed by 5000 persons, came 10 sud-
den termination in the fifth round with
the collapse of Mckenzie and his death
ten minutes later. Just before the close
of the round, Martin delivered hard
blow over Mckenzie heart. Mckenzie
staggered back, but Immediately recover
ed, and returned two blows before the
gong rang. lie went TO his corner, and
while his seconds we're administering
restoratiyes he suddenly became uncon.
scious and died just after being carried
to the dressing room.
Discovering that his sixteen.year-old
daughter was to become mother in q
few months, John Billiard, well-to-do
planter. who lives near Powder Spring,
Ga yesterday morning shot the girl to
death. He fred six shots into her body,
three of the bullets entering her head
and the other three taking effect in her
body. Bullard, Immediately upon CON-
hitting the crime, went TO his brother
and informed him of what he had done.
ruth is better dead than living with such
shame coming to her, said Billiard, "snd
when she told me, declared that there
was nothing TO do but to kill her, and
she sgreed with me-" Billiard is a
widower, and the dead girl was his only
child. Billiard himself is in the last
stages of consumption.
News comes from Mountain City,
Tenn, of the killing in the North Caro-
| lima mountains near there of Rayburn
Grayson, the twenly.twe-year-old son OF
Frank NJ. Grayson, prominent citizen
Of johnson county. Young Grayson,
with party OF boys, had gone to the
home Of Mann Davis The boys we're
shooting about the house Saturday night,
when Davis opened the door and fired 10
the direction of the intruders. The boys
| fed, but GraysOn was missing. his
dead body was found in a ditch near the
Davis home by bis father on Sunday.
Young Grayson, it is said, was killed by
pistol shot, but Davis claims be fred
ouly a shotgun. This has led to the
suspicion that Grsyson might have been
murdered by an enemy iu his own party
as it is claimed there were those in the
party who bore a grudge against him.