Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-04-12
News OF the Day.

A dispatch from New Orleans says
that President Bonills, OF Honduras.
who had taken refuge at AGalapa, had
surrendered.
The building 10 Rome, Ca. owned by
the Tribune one of the Oldest buildings
In the State was destroyed by fire today.
The loss was 800, 900.
Tho will of Thomas Bailey Aldricb,
authof and poet, probated in Boston,
leaves properly valued at between = %, .
600 and 5000, 900 to bis widow.
The cotton compress in ChicksshN,
/. T., together with vast amount Of
cotton, was destroyed by fire yesterday,
causing loss estimated ct 81, 900, 600.
An unidentified man killed himself by
leaping over Niagara Falls from The
bridge between the mainland and Green
Island at 10 o'clock last night. He was
clad in underwear or light cl, thing.
Doctors and nurses at Bellevue Hos
pilal, New York, are fighting today to
give every chance OF life to lusty baby
girl born In the hospital last night ten
minutes after her mother had died.
Emile Benois:, a welI-known banker
Of Paria, was shot and killed yesterday
in the Office of financial newspaper OF
which he was the editor. The assassin,
Disconnected customer, named Csrroit,
fred 10 shots from a revolver point
blank at NJ. Beneist.
Foreign Secretary Grey made the
most unexpected announcement in the
British Parliament yesterday that Lord
OrOmer, Great Bntain's great plenipo-
teutiary on the Nile, had resigned. III
health is said 10 be the cause Of Lord
CrOmer's retirement.
AS result of sslumming tour through
tho Tenderoin district in New York,
which wound up in his arrest in negro
resort, Rev. w. Howard Mears, sssist-
ant rector Of St. Matthew's Protestant
Episcopal Church, in that city, has been
deposed from the ministry by Coadintor
Bishop David NJ. Greer.
James II. DrsytoB, a member OF The
famous Jury which convicted the Hay
market rioters almost 90 years ago, al'o
principal Of the Raymond School, Chi
cago, was shot dead shortly before noon
yesterday In his home. The case is
shrouded in mystery The police and
coroner are making an investigation.
Eugene Proctor was yesterday indicted
by the grand jury of Prince Georges
county. Md, for making an attack on
Mrs. Minnie Spencer, OF OxOn Hill.
Proctor is now 10 jail at Upper Marl-
boro awaiting trial. Mrs. Spencer idon-
tilted Proctor as her assailant, but there
seems TO be some donbt as TO his guilt,
consequently there is, 50 lar, no talk Of
n lynching.
Application of the tubercnlu test 10
the dairy herds supplying milk to the
District Of Columbia has revealed an
alarming condition, in that large num-
Der of the cattle are infected with tuber-
culOsis. There are 10000 ailch cows
supplying milk and cream to consumers
10 the District, and among this number
il ia estimated by the inspectors Of the
health department that fully 1000 or
3, coo are infected with tuberculosis.
A man about forly-hve years OF age,
lravel-stained and weary, who says he
is George W. BGndrick. appeared in
Downey, Cal, yesterday and surrender
cd to the authorities, asserting that be
had killed John Shredder in RalnF,
Dooley county, Ga, in 1902. lie sOid
ho had been arrested 10 Georgia, tried,
convicted, aud sentenced to hang, but
had escaped from Jail at Americas by
overpowering his guards. lie said he
was weary Of being pursued, and wanted
to be taken back and hanged for his
crime.