Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-12
News of the Day.

| The yellow fever among the soldier.
at Cienfuegos, Cuba, is spreading until
there is a small epidemic.
james W. Gallman, former mayor Of
JonesviIle, S. O., was Saturday found
guilty of msnslaughter and sentenced to
lis years imprisonment for killing Sims
NJ. Gilman, prominent farmer.
A poor English tutor anda Newport, K.
l., society belle will wed August 29, when
Mics Lucette Marguerite Hutton becomes
the wife of Harold Ayde Phtchard, Of
Bristol, England. Miss Hutton is the
daughter of a wealthy Baldmorean, who
recently built a magnificent villa at
Newport.
A car of nitroglycerin standing on The
Michigan Central tracks at Essex, Ont,
blew up and wrecked the town Saturday.
Two men are dead, FIVE probably fatally
10 ured, almost every building in the
town is shattered, and within radius OF
800 yards from the depot everything is
| in a state of total destruction.
al simply. forgot my orders; that's
ALL" This was the excuse given by
Conductor Oakley at Raleigh, N. c.,
Saturday before the coroner's jury inVes-
tigatiDg the head-on collision on the
Southern Railway al Auburn, eight miles
east OF Raleigh, last Tuesday; which
resulted in the loss of three lives.
Naval circles are agitated over report
that the British Admiralty is about to
lay down the kell for 80, 600 ton giant
bsttleship that will be so per cent.
greater in tonnage than the redoubtable
Dreadnought. II is said that American
ship designers propose to start the con-
struction OF a 40, OOO-ton fighting ma
chine.
The President has signed new order
creating the Tern Islands Bird Reser-
walton. This is the eighth reservation
for birds created by President Roosevelt.
The Tern Islands reservation embraces
all OF the "mud Jumps" so-called, in and
near the mouths of the Mississippi river.
These "mud Jumps" are islets more or
less temporary in character, and created
chiefly by sedimentsry deposits from the
river.
The Sultan of Morocco, through Ben
Sliman, his Foreign Minister, has trans
mitted to the French Consul at Fee an
expression of the grief with which he
learned of the assassination of the Euro
peaus at Csssblsnca, saying that no one
more than he CONDEMNED the act which
cost FIVE French lives" The Sultan said
he was ready to accord any satisfaction
demanded, notably the dismissal of the
Pasha of Casablancs and the punishment
of the guilty persons.
After Miss Lucy Wild, aged II,
daughter of J. A. Wild, of the United
States Internal Revenue Department, had
been chloroformed Friday night in bed
at her home at Asheyille, n. o., an at
tempt was made to set her bed on
fire aud she WAS robbed OF cou-
siderable ewelry, bnt no violence
was attempted. The crime was not
discovered until the family arose at
the usual time next morning. Miss Wild
WAS found chloroforme1 and the bed
clothes burned and scorcEed in many
places. Bloodhounds were sent out at
an early hour that morning and posse
headed by Sheriff Penfeld has been
securing the country for miles around,
but all efforts have been in vain.
Mrs. Adele Horwiz Stevens was
married in Baltimore Saturday afternoon
to Beverly Robinson, jr., the New York
club man. Both contracting parties are
Episcopalians, and Mr. Robinson being |
a divorced man, none of the ministers Of
that denomination would officiate. They |
we're finally married by Rev. ]. O. Som
merlette, of the Zion Reformed Church,
and Immediately left the city. Mrs.
Robinson was Adele Horwitz prior to |
her marriage to her first husband and |
leader in social society. Mr. Stevens
committed suicide at his Long Island |
home in September, 1905, while Mr..
Robinson was in the house, and it was
be who informed the coroner. Mr.. |
Robinson was recently divorced from
his first wife, who was Madeline Wall.