Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-18
News OF the Day.

reach over 500, 900.
Alto O'Clock yesterday morning
Gov. Martin F. Ansel aligned the an II
dispeusary bill, which means the abolish
ment of state dispensary and prohibition
in South Carolina
Francis ]. Carmody, formerly assistant
United States attorney for the Southern
district Of New York, died 10 Washing
ton, Saturday, as result OF nervous
breakdown. Mr. Carmody was a son
iu.law of Senator Plat.
DR.. George w. Archer died at Em-
merton, Hartford county, Nd, Saturday
morning. DR.. Archer was So years old.
lie served through the civil war as a
surgeon in Stonewall Jackson 8 brigade
Of the Confederate army
The people OF Nicaragua demand
PREPARATION from the government of Hon
duras for the invasion of their territory
by Houduran troops and have offered
financial aid for q conflict with Hon
duras. The whole country ia excited.
George NJ. Morton and wife, register.
| ing from New York, were found dead
In their room at the Tampa Bay Hotel,
Florida, Saturday hsving committed sui
eide. 4 note was found in the room
saying they had killed themselves by
consent
A dispatch from Cardiff, Wales, says
the British oteamer Heliopolis collided
Saturday midnight with the British
steamer Orlando. outward bound from
Penarth. The Or,audas and sank four.
teen persons, Including the captain, were
drowned.
| Otto Kelsey, superintendent OF insur'
ance for the State Of New York, in II
letter to Gov. Hughes, has declined to
accede to the governors reques! that hr
resign his Office to which no was ap-
pointed in May of last year by Gov.
Higgins.
| After burning four hours the fire
which started early yesterday morning
| 10 one Of the shops of the South Balti'
more Steel Car aud Foundry Company
near Baltimore, had Quilted the big truck
and axle shop, and reduced 1t TO mass
Of ashes and twisted iron and steel
The loss will reach $50, 0O0.
Mrs. Lottie Wall4u, who was arrested
late Saturday night 10 New York CHARGED
| By the district attorney with having
poisoned her mothery Mrs. Ida Binge,
with bichorido of mercury in cham
payne, was arraigned before Cornner
| Acritelli in the Criminal Courts building
yesterday morning and committed to the
/ Tombs on a charge Of murder.
Terrible are the details of conGagra-
| ton in the Yuma mine, at the hamlet
| of Monitor, about two miles from Logan,
IW. Va, which began Saturday night a
few minutes before the men had com
pleted their work. Nine men were seri'
ously and three fatally hurt as the result
Of defect in an apparatus by which the
bed Of coal is given shot.
BENJAMIN White, a retired farmer, Of
/ Poolesvillo, Md, died Saturday night,
| aged 81 years, of pneumonia. lie was
known throughout Montgomery county
and in Loudonn county, Va, lie was
brother OF the late Col. Elijah Y
| White, colonel of. the Thirty-titth Viz
ginia Cavalry, Confederate States army,
who died four weeks ago at his home in
Leesburg, Va
i A letter from the Rev. f. Lawrence
| Hunt, who was named as correspondent
liz the divorce proceedings instituted in
Washington by Charles G.. Basset
against his wifer Fannie Rice Bassett,
was read last evening from the pupit Of
s,a Noble Street Presbyterian Church,
BROOKLYN. of which DR.. Hunt was the
pas'or. The pastor asked that his con-
nection with tho church be severed.
Mrs. Patrick Daley, OF Cleveland,
Ohio, has given birth to iiVs children in
one year. One boy aud 4 girl, twins,
born January 10 of this year, are alive
and making lots Of noise. though neither
of them weighs over three pounds
Tripets came to the Daley hume on Jan
uary 8, 1906. All were boys. Doe
lived day, another q week and third
three months. Now there are six child
, dren in the Daley family, and Mrs. Da,
ley says she would not mind ifshe had
q couple more.
The anti smoke bill passed. the Senate
Saturday without objection, but an hour
I later Senator Kean, Of New Jersey,
moved to reconsider the vote. Tht
motion was adopted, and had the eilecI
of sending the bill to The calender, from
which place 1t can only be cylricated by
unanimous consent. The opponents o.
the measure, who are supposed to rep
resent the railroads involved, were
, caught oil their guard by Senator Hans
, brough, of North Dakota, who report
r ed the bill from the District committee.
Fearing punishment because they
> ventured on brittle ice in the Rock river
at Dixon, Nd. contrary to the orders o
their parents, William Barge and Georgt
Vernon for twenty hours kept secret th'
death Of three companions. The drowned
boys are John Hilbert, ten years; Ralph
2 Schaier, nine years, aud Lauren Frye
eight years. The boys went through
the ice Saturday afternoon. Parent
lof the drowned boys had the polio
looking for them all night. Barg
who was seen with them, when sharply
. questioned, told of the drowning.
Virginia News.
Conorassman W A Jones OF III