Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-22
News Of the Day.

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Twenty-Five leaves Of apocryphal say
ings of Christ have been found near an
old coptic monastery a. Eofu, Egypt.
james Butler, colored jaritor at a
business college, shot and killed Rebecca
Ross snd then killed himself in Wash
iogton Saturday evening.
The Western and Trsnscontinental
Railway Associations have decided to
cancel all reduced rate certificates held
by clergymen and Others.
Two hours after the wedding Mrs.
John Manly left her husband in Johns.
town, Pa, because he insisted on her
opening clearinghouse.
James +. English, pair clerk OF the
democratic caucus in the II ouse of Rep
resentatiyes, died Saturday evening at
his home 10 Washington. He was thirty.
FIVE years old.
Masked men on Saturday destroyed the
Mermenia dam at the mouth OF the Mer-
menla river, in Vermillon parish, La,
the dam having been constructed for If
rigatiOn purposes.
Capt. Nelson Lockwood, it,, and his
crew toWed an immense whale, that had
been severely injured in a collision with
a steamship, into the hSrbor at Mon
mouth Beach, n. j.
Work was formally begun Saturday on
the construction OF the frat section OF the
Amur Railroad. which is designed to
give Russia line tC Vladivostok entire
y through Russian territory.
Karl Hau at Baden. Baden on Satur-
day gave an explanation of the reasons
Tor his suspicious actions on the night Of
Frau MOliior's murder, saying that he
had wanted to see Olga Molitor.
Mis-. John L. Clagett was stricken
with heat trouble while attending
special services in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church at Gailhersburg, Md, yes
terday, aud died in half az hour.
The Crown Prince of Korea bss taken
The throne, mobs Of natives have burned
the homes of the premier and The min
listers, and in conflicts between the mobs
and the japanese soldiers and police
many have been killed and wounded.
Because she was not properly trimmed
in coaliug the North German Lloyd
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm III. suddenly
listed in her dock at Bremerhaven yes
terday and water poured into her bunkers
until she csreened and lay on her side
on the bottom.
William Ellis Corey, president of the
Steel Trust, with his bride. who WAS
Mabelle Gilman, a comic opera star, re-
turned Saturday on La Savoie, of the
French line, after European trip of
ten weeks. Mrs. Corey, it is said, has
retired from the stage forever,
Filled with fear at the thought of 60
ing under the surgeons knife, LIZZIE
Herman committed suicide early yester-
day morning by shooting herself in the
head at her homein Philade phia. Two
physicians were in the house at the time,
consulting about the operation.
Henry Scutcheon, a farmer, about so
years old, living near Nunica, Mich,
Yesterday ran amuck with an axe, killing
his invalid SOD, his wife and her foster
father. Scutheon was later shot by
Henry MCCLELLAN, a neighbor, whom toe
crazsd murderer had slso attacked.
DIR. James Edwin Russell, of Brook
Ign, died at the Harlem Hospital last
night from the effects OF an assault be-
heyed to have been made upon him by
thug5 Friday night. He was robbed Of
his money, watch and other valuable
pieces of jewelry and of his case of sur
gicsl instruments.
The anti-clericsl agitation was ex-
pressed in Rome yesterday in demon
stration against the Madonna procession,
which was Kissed and finally broken up.
A bishop and several priests were NAL
treated by the rioters, and some Others
in the procession were wounded before
the police succeeded in driving back the
manifestants. Many arrests we're made.
Macenas w. Quarles, candidate for
the Virginia House of Delegates, was
struck BY q Norfolk and Western freight
at Basic City Saturday and his body
was frightfully mangled, death resulting
instantly. Mr.. Quarles had left his
home at WaynesborO, and was going to
Staunton. When crossing the Norfolk
and Western road at Basic freight,
which he had failed to notice, struck
him.
William Mslzqhn, 55 years old,
farmer living at Wheatlsnd. Kenosha
county, Wis, committed suicide Salur-
day at midnight by blowing his head off
with a shotgun. His entire head was
blown through the door into another
room where his wife was sleeping. She
was awakened by the noise and on jump
sng out of bed was Mortified tn see her
husbands head lying on the floor beside
her. No clson is known for the suicide.
While returning from merry-go-
round attraction at Culpeper late Sstur-
day night Middleton Settle was run
down by Southern mail train and
fatally injured, both legs being crushed
and his spine injured. His condition
was so critical that he was sent to a
hospital in Washington for treatment.
Settle is farm laborer, employed by O.
J. Rixey. He is about thirty-eight
years old and has wife and ten child.
rem.
Orders just issued by the War Depart
ment send from Washington some Of the
most prominent young officers in the
army. Included ia the last are the three
personal aids to President Roosevelt.
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