Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-04-27
News OF the Day.


YESTERDAY adopted resolutions fsgoring
union of Protestant missions to make
their work more effective.
While strolIipg through the streets
last nigh. chief of police Boyle, OF Jack
sop, Mich, was jostled by three men
aud robbed of his 5000 diamond stud.
Frederick I. Allen, Commissioner of
Patents, has rendered his resignation to
the President, to take effect June |.
Mr. Allen will again enter upon the
practice Of law.
Professor Albert Ritter Won MOsetig-
Moorhof, famous surgeon apd introducer
of iodolorm, yesterday fell into the Dam
ube river at Vienna while in a iainting
ct and was drowned.
Jay Gould won the second round in
his contest f)r the international court
tennis championship in London today
defeating f. r. Noel, three straight sets.
The score stood: &C 6-2 and G-S.
The appeal of Count Boni de Castel-
lane against the decision o. the court
which granted divorce to the Countess
de Csstelape, formerly Anna Gould, of
New York, has been listed for May q.
Eugene Proctor, coIored, was convict
ed at Upper Marlboro, Nd, yesterday of
attempting to oriniDslly assault Mrs.
Minnie Spencer, a young white woman.
Judge Merrick. suspended sentence. A
motion was made for new trial.
The. intention OF James b. Duke to go
abtoard 10 a few days, accompanied by
Mrs. William II. Iuman and small
party Of relatives, has revived the report
OF an impending marriage between the
tobacco multi-millionaire and the beauti-
full Atlanta widow.
Fearing death at almost any moment,
John d. Rockefeller yesterday decided to
his son, John d. Rockefeller, jr., all his
unimproved property scattered over and
around Cleveland, Ohio, and valued at
between half and three.quarters of 4
million dollars, so that his estate can be
settled easily after death.
The United States forest service has
issued a circular saying that this country
consumes every year between three and
four times more wood than all of its
forests grow in the meantime and that
II this is continued the result will be a
timber famine. A policy OF government
control and regulation is recommended
as remedy.
Mrs. w. A. Hanger, an aged woman,
residing near Huttonsville, W. Va,
committed suicide Friday by saturating
her clothing with kerosene and setting
fire To her skirts. Before the startled
family could extinguish the flames she
was fatally burned. Mrs. Hanger was
about seventy yeare of age, and was at
one time an inmate OF The Western Hos
pitsl for the insane, but had been dis
charged as cured.
The War Department issued yester-
day the long expected order abolishing
the old system of military geographical
divisions and dividing the territory OF
the United States into military depart
menls. The order will take effect June
80, The end of the present fiscal year
The military departments will remain as
at present, except that the State Of Mis-
souri, will be included in the Department
of the Missouri instead OF the Depart
ment Of Texas.
Mics Violet Spencer. IS years old,
daughter Of Thomas f. Spencer, was at
tackled on the street in Alton, ILL.,. early
yesterday morning by negro, who cut
her with a razor, innicting serious,
though not fatal wound, heavy cloak
serving as protection. A posse started
in pursuit and later the police arrested
colored man who gave his name as Rich
ard Sims and whose appearance tallits
with the description given by Miss
Spencer Of her asssilant.
At Kettle pOstoffce, in Roane, w.
Va, at noon yesterday, George Hively
killed Robert Summers, shooting him
with a gun loaded with slugs, of which
sixteen took effect and caused instant
death. 1t Is alleged that the shooting
was due 10 attentions paid by Summers
to HiVely's wife. Hiyely escaped to the
woods, but posse is in pursuit, and it
is expected that be will be captured.
Both men are prominent in the COM
munity in which they resided, and ale
about forty years old, are married, and
have children.
William Dunn, hand book man from
New York. was shot at the Plmlico track
yesterday by Nina King, who says she is his
wife. The woman came from Buffalo and
has been following the races.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
against the Cleveland Window Glass Com.
pany was filed in Federal Court at Cleveland
Today. For several days creditors have been
trying to effect a reorganization Of the COM