Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-24
News Of the Day.

Cdtuiohgs
Bishop Ellison Cspers, of the Episco-
pal Diocese of South Csrolins, is crit
ically i'll.
Eight laborers were killed and 40 iu-
jured yesterday when a local struck
work train on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford road, at Hartford.
A cyclone on Saturday evening did
much damage to crops and bridges in
northern Texas, Oklahoma, and ludian
Territory and many persons were injured.
Two men in Pittsburg rolling mill
yesterday fought duel with white-hot
iron bars, both being badly scared before
they became exhausted and could be dis
armed.
The new Protestant Episcopal Cathe-
dral of IS. Peter and Padl, in Washing
ton, for which the final plans have now
been adopted, will be larger than West
minister Abbey.
Supervising Inspector CAST states that
investigation has not developed the
cause Of the wrecking of the launch in
Hampton Roads, which cost the lives OF
six midshipmen.
1t is rumored that the Southern Rail-
way Company will at an carly date re-
place its former fast mail train, known
as No. 81, running between Washington
aud New Orleans.
The Alexandria Association ba;eball
team Saturday evening defeated the
Washington Athletic Club OF Washing
ton, by a score OF 10 TO ,, in game on
the old fair grounds.
Andrew Carnegie will visit the Peace
Congress at The Hague and settle per-
sonally with representatives of the gov
eminent of the Netherlands details re-
garding the palace of peace he has given.
Discovering that his wife had first
husband alive in the Klondike, Col.
William A. Stokes, commandment OF the
twenty third Regiment, in Brooklyn,
has brought suit for annulment of his
marriage.
The first and second COMMITTEES Of the
peace conference met at The Hague Sat
urdsy and divided into subcommittee;
a number of proposals regulating rules
of warfare and one providing for the coz
sideration of the Drago doctrine were
introduced.
Miss Carolyn Beauregard Guyol,
nineteen years old, niece of Gen. G. ?.
T. Beauregard, and Abner II. Cox,
twenty one years old, OF Hot Spring, Va,
a prominent University of Virginia mar,
eloped Saturday from New Orleans to
Algiers and were married. The groom
was attended by w. P. JOurdone, OF
Orange, Va, fellow-s!udent.
Practically every woman and man in
Lawrence county, Miss, the home Of
Mrs. Angie Birdsong, has turned against
her, and in petition Saturday to Gov.
Vardaman bitterly assails Mrs. BirdsoDg,
and vigorously urges that the five-year
sentence approved by the Supreme Court
for the killing of DR.. Thomas II. Butler,
her family physician, be allowed TO
stand.
Four passengers on a Pullman car,
two of them being Washingtonians, who
arrived over the Pennsylvania at $3.50
O'Clock yesterday morning, we're robbed
during the night while they we're asleep.
Cash amounting to nearly $500 was
taken and several of the grips were cut |
open and ruined and the contents carried |
away. The theft was committed just
before the train got to Washington.
The community of Avondsle, Pa, is
intensely wrought up against Irwin |
Lewis, charged with the murder of his |
little stepdaughter. RavjDg and declar-
ing his love for little Mary Newliu,
whose strangled body was found buried |
in his yard, Lewis is in a critical cond'-
ton at the county Jail. All yesterday he |
acted like mailman, becoming so yio-
lent that it was necessary TO put him in |
a strait-iacket.
Fearing he could not succeed in his |
chosen profession, DR.. Henry s. Hutch
inson, son of well known citizen OF
Philadelphia, committed suicide in a
field at Lansdowne, near Philadelphia,
by cutting his throat with a razor. The
body was found Saturday, and it is be-
lieved he committed the deed day or
two ago. A bloodstsined razor, vial
containing poison and an aGectionate
letter addressed to his father we're found |
near the body.
A dispatch from Budapesth says farm
er, near Debreezin, was awakened at
night by strange noise on the roof OF
his house. He found that balloon
without car had fallen on the house.
While he and some farm hands, with
lanterns we're preparing TO remove it,
the gag exploded, killing The farmer aud
four others and iDjuring six. Meanwhile
the car was found Is miles distant. lis
three OCCUPANTS were dead. They had
evidently fallen from height. They
have not been identified.
To save the life of his sister, Mrs.
Louise Middleton, who was being Sc
verely beaten, William Hauek shot and
MORALLY wounded his brother, Gotthelf
Hauck, early yesterday morning, at the
home of Mrs. Middleton, in Gardenville,
Baltimore county, Md. Gotthelf died yes
terday, at a hospital in Baltimore,
where he had been moved by the brother
and sister. William Hauck was COM
mitted on the charge OF murder to await
the action of the grand jury. Counsel
for the prisoner will make application
for a writ Of habeas corpus. 1
Mayor Garrett and Marshal Collins
placed under arrest last night every en-