Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-31
News of the Day.

ID. Rogers as acuye head OF the olanu-
ard Oil Company.
Brig. Gen. Charles Francis Powell,
United States army (retired), GO years
old, died at the home of his brother in
Chicago yesterday.
President Fallieres, of France, has
signed degree dissolving the branch of
the Franciscan brothers at 81. lyman in
the Hsuie Garonne.
Frank Carolina, of Brooklyn, sent an
affidavit to the President today attesiiDg
that he lie the father of one single baby,
one set of triplets and two sets of twins,
all born in seven years.
Mrs. @. s. Whitney, an evangelist
from New York, was stricken with
apoplexy while preaching in The Baptist
Church at RowsytoD, Conn, Sunday
noon. She died yesterday morning.
Charles E. Meyer last night furnished
bail in the sum of $25, 900, and was re-
leased from Jail. The Butte unions put
up the money in the First National
Bank to indemnify the bOudsmen. Bail
was denied Pettiboue.
While examining revolver in their
room at hotel at Atlantic City yester'
day Frank BoysOn, II years old, son
of John w. Boyson, of Philadelphia,
was accidentally shot and killed by his
uncle, William Hsigb, % years old.
Anna Robinson, formerly the count
ess of Rosslyn and daughter of Mime
apolis hotel keeper, will not be allowed
to enjoy her divorce recently secured
from the earl of Rosslyn without
further fight. The earl has just direct
ed his attorneys to seek an appeal from
he decree granted his wife.
Eugene E. Schmiz, the convicted
mayor of San Francisco, yes erday mads
appointments to FIJI the vacancies crea'-
ed by the forced designations of IA
members of the beard of supervisors,
Schmitz claiming the right of sppoint-
ment on the ground that he is the right
full mayor of San Francisco.
Enough money is in sight 10 enable
the Joint committee o. the Hamilton
Club and the Chicago Association Of
Commerce to make a strong bid for both
the republican and democratic national
conventions. This announcement was
made at a luncheon al the Hamilton
Cub house yesterday and the report was
received with much enthusiasm.
Charles Bradley, 35 years old, met
horrible death yesterday while stealing
ride on Lehigh Valley freight tr'in
near York, Pa. His clothing ignited
from spark of the locomotive. He Was
seen to run along the top Of the train
with bis clothing ablsze until he was
blinded and exhausted. Then he fell
between two of the cars and was crushed.
The foundation stone OF the Andrew
Clneg;e palace of peace was laid yester
d ~ afternoon a: Zorgvliet, in the midst
of the wooded stretch from The Hague
to Scheveniugeo, by NJ. Nelfdorf, presi-
dent of The second peace conference.
Some disappointment was felt that Queen
Wilhelmina, who is at The Hague, was
not present at the ceremonies, and it is
reported that the real reason for her alb
sence is to be found in dispute which
arose regarding the choice Of site for
the palace.
A drunken Pole, s!ran ger in Oswego,
n. Y, entered the home of Charles
Leonard, about noon yesterday and took
a 7-mOnths-old baby from a crib where
it was sleeping and put it in red-hot
kitchen stove. The cries of the child
attracted the mother, who had left the
house for a minute, The police were
called and the man arrested. The baby
was badly burned.
Governor Vardaman, Of Mississippi,
was badly bruised about the shoulders
in a railroad wreck yesterday evening in
the railroad yards at Newton, Miss.
The passenger train on which the Gov
ernor was travelling crashed into the rear
of an engine standing on the main line
cosIiDg. His injuries are not serious.
The express messenger and three psssen-
gers we're also none or less severely iI-
jured.
Enough dynamite to blow an ordinary
building into smitherens was discovered
yesterday in a room under the stoop OF
the Pocahset Club in New York, the
political club of which Sheriff Hayes is
leader. The police attribute the intend
ed outrage to Italians, who have been
angry with Hayes ever since he offered
a reward for the murderers Of little
Viola Boylau, who was assaulted and
killed in the neighborhood six weeks ago.
John Lynx, Pole, killed his wife
yesterday afternoon by slashing her six
times with a carving knife and then
committed suicide by stabbing himself
at his home in Brooklyn. Lynx some
time ago left the city, laboring under
the impression that he was to be deporl-
ed. Recently he returned and his fears
that he would be sent back to Europe,
where, it is said, he was wanted for a
ofense, are thought to have
his mind.
The stone arches which support the
bed of The Erie canal at point near the
center of Syracuse, N. Y, where it
passes over Onondsga creek gave way
yesterday afternoon and four canal boats
we're drawn into the bed of the creek be-
meath. Fifty feet of the wall of the
Empire Touring mill fell
into the water, and the Bartels and
Greenway breweriCs, respectively, on
the north ard south banks OF the canal,
were threatened with demolition.