Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-03
News Of the Day.

/ Snow fell in New York on yesterday,
the frat Sunday 10 June.
Ex-senator David B. Hill is recover
ing from an attack Of pneumonia.
Nat Goodwin has decided 10 quit the
stage and has taken an interest in mining
operations in Goldfeld, New.
A Philadelphia woman asserts that
southern negroes are hiring out as ser
wants 10 the north to rob homes system
atically.
Sam Davis, cOlofed, who was once a
slave of the president Of The C)nfederacy,
is now a millionaire mineowner in Wyo-
ming.
Mrs. Howard Gould's friends accuse
Gould Of being stingy toward his vile
and Of charging many expeG ures he
made to his wife's account.
Lightning yesterday struck balloon
during the Italian army maneuvers, the
gas bag burst and the aeronaut fell 700
feet, receiving fatal injuries.
Ii was at Speaker Cannon's urgent
SCI citation that President Roosevelt
omitted his proposed declaration for tar Fl
revision in his Indianapolis speech.
President Roosevelt returned to Wash
ipg.on on Saturday evening from his trip
to The west. He made speeches while
It raiDed, at various points on the way.
1t is officially announced that the
troublesome problem of the Gstun dam,
in the construction OF the Panama canal
has been met by the decision to double
the area of the Galun lake.
Enrique @. Creel, ambassador to the
United States from Mexico, has been
elected Governor of chihuahua. The
election was held yesterday aud there
was no opposition to Senior Creel.
Thomas F. Ryan has ended his days
of activity in Wall street. His depar-
ture for Europe on Friday signalized his
breaking away from the personal man
segment Of the gigantic corporations with
which he has been associated for the last
twenty-five years. He has sold most Of
his holdings in railroads and other cor
porstions.
Patrclman Charles Grism hss been
discharged from the police department;
Of st. Paul, Mimi, because he made a
sleeping berth of the tool shed at the
new cathedral. He had an alarm clock
in his bat to wake him every hour go he
could pull the patrol box. While ser
geant was talking to the policeman the
alarm clock in the officers hat went of
aud betrayed him.
While his brother sat within, talking
TO the girl whose parents had forbidden
him to call, Frank Kefsuver last night
went to the home Of Miss Lizzie Cobleniz,
at Middle!own, Nd, and placing him
self directly in front of the door, shot
himself through the heart, dying iu-
stantly. His body fell against the door
in such way that when the startled in
mates Of the house opened it to learn
the cause Of the disturbance the corp'e
fell into the hallway. George Kefauver,
the brother Of the dead man, opened the
door, and it was he who first saw that
it was bis brother who had committed
suicide. Frank Ksiauyer was % years
old.
A freight wreck on the Pennsylvania Rail
road between Severance aud (otisylle about
seven miles south Of RC chester, n. y, today
resulted in the death Of the engineer and
brakeman OF the freight train which rolled
DOWN an embaukmegt into the bed OF the old
canal, which parallels the road at the point.
A tiger which broke out Of the enclosure at
Panama and invaded the grand stand at
widely advertised fight yesterday between
the animal aud bull caused panic among
the 800 spectators at the contest. The tiger
was killed by men in the stand before 1t in
jured any one.
Reports that he is to re-enter politics and
will seek election to British House o'Commons
to ell the Irish cause are specifically declared
to be " thout foundation by Richard Croker,
former leader of the Tammany Hall.
Hope for the end Of the sesmen's strike at
French ports by tonight is entertained as a
result of the strikers deciding at Marseilles
today too seek compromise with the govern
ment.
Ten persOus were injured. one probably
fatally, vixen an elevator dropped at the
Go, dyear Tire and Rubber Company at
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