Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-16
News Of the Day.

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thermometer going down to 30 degrees.
Attorney General Bonaparie amour
ces that there will be conference to
determine what course to pursue with
reference to the promise OF immunity
given to Chicago x Alton officials.
A dispatch from Lyon Mountain, n.
Y, says Richard Mansfield is not i'm
praving in health, and those close to him
reluctantly admit their conviction that
the actor will never again be seen on the
stage.
Rumors that former President Cleye-
land ia i'll at his home, 10 Princeton,
N. j., are untrue, according to his ply
stefan. Mr.. Cleveland went driving yes
terday afternoon, and apparently was ss
well as usual.
After an all-night sitting the British
House of Cimmons yesterday morning
passed 10 third reading the deceased
wife's sister bill and sent it to the
House of Lords, where it has 90 ire
queOtly been rejected.
Announcement is made that a gr eat
artillery training school that will be to
the United States army what the School
of Shoeburyness is to the British army,
is about TO be established at Fort Mon
roe, for the higher technical training OF
the officers and enlisted men of the Coast
Artillery Corps, United States army.
James A. COnley was shot and killed
in Grand Rapids, Mich, Yesterday
b. Madeline Oonley, his wife. The man
cqme home at 2 o'clock and found the
door of the house locked. He WAS climb
ing through a window when the woman
shot him. Conley ran outside and fell
dead. 1t is said another man was the
cause OF the trouble. The woman was
arrested.
Crops throughout the farming district
surrounding Escanabs, Micn., we're GER
iously damaged by the first frost OF the
season Wednesday night. The tempers-
ture dropped to AZ degrees, and remain
ed at nearly the same point throughout
the night. The district surrounding
E+canaba is given up largely TO the raising
of potatoes, and corps on lowlaud fields
will prove nearly total loss.
DR.. Harvey Wiley, chief of the Bureau
of Chemistry, is back in the city, and
was at his desk in the Department of
Agriculture in Washington yesterday.
He brings with him the announcement
that Washington may see, within the
next year, an international pure food
congress, at which representatives of all
nations will be present and endeayOr to
compile some international regulations
An inventory of the estate of Reverdy
johnson, which was fled in the Or
phans' Court in Baltimore yesterday,
shows property Of about half a million
collars, the greater part Of which is in
stocks and bonds of the class generally
known as gilt-edge securities. The in.
ventorv is as follows: Personal estate,
$4O4, 275; real estate, $79, 5S3. 30; debts
due the estate, $14, 500. The real estate
consists Of valuable ground rents and
ies-simple property in various sections
of the city.
A race through the streets OF Norwalk,
Conn., at almost mile minute be-
tween a big touring car aud 4O-horse
power runsbout resulted 10 the wreckiDg
Of the runabOut on the Connecticut turn
pike near the Dsrien line late yesterday
afternoon, and the death of Mrs. Paul
Maccarmfc, of New York. Her husbar d,
who was in the wrecked car with her,
Is in the Norwslk Hospital with injuries
which may prove fatal. Before Mr..
Maccarmac's car WAS wrecked il grezed
the side of carriage. The carriage Was
overturned, and all the occupants we're
more or less hurt.
One man WAS killed outright, man
ard woman died of their injuries after
being taken TO the hospital, and four
o,her persons were hurt seriously, as the
result Of a collision yesterday afternoon
between De Kalb avenue car, Of the
Coney Island and Brooklyn Company,
and dirt train Of the Long Island Rail.
road at the grade crossing of the Man
haitian Beach Line, OF the Long Island
Railroad, at Parkville. The woman was
Mrs. Anna Cohen, Of Brooklyn. The
two dead men had not been identified up
to late hour last night. They we're
each about % years old. All the dead
and injured received their injuries
because they jumped from the trolley.
None OF those who remained on the car