Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-04-29
News of the Day.

lack OF lunu5.
The feature of the reunion in Wash
ington on May 2nd of the Society OF the
Army of the Potomac, will be the unveil-
ing of the Mcclellan statue.
Orders for 800 babies have been
placed with the New York Founding
and Orphan Asylum by louisiana fsmi-
lies, and are being filed as rapidly IS
possible.
The San Francisco Labor Council has
passed resolutions condemniDg President
Rooseyelps reference to Meyer and Hay
wood, the leaders of the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners.
Germany's omnibus silence concern
ing the situation in Morocco is annoy
ing France, which, however, controls
the situation and isprepared to force the
Sultan to keep his promises.
Col. Henry Wsttersop, editor Of the
/ ,uisyille Courier-Journsl. after sur
vey of the republican situation, picks
out Hughes as the probable winner of
the republican nomination for president.
Mgr. Francis Bourne, archbishop Of
Westminster, England, is in Rome to
antagonize The appointment OF another
American cardinal. He wants the next
Anglo-Saxon cardinal to be an English
man.
The plan for Cuban standing army
of ~, 900 men, suggested by the general
staff of the United States army, is de-
rided by the liberals, though it is at
tractive to certain element OF the
Cuban people.
Early yesterday FIRE destroyed the old
Goldman house, at Bladenburg, together
with barn and other outbuildings. The
house was one of the landmarks of his
toric Bladensburg, and was built over
100 years ago.
Returning from the visit at the James
town Exposition and the days holiday
on the James river, President Roosevelt
and party arrived in Washington on the
cruiser yacht May flower at 80 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
Rufus B. Bullock, former Governor
of Georgia, died Saturday ut the family
homestead at Albion, N. Y, where he
had resided since the death of his wife,
two years ago. He was seveuty-three
years of age. The cause Of death was
locOmOtor ataxia.
Warner Crosby, music com poser,
killed himself yesterday morning in a
furnished room house in New York.
Before he went to bed Saturday night
he wrote the music for the "The March
of the Sunragettes," and the manu-
script, which lay OH the floor near his
bed, was stained with drops Ofblood.
Two men were killed and 100 passen-
gers hsd a thrilling escape from like
fate in wreck yesterday of a passenger
train on the Wabash Railroad, when the
engine aud one coach left the track
half a mile west of the Bridgcville station
near Pittsburg and plunged into Char
tiers creek, forty feet below. Scores OF
people narrowly missed death or injury.
Capt. James b. Burge SO, widely
known Confederate veteran, of Win
chester, was found dead in bed yester-
day at his apartments on Rouss avenue,
by Richard Osborne, friend, who had
dou he h having 6 stn h I'll ssass gEsE 'a SSH
Coroner. HOdgeson deemed an inquest
unnecessary and the doctors stated that
death was due to heart disease.
Maud Harrison, the actress, while in
her room at the Hotel Willard, in New
York, yesterday, was stricken with pa
ralysis and died few hours later with
out having regained consciousness. She
was ffty-one years of age, sister of
Louis Harrison, the actor, and when
five years ago she retired from the stage
to devote her time to the care of an aged
mother, she had earned recognition as a
woman of talent.
Stephen d. Lee, general commanding
the United Confederate Veterans, has is
sued a general order appointing Mai.
Gen. Slith Boiling, of Virginia, chief
marshal of the parade at the Richmond
reunion of the Confederate veterans,
which will be held May 80 to June 8,
inclusive. Gen. Lee also announced the
selection of Col. Robert f. Lee, grand
son OF the great Confederate general, as
orator of the reunion.
Further details of the bond robbery of
tie Trust Company of America, learned
today in New York, show that the total
value of securities taken by w. O.
Douglass, the assistant bond clerk, and
hypothecaied by Oliver NJ. bennett and
others supposed 10 have been in the
scheme, was nearer $500, 900 than $780,
600. OF this amount $500, 900, not
$50, 600, as at fret stated, were found in
the possession of bennett at the Man.
haitian Club.
Albert B. Shrewsbury, Of Baltimore,
was found lying in the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad yards, in Washington, yes
terday, and was taken to the Sixth pre-
cinct station. He was apparently suffer
ing from uremia, and was later removed
to the Emergency Hospital. Ia his
pockets Shrewsbury had number of
stocks of gold and copper mining and
industrial corporations, the par value OF
which amounted to $3.50 600. A large
sum of money was also found. He was
later taken to his home in Baltimore.
Arthur Rutter, marshal of New Bos-
ton, suburb of Portsmouth, Ohio, wss
shot and instantly killed last night by