Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-21
News Of the Day.


ing was yesterday granted to Greene
and Gaynor 10 the United States Court
of Appeals in Huntsville, Ala.
Former President Grover Cleveland,
who has been i'll with acute indigestion,
is reported out of danger. The report
that an operation had been performed
on him is denied.
Col. Henry Harris Hail, prominent
Confederate veteran, great-grandson
of President William Henry Harrison
and second cousin of ex-Prtsident Benz.
Harrison, died at Aiken, s. c., yester-
day. He was SO years of aga.
The Spanish colony has been granted
permission by the Right Rev. w. A..
Jones, bishop of Porto Rico, to transfer
the body of Ponce de Leon, the explorer
and first governor of Porto Rico, from
the Church of San Jose to the Cathedral
Four men were killed and two serious
ly Injured at the Proctor aud Gamble
Soap Works at Mariners Harbor, Staten
Island, last night, when live electric
wire came in contact with boiler that
was being moved out of the works on a
fiat car.
A most appalling automobile accident
occurred at CsianellO, about 100 miles
distant from Naples, yesterday, five men
being killed. The motor car, which YVES
going at high speed, ran into a rock and
was demolished. Among the killed was
Prince Pescara, a member of the Italian
nobility and related to the Spanish royal
house.
1t was sworn in the Haywood murder
trial yesterday that prior to the assassi-
nation OF former Gov. Steunenberg,
Haywood had declared the "monster
Steunenberg should be exterminated."
The State further showed that money
had been sent from Pettibone's store in
Denver to Orchard while he was in San
Francisco on mission of murder.
Dr.. Harvey w. Wiley. chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry, Department of
Agriculture, sailed from New York yes
terdsy for France. He is going to BOr-
desux to act as one of the jurors of the
foods exhibit at the Bordeaux Exposi.
ton, and to continue his Investigations
into the production of French wines.
He will be absent until about August !.
Nealon, the four-yesr-old colt of @.
f. Durnell, yesterday won the suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay by length
over Montgomery, who was second.
BesconLight was third. Nealon's time
for the mile and quarter was 200 2 5.
The Keene entry and Electioneer, the
favorites in the race, were beaten of in
the first half of the distance. Nealon
was 20 to l in the betting.
Two stage coaches, containing sixteen
tourists, bound for Yosemite Valley, were
held up and the passengers robbed of
$4,000 and considerable jswelry by a lone
highwaymsn Wednesday night about
forty miles from Raymond, CAL, The
robber wore mask, aud was cool and
bnisness like. He is believed to be the
same man who robbed three stage coaches
on the same road last year. Both stages
we're robbed in the same manner and at
short intervals.
W. w. Barton, a carpenter, shot and
almost instantly killed his wife, three
children and himself at his home, near
Jasper, Fla, Wednesday night. One
victim, child FIVE years Of age, sur
vived long enough to tell that Barton
did the killing. Unhappy domestic rela-
tons are believed to have been respon-
sible for the crime. Barton left home
Tuesday and did not return until late
Wednesday evening. When he found
the door nailed against him he battered
them down and began his work of destrue-
ton.
John Siemen, a Hungarian, aged 80
years, shot his two little children in the
head last night at bis home in Whining
ton, Del, and tn n sept a bullet into
his own brain. The trio were removed
to the Delaware Hospital, where the
father died few minutes after being adj
mitted. The children will also die.
They are aged years and years, re-
spectively. The bullet went completely
through the head Of one of hem. Sic
men had been drunk all day. Last
night after he and the children had re-
tired and when the wife left the house