Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-03
News of the Day.

been declared off.
Mai. Gerald Rathbone died in San
Francisco yesterday after brief illness.
He was consul at Paris under the first
Cleveland administration.
Henry Bennett, colored, has been ar
rested at Wadesboro, N. c., charged
with criminslly sssauting Julia Cole, q
11-year old girl Of that town. Feeling
over the outrage runs high in Wades-
boro.
Cllnging to car OF ore which they
were unlosdiDg, four Italians were crush
ed to death today when the car was sud
denly forced over the end OF a 25-foot
trestle ut Riddlesburg. Pa. The nDfOr-
tunate men were buried under the tons
Of ore which crashed out their lives in
SANITY.
Rev. Jere Knoke Cooke, rector of St.
Georges Episcopal Church, of Hemp
stead, L. l., who disappeared Tuesday
with Floretta Whaley, his seventeen
year-old orphan ward, was deposed from
the Episcopal priesthood yesterday by
Bishop Frederick K. Burgess, of the
Long Island diocese. This action was
taken at the missing rector's own re-
quest as set forth in aletter written by
him to the bishop and mailed in New
York.
A market rampant with bullish ex-
element on sccount of crop damage
prevailed on the Chicago board of trade
yesterday and prices SCARED sSyward.
The advance threw the pit into state
of excitement. recalling the scenes that
attended the famous Letter deal. With
in the forenoon the price of wheat for
delivery in July, in which the trading
was most active, bounded up 10 50 Ia
cents, an advance Of over 3 cents a
bushel in two days.
Arcangelo Rossi, the tenor, who was
with the Conried Opera Company in
San Francisco during the earthquake,
and who, as the result of the fright he
experienced, has not since been well,
eudeavored to commit suicide in Milan,
Yesterday. Recently he lost his voice.
This calamity weighed so heavily on bis
mind that he went crazy, and yesterday he
cut out his tongue with pair of SCISSOR.
He was taken to hospital in critical
condition.
The Gulf coast of the State of Cam
peche, Mexico, has been swept by de-
s'ructiye hurricane. 1t is said that more
than thirty persons were killed and many
others injured 10 the storm. The prop
erty loss amounts TO several million
dollars. The cOcoanut groves along the
coast were uprooted, and all kinds Of
crops were destroyed. Many small viii
lagos we're razed to the earth. The storm
came from the south and crossed the
gulf, iUhicting, it is thought, heavy
losses 10 shipping interest.
Because he could not secure an annual
pass over his own line, ex-Gov. n. @.
Warmoth, of Louisiana, on Wednesday
resigned the presidency of the New Or
leans, Fort Jackson and Grand Isle
Railroad, 60-mile line extending down
the banks of the Mississippi. He hSd
held the office II years. BOndhclder
took over the property in 1896, and
since then have been forced to eccnO-
mize on every item. The railroad ex-
tends past the plantation home of Mr..
Warmoth, who makes daily trips TO
New Orleans.
Henry Middlekamp, sr., fifty three
years old, was shot and killed at his
home in Gainesville, Md, yesterday
morning. His son, j. Henry Middle
kamp, jr., seventeen years old, is lock-
ed up charged with the murder Of his
father. 1t is alleged that the son fired
the fatal shot while trying to protect
his mother and older brother from an
attack by the husband and father. Last
night the coroner's jury, after hearing
the testimony, brought in a verdict Of
iustiiable homicide, the boy having
killed his father 10 defending bis mother.
Judge Fl. Beatty, OF Boise, Idaho, who
instructed the jury that is supposed to
have indicted Senator Borsh, of that
State, is in the city. "The charge that
| used my influence TO secure the indict-
ment OF Senator Borah, is false" he said
today. "The District Attorney told me
he had been instructed to investigate the
timber frauds. | instructed the jurors
in the law applicable aud told them
they should make no distinction in per.
sons. gave them no intimation as to
who might be involved. When the
indictments we're returned | did not read
the list, but only certified to the sigma
lures and Endorsements"