Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-16
News of the Day.

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have separated.
Cardinal Gibbons has collected more
than $50 900 in the Cardinals Fund"
for the Catholic University.
The new British torpedo. boat de-
stroyer Mohawk made S4I kno;s an
hour on her Official trial trip yesterday.
War is said to have been declared by
President R9osevelt's friends 10 Nes
York against Governor Hughes as q COZ
didsie for President.
Wooluey & Co, brokers' and Members
of the London Stock Exchspge, suspend
ed business today. Their liabilities are
estimated at $4,000.
The Eastern Steel Company, ct Potts
Vile, Pa employing 1000 meu, has
suspended work 10 all but the bridge
shops and open hearth department.
Andrew Carnegie was hailed as the
dove OF pesce at The Central American
Peace Conference in Washing on yester-
day and he and lis president embraced
and kissed each other.
Archbishop ireland took luuch With
President Roosevelt yesterday. II is r.
ported that next to Roosevelt the noted
prelate is favorable to Mr.. Coftelyou for
The nomination forpFesident.
Fire todsy destroyed II buildings in
S.. Louis, bliss, ertailiug a los OF
$4,000 For time the entire town
was threatened but the efforts OF The
6renen soon got the flame under con-
tool.
In Washington yesterday Attorney
Hoover revealed that insanity would be
the plea of the defense in the case Of
Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, on trial for
causing the death Of ex-senator Arthur
Brown of Utah.
The Wabash flyer, speeding to Chicago
at sixty miles az hour, jumped the track
near Dillon, Ind, last night, and rolled
down steep embankment into core
field. Yet not a1passenger was killed,
only four persons were slightly injured
Shot through the head while patrol
lirg bis beat in Chicago today Patrol
man Robert McAneny, so, died while
being taken to st. Bernardo Hospital.
His assailant is unknown. The murder
is believed to have been committed BY
robbers.
A runaway Third avenue, NeE
York, norlhbound train struck train Of
five empty cars at 1SO.h street today,
crushing in the front ends Of the forward
cars, fatally ipjuriug motofmau and
seriously iDjuriug three passengers, one
a woman.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Yesterday issued a statement in which il
saws thai il has been decided to reduce
expenses asIfsr rs practicable, aud to tina
end shop forces working on repairs will
be pat on an eight hour basis beginning
next Monday.
Henry Schfeloein, of Allegheny, Pc,
aged 10, accidentally shot aud killed
himself today as he was starting on s
huutiog trip. He sci down his gun be-
side the tree. When be picked up The
weapon it discharged and the shot tore
through his forehead, killing him in
stsntly.
DR.. Horace Marvin, now Of Sioux
City, Iowa, father Of iour-year-old
Horace Marvin, whose supposed kidDsp-
ing in Delaware last winter held the
attention of the whole country, has
married Mrs. Flora N. Thornton
Swift, mother of bis late vile and grand
mother of the little boy.
Patrick O'Briea was held without bail
10 North Adams, Mass today on the |
charge of msuslaughter. His wife was
found unconscious at their home yes err
day and died in hospital. O'BTien's
ia her was found in The house at the same
time with his head badly battered, bni
will recover. O'B!ien said bis wife fell
down stairs.
l. is currently reported 10 Wall street
this afternoon that John d. Rockefeller |
has slowed away in the vaults OF tho |
Standard Trust Company 500, 600, 900 |
worth of government bonds. Ii this re-
ports be true, and its authenticity is said |
to be assured, the oil king is the creditor
of the government to the extent OF q |
little more than one-ninth of the interest.
While dej ecled, after severe illness,
Martin Luther Adams, prominent and
wealthy retired farmer, committed sui
eide yesterday afternoon By hanging him
self in the stable in the rear of his home,
at Fonkstown, uesr ID egerstogD, Md.
Mr.. Adams hsd I'D an active life, living
on his large farm, near FuDks oRr, until
about yesrs ago, when he quit farming
and moved to Funksiown. This fall he
had been i'll for several weeks, his illness
leaving him in very nervous condition.
Mr.. Adams was 20 years old aud was a
member of the Christian Church.
Mrs. Egelyn Romadka, who is the wife
of a 6ealtby merchant OF Milwaukee,
and who was recently indicted for burg
larry snd larceny, wac yesterday sen
fenced to the peniteutiary for from one
to twenty years. The trial lasted IL
minutes. Mrs. ROmadka WAS convicted
of being accessory to the burllsries sDd
larcencies of Albert Jones, negro. She
was arrested while wearing jewels stolen
from the home of restaurant keeper.
How a woman of her social position
came to share in the plumber of the
crimes of Jones has never been explain
ed. Jones is now in Jail awaiting trial.
Four armed Italians Yesterday after
poon held up William Knapp, pay
master and head Office man Of the Worth
en- and Aldrich Bleschsry, Of Dslawsnns,
near Passsic, N. j., and robbed him OF
81, 500. The robbery was committed at