Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-29
News of the Day.

CnlcagO MONDAY Is the peiieI Vi 'nVee
watching the struggle.
The French Chamber OF Deputies, by
a majority OF 100, voted confidence in the
governments policy regarding the sup
preston of the agitation in the south.
A big combination of iron and steel
manufacturers is in course of formation 10
Great Britain with the intention Of CON-
batting American and German competi-
lion.
While walking along the Pennsylvania
Railroad yesterday near Marietta, Pa,
Mira. Albert Lutz and Mrs. Mary Brooch
ter, were struck by train, and instantly
killed.
Walter P. Phillips, of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, formerly general manager OF the
United Press, has written letter to
President Roosevelt asking that the
name OF Jefferson Davis be restored 10
Cabin John Bridge.
Geo. Cohan, the sctor-author, and
Miss Agnes Nolan, for three years a
member of Cohan's Companies, will be
welded at Freehold, N. j., by Justice
of the Peace j. S. White today. Cohan
was divorced from Athel Levy, the vau-
devilIe actress, last February. be is %
and his finance seven years his junior.
The President today announced the
appointment of Philip NJ. Brown, secre-
tary of embassy at Constantinople, and
Peter Augustus Jay, secretary at Toxic.
The President signed the application oil
Medical Inspector Presley NJ. Rixey to
be advanced to the rank of Medical Di-
rector. DR.. Rixey now holds the pO-
sftion Of Surgeon General of the Navy.
The question ofprohi6iIing the use Of
the rife bullets adopted by Germany,
Great Britain and the United States, on
the ground that they are more dangerous
than the "dum-dum" bullets, will be
raised in the Peace Convention. Mr..
Choste, the American delegate, made q
speech unfolding the principle OF the
exemption OF all private property except
contrsband from capture on the high
seas.
Nina King, the woman who shot Will
liam F. Dunn, a race track man, on the
grand stand at Pimlico during the recent
race meeting, was released yesterday at
Baltimore, the indictment being nolle
pressed because Dunn failed to appear
agains. the woman. Dunn was shot in
the arm and only slightly wounded
Nina King at the time said she shot
Dunn because he had deserted her for
another woman.
Because her husband had brought suit
for divorce, Mrs. Charles Borg, of Dia-
mond, Ind, fred their home Yesterday
aud then, walking mile to where he
was living, told her husband what she
had done, and that she had brought her
clothes along to go to jail. Borg refused
TO believe his wife until he saw the smOk-
ing ruins of bis home. Mrs. Borg was
placed under arrest, and in default Of
81, 900 bail went to Jail. The officers
believe she is insane aud commission
will examine her.
Mrs. Maggie Perdue, aged sixty-one,
was shot end instantly killed 10 her home
at Glen-Lyn, Mercer county, w. Va,
Thursday evening, by her sixteen-year-
cd SOD, Charles. Toe lad had shot
gun across bis shoulder aud was leaving
Inc premises when his mother called him.
In turning to answer his parent, the
gun wos discharged, the entire load
taking effect in Mrs. Perdue's body. 1t
is believed the shooting was accidental.
Mrs. Perdue leaves husband and six
children.
The two-year-old baby girl of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Kinkelstein, of York, Pa,
died Thursday night. Yesterday morn
ing the father placed it in a soap box
coffin, and, with spade and mattack, he
started for the cemetery with the inten-
ton of buryiDg it. When the neighbors
observed the soap box, which was to be
the coffiD of the girl, they Immediately
telephoned to police headquarters aud
notified Coroner A. n. Groves. He made
an investigation aud the police held up
the interment of the little one until the
parents consented to secure more suit
able coffin.
Minns, the o-yesr-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Moody, of Waco,
Texas, was carried into the air Thurs
day by bundle of Toy balloons which
an Italian peddler on the veranda OF the
hotel tied around her waist, thinking to
please her. Before the spectators could
recover their surprise she was waited out
to sea, 80 feet 10 the air. A launch
occupied by George Munafee, of Denver,
was in the bay and he came to the little
girls rescue. Firing at the bundle of
balloons he punctured several of them
and she began to settle downward,
finally landing safely II feet from the
water on the shore of St. Joseph's Island.
What promises to be another cause
celebre in the army has been precipitated
through the action of Mrs. John A.
Logan, widow of Gen. John A. Logan,
in filing a complaint at the War De.
partment, alleging scandalOus conduct
on the part of her son-in-law, Lieut..
Col. William +. Tucker If an inyesti-
CATION begun by the department should
substantiate her statements, Lieut.. Col.
Tucker stands in danger of court-msrtisl.
The complaint filed by Mrs. Logan is
said to be based upon the way in which
her son-iu-lsw conducted himself while
stationed in the Philippines. The mill
tary authorities recently issued an Of
fetal order in regard to the relations
which should exist between army men
stationed in the far eastern archipelago
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