Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-07
News of the Day.


The strike of the British Columbia
coal miners is over.
The dead lock in the masons', stone
cutters and bricklsyers' traders in Phil
adelphis continues.
The quarters for the American dele
gatiOn at the Peace Conference at the
Hague will cost $3.50 q day, without
food or service.
Louis Goldman, fearing his wife, who
had left him would remarry should she
get a divorce me. her on the street 10
Ntw York yesterday and bit of hernose.
The costly residences of John Brown
Garrish at New Canaan, Conn.,, was de-
stroyed by fire last night, entailiDg loss
estimated at 100000. The cause OF
the fire is unknown.
Tie Congress of Peace Societies OF
Germany, Austria and Italy have adopted
a resolution declaring it the duty Of The
Hague Peace Conference 10 discuss the
Limitation of ornaments.
William Ellis Corey, head Of the
Steel Trust, who is to wed Mabelle
Gilman. the former actress, has present.
ell his mother with bonds Of the United
States Steel Corporation to the value OF
$3.50, 900
Alex Chisholm, the defaulling teller
who took 100000 from the First
National Bank at Birmingham, Ala,
was found guilty today and sentenced to
six years in the Atlanta penitentiary.
His father defended him.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Charles S. Fairchild, indicted 10 New
York for forgery in connection with the
life-insurance cases, yesterday entered
a plea of not guilty and gave bond OF
$40, 900 pending his trial.
Word reached Middlesboro, Ky, today
that John Howard and Elphan Howard,
brothers, were killed, aud George Green
and Martin Green, brothers, were fatally
wounded in pitched battle on Sugar
Run Creek late last night. The fight
was The result of an old feud.
Ina head-on collision between pass
enger train on the Mobile and Ohio
railroad and a freight train at Percy,
H., last night, several persons we're
seriously injured. The two engines were
demolished, a dozen freight cars were
stacked into a heap and passenger
coaches splintered.
It was announced in London yester-
day afternoon in special dispatch from
Consiantinople that seven battalions, or
6,454 troops, have practically been an
initiated during battle with rebels in
the province of Yemen, Turkish Arabia.
The commander-in-chief of the Turkish
forces is urgently calling for re-enforce-
ments.
Apparently respondent IS The result
of quarrel with and separation from a
woman who posed as his wife, John G.
Koehler, a wood fnisher, committed
suicide yesterday afternoon, in HE room,
on the fourth floor Of the house 1871
Tenth street northwest, Washington, by
inhaliDg Illuminating gas. His body
when discovered, about z o'clock in the
evening, was still warm, but all signs OF
life were extinct.
After risking his life on a hundred
battlefelds, Maj. Gen. Henry Ronald
Douglas MacIver, a soldier of fortune,
who fought under IS flags, died 10 his
bed in furnished room in west Twenty
second street, New York, yesterday.
He had been suffering from a cold, but
his condition had no. been considered
serious. Death came suddenly during
the night, and the first that was known
of it was when his body was found. He
died from heart trouble.
John Vaughan, a man &c years old,
is a prisoner at Lafayette, Ind, charged
with stabbing to death 9.year-old Eliza
beth Stubel, whom he is accused of kilt
ing Sunday night because she wouldn't
consent to marry him. Afte' the child
was dead the man cut his throat sew
eral times but did not succeed in killing
himself. Long and srdently Vaughan had
wooed the little child, despite the watch
fulness of the father. Mature beyond
her years, the little girl is said TO have
declared that she could not marry him
because of the difference in their relig-
ious belief.