Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-20
News of the Day.

| IIueAppiea arc dliif4Hb al
in great profusion.
Fay Templeon has retired from the
stage for life on her husbands farm.
Judge Peas, an inventor Of car
coupler, died at High Point, n. c., to
day.
E. H. Conger, minister to China
during the Boxer troubles, and later am
bss.ador to Mexico, died at Pasadena,
Cal, Saturday.
The mission board of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, of Washington,
has apportioned SIS, S29 to the Balii-
more conference.
Abraham Hummel, the convicted
New York lawyer, began his term Of
imprisonment for year on BlackwelPs
Island today.
Ross William Winans, IT,, II years
old, son of Mr.. Ross w. Winans, OF Bal
timore, died in Paris yesterday. His
mother died in Paris April 20.
Mr.. Roosevelt's policy is said to be to
force into public notice each candidate
for President, so as TO prevent any Ozark
horse" from winning the nomination.
A field of ice 40 miles in length and
10 miles wide has put serious embargo
upon the commerce OF Cape Breton, N.
II. Two fishing vessels we're lost with
40 men.
Two were fatally, two seriously and
fourteen painfully injured in arear end
collision on suburban delivery railway,
about six miles north of Akron, o.,
last night.
According to the Wall street Ticker,
William f. Corey will lose the presi-
dency of the United States Steel COrpO-
ration on account of his marriage TO Ma
belle Gilman.
General Kuroki visited Belmont Park,
New York, Saturday, where he was re-
ceived with tremendous enthusiasm. He
took "fyer" on Mr.. BelmOnPs horse,
Hal, and won.
General RolOf, the Polish-Cuban hero
national treasurer Of Cuba, was buried
in state at Havana yesterday. Thous-
a1ds OF persons attended the public ser
vices. He was buried beside Gen. CAL
ixto Garics.
Frank B. MacAboy, a cabmen, who
was shot in the Arlington Hotel, in
Washington, early Saturday morning
by GastOu Philip, a rich Clubman, died
in the Emergency Hospital, in that city,
Saturday night.
About $50, 900 people yesterday parti-
cipated in demonstration at PerpingnaD,
France, against the government for not
remedying the distress 10 the vine grow
ing district caused by the Wholesale ad-
liberation Of wine.
An offer of q compromise practically
agreed to this afternoon by all the trans
Atlantic steamship companies except the
White Star line, is repeated TO bring tae
strike of loDgshoremen in New York to
an end in the near future.
An explosion caused by mass of hot
steel refuse falling into pool of water
al The works of the American Bridge
Company at Encoyd, Penn, Saturday
blew Oh the corrugated iron roof Of the
cupola and caused loss Of 81 500.
Col. d. w. Ross, general purchasing
agent of the isthmian commission, hiss
rendered his resignation to the commis-
sion. 1t is said that bis retirement is
part of the general scheme of charges
in the commission which was begun two
months or more ago.
General Kuroki yesterday entertained
Gen. and Mrs. Fred Grant and other
American friends at an elaborate lunch
con at the Hotel Astor, and then, in
company with the Grants, visited the
tomb of Gen. U. 8. Grant, where the
japanese commander laid wreath upon
the sarcophagus.
A Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
fast train struck a Cincinnati, Dayton
and TOLEDO traction car at Cincinnati,
this afternoon. One passenger is report
ed dead and several injured. The head
of the dead passenger was crushed be-
yond recognition. The injured are said
to be in critical condition.
The War Department will award
within few days the contract for twenty
thousand white marble headstones to
mark the graves OF Confederate soldiers
and sailors who died in federal prisons
and military hospitals in the north dur
ing the civil war and who were buried
near The places of their confinement.
The American Baptist Publication
Society, in session in Washington,
Saturday elected officers as follows
President, Samuel A. Crszsr, Peunsyl
vanis; vice presidents, W. Howard
Doane, Ohio; Joshua lowering, Mary
land; w. G.. Crimson, Illinois; ID. @.
Hughes, New York; secretary, A, j.
Rowland; recording secretary, J. G.
Walker; treasurer, p. S. Hooper, and