Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-19
News of the Day.

cock denies that he has been using 'no
public patronage to gather delegates Tor
Cortelyou.
Lieutenant General Stoessel was &C
cused yesterday by Col. Gurko OF hav-
ing shown the white feather under fire
on two occasions.
Congressman Champ CLARK while in
Pi.tsburg yesterday ssid Bryan will be
the next president II the republicans 90
not stop quarreling.
Wireless telephone messages having
been transmitted two hundred miles, IL
is expected by new method to establish
similar communication between Ireland
and Americs.
The late King Oscar IPs corpse was
laid today beside other past and gone
Swedish royalties in Ridarholms Cathe-
dral in Stockholm. His funeral was
magnificent and was attended by many
thousands.
Two persons are believed to have
been drowned when coal barge sank
off Pier /, North river, New York. today
Captain Won Haden and his wife we're
on the barge at the time, and it Is be-
eyed were asleep when the craft sank
Admiral George Dewey wasn't seventy
years old last night, but he will be on
December &c, so he celebrated last even
log anyway, by giving a dinner at bis
home In Washington at which the Pres
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt were two OF
the guests.
Gus Ringing, head Of the greatest
circus combination in the world, owning
a controlling interest in the Barnum and
Bailey, Forepaugh, Sells and the Ring
ling Brothers circuses died yesterday in
New Orleans of a complication of dis
eases. He was the Oldest of seven
brothers, and was 30 years old.
Representative Byrd, Of Mississippi,
has introduced a bill to prohibit the in
termarrisge of whites with negroes or
Mongolians in the District of Columbia.
There is at present no Law preventing
such miscegenation, and Representative
Byrd is taking the lead in the effort TO
place such q law upon the statue books.
Central Office detectives In New York
Yesterday arrested Richard Gordon, q
negro porter employed BY the United
States Express Company, late last night,
on the suspicion that he may know some
thing about the theft of the 1872, 900
worth Of jewels stolen from the company,
consigned to the New Willard Hotel,
Washington.
&c. Joy, the new husband of Jessie
Busley, leading lady Of "In the Bishops
Carriage" company, fred a shot at
Harry Elmer, advance agent of the
peggy from Paris" company at the
stage entrance Of the Opera House 10
Forth Worth, Texas, Tuesday night.
joys jealousy of Elmer, whom he ac-
cused of seeking to win Miss Bugley's 81
fiction, caused the shooting. No ole
was hurt and both we're arrested.
Orders have been issued by the War
Department by which the officers and
men of the army will be relieved OF the
strain of standing at attention with arm
appraised during the playing OF the Star
Spangled Banner on formal occasions.
Hereafter they will be obliged to salute
only at the last note of the music. The
| tendency of some band-mssters to draw
out the national air made the position
previously adopted tiresome strain.
NJ. Blerioti, the French aeronautic ex-
pert, had another narrow escape from
death yesterday, when his aeroplane was
wrecked. The machine was travelling at
the rate OF about thirty miles an hour,
when the wires supporting the wings
broke, and the aeroplane came to the
ground with q crash. NJ. Bleriot was
caught in the wrecksge. He was ex-
tricated With difficulty, but 1t was
found that he had escaped with severe
bruises.
No trace has been found OF Frederick
Evans, the sixteen year-old boy who was
beaten by @ apt. William Barnes Mon
day morning on the highway near Ashe-
Vile, N. c., and left In pine thicket,
after Barnes had overtaken Evans and
his fourteen-year-old daughter, Kathe-
rine, who we're clipping. Barn es yester-
day was held without bail for trial on
the charge of murder. He declared that
all he did to the boy was to give him
whipping and leave him In apine thicket
beside the road.
A bomb, loaded with dynamite, ex-
ploded early yesterday morning beneath
a house in Havana, in which Eve nom
striking masoDs were sleeping. No one
was hurt, and the building was only
slightly damaged. The police believe
the outrage was planned BY strikers.
Joaquin Disz, president of the masons'
union, was arrested yesterday aud held
in $4,000 bail on account Of a fiery
speech made at the meeting OF strikers
last Monday. The speech preceded the
street fight, in which firearms we're used.
By wireless message there came yes
terday the announcement Of an order
that sends the United States feet of
battleships on the longest voyage that
men-of-war have ever taken. The mes
sage came from Admiral Evans, giving
publicity to President RoosevelPs sealed
orders that the battleship feet, after reach
ing the Pacific, shall continue its cruise
still westward, pass through the Suez
Canal, and make complete circum-
navigation of the globe. 10 the fulfill
ment OF this order the feet will cover
more than 81, 900 miles and will return
to it's native shores many months hence.
Take DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills,
they are for weak back, inflammation Of the
bladder, backache and weak kidneys. Sold
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