Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-25
News of the Day.

day did much damage to property, bu'
no one was killed, as far ss known.
Telephone aud telegraph lines are down.
As a result of a serious runaway
shortly after O'Clock this morning in
Wilmington, Del, one man was killed
and one 80 badly injured that be may
not recover.
Andrew Carnegie has just announced
his latest philanthropic plan which pro-
vides for the repatriation and pension
log of all poor and aged Scots now living
in Great Britain.
Work on the Merchant and Miners
line pier at Philadelphia Is all tied up
this morning, owing 10 a strike OF the
lougsheremeu, who are demanding an
incresse 10 wages.
w. G. Walker, Ascending banker
cashier, was a passenger on the steam
ship Doric on her last voyage to the
Orient. He is said to have landed in
China and there has been no trace OF
him since.
News was received in the City OF
Mexico yesterday of the imprisonment
aud sentencing to death of 10 men
charged with completely in the recent
attempt to assassnate President Cabrera,
of Guatemala.
By the premature discharge of au
oyercharge Of dynamite in the new Penn
sylvsnia tuu1el at Seventh avenue and
Thirty-6rst street New York today four
teen persons were hurt, four of them
psehaps fatally.
In revenge for an assault on his wife
committed 10 Italy two years ago, Peirre
Michele, it is alleged, killed Joseph
Rainone in Worchester, Mass, today
and the police are now hunting for him
10 the woods between this city and
Lester.
Commissioner Anthony, appointed by
the Missouri Supreme Court to take tes-
timony iD the custer suit of the state
against the Standard Oil Company, has
made a report to the court that the evil
deuce introduced before him is suf-
6cient to Dust the Standard Oil Com
pany and tributary companies from
Missouri.
Capt. William w. Mclaughlin, who
is accused of having used the detective
bureau as private divorce agency TO
further the interests of Howard Gould
and several Others who have found the
New York ciiy's police very effective in
private work, sent bis resignation to
Commissioner Bingham yesterday, and
it was accepted, taking effect at mid
night.
The grand jury of San Francisco yes
terday returned twenty-one indictments
in the graft cases, and it is thought that
this practically ends its work. The in
dictments include Patrick Calhoun,
Thornwell Mutually, and I. L. Ford, OF
the Uoited Railroads; Theodore Halsey
and Louis Glass, of the Pacific States
Telephone Company, and Abe Ruef
and Major Schmiiz.
Princess Louise, daughter of the
Countesse de Paris, who lives at the
Villa Maurique, near Seville, is engaged
to be married to Prince Carlos de Bour-
bon, widower of Princess of the Asturi-
as, sister of the King Of Spain, who
died two years ago. The wedding will
take place probably 10 November at the
English residence of the Due d'Or'eans,
he being chief Of that branch of the Or
leans family. The King of Spain is ex-
pected to be present at the ceremony.
Miss Bessie L. Bond, treasurer Of
Central NJ, E. Church Sunday School
missionary fund, was yesterday 10 Balli-
more placed under SO, 900 bail for near
ing before U. S. Commissioner Rogers on
the charge of having passed "raised"
hundred-dOllar note on Rev. DR.. f. V.
REGISTER, presiding elder of the Wash
ington Conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. She was re-
leased on bail end Indignantly denies
The charge. Her mother is said is be
dying.
Tho lore TlltOn, the American editor
aud author, who has been i'll in Paris
for several days past, Of pneumonia, is
thought to be dying. he can no longer
retain nourishment, and, therefore, his
chances Of recovery are greatly lessened.
10 1874 Mr.. Tilton preferred serious
charges against Henry Ward Beecher,
who had been his pastor and intimate
friend, and demanded civil damages in
the sum OF 800, 900. After the tragedy
which wrecked his career Mr.. Tilton
went to Paris, where he ever since lived
the solitary existence of broken-heart-
ed man.