Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-23
News Of the Day.

six members of the leper colony 10
Louisiana srs reported to have Deen
cured.
At nine o'clock last night the Loulsi-
ana State legislature adjourned without
taking a vote on the Locke snti-racing
bill.
Forty families we're made homeless BY
fire 10 Portchester, n. Y, yesterday
afternoon. The damsged is estimated
at 5000, 900.
In the recount 10 the New York may
orally Hearst gained l06 votes. his
10TH gain 10 date is 5SS. There are 44S
boxes yet to be opened. 10 order 10 WIN
Hearst must gain nearly 5000 votes
Jealous of the attentions she received
from another sutton, Victor Henri, sged
40, a csrpent:r, shot and killed Mrs:
Mary Cassidy, aged 3S, in the rear oil
her home 10 New York early today. de
then shot himself.
Capt. Lorenzo Dow Baker, Otherwise
known as "The Banana King Oh ia
maica," died Sunday at the PsrEtr
House. Boston, aged GO. after pro-
tracted illness from pneumonia, con-
trsct.d while on voyage ID oou'n
America last summer.
A coroner's jury at Annapolis yest:r-
day decided that the accident on the
Washington, Baltimore and Annapol Is
Electro Railway on June 5, in which
nine people lost their lives, was due TO
negligence on the part of employees oil
he company.
The funeral on Sunday of Prince
David Kawansnsuskos, who died re-
Gently in San Francisco and whose body
was taken to Honolulu was one OF the
most imposing royal funerals ever held
in Hawaii. The ceremony was In &C.
cordance with ancient Hawaiian usage.
Commissioner of Health Darlington,
of New York, announced yesterday thst,
beginning with Wednesday, all stray
dogs found on the streets and 10 public
places in New York city will be taken
to the pound and killed. This order
excludes all dogs that are muzzled or on
leash.
Ohas. spsch, aged 4S, found despe-
rstsIy wounded Friday night short
distance from where the dead body OF
! Airline Knisely, aged 10, his compsnif n
on a ride, was huddled In buggy, shot
to death, is under arrest in New Phils-
delphis, Ohio, chsrged with firing the
shots which caused the tragedy.
Shouting "Down with the meat ttn't.
we'd rather tt4rye than buy meat OF ex'
tortioners," hundreds OF baFe,headed,
scartily clad women psraded the Ghetto
di.tfic. of Brooklyn today and only the
united eff,rts OF nearly all the police re-
serves in the borough was sufficient II
pr ,yent serious raids on the retail shops.
During a sewers storm in Wilson
county, N. O., lightning s'rack a
country church where services vera In
progress and killed Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Linderman, while their infant child
in Lindenman's arms was unhurt.
Hail accompanied the storm and did
800, 900 damage to the tobacco crop In
thst county.
A verdict declaring Frederick a.
HYDE and Joost II. Schneider t, be
guilty and Johu A. Benson and Henry
P. Dimond to be not guilty OF The
charges against them in the land fraud
trial, which has been before the court in
Washington for nearly twelve weeks,
was brought In by the jury yesterday
afternoon after deliberation OF three
days.
The greater portion OF the town Of
Three Rivers, which lies about midway
betweed Montreal and Quebec. was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. Over 800
buildings, including many of the best
10 the town, have been destroyed. The
loss will amount to several millions.
The city hall, pOst-ofiice, and parish
church, every hotel of Importance, with
one exception; the Hochelaga Bank,
the Canadian Pacific Railroad Offices,
aud all the largest stores have been
swept away.
Nine. Auna Gould and Prince Helie de
Sagan are still at the Hotel Savoy in Lon
don. They are denying themselves TO all in.
reviewers and refusing to say anything about
their wedding plans.
1t is learned that the presidents son Theo-
dore will be employed this summer by the
Unt,d States Steel Corporation.
The reported assassination of Abdul Aziz,
the Sultan of Morocco. is uncOnfrmed.