Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-04
News Of the Day.

Ohambe Rain, Repres sntslive Hepburn's
son-iD-law, general appraiser at New
York.
II is rumcrsd inst the Ounsrd Steam
ship Company will spend s4 600, 600 70
build ship 10 beat the LnsiIanis ana
Mauretanis.
Jackson Smith has resigned as men,
Der of the Isthmian Canal Commission
and manager Of the department OF lADtr,
wft,r and subsistence.
A dispatch from Manila says Harry
Ickes, a government mining exper, and
a companion were murdered by Moros
on April /, while asleep in lonely
mountain region.
Exercises were held 10 New Orleans
Yesterday APPROPRIATE 10 the dedication
of the site Of the monument - be erected
to the memory of President Davis by the
people Of the South.
Cjugressman j. +. L,ning, repub-
Iicap Of the 18th Ohio dlsIri,t, and q
candidate to succeed himself, has been
indicted as r result OF the recent bank
failures at Norwslk, o,
Mrs.. Myite Moran, 5 years old, wife
of John Moran, a printer, WAS fonnd
dead b. her uncle yest rday at 400 |
street, southwest Washington. While
in ct of dependency, owing TO dome'tlc
troubles, she took dose Of poison.
Jim Floyd, VIII t, man, attended 3
negro revivslin progress at Montgomery,
Ala, and in an alteration with the
negro rsligionists killed two of thenf and
was killed himself As result of the
shooting race feeling is running high
there.
Broadway, New York, saw its mot
spectacular gambling raid and most ex-
lensive display Of pistols last eight when
nearly two hundred policemen and de-
t,c,iyes swooped down on Nos. 1879 aud
l4I west 4lst street, and arrested fifty
eight meD.
"The Galveston plsn"-cily govern
ment by commission was put on Irisl
today for the fut in New England. The
city Of Chelsea with its $4,000 Iopnla
tim, " ich few months ago was devas-
tsled by fra, Is tie seat OF the expert
ment. The fise commissioners supplart
all city officers.
Because she accept ID dare and dom
ned ogeralls ID carry some mortar up a
| ladd r, Mrs. Martin Msurd spent 3
night 10 Jail in Ohicsgo, and was forced
to wall several hours yesterday before
her friends could pay her fine. Mrs.
Maurd insisted the affair was all n ike,
bat Judge Maxwell was rettless.
Rumors of a concerted plan to STAN
pede the republican nstional convention
| 10 Roosevelt few thick and isst in Chica-
60 today on the eve of the meeting OF
the national committee. The source OF
these reports is believed TO be the cal
lies" who are anxious 10 create the i'm.
preston that Tait's reported strength is
| fictitious.
Revised specifications for the largesl
naval dry dock in the world which is TO
be built at the Bremerton ysr1, Puget
Sound, have been completsd by Rear
Admiral Holiday, chief OF the bureau
Of yards and docks, and bids have been
called for to be opened on June Is.
An appropriation of 81, 500, 600 is avail
able for the purpose.
Advicea from The Canal Z)ne describe
the Premature explosion by lightning OF
| 2G tons Of dynamite at Gaim,tp MulstO,
in which two Americans were killed,
on My ., lat The victims were Ohf-
ford J. CcggoO, levelmsn, and j. P.
| Roche, posd,rman. Several hundred
other men were nesr when the explo-
sion occurred and number were slight
ly injured.
Following the election Of President
Oscar q. Murray, Of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, rs direct r of the Read
ing Railr0i d, on Tuesday, 1t was report
ed in ri t,burg yesterday thst the Bst-
more & Ohio and the Reading systems
are to be connet I'd st once, thereby Civ
ing the Baltimore q Ohio a direct line
into New YORK and at tie same time
giving the Reading q direct outlet TO
Chicago and the west.
The remains Of former Senator James
X. Jones, Of Arkansas, who died at his
residence in Washington on Monday,
were buried in Rock Greek Cemetery,
that city, this evening. The funersl ser
vices we're held at the family residences.
The honorary pallbesrers we're Senst)r
Robert l.. Owen, of Oklahoma; Senator
IL. j. Burktt, OF Nebrasks; Judge
Ohsres B. Howry, OF the Court Of
Claims; J. Fl. McGowsu, o +. Not
ment aud J. s. SwOrmstedt. Rev. DR..
Webb and Rev. J. w. Duffy, of Harri-
sonburg, Va, officisted 1T the fuutrIl.
Returns from Tuesdays primaries in
lows that srs complete in ntsrly all the
counties of the Ststs last night iudicsts
thst the republicans nominated William
B. Allison for reelection ID the Unitsd
Stat "a Senate. His majority is now
generally conceded to be at least 10, 900.
B. +. Carroll was nominated for gov
ernor over Warren CAST by obOut 20, 600
votes. George w. Clarke was nomi-
mated for lieutenant governor over B.
Murphy ny 10000 or more. j. f.
Riggs WAS nominated for superintendent
of public schools by an overwhelming
mSj lrity.
Resentment Ia expressed among officers
of the staff c. rps OF the navy over what
Is believed t. he the contention OF the
president TO put the officers of the Bureau
Of Steam Engineering immediately under
al officer Of the line. BY the tiremeut
for age yesterday of Dol. Clifton 3.
Sears, COrTs of Engineers, Lieut.. Col.
Smith 5. Lsaeh, acting chief OF engineers
is promoted to colonel. This gives Col
onel Leach, who is secretary Taft's man