Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-21
News Of the Day.


Col. James NJ. Gufsy yesterday dom
mated tie Pennsylvania democratic con-
vention, preventing instructions io'
Bryan.
The forty-eighth annual meeting OF
the General Assembly Of the Southern
Prs.b, terrain Church opsned st Green's
boro, N. c., todiY.
Three prominent senst,rs are Ill and
unable to be present at the closing Gays
of the session. They are SensHrs FL
kins of Wet Virginia, Foraker OF Ohio,
and La Toilette OF Wisconsin.
Army circles In San Francisco are
excited over the mysterious disappear
ance of Captain Samuel ID. McAllIstfr,
of the 3Stl. Coast Artillery, from the
Prssidio. No cause for his disappear
ance is knUwr.
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill direc ing the rst,ration to gold and
,iIyer coins OF the motto ain God We
Trust" ordered by him stricken from
the gold coins some months sgo on the
ground that the law did not authorize
| its use.
Richmond was visited yestsrday after
noon by the worst storm for several
years. The tt1rm was accompanied by
tn urder and lightning, being the fist
electric storm of the present summer.
TIE tremendous fall of rain was accom-
panied by hail.
President Clark Bell, of the Medico-
Legal Society OF Greater New York,
believes William II. March, the rich
Flatbush manufacturer did not die OF
hydrophobis, but succumbed 10 opialf
administered to relieve his supposed
sufferipps. The Brooklyn health de-
partment refused a burial permit this
afternoon. An autopsy will be made.
George Msrtin, living near Hancock,
f,ty miles east OF Cumberland, Md,
was killed yesterday by lightning while
sitting under an spple tree. When the
sorm came up his two companions went
| ITO the house near by. Martin said ne
would stay where he was, and wished
the Lord would strike him with light
ming. A few minutes later Lightning
shalt cred the zee, killing him instantly.
He was tSirty-hve years old, and had
somewhat of reputation as local
preacher.
Because bis four-year-old sist,r refused
| =, GET nm ont of bed when he called her,
eight.yesr old Andy Pfeifer, son Of a
| Wheeling Greek, W. Va, miner, yes
teriay morning placed the muzzle OF q
shot .un in the little ones mouth and
fred. The mother OF the children was
in the yard at the time Of the occur
renee, snd she tainted ct the sight that
met her gsze when she ran into the
house. The boy says he did not know
the gun was loaded, but simply wsnt'd
to scfre his sister.
The Protestant Episcopal Diocesan
Convention of Maryland yesterday de-
c:ded to elect a co-adjutor bishop as an
ASST, tant to Bishop Paret, who is 81
years old, and TO build cathedral 10
Baltimore. The election was postponed
| til next October. Those most promi'
nently mentioned for the place OF assist
ant bishop Gre Rev. John Gardner Nor
ray, of St. Michael and All Angels
Church; Rev. Edward B. Niver, OF
Chri,t Church; Rev. A. B. Kinsolving,
of st. Pauls Church, and Rev. Robert
J. COPELAND, Of the Church OF the AS
cension.
The knell of currency legislstion, so
fsr IS the present session of OOngless IL
concerned, was sounded late yesterday
sfternoon, when the conftreeS on the
part of the Senate and House failed to
agree. But this does not necessarily
mean that the AlGrich bill shall not rise
again. The Vreelsnd bill as amended
by the AldIich subst tuts Is 10 sleep in
the Senate finance committee and a cur
rency com mission Is recommended In its
I, taad by the conferees. Senator Aldrlch
will today offer a bill to create cur
rency commission and an effort will be
made to rush it through both Houses Of
Congress. There will probably be no
opposition to this procedure.