Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-03
News Of the Day.

ANNN - VA ~ -
Joel Chsndler Harris, the author,
and widely known under the pseudonym
"UncIe Remus," is critically i'll st his
home in Atlanta, Ga.
Several thousand persons turned
out yesterday to welcome Representative
James S. Sherman, the republican caDd-
idate for the vice presidency, TO his
home, in Utica, N. Y.
American residents Of Manila are be-
coming alarmed over the cholera stu
alton and are appealing to Gov. Smith
and the municipal authorities II put
forth every effort to check the encroach-
ment of the disease.
The health OF Princess Victoria, King
Edwards daughter, is again causing
great anxiety. She has been ordered to
take another six months holiday in the
brsclng air of Norway. She suffers at
times frora epiletic 6t'.
Secretary Cortelyou has announced q
further call upon the national bank de-
positaries for approximately s45, 900, to
be paid on or before July Is. The call
does not apply to depositaries having
government funds to the amount OF $50, :
900 or under.
Ex.President Oleveland's will, which
leaves the bulk of his property to his
widow, WAS filed in Mercer county,
New jersey, yesterday. 1t is known
that the former president left a large es-
tate enough to keep his widow and
children in comfortable circumstances.
Just because Fletcher Duggelt, Of
Greensboro, N. O., claims to have re-
csived q telegram from God that tue eud
of the world is at hand the authorities
there have thrown Fletcher into prison.
They don't believe him. Duggett de-
clares that according to his special infor-
nation GabriePs trumpet is due to blow
IN Just six weeks.
Morris Gross, a New York million
are, who, with his wife, has been pass
ing few days at Asheville, N. O., en-
route to the Pacific to take a steamship
% The Orient, reported to the police yes
risy that he had been robbed OF SlO,-
900. Cross carried his money In rcd
poke book, which slso confined a
letter of credit on London for e, 900
stirling.
During severe thunderstorm at
Lowe J, Mas, yesterday afternoon, a
bolt of lightning which entered the
house of Mrs. John Griffin struck the
woman's child from her arms, but be-
You'd a severe shock neither was injured.
Three buildings were struck by lightning
and set sfre, but the flames we're extin-
guished, with eight damage.
The coroner's jury in the case of En-
gineer B. NJ. Stultz, of the Seabosrd
Air line, who was killed Wednesday
night in Raleigh, N. O., yesterday, ac-
quilted Turner Smith, the l9-year-old
boy, who admitted shooting Stullz. The
engineer WAS peeping through a blind
at Smiths young sisters while they were
undressing.
An unknown man dropped dead of
heat in Haymarktt Square, Boston,
shortly after noon yesterday. Eight
heft ptostrslious with heat. Fire de-
parlmeDt officials stale that the com
hined effect of the suns rays and
fiction caused a garment which MIS-,
William Cohen, of Ohsrlestown, was
cleaning yesterday with gasoline, TO
catch fire. Mrs. Cohen was badly burned,
though not fatally.
In a criticism OF the proposed scheme
OF the New Workers to offer resolutions
at the democratic national convention
next Tuesday, Henry Watterson, of
Louisville, Ky, says: "The attempt
TO drag the dead body Of Grover Oleye-
land from its new-made grave into the
tumnlt of a national convention will de-
ceive no one. An invasion of the grief
OF the noble lady who weeps amid the
silence and the solitude Of the granite
hills, a blow at party concord, it is the
act of shameless hypocrit ss."