Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-27
News of the Day.

Abukoff, Russia, have been completely
destroyed by a FIRE that swept the ennre
plant before it could be checked.
Lieut.. Charles Price Faulkner, eldest
son Of ex-senator Charles P. Faulkner,
died yesterday at the family home, st
Boydville, near Martinsburg, w. Va,
eyed 81.
John Hays Hammond, the mining
engineer, hss made new contract with
the Guggenheims to be their expert tor
the next FIVE years at q salary of $780,
600 annually.
The total number of dead and missing
of the Gladiator's crew as result OF the
collision between the American liner st.
Pail and the British or uissr off the Isle
OF Wight. on Saturday is Is.
Every one who can possibly leave
Vene zuels is doing 30 10 desperate haste
in anticipation of a bubonic plague cpl
demic which will close all the ports and
cut of escape from the perils of the
disease.
The London postal authorities have
learned that two bags Of mail from that
city, containing securities and other
valuables worth $500, 900, were stolen
In New York the latter part Of last
month.
The story of how she surrendered
$500 600 for her husband was told yes
terdsy by Mrs. William j. Ryan, form
erly Miss Helen X. Osmbois, of Phila-
delphia, who is spending her honey
moon at the Plaza Hotel, in New York.
A crack seventy-6ve feet wide and a
quarter of a mile long has appeared in
the surface OF the earth in Randolph,
VT. The issure has been growing since
March 81, when it appeared at a small
culvert on the road leading to North
Brsintree.
For the first time in 80 years supply
of the venom of the lance's head viper,
the most poisonous of all snakes, was Sc
cured in Bronx Geological Park, New
York, to be used ss serum in the treat
ment of certain forms OF insanity aud
virulent diseases.
The conservation of the Right Rev.
Dennis Joseph O'Oonnell, NJ. A., ID. d.
third rector of the Catholic University
of America, who has been recently ele-
waited to the rank of Bishop of Sebaste,
will occur at the cathedral at Baltimore,
at 1890 O'Clock Sunday, May 8.
Eight young women, said to be men,
bers of wealthy families, climbed down
rope ladders from the second aud third
storJ windows and made their escape
Saturday when luxuriously furnished
opium den was rsided in Walton street,
Williamsburg, New York. Three girls
aud two men we're arrested.
The House on Saturday listened to
eulogits on the life and services of the
late Senators Morgan and Pettus, OF
Alabama. Some. minor measures we're
agreed to. A bill providing for the re-
tirement of superannuated employs OF
the government WAS introduce by Rep
reseniative Gillett, OF Massachusetts.
John Edward Libbey, president Of the
Assoc istiOn OF the Oldest Inhabitants,
aud one of the city's Oldest lumber mer-
chants, died at his home in Washington
yesterday morning. Charles B. Church,
vice president OF the association, who
was also a veteran lumber merchant,
died at his home in Washington yester-
day morning.
A remarkable blizzard, the worst ex-
perienced in the south Of England since
1881, continued practically all over
the United Kingdom throughout Friday
night and Saturday until Saturday mid
night. |, was accompanied by a viol' mt
northerly gale and low temperature,
and in many places the snowdrifts are
eight feet deep.
The degree of doctor OF divinity was
conferred yesterday upon Rev. William
T. Russell, the new rector Of st. Pairick's
Church, Washington, by st. Mays
Seminary of Baltimore. Very Rev. E.
r. Dyer, in comforting the degree, stated
that it is not an honorary degree, but the
reward of eminent scholarship exercised
in the work Of the church With most
notable success.
Every Roman Catholic Church Snd
the houses within the Archdiocese Of
New York were in fiesta array yesterday
while perhaps million men, women
and children gave thanks for the progress
Catholicism had made in New York since
it was formally established. 100 years
ago. 1t was the beginning Of the week
of rejoicing in honor of the completion
OF century OF activity.