Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-12-07
News of the Day.

day passed Singapore and exchanged sa-
lutes; toe voyage from Maaila was not
marked by any happening Of Importance.
-Four young people, out Of party Of
FIVE, skating on Lake Koshkonong, ueaI
Milton, Wis, were drowned Saturday
night, when a section Of the ice forty
feet square gave way under them.
After acting as best man at the wed
ding of q young woman he had himself
long wooed in vain, Edward Thomas,
of Minneapolis, on Friday night wenl
home and hanged himself with strap
The revolutionary army Of General
Simon marched into Port an Prince Sat
urdsy and Was enthusiastically received
Simon may proclaim himself president
He says, however, he will order az
election.
The French government has decided
that President Castro cannot land al
Bordeaux unless he apologies for the
expulsion Of NJ. Taigny and orders The
acceptance of the awards regarding
French claims.
While trying their new skates on th'
Ice at Ames shovel works pond, in North
Esston, Mass, late yesterday afternoon,
Ethel Anderson and MsrIha Anderson
cousins, we're drowned. They had barely
started when the ice gave away.
Judge Il. P. Iugalls, the last of the
old-time shoWmen, including Bsroumi
Forepsugh aud John Robinson, thu
elder, died yesterday at his home In
Huntsville, Ohio, aged 50 years. In
6rmitiea OF age caused his demise.
While two horses dashed down The
pike near Zoucksville, Carroll cSuntyi
Md, yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Oathe'
rine Oockey, wife of Mr.. Sterling l,
Oockey, of Baltimore, jumped to death
Mrs. William Burke, In whose team
Mrs. Cockey was riding, remained 10
the buggy aud chung to the lines. shC
was uniDjured.
The big steel freighter D. NJ. Glenn
son is given up by her owners IS lost IL
Lake Superior. With the boat, which
was laden with coal, crew Of twenty
two men were Lost, in the gale whict
blew across Lake Superior last week
Just how the vessel of 5000 tons was
lost may never be known, for not one o
the crew could have escaped.
Mary. the fve-year-old daughter o.
Calvin Gross, of South Lebanon Town
ship, Pa. yesterday morning was burned
to death. While her mother was milk
ing the COWS the child, alone 10 thu
house, secured celluloid comb, and hell
1t over the fame of a lamp, igniting th'
comb, which set fire to the clothing o.
the little one. Her frightfully charrst
body was found by the mother on he
return from the barn.
Ray Ooomer, Of Greensboro, twenty
four years Of age, was shot aud killed il
the home Of Levi Partridge, one milf
from Glover Villsge, VT, yesterday, aDt
Partridge is locked up on the charge o
killing him. For some time Coomer hs
been rather intimate with Mrs. Partridge
and bis attentions have been the csus'
of considerable trouble 10 the Patridg'
family. Not a great deal is known o
the Psrtridges except that they CAM
from Leesburg, Va, and are Virginisns
A bride and a widow in three week
and a bequest from the groom OF $3.50,
600 is the experience of Mrs. JOSEPH
Hill, of Wilmington, Del. Miss CIar'
Elizabeth Wells-her maiden name
was welded to Joseph Hill, a wealthy
member OF the dry goods firm Of OrosbJ
& Hill, of Wilmington, just three week
ago. The groom, who was aged sevent!
wears. had been seriously i'll with a com
plicstion of diseases for several months
The bride, who is forty-iour years o
age, was employed for twenty-five year
by the dry goods firm. The aged EN-
ployer was fond of her, aud realized, l
| ia said, that he would soon die. Desir
ing to leave his wealth to Miss Wells
the couple vert welded. On THURSDAY
he died. The bride inherlts his weall
of quarter Of million. The husband
has no living relatives.
10 a letter to William d. Foulke,
Richmond, Ind, made public at 10
Springs, Va, yesterday, Presiden
Roosevelt denounces the indianapolis
News and its editor, Delavan Smith
as circulalors Of fslsehOods concerning
the governments purchase of the Pana
ma canal zone. The News has sai
that the presidents brother-in Law
Douglass Robinson, and President-eiec
TafPs brother, Charles P. Taft, wer
"involved in the Panama scandal.
The News later replied saying: 9TH
real ofense of the News, is that it ha
refused to burn incense before maj
whose nostrils are greedy for incense
refused to accept a candidate nominate
by the president of the United State
aided by federal patronage, and also re
fused to assume that 10 every issue O
veracity between infallibility and tn
citjzsps. ipfallibility was always and 0