Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-28
News Of the Day.

An American syndicate has bough.
over thirteen thousand squ re- mile, OF
woodland iu Labrador snd will erac.
pulp mills.
Two weeks bence the House commit
tie on rulss will determine the question
submitted to it today as 10 whether q
special rule will be reported to the House
to pave the way fJ- passage OF the Scott
bill prohibiting speculation 10 cotton.
The entire paasl OF p etit jurors except
those tielibers.iag on the evidence sub
ni.ted in former Ccuaeilmaa Coffey's
case, we're discharged ry Judge Fraz,r
in Pitistu'g yesterday sud the auncu ice
msut was maize taat there would be no
more graft trials for the present. The
GU IS action created sensation.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. a., re-
tired, was tbroRn from his horse and
seriously Injured yesterday AFTERNOON
| while riding Ia Potomac Park 10 Wash
iugsol. HIS sustained conclusion of tao
brain, tSo broken rios and wrench Of
the shoulder, in addition to several mi.
nor bruises and cut, about the head and
body.
OHing to the evidence presented yes.
terdaV 10 the trial at Kansas City of Dr..
B. O. Hyde, for thu murder by poison
Of Dol. Thomas H. Swope, Dr.. H sd='s
bond of 800. 1000 WAS revoked, aud The
| physician vas placed In isil BY order OF
Judge LstshsW. DR.. Hyde NUT re-
| main in prison until be is declared inno-
cent by O jury, or is permitted by the
court TO furnish nav bond.
Five b1refooed nuns OF the Order oil
Passioaiss-perhsp, the most rigid aud
| sus'ere of the Catholic Church-arrised
in New York yesterday from their
mother houe 10 Cu7et,, tidy, on the
s.esm.hip Romr. They will establish
| branches in this country. The simple
gar5 of the sisters and their sandslsd
iset attracted much ATTENTION when taey
landed on the Brooklyn pier.
LUIS Pau'han early yesterday won
De $50, 900 offered by !be London Dlily
Mail t9r the f 10: aviator who should e.
'ronl Londou to Msa chester ia 81 hours
with not more than two daseenls to the
ground. Paulhsu arrived at Manchester
At 5:32, after trsversing the distance in
II hcure, - miru;es, Including the
ime lo,! oy his st,p a. Lich6ald, where
ne stoppsd Tuesday nigh and remained
It'll O'CLOCK yesterday morning, when
ne again st .rted flight.
Mrs. Achin s rhau, aged IS, brids
Of a day, attempted suicide by shooting
| herself 10 the brsas with revolver q.
aer home in Clinton, led, Tu sday
uight. Tn, young woman, whose name
asa Anna Mlsher, is said to have agreed
to mary Serbian, a merchant, against her
own wishes to satisfy her mother. Thera
vas stormy scene just bsfcre the msr-
rlsge Tuesday argu meat and persu saion
being necessary TO &c: the young woman
% consent to the ceremony.
The engagement 10 announced of
Lieut.. Reginald Althsn Owen, OF the
British royal engineers, Stationed at ia.
msics, to Roth Bran, daughter of Will.
liam Jennings Bryan. Ruth B:ysn was
The wife of w. q. L?avItt, sn ar LIST.
raey separated and she secu ed d.
| 0orco. Ths marriage, it is aaid, will
t'ke place on Tuesday next. 1t is said
| that Mrs. Lasvi;t met her G1ncs 10
Colorado last .ummsr. He Ia 26 yesrs
OLD.
Insane from the strain OF living W th
hie wife, who was nervous wricE,
H ermau w. Gough, s~Ichmsu, com
uitted suicide yesterday in Concord, N.
II sitter numbering the woman while
her ru'so looked Oh. GItugh had been
disu:ced nightly by his wife's screams.
Finally, freuzied, he gresped az axe,
brushed the nurse sside aud killed the
woman with one stroke. Two men sn-
swered the PURSES cries for aid but we're
driven OF By The maniac. Before he
| could be suoduei he had cut his throat
with big koiie.