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

An American syndicate has bought
over ihirteen Thousand ,qu re miles OF
woodland 10 Labrador and will ersc.
pulp mills.
Two weeks hence the House commit
TIE on rul;s will determine the question
submitted to it today as 10 whether a
special rule will be reported to the House
to pave the way fjr passage Of the Scott
bill prohibiting speculation il cotton.
The entire paasl OF petit JURORS excspt
those celebrating on the evidence sub.
miited In former Councilman Oofey q
case, we're discharged by Judge Fraz IT
10 Pitistu'g yesterday sud the aunou ice-
ment was male that there would be no
more graft trials for the present. The
Gu Is action created Eensstiou.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., re-
tired, was thrown from bis horse and
seriously Injured yesterday AFTERNOON
while riding 10 Potomac Park 10 Wash
iug!on. HIS sustained concu islou of tie
brain, tSo broken rios add a wrench of
the shoulder, 10 addition to several mi.
nor bruises and cutI about the head and
body.
ORing to the evidence presented yes.
terday 10 the triSl at Kansas City of Dr..
B. O. Hyde, for thu murder by poison
Of Col. Thomas II. SRope, DR.. H .ds's
bond of 800, 900 was revoked, and the
physician was placed In jsil by order Of
Judge LstshAw. DR.. Hyde NUT re-
main In prison until be is declared inno-
cent by jary, or is permitted by the
court 10 furnish new bond.
Five blrefooted nuns OF the Order oil
Passioniss-perbsp, the most rigid and
sus'ere of the Catholic Church-srrised
in New York yesterday from their
mother houe 10 Cuvtt), It,ly, on the
s.esm,hip Romr. They will establish
branches in this country. The simple
garb of the sisters and their sandsIed
feet attracted much ATTENTION When they
landed on the Brooklyn pier.
L1us Psulhan early yesterday won
be $50, 900 offered by The London DIily
Mail Cor the iis, aviator who should q J
iron London to Manchester In "a hours
With not more than two descenls to the
ground. Psulhsn arrived at Manchester
1t 5:S2, after trsversIng the distances 10
IL hcur, II minutes, Including the
ime lost oy his .tlp q. Lich6sld, where
ne stopped TUESDAY night and remained
u It'll A o'clock yesterday morning, when
ne again It .rSsd fight.
Mrs. Achin 8 rbau, aged IS, a birds
Of day, attempted suicide By shooting
herself 10 the breas with a revolver a.
ler home In Clinton, led Tu sdsy
ulgbt. The young womsD, whose name
vas Anna Misher, Is said to have agreed
to mary Serbian, a merchant, against her
own wishes to satisfy her mother. There
vas a stormy scene just before the msr-
rIsgs Tuesday, argument and persu s,ion
being necessary to &c. the young woman
20 consent to the ceremony.
The engagement Ia announced Of
Lieut.. Reginald Althsm Owen, of the
British royal engineers, stationed ct ia.
msics, to Ruth Bryan, daughter Of vii.
liam Jennings Byan. Ruth Bysn was
he wife Of w. Fl. L?avIlt, an ar LIST.
rney separated and che secu ed d.
Vorce. The marriage, 1t is said, will
t he place on Tuesday next. 1t is said
that Mrs. Lasviit met her f,ncs 10
Colorado lsst hummer. He Is 20 years
old
Insane from the strain OF living with
bic wife, who was q nervous wrScN,
Herman W. Cough, 9 swIIchmsu, com
mitted suicide yesterday 10 Concord, N.
II sitter numbering the woman while
her ru'so looked on. Gltugh had been
disturbed nightly by his wIfe's screams.
Finally, freuzled, he grssped an axe,
brushed the nurse aside aud killed the
woman with one stroke. Two men su-
swered the nurses cries for aid but were
driven OF BY The maniac. Before he
could be su5dued he had cut his throat
With big kOiie.