Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Butler AmeS, Ill dhliohh's
candidacy for the Senate from MasSa-
chusetts. attacks Senator Lodge as
boss" and corporation man.
Dan sully, the old-time actor, died
at his home at Woodstock, n. l.,
Saturday from Bright's disease ana
heart disease. He had been I'll LOT
three months.
Four drownings and many rescues
resulted from the Sunday outings yes
terday at New York and vicinity, ana
one motor boat was burned TO the
waters edge. despite desperate efforts
to overcome the flames.
The story that ex-President Theodore
Roosevelt was to be operated upon TO-
day at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital in New York by Dr.
Walter Franklin ChappeIl, is officially
denied adDr. Chappell's office.
President Taft Saturday afternoon
signed the public buildings bill when
authorizes the expenditure OF 80 ,OOO,-
600. but does not actually appropriate
the money. The appropriation Will be
left TO the next Congress.
The congressional printing investIga-
ton commission, in preliminary re-
port submitted on Saturday announced
that it already had affected an annual
saving in printing and binding that VIII
amount to fully $4,000.
Enraged because his wife had deter
mined to leave him OH account OF his
violent temper, David Downes OF Ban
COR. Me. shot and killed her and her
mother, Mrs. Ivy Woodland, and then
killed himself with the same rifle yes,
terday. Downes was 80 years old and
his wife %.
In the Senate Saturday Senator
Stone stated that he had been informed
that syndicate had been organized IN
the United States to exploit the finan-
ces of Nicaragua and that the syndicate
had been represented in Washington by
former high official Of the State De-
partment.
A dispatch from Lacrosse, Wis, says:
Only three persons out of LOO lost
their lives Saturday night on account
of the burning in the Mississippi river
of the excursion steamer J 5. 1t Is
said that a cigarette stub started the
flames under a stairway. The loss to
the Acme Packet Company is 5000
Harry II. Schwartz, chief Of the gen
eraI land office field service and one OF
the prominent figures in the Balllnger-
Pinchot controversy, has rendered his
resignation and will be succeeded by
James NJ. Sheridan, now special agent
of the land Office with headquarters at
Denver.
Three persons lost their lives and
another had a narrow escape from
serious injury in fire that destroyed
the new Seneca House at Seneca Falls,
n. Y, Yesterday A building adjoining
the hotel was also burned and the loss
is estimated at $4,000 The dead
are Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas White, OF
Rochester, and an unidentified man
who did not register About 20 persons
were in the house, but the others es-
capped.
William Henry Brown, Of Phlla-
delphia, formerly chief engineer OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad. died suddenly
from heart disease in Belfast, Ireland, on
Saturday. In October, 1861, Colonel
Scott OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
selected him as engineer Of the United
States military railroads in northern
Virginia, with headquarters in Alex
andria, where he was stationed for some
time.
Barricaded in his home in the western
part Of Irwin county, Ga, w. II. Bost-
wick resisted two attacks Of officers
yesterday, killing two men and wound
ing three others. He is a white man,
with a reputation for fighting, and has
threatened to kill every one who comes
in range Of his bullets The authorities
have asked Governor Brown for troops
to storm the little house where the
man is hiding. Bostwick is well armed
with rife, shotgun, and pistol, and has
a good supply Of ammunition. In the
house with him are six Of his children.