Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-05-28
News Of the Day.

Ex-Governor FAX Brown formally
announced yesterday that he wtu'd be ,
candidate for governor OF Maryland mex
year.
10 the darkness off Gold Spring inlei
near Holly Bach, DEL, the motol
boat S'ar was overtu.n5d Thursday
night and three Camden men lost iheiI
lives.
The sunken French submarine boa
Pluviose In the English channel va
swept sway from the divers by the swiiI
underturent and there Is no longer
any hope OF rescuing the q men on
board.
Il was remarked st King EIwsrd'i
funeral that King Alfonso of Spain
looked very Ill, and according TO tht
Madrid correspondent of the London
Daily News, his appearance did mol
belle bis condition, which is causing
considerable anxiety to court oficisls.
William Il. Hoover, fgad 60 years,
his son Wsllsce, aged 80 years, and
Waltsr Weber, aged % years, all
residents OF Camden. N. j., we're drowned
early yesterday when a 20-foot launch
which they we're taking from Camden Ia
Wildwood cspslzgd ct the entrance to
Cape May harbor.
Glad only In night robe, Mrs. vii.
lism StrokeT, 43 years old, yesterday
committed suicide by throwing herself
in front OF train 10 Chicago. She had
apparently left her bed and hurried to
the railroad track. Her body was badly
mspgled. She Is believed to have been
ten p )rariy deranged.
For some as yet unexplained reason,
Harry Some, aged 20, last night entered
he home OF Warren O. Psarman, 10
B Gilmore, and attempted to kill Pear
mans two daughters by shooting. The
victims are: Mrs. Grace Wolf, sged %,
shot in the pit OF the abdomen; condition
critical; Miss Rose PearmeD, aged &c,
bit In the left hip aud through the LETT
foot, condition serious.
In the Honse yesterday effJrls 10 have
the canteen re-restablished In soldiers
homes were defeated by a voc of 81 to
II. Representative Thomas. Of North
Carolina, delivered speech prgirg fav-
orable action on the bill providing for
the cree on OF a monument ct Guilford
Court House, N. o., to the memory Of
Gen. Nathaniel Greene.
Announcement WAS made at the Navy
Department yesterday that of the IS
members OF the class of midshipmen OF
1908 who failed on the recent exsmipa.
lion for iusl graduation or promotion to
ensign "A will be carried over as de- =
ficient, to be re-exsmined on December
=, 1910. Eigh. cadets are to be dropped.
Soffsripg from 8 severe attack OF rh,u.
mIt'sm, United Sat's Senator Bsnj :
min r. TilIman, Of South Carolina, a.
rived at Atlanta Thursday night aud was
sken to a sanitorinm for treatment
Although suffering considerably, S,ns.
tor Tlmsn walked without aid TO an
automobile.
A dispatch from Lima, Peru, Gays
mother large contingent OF the army
is proceeding to the noithern frontier
Despite official sssursncss from Wash
ioglon that Peru and Ecuador have &C.
ceIt3d the arbitration OF the Uoited
5aies, Brszll aud Argentina, in their
boundary dispute, the popular opinion
is that war is inevitable owing 10 the
conditions which Ecuador imposes re-.
spscIlUg mediation.
The state encsmpment of the Grand
Army o! the Republic at Tens Hsu:e,
Iud yesterday adopted by unanimous
vote memorial 10 tie National En-
cGmpmeul protesting sgainst the plsclng
Of the statue OF Gen. Robert E. Lee 10
Ststusry Hall at Washington. The
same memorial also protested sgslust the
use OF The J,ffsrson Davis silver service
on the bstileship Mississippi.
In lis zeal to absorb sll the facts In
the case a jury In the District Court
at Sat Lake Yesterday not only bulI-
fed It's own verdittof guilty tu. made
it Impossible for the prosecution to make
cut case before another jury. j. M.
Dull, a druggitt, was on trial for SELL
log l'quor withon, license. While de.
liberaIing the JurS sent for The exhibit,
a hisk of whisky. When 1t was If
turned to the courtroom Judge Lewis
noticed That 1t was empty. He rep.
rim snded and dismissed the Jury aud
net fed the defense that a motion for
q new trial would be granted. The
motion was made aud the state will have
TO dismiss the case Tor lack of Its chief