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

Ex-Governor FIa2k Brown formally
announced yesterday that he Wtu'd be q
candidate for goyerno. OF Maryland next
year.
In the darkness of Gold Spring inlet,
near Holly Bach, Del, the motor
boat S:ar was overturned Thursday
night and three Camden men lost their
lives.
The sanken French submarine boat
Pluviose in the English channel was
swept sway from the divers BY the swift
undertuuent and there is no longer
any hope of rescuing the 81 men on
board.
L: wss remarked st King E1Wsrd's
funeral that King Alfonso of Spain
looked very i'll, and according to the
NJ sdrid correspondent of the London
Daily News, his appsarance did not
belle his condition, which is causing
considerable anxiety to court officials.
William q. Hoover, sgsd 60 years,
bis son Wallace, aged 80 years, and
Walter Weber, aged % years, all
residents OF Camden. N. j., we're drowned
early yesterday when a 20-foot launch
which they were taking from Camden to
Wildwood cap,iz:d q. the entrance to
Cape May harbor.
Glad only In night robe, Mrs. Viii.
liam Stroker, 43 years old, yesterday
committed suicide By throwing herself
in front OF train in Chicago. She bad
apparently left her bed and hurried to
the railroad track. Her body was badly
msugled. She is believed to have been
ten p orari'y deraDged.
For some as yet unexplained reason,
Harry Stone, aged 20, last night entered
me home OF Warren o. Psarman, In
B fillmore, 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 Bose Pearmen, aged 2G,
bit in the left hip aud throUga the LETT
foot, condition serious.
In The Honse yesterday effJrls to have
the cantesn re-restablished In aoldiers'
homes were defeated by voc of 81 to
II. Representative Thomas. of North
Carolina, delivered speech urgirg fav-
orable action on The bill providing iol
the erection of monument TT Gulford
Osurt House, N. o., to the memory oi
Gen. Nathaniel Greene.
Announcement was made at the Navy
Department yesterday that Of the SIS
mem bers OF the class of nidshipmen Of
1908 who failed on the recent eIamira
ton for final graduation or promotion to
, ensign "A will be carried over as d.
ficient, to be rs-examiued on Decembe,
| Z, 1910. Eigh; cadets are to be dropped
Suff .ring from severe attack OF rh, u
| mst;su, United Stst:s Senator Bsrj
min r. TilImsu, Of South Carolina, a..
rived at Atlanta Thursday nigh! aud va:
| laken to q sanitorinm fer treatment
Although suffering considerably, S,ns.
tor TlIman walked without aid 10 AT
automobile.
a dispatch from Lima, Perm, says
mother large contingent OF the army
is proceeding to the northern frontier
| Despite official assurances from Wash
iog,on that Peru and Ecuador hare &C
ceptod the arbitration OF the Uuited
s:ares, Brazil aud Argentina, in their
Boundary dispute, the popular opinion
is that war is inevitable owing TO TIT
conditions which Ecuador imposes re
spac!iug mediation.
The STATE eucsmpment of the Crane
Army o! the Republic at Terra Hau:e
Iud yesterday adopted by uuarimou'
vote memorial TO tie National E1
csmpment protesting against the psciug
of the statue OF Gen. Robert E. Lee IL
Statuary Hail at Washington. TIE
Hsms memorial alao protested against TIT
use of The Jcffsrson Davis silver service
on the batlleship Mississippi.
In iis ssal to sbsorb al the facts in
the case e jury in the Dis!ric: Coar!
ut So t Lake yesterday not only null
fed its own verdict OF guilty hut made
it impossible for the prosecution to make
cut case before another jury. j. M.
Dull, druggist was on trial for sal!-
lug l;quor without license. While de-
libe'a!ing the JurS sent for The exhibit,
a flick of Ihisky. When it was re-
turned to the courtroom Judge Lewis
noticed hat it was empty. Hs rep
rinanded and dismissed the jury and
net fed the defense that a motion fol-
a new trial would be granted. The
motion was made aud the state will have
10 dismiss TIE case Tor lack Of Ito chief