Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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stroyed forty-two stores and residences,
causing loss of 500, 600.
Fire early yesterday destroyed the
buildings at 305 to 3l3 Wabash avenue,
Chicago, causing losses aggregating over
1925, 900.
1t is proposed at Rome that the heads
of the religious orders shall themselves
direct the withdrawal of the triars from
the Philippines.
The mercury in the thermometer stood
at 1929 in Charleston, 5, C., yesterday.
At the same time snow storm was III
progress in Colorado.
A severe earthquake shock was felt at
Salonica, European Turkey, Saturday
afternoon. Many houses were wrecked
and. there was much loss of life.
Fred Johnson, of Washington, died
suddenly of diabetes Friday night at the
home of his brother, DIR. Stewart john
son, at South Lake, Linden, Mich.
Miss Mildred Froehlich was carried
into the surf at Atlantic City, yesterday,
by vicious horse she was riding and
was being drowned when the life guards
came to her rescue.
An electrical storm yesterday evening
did considerable damage in portions OF
Maryland. The steeple Of st. Johns
Lutheran Church at Hagerstown was
struck by lighting and the minister
stunned.
"Big Tim" Sullivan, the most In
nuential figure in Tammany, said Satur-
day that if Daniel Lamont would be a
candidate for Governor, that he would
defeat Odell who is to be the next Presi-
dental candidate.
The great Brighton Handicap, worth
$40. 900 10 the winner, was run and won
Saturday afternoon. The result was as
rUliv~,a. Gold Heels won; Blues was
second. ArgregOr was third The time
was 2.O3 9-5. This is the worlds
record.
1t is reported that France has threat
ened to send an ultmatum to Turkey
because the Porte has failed to apologize
for the action of Turkish policemen at
Smyrna in boarding French ship to
arrest a Turkish spy, who had taken
refuge on board the vessel.
The wife and child of Capt. Hermann
n. Horn, Z. S. A., commanding the
Ninety-fifth Company Coast Artillery,
stationed at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook,
ann Miss Alice Mcmahon, visitor at
the post, were drowned yesterday by the
sinking of a catboat sailed by Captain
Horn.
Susie Frazier, 10 years old, was pre-
scented in the police court at Paducah.
KY, Saturday charged with killing her
uncle, George Jones. The child, it is
alleged, saw her uncle beating his wife
and, obtaining a pistol, shot him in the
stomach, inhlcting awound which caused
his death shortly afterward.
By fire which broke out Saturday
night at the stock yards of Swift q Co.,
in Chicago that firm suffered loss which
is estimated at 81, 900, 600. The burned
building adioins portions of the plants
of Armour & Co., and Libby, Mcneil u
Libby, and for time the fire depart
ment had desperate fight to keep these
buildings from the flames.
John S. Wise, ir; republican, and son
of the former congressman, has been given
fit job by Mayor Low of New York.
lie was appointed change of grade dam
are commissioner for the Twenty third
and Twenty-fourth wards in Manhattan.
Two other republicans were appointed
fellow-commissioners The salary Is
SO, 900 with no specified term Of office,
and the duties are practically nil. There
is no office to attend or routine work
to perform.
Half the cities and villages of western
New York, were flooded yesterday. 1t
had rained every day for a week, but the
rivers and creeks held their own until
midnight on Saturday, when there was
tremendous downpour, which gOrged the
streams and gullies. The towns among
the hills at the headwaters of attaraugus
Creek suffered most severely. At Ar
cade the food carried six houses down
stream. Miss Minnie Lopez, who kept
a bakery, was drowned in her home.
Crazed with liquor, Theodore Oelfeuer,
of Chicago, crept into the bedroom
where his family were asleep yesterday
morning, shot his wife dead, mortafly
wounded his fourteen-mOnths-old child,
and sent bullet through the shoulder
of his step-daughter, Lizzse ,Stamm.
Turning to the diningroom he fired two
shots at his little stepsons, but both bull
lets went wide of their mark. Oelfeuer
then fortified himself on the roof, where
he was captured by the police soon after
and locked up.
Broken hearted because C)ngress
passed the Panama canal bill, thereby
probably making many acres of land
owned by him in Nicaragua practically
valueless, b. w. Pyle shot and killed
himself yesterday at the Garfield Park
Sanitarium, Chicago, where he had been
a patient since last February. Mr.. Pyle
was ~ years old, bachelor, and with
out friend in Chicago with the ex:ep- |
ton of the attendants at the sanitarium.
He went to Chicago less than year ago |
and went to the hospital, where h re-
ceived treatment for cataract of both /
eyes. He was native of Richmond,
Va. He went to Central Anne lea 4
twenty years ago and owned tracts of
land in Nicaragua.
An American flag flying in front OF an
East Boston shop was torn down by