Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-09-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Bank OF France III ldilS Has DCCh
robbed of S44, 600 in gold. The gold
was taken in the daytime, evidently by
person or persons having access to the
cash vault.
Editor w. o. Saunders, of the Eliza
beth City, n. c., Tar Heel, has been
arrested and placed in Jail for smoking a
cigarette within the corporation limits OF
Elizabeth City.
Cremation of living babies in her
kitchen range is charge made by
Charles Early against Mrs. Paullna
Taeschler, who conducts private hospi-
tai for women in Chicago.
Stanley Kann, seventeen years old,
only son of Mr.. Louis Kann, of the firm
of S. Kann, Sons & Co., Baltimore and
Washington, was almost instantly killed
bv fall from his horse, in Baltimore
yesterday.
According to reports received by the
State Department yesterday from United
States Consul Goldschmidt at Laguayra,
the whole of the coast Of Venezuela east
of that city is in the possession of the
revolutionary forces.
The reunion of old Confederate sol
diers was held in Upper Marlboro, Md,
yesterday. This meeting was under the
auspices of Company b, First Maryland
Cavalry. There were representatives
present from Washington and different
parts of Maryland.
Philip Abendschoen, prosperous
butcher, who had become respondent,
however over the fact that he was de-
formed. and in ill-health, committed
suicide at his home in Baltimore yester-
day, by slashing his throat with big
knife
William Denny wilkins, whose grand
father was Secretary of War in the Cabi-
net of President Andrew Jackson, and
who was at one time a very wealthy man,
was shot and killed in Pittsburg, Pa,
Yesterday by his wife, With whom he
struggled in an effort to defeat her at
tempt at self-destruction.
Despondent over tloub'es which he
said were caused by members of his
family. J. A. Iersheimer, of Rodney
w. Va. made an unsuC cessiul attempt to
end his life in a room at the National Hotel
in Washington shortly after | O'Clock
last night, by turning on all the gas
Jets in his room, and closing the
windows and door.
The reports from Tuesdays primary
for Senator and State officers in South
Carolina show increasing majorities
for Latimer and Hayward for Senator
and governor, respectively. Without
10. 600 more votes to be accounted for,
Latimer has lead of Is, 900 over
Evans, and Hayward 1000 over Tai
bot. Both are likely to increase their
majority by another thousand. 1t is an
anti-Tillman victory.
Disappointed in love, Josephus Thig-
pen and J. o. Griffin, young business
men of Dover y. c., committed suicide
Yesterday. A young woman to whom
Griffin was engaged married another
A girl who had an engagement with
Thigpen took trip to Morehead City,
a nearby summer resort, with his rival.
The two young men told each other of
their disappointment and the double
suicide was the result.
John Hill, of Horse Valley, Pa,
saved himself from terrible death by
throwing his right arm around the front
of a thrashing machine which he was
feeding and holding on with death-like
grip while his left arm was torn of at
the shoulder by the cylinder In some
way his left hand was caught by the
rapidly revolving cylinder. His body
would have been drawn in had he not grip
ped the front of the machine with the
other hand and held on during the terri
bic odeal, which lasted only moment,
while the arm was drawn in up to the
shoulder, where it was severed.