Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ATlnuT Il. OOihhnj Jht w"
Howard county democratic primary, on
Saturday and will be nominated for the
state senatorship.
An apparent attempt to wreck TWO
passenger trains by dynamite on tne
Missouri Pacific Railroad was made near
Ouindaro, Kan, Saturday night.
William WaIdron, for short time an
inmate at the Soldiers Home, Washing
ton. committed suicide Saturday morn
ing BY cutting his throat with razor.
Major William p. Tate, an ex-Con-
federate officer, who recently gave $2O,-
600 for the benefit of aged and INDECENT
Confederate Veterans in Tennessee, Is
dead.
Mrs. Langtry arrived in New York on
Saturdayfor her coming season, bringing
With her II. Marsh Allen, young
English actor, whose ability she highly
praises.
There is a possibility that Canada will
challenge for the American cup in few
wears. The challenge will in all probable
ity. he issused drought he Halifax
Yacht Club.
Baron Won Stengel has been appointed
secretary of the German Treasury, IN
succession to Baron Won Thielman, who
resigned on account of the difficulties
connected with executing reforms IN the
imperial finances.
Edwin b. Hay, guardian of Emily
Grace Kilmon, in Washington on Sat
urday filed his answer to the complaint
made by her and also an accounting IN
connection with his management Of her
estate. Mr., Hay emphatically denies
that he has not made any report and re-
turn of his guardianship.
An excursion train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad, consisting of an engine
and seven coaches, en- route to the Elks
cIambake at Olympia, was wrecked
about II o'clock Saturday morning two
miles south of Chehallis, Wash. Two
persons were killed, four fatally in
iured, and about thirty seriously hurt.
Joseph l.. Coughlin, twenty-five
wears old. committed suicide by cutting
his throat at his home, in Norwich,
Conn, Yesterday, while at his prayers.
His mother went to church and left him
PRAYING in his room. Upon returning
at about 10 O'Clock she found him dead
with a crucifix in his left hand and an
omen razor on the floor. Coughlin Is
supposed to have been insane.
August Shaffer, a skilled labOrer in
the government printing office, in Wash
ington, In a fit Of insane jealousy, killed
his divorced wife with razor Saturday
night. The woman's head was half
severed from the body. Shafier has a
family of five daughters and wife.
The murdered woman had secured a
divorce from her husband about three
wears ago on account of his passion for
drink.
Mrs. w. ]. Bryan and daughter,
Miss Ruth Bryan, left Chicago last
night for their home at Lincoln, Neb.,
One of the objects of the trip was a visit
to the Hull House settlement at Halls
tead aud Polk. streets, an institution sup
ported by charities for the benefit of the
poor classes and conducted by Miss
Jane Adams, the noted sociologisf. 1t
is the intention of Miss Bryan to take
ND the settlement work, becoming a
member of the Hull House staff early in
the fall.
A schooner which arrived at Kingston,
Jamaica, yesterday morning reports that
the Cayman Islands were devastated by
a hurricane on the evening of August
IL. Many houses at Georgetown, a vii
lage near the west end of Grand Cay
man Island, were demolished. The
vessels in the harbor we're driven out to
sea two subsequently returned, but the
Others have not been heard OF up to
August II. 1t is feared that serious
loss of life has occurred. All the trees
and crops were destroyed and famine
is imminent. Seven schOoners were
wrecked on the east side of the princl-
pal island.
Fearing that a man who leaped from
the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday would
strike ferryboat under the structure,
men and women on the vessel fled in
panic, screaming as they sought shelter.
A few on the boat had seen the man
Jump almost directly above them. Their
terror was quickly communicated 10 their
fellow-passengers, who fled blindly, not
knowing definitely the danger that
threatened them. The man, supposed tc
be George Geise, of Brooklyn, a driver,
jumped from the bridge at a point about
| $50 feet from the tower on the Brooklyn
side. He went down feet first and was not
seen again after striking the water not
Is feet from the ferry Orion.
THE LAWYERS. the meeting at
Hot Springs on Saturday of the Virginia
Bar Association the committee recon-
mended the following officers for the
ensuing year:
President, Alexander Hamilton, Pc
tersburg.
Vice-president, Theodore S. Garnett,
Norfolk A. @. Braxton, Staunton; Roy
B. Smith, Roanoke; H. d. Flood, APP