Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
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Because of the high price of scotton
the Forestdale Manufacturing Company
has closed its cotton mills at Forestdale,
r. l., for week.
Reginald c. Vanderbilt, and his bride,
who was Miss Catherine Nelson, were
passengers on the steamer Mayhower
which arrived in Boston from Liverpool
today.
Edgar H. Frantz, young drug clerk,
who in Lancaster, Pa, yesterday in
Jealous passion shot and killed his IS
year old wife Of four months, died this
morning from the self administration Of
morphine.
Samuel Miller and Paul Miller,
brothers, were given hearing before
Justice Garland, in Baltimore, this morn
ing, charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses, by passing a forged
check. The case was postponed.
Henry Carpenter, street railway
conductor, for some unknown reason,
dragged his wife from a street car in
Norfolk, this morning, shot her down
and then blew his own brains out. Mrs.
Carpenter, accompanied by her sister,
Miss Hattie Lewis, was on her way to
work in a knitting mill. The husband
and wife had been separated for a
month. The wounded woman will re-
cover.
At Church flats, Orangeburg county,
S. c., Sunday, Lizzie Aiken, a negro
woman, slew her two young daughters
completely by beheading with an axe.
She then kindled fires around the bodies.
The woman has been attending revivals
lately and became enthusiastic over relig-
ion. She is evidently demented. Ex-
planning her actions she said dog told
her the world would come TO an end I'M
less she killed her children.
Resolutions passed the Georgia legis-
lature this morning calling for an in
vestigation of the whipping Of Mamie
De Girls, white convict at the State farm.
A report from the State farm says that
Miss De Girls was whipped for talking
back" to The wife of the warden. 1t is
further reported that she was whipped
by Warden Allgood, while the prison
physician looked on. Mamie De Girls
is known as the Diamond "Queen" and
was recently convicted of stealing So, 600
worth of diamonds from a Savannah
jeweler. She is a woman Of good family.
Eugene Wiedener, prominent commission
merchant Of st. Louis, Yesterday took ms
| life so that his financial obligations might be
paid out Of his life insurance. This is the
wish expressed in his letter to his wife, and
he also requested that the body be cremated
and the ashes not saved. Ill health and bust
ness reverses were the cause Of suicide.
Hail from the size Of an egg to the dimen'
sions Of baseball fell at Sioux City, Ia, fol-
Is minutes yesterday afternoon, doing great
damage 10 wires and glass. A terrific rainfall
accompanied ,he hail, flooding Easements and
Overlooking sewers. The storm was Of small
area and did little damage to crops.
Miss Alma Toomey the l3-year-old CIR
who was stabbed at St. Louis by Thos Barnes
aged 81, and whose heart was exposed by
city hospital physicians and removed from
the chest cavity for fully two minutes Satur
day, is still alive and it is thought she has
| splenOlu CHdutc lOI ItNoNCiy'
Baron speck Won Sternburg, the German
Ambassador, who has been President Roose
yelt's guest since Friday, left this morning
No guests were entertained at Sycamore Hi
today, and the President spent his time II
alternate spells Of work and recreation.
The marriage Of three brothers to three Sis
tiers was celebrated at Columbus, IND las
NIGHT by the marriage Of Rev. Herman Steeg
of dundee. to Miss Ida Bruning, Preyiousl.
Rev. Theo. Steeg and L. j. Steeg marrie'
sisters of Miss Bruning.
Princess Ariimahinihini Pomara, daughte
Of the late King Pomare, Of Tahiti, has arriv
oil in San Francisco on the steamship Man
posa. She was accompanied by her aunt
Mrs. Dorence Atwater. Miss Pomare i
about 16 years old.
J.E. Brown, a real estate broker at ColfaaX
Wash. Yesterday shot and fatally wounds
Thos. Turnbow, real estate agent OF Gal
field. A mob is forming at Garfield and
Turnbow dies as is expected. Brown Will b
lynched.
In the vicinity Of Headsyille, W. Va, COT
siderable excitement has been. stirred up owe
= tbe discovery Of bed Of gold ore 80 feet NJ
der the surface, about two and hall mile
from town. The deposit is about four fee
thick.
The attempt Of the manufacturers 70 resuin
work in the % paper, mills IN h3lyoke, Mass
r,os failure The indications are that tn
strike will now last indefinitely.
Reliance arrived at Bristol, r. l., accom-
nan;sd Inv her tender Sunbeam this morning
, 4 number Of her sails have been 1ndergoin
alterations since her last visit and 1t is f
fitting these that she is there.
The number of dead in the Philadeelphi
National League ball park csta strophe r
mains at nine although .Hs Uonrn. a VI O odd
victims is so serious thai 'nere may DC "uu
tional deaths.
Az the result ola runaway at Redwood
= W., az vie resteriay Louis Welkert was seriousl
4 ; mns, his wife killed instantly and the
children fatally injured.
= New York, August iO;-Ihe stock mark
d oyened active and Irregular W vi. an extrenel
& | ba general list III the iUItl.