Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-11
News Of the Day.

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Another cut Of 5 cents in the price Of
all grades of oil was made on Saturday
by the Standard Oil Company.
An unknown negro, who had made in
sulting proposals to two white women,
was lynched at Gorpo, Ala, on Satur'
day.
The Sultan of Turkey has ordered the
Grand Vizier to comply with the U. S.
Minister'S demands in regard to the
school question. No feet will therefore
be sent to Turkish waters.
Seventeen people were injured on
Saturday in a wreck on the Raleigh and
Cape Fear Railroad just outside the
city limits at Raleigh, N. @. The rails
spread and two cars went down an EN-
bankment.
Under promise never again TO set foot
in the State of Kentucky, johnson
Hatfield, one of the survivors of the
HatfeldMcCoy feud, has been pardoDed
from the Kentucky Penitentiary, where
he was serving life sentence for MUIR
der.
Gen. Don Jose Toral, who command
ed the Spanish garrison at Santiago
when that place surrendered to the u.
S. forces, died yesterday at an asylum
for the insane, near Madrid. The Cen
eral became insane brooding over his
capitulation. He was military governor
of Santiago. Like many Spanish officers
he was a nobleman by birth.
Miss Bertha Dolbeer, 25 years old, OF
San Francisco, said TO have been the
laughter of the late S. F. Dolbeer, a
millionaire of that city, committed sui
eide on Saturday by jumping from a
ninth floor window of the Waldorf-As.
toria Hotel, New York. Since her
fathers death, year ago, it is said,
Miss Dolbeer has suffered with melan-
cholia, and has needed constant watch
ing.
John Field, postmaster Of Philadel-
phia during the incumbency OF John
Wanamaker as postmaster general, and
president of the Young-Smyth-Fleld
Company, wholesale dealers in dry
goods and notions, while temporarily in
sane on Saturday wandered to seclud-
ed spot in Vernon Park, Germantown,
suburb of Philadelphia and committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head,
Mr.. Field had been sufferer from dia-
betes, and his illness took a serious turn
last January.
Victim of a negro's awful brutality,
nine year old Elizabeth Banknecht, a
delicate white child, hovers between life
and death in the home of friend in Sa-
lem, N. j., to which she was brought
from her home in Warrington township,
where the crime was committed. TheO-
dore johnson, 20 years old, who com
mitted the deed, is in Jail, heavily guard
ed to save him from mob violence. He
has made full confession. In connec-
ton with the crime is an allegation by
the child mother and friends that Chas.
ZelIy, the farmer by whom johnson was
employed, endeavOred to have the matter
hushed up, entreating the mother not to
report the crime to the legal authorities,
because he did not want to lose johnson
during the harvest season.
Sewed up in mattress, the body of
man who had been murdered by series
of terrible stab wounds over the right
breast was found shortly after 8 O'Clock
yesterday morning in the bushes in
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The
body was that of foreigner, probably
an Italian. His hands were callOused
and stained. He was thinfaced man
about 80 or 80 years old. His clothes
were those of a working1an. While
the theory that the man was victim of
the Malta is in keeping with elaborate
efforts made to conceal the identity OF
the victim, the detectives are more in
clined to the belief that the fatal knife
thrust was impelled by feud over a
woman or as result of a quarrel in
Saturday night card game. The police
say the wound was inflicted by stileto,
the thin, sharp blade having been
plunged to the very hilt.