Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-29
News Of the Day.

ali OF NDOm may uic'
The General Council of the Brother
hood OF st. Andrew met in annual ses-
sion in Philadelphia yesterday. The
meeting was preliminary to the general
convention of the brotherhood, which
opened today.
Lalcadio Hearn, the well-knOwn au-
thor, died at Toxic on Monday last Of
heart trouble. His funeral will take
place September 80. General regret is
expressed among the japanese at the
death of Mr.. Hearn.
While Kink Head, a farmer, living
four miles from Clinton. KY, was stand
ing with his wife and child on their
front porch last night they we're all shot
from ambush. Head was fatally wound
ed, and the woman and child we're SER
iously hurt. Head had had some trouble
with his neighbors.
At the final session Of the convention
of the American Bar Association at st.
Louis yesterday the following officers
were elected for the next year: Presi-
dent, Henry st. George Tucker, Lexing-
ton, Va, dean of the School OF Law of
Washington and Lee University; secre-
tary, John Hinkley. Baltimore; treas
urer, Frederick E. Wadham, Albany,
N Y.
A dispatch from Dresden says King
George of Saxony Is much weaker. All
the members OF the royal family living
in Dresden have assembled at Pillnitz,
the summer residence of the Saxony
court. King George, who is seventy
two years of age, is experiencing increas-
ing difficulty in breathing with recuTent
spasm-like periods that yield reluc-
family to remedies.
George Ehle. an American engineer,
with party of young college graduates,
in four months has made discoveries
about the Panama canal which the
French engineers failed to make in six
teen years. His information makes 1t
possible to solve the battling problem of
the Chagres river freshets by diverting
the stream to the Pacific coast. 1t also
releases $40, 600, 900 for excayating a sea
level waterway.
In a fit of dependency, fer which his
wife and family could give no known
cause, except possible temporary 6nan-
cial difficulties, Randolph McGili, a
bridegroom Of only few months, COM
mitted suicide in his apartments at lib
n street northwest, Washington, about
noon yesterday by swallowing an ounce
of cartolic acid. McGill was son of
DR.. Samuel McGill. of Schuyler, Va,
member of an old Virginia family OF
that name.
M;lt G. Barlow, the original cold
Black joe" died of cancer in the throat
at the Home for Incurables, in New
York, on Tuesday, at the age of 50 years.
Barlow created the character of cold
Black Joe" in the early seventies, aud
Ia 1875, in touring with Haverley's
Ministries, he made his most pathetic
of negro songs known from one end OF
the country to the other. Mr.. Barlow
was married three times and all his wives
are still living.
Greater New York is at present threat
ened with what may be the severest cpl
demic of typhoid fever in its history.
For the three weeks just ended the total
number of cases reported at the health
department was AL. The fatalities num-
bered "a, or death rate at nearly 20
per cent. Last year during the worst
month, that of October, the largest num-
Der of cases in New York was 824 and
the highest death rate at any time dur
ing the year was 1874 per cent.
Louis Mazentar, aged %, residing in
Hartford, Conn, was shot to death yes.
terday at the slaughter-house at Wilson's
station, three miles north of Hartford
He went to the slaughter. house in com.
pany with a rabbi to butcher beef, and
while there the rabbi had an alteration
with an unknown hunter who carried
gun. Some hot words followed, and
the hunter, aiming his gun at the rabbi,
pulled the trigger. The charge missed
the rabbi, but str uck Mazentar, killing
him instantly. The murderer is sill at
large.
As the funeral procession of Deputy
Sheriff Sweet, who was killed bya man
named Conroy, Sunday night, in Black
foot, while c. nroy and his companions
were attempting to rob some section men.
was passing TO the cemetery yesterday,
mob was hastily organized, rope
procured and rush made for the Jail
for the purpose of lynching Conroy.
The officers, however, were too quick
for the halt-formed mob and with the
aid OF hastily sworn in deputies, pro-
tected Conroy and persuaded the crowd
to dispense Feeling is very high aud
more trouble is feared.
Just learning to walk and stand upon
his feet with the aid of chair or other
support, John F. Dudley, one year old,
was left alone for a moment in the kitch-
en- at the house of his grandmother,
Mrs. Schlosser, on Patterson street north
east, Washington, yesterday, and in the
brief interval he fell into bucket of
water and was drowned. When she
reached the kitchen again, Mrs. Schlos-
ser found the little boy head downward
in the bucket, and his feet in the air.
In his struggles his head and shoulders
were wedged between the sloping side of
the vessel, and it was with difficulty that
he was extricated.
Richard Powers, who gave his resi-
dence as Philadelphia, was rescued from
a peculiar. predicament at Glen Riddle.