Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-04
News of the Day.

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Miss Bessie Arnold, of Baltimore, a
pretty blonde of rs. years, was married
to Charles Cling, a Chinaman, by Magis-
trate Beaton in Philadelphia yesterday.
Senator John w. Daniel delivered a
lecture on the "Englsh-Speaking Peo-
pie" yesterday evening at the Allegany,
Md, Grove Chautauqua before large
audience, seven excursion trains being
run to the grove from nearby towns.
Several tenants of three-story double
frame tenement at 643 Lorimer street,
williamsburg, Brooklyn, we're badly
injured in jumping from the windows OF
their rooms during what is believed to
have been an incendiary fire in that
building yesterday.
Attorney General Moody, who return
ed to Washington yesterday from Massa-
chusetts by way ofOyster Bay, expressly
for the purpose of supervising the legal
investigation into the cotton leak scan
dial in the Department of Agriculture,
spent the day in his Office, at the De
partment of Justice.
Bishop R. X. Hargrove, of the Meth.
odist Episcopal Church South, died at
his home at Nashville, Tenn, yesterday
morning. He had been in feeble health
for year past. Robert Kennon Har-
grove had been a bishop of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South since 1882.
He was born in Alabama in 1929.
The report Of the Washington health
department for the week ending July 30,
shows a large increase in the number of
new typhoid fever cases reported. There
were so cases reported. This increases
the number of cases under treatment in
the city to 126 in all, as compared with
go cases for the corresponding week last
year
Creditors of Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick
will receive total dividend of about
seven mills on the dollar when the mat
ter is finally settled. The assets will
amount to $25, it is expected,
against which are claims for attorneys
fees and court costs amounting to $40,
800, leaving about $l4, 900 with which
to meet 81, 900, 900 of Indebtedness.
Annie Cantino, the prettiest girl in
'Little Italy" in Philadelphia, was shot
down at her door last night by an adj
mirer whose suit she had rejected. He
shot her in the garden of her father s
an1 fha., fttrno1 tho raynlvnr
against himself Both the murdered
girl and the suicide died almost instantly.
The man who committed the double
crime was Luigo Nero.
Robert w. Criswell, editor of the New
Yorker, against whom prosecution was
recently begun for publishing libelous
story concerning Miss Alice Roosevelt,
committed suicide in the subway last
night by throwing himself under an ex-
press train. The New Yorker dealt
largely in gossip about prominent peo-
pie and the editor had incurred the dis
pleasure of many OF those he had "writ-
ten up"
Mike AspinwaIl, city marshal, of
Bailey, Ga, was assassinated there yes
terday by A. J. Chestnut. Chestnut was
pursued by twenty-five armed citizens,
who left their places of business to pre-
vent his escape. He fred twice on his
pursuers, and was shot through his left
side with a rifle ball. He was brought
back and lod Led in Jail. He said,
"Blind-tiger liquor has brought me to
this" Chestnut had street fight yes
terday afternoon with Luke White,
who had bested him. City Marshal
Aspinwall interfered, and the shooting
followed.
Prof. A. G. Harley, secretary of the
State Board of EDUCATION, was instantly
killed at Laurel, Md, yesterday evening
by train No. 9of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. Prof. Harley, with his son,
Mr.. Charles H. Harley, and some ladies
were crossing the tracks west of the sta
ton on their way to camp of United
States soldiers who were there for the
night Men on an engine lying on
siding warned him of the approaching
train, but it is supposed that he became
confused and failed to get out of the way
of the train. His body was frightfully
mangled, his son and the ladies being
eyewitnesses to the accident Prof. A.
G. Harley was born in Virginia May rs,
1884.
A strange story was told in Fairmont,
w. Va, by Tiols Yrrahskynsky, Rus
sian miner, employed in the Farm mt
coal region. Going to the superinten-
dent, Yrrrhskynsky complained that his
wife, AiystorO Yrrahskynsky, whom be
married in Russia in June, 1898, is
man instead of woman. He announced
that he had Just made the discovery.
The man stated that he and his wife
grew up in the same neighborhOod and
"she" was looked upon as asweet, play
full little girl. The wife always acted
like woman, and until yesterday the
man did not suspect anything to the
contrary. Yrrahskynsky charges that
his wife practiced fraud on him and says
he will ask for an annulment ofthe mar
riage.
After killing two persons, seriously
and probably fatally shooting two Others,
one woman, and less seriously shoot
ing two more, Isaac Kinney, a desperate
negro. was killed in river bottom at
DOelIa, six miles south of Lewisville,
Ark, at noon yesterday after hot fight
with a posse of citizens that had sur
rounded him. His record for "a hours
is: On Wednesday morning he killed