Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-26
News Of the Day.

The Kansas City Bank went into vol
untary liquidation yesterday, It's business
being transferred to the Fidelity Trust
Company, which paid all checks drawn
on the bank.
President A. B. Stickney, OF the Chi
csgo Great Western Railway Company,
testified before the Interstate Commerce
Commission Yesterday that the packers
fix the rates for live stock and livestock
products.
The democrats held conventions in the
four Legislative districts of Baltimore
Yesterday, and formally nominated the
"a candidates for the House OF Dele
gates who had been determined on in
the primaries of last week.
The Capetown Argus publishes allie
cations of atrocious conduct on the part
of the German troops in German south
west Africa. The Argus's publication
contains statements made and signed by
Beers. The acts of cruelty alleged in
clude the hanging and shooting OF ma
tive women and children as spies and
the shooting of natives wounded in battle
as not worth succOring.
By the ex plosion of large quantity of
powder, the fireworks Joseph Speizo in
Green Point, New York, was destroyed
yesterday. Speizos sixteen-year.old son
Antonio was instantly killed and his
wife and two younger boys and a work
men were seriously injured. The ex-
plosion shock buildings within radius
of a mile and for time it was believed
that many persons had been killed.
All the union printers employed by
the newspapers and job offices of Char
lotte, n. c., went out on strike yester-
day afternoon upon an hours notice up
on the refusal of the employers to grant
the demand for an eight-hour work day.
The employing printers of Charlotte an
nounce that they will contest to the end
the eight-hour movement, and that no
man who Joined in the strike will ever
be permitted to work in their offices.
Count Luigi Cipriani, who was for some
time a well-known figure in Baltimore
society and widely known as man about
town, died Sunday night at his rooms at
1856 west Forty-six.h street, New York.
HIS father was an Italian nObleman and
his mother was Miss Mary Worthington,
grand-niece OF General Washington
and a raember of the Wortbington family,
Of Worlhington Valley, Baltimore coun-
ty. She died in 1860, at the time of Clip
riani's birth. He was nephew of Mrs.
Salle Conrad, east Madison street,
and cousin of Mr.. Charles Conrad, also
If Baltimore.
A "Black Hand" letter, dated and
postmarked Brooklyn, N. Y, was re-
ceived yesterday by Rev. Joseph de
Monte, pastor OF the Italian Catholic
Church of Dcnmore, Pa. The letter
commanded him to supply himself with
5000 in cash and keep it on his person,
ready to be turned over on demand to an
agent of the society, who, the letter said,
would meet him unexpectedly. Father
de Monte turned the letter over to the
local police. He believes the letter was
sent at the instance of some members OF
the Italian colony in Dunmore who do
not take kindly to his crusade against
lawlessness among them.
A negro attempted to assault the wife
of Deputy sheriff A. j. Shores at Gin
ton, Mo-, Sunday night, and was shot by
Shores and badly wounded. The shoot
ing attracted mob of negroes from the
congregation of a negro church, who al
tempted to lynch the negro, Robert Tay-
lor, but were prevented, and Taylor was
safely landed in Jail. Deputy Shores
had alighted from street car, and hear
ing a woman's screams and seeing a
negro running, he fired and the negro
Tell. Later he discovered it was his own
wife whom the negro had seized as she
was on her way home from a neighbor-
hood visit. He found her in faint lying
on the sidewalk.