Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-09
News Of the Day.

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Prof. Garon Ferdinand Won Richtho-
fen, the distinguished geOgrapher, died
at Berlin Saturday. He was born in
1888.
1t is reported In London that Ger
many's efforts to form new triple al
lance of Russia, France and herself will
fail because of her bullying France last
June.
Several bombs were thrown at the
Cossacks at This, Caucasia, yesterday
evening. The troops fred and general
panic ensued. Many persons were killed
or wounded.
Official returns of the casualties OF
the japanese army throughout the war
show 46, $50 killed, 1890 died of
wounds and Is, 300 died of disease; a
total OF u, $50 dead.
The visit of the British squadron to
japanese waters will be made the Oc-
casion for big naval display 10 the hsr-
Dor of Toxic. United States warships
are expe' ted to be present.
A negro was lynched eight miles west
of Bainbridge, Ga, yesterday by mob
of his own race. The negro had Grimm
ally assaulted negro girl and had at
tempted to assault another, who cut him
in the breast.
Dan Patch, the king Of PAGERS and
the fastest harness horse in the world, at
Lexington, KY, Saturday clipped three
fjurths of a second from his own, the
worlds, record, l:56, negotiating the
mile in 1:55f.
The japanese Navy Department an
nounces the seizure Saturday near the
Island of Tsu of the Norwegian steamer
Amphrite, bound for Vladiyostok. The
German steamer Carl was also seized
near the same island.
During an ARRAY in Moscow, yester-
day, between crowds Of striking bakers
and the troops the mob stoned the po-
nee and the troops. The latter fired
and dispersed the demonstrators. Two
hundred arrests were made.
The National Cash Register Com
pany, Of Dayton, O., announced at a
mass-meetiDg of employees Saturday,
that, beginning Monday, the plant will
be operated as an "open shop" The
company has over 5000 employees, and
has heretofore been a strictly "closed
shop
Three men we're killed, one man was
injured and a carload of race horses were
either killed or 50 badly hurt that they
had to be shot as the result of collision
at the junction of the Lykens Valley
branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, a
quarter mile south of Millersburg, Pa,
yesterday.
George F. Canniff, fifty-two years of
age, for eleven years salesman for W.
NJ. Gait & Co., 10 Washington,
was arrested Saturday in Washington to
answer a charge of embezzlement. He
admitted his guilt, and said the shortage
in his accounts would exceed $500, dat
ing back over period Of two years.
Canniff is alleged to have declared that
his wrong course was due to the infu-
ence of woman, on whom he spent
every cent of the ill-gOtten money.
Lee Loeb, one Of the wellthiest men
in Charleston, S. c., a retired merchant
and owner of more than 200 pieces of
real estate, dressed for breakfast yester-
day morning and then telling his wife
that he would "be down in minute"
stepped into bathroom and sent bull
let into his brain. Nervous prostration
bad caused his retirement from business
some time ago, and he returned from
sanitarium last week. He was the larg-
est owner of real estate in Charleston
and was So years old. He leaves a
widow.
A negro whose home is not known
was lynched eight miles west of Balm
bridge, Ga, yesterday by mob of his
own race. The negro had criminally
assaulted negro girl and had attempted
to assault another, who cut him in the
breast He was arrested by Deputy
Sherifs Ivy MurkersOn, who were TAX
ing him TO Bainbridge, when they were
stopped by a mob of negroes. The lat
ter demanded the negro. They took
from the sherifis and forced them to go
away on another road. The negro was
strung up to tree and riddled with
bullets. None of the mob was appre-
handad