Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-07
News Of the Day.

Joseph Bradley, colored, was hanged
at Ellicott City, Nd, yesterday for the
murder of John Redwine, another negro,
on March %.
Rev. DR.. l.. P. Mercer, the origina-
tor Of the Parliament of Religion, which
was one of the features of the Chicago
Worlds Fair of 1898, died Of heart
disease at hi. home in Cincinnati yester-
day.
Whether the ice trade of Washington
is controlled by trust will be determin-
ed by the grand jury in an investigation
which it will begin next Monday. The
investigation will be conducted by Dis
trict Attorney Baker.
Four men were killed, another fatally
injured, and three persons seriously
burned by the explosion yesterday of a
large gasoline tank on the second door
of the boiler house Of the Cosendai Dye
Work, in Saginaw, Mich.
For the murder OF the white crew OF
the schooner Harry Berwind, of the
North Carolina coast last October, Henry
Scott, Baltimore negro, was executed
Yesterday afternoon in the New Hanover
county Jail in North Carolina.
Sir Joseph Ward, new premier of New
Zealand, lunched with President RoGse-
welt at Oyster Bay yesterday and con-
ferred with the President upon the de-
velopment of reciprocity sentiment be-
tween the United States and New Zeal
AMI.
Judge A. II. Tanner, of Portland,
Ore, who pleaded guilty in the federal
court early last year to an indictment
charging him with perjury in connection
with the famous Mitchell Tanner agree
ment, has been psrdoned by President
Roosevelt.
A hail storm at Valencia, Spain, yes
terday killed one child and injured so per-
sons. Hailstones as big as oranges smshed
the roofs Of houses, causing the inhabitant
to take refuge in the cellars. The crops
in many districts we're destroyed and
great distress prevails.
Mrs. Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw,
sailed from Liverpool Yesterday on her
return to New York. The widow of
Stanford White was paid yesterday by
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
Sl49, O4O, which was the value Of q
single policy Mr.. White had carried on
his life for a number OF years.
San Parker, a college athlete, of Hell
enwood, Tenn, was shot and fatally
wounded when he alighted from Gin
cinnati Southern train at Helenwood,
last night, by Judge J. E. Fulton,
a prominent attorney and politician
of Scott county. The cause of the trag-
sdy is reported to be jealousy over
woman.
Joseph Ayers and Oscar Underwood,
sheet-iron workers, fell 100 feet with
great iron smokestsck at the Front street
pumping station 10 Cincinnati yesterday,
and were fatally injured. Both men
died soon after being taken n hospi-
tai. Toe men were on the inside of the
stack, when the big tube, four feet in
diameter, topled over. When the stack
struck the ground the impact was so
great that the men bounded high in the
air as though they had been shot out Of
a cannon. Their sEulle we're fractured.
Mrs. Emma Crumbsugh, thirty-four
years old, living on the Canal road, was
struck by car Of the Cabin John Bridge
line, near Hayes Crossing, at $3.50 last
night and instantly killed. She was
hurled twenty feet and her neck gss
broken. Hayes Crossing is two mills
beyond Georgetown, near the third tres
tie on the Cabin Jonn Bridge road. 1t
is prssElnsi b. The police that Mrs.
Crumbaugh, in attempting 10 erOss ia