Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-10
News of the Day.


Pursuant to the provisions of the anti
trust law, the grand jury yesterday he
gan probing the ice business OF W 'sn'
ington.
The French Supreme Court is divid
ed upon the question ofquashing the YER
dict in the case Of Dryelus or ordering
new trial.
The L der Dempster line steamer
Angela, bound from Vera Cruz for Mon
treal. struck on reef near LOuIsburg
this morning.
Kaiser William, who has been ihs
guest of King Hsakon, left TroDdJhem'
Norway, at nine O'clock this morning
for TIomsoe.
A dispatch from Manila says that the
dry dock Dewey arrived at Olongapt
this morning The trip from Singapore
was uneyenliul
Norman Leopold, a nephew of j. d.
Leopold. New York broker, commit
ted suicide some time yesterday after
noon at the Waldorf Astoria by shootln e
himself in the right temple with a SO
cslber revolver.
The principal hotel managers OF Bal
timore have agreed to dispense with or
cbestras heretofore employed to furnish
music at meals. This movement Is the
result of a demand on the part OF the
Musicians Union for more pay.
Owing to the scarcity of bills OF small
denominations, Secretary ofthe Treasury
Shaw has issued q circular letter 10
national banks urging them to issue as
large proportion of their circulation al
possiblein fve-dollar notes.
Will Anderson, a Memphis negro,
was hung last night from the cross arm
of telegraph pole near Tillar, Ark, IL
full view of the windows of the cottage
of Mrs. Crawford, whom he assaulted.
Anderson choked the woman into IN
consciousness, and when she regaineC
her senses she staggered to the neares
neiphbor aud told her story. Anderson
was traiIed into a swamp, arrested, iden
tilted, confessed and was hung forthwith
]. T. Bledsole, who shot and killed
Dan Alexon on an excursion train nea
Autreyyille, n. c., Sunday morning
after Alpxon had di'played two pistol
and expressed discrimination to Kill 81
in the car, wired the sheriff at Cl'ntoI
Yesterday as follows "Rilled man nea
Autreyyille last night. Want to surren
der. Advise" Bledsole's attorney say
he will 20 to Clinton and ask for an i'm
mediate hearing, which probably will b
held tomorrow.
The mutilated body of eight-year-olC
Harry Priester, of West Tulsa, lndlaI
rerritorv, was found in st. Louis ant
San Francisco wheat car Sunday night
The boy had been abducted by a tram
last Thursday from his home, and !
supposed to have been murdered and hi
body plsced in the car to hide the crime
The body vas literslly cut to pieces
There is no clew to the murderer. Tit
body was found by the boys father.
| was so Dhuly uieuBuiCu th@' 'NS 'N
we're unacceptable. The only mean
of Identification was the clothing.
| One killed, another fstal ly injured
while three are seriously burned, 10 To
result of a FIRE in soda boiling work
at Meadville, Pa, yesterday. The fatalit
and injuries we're caused by bursting
soda-chargiug-tsnk, falling walls AM
the flames. The loss is estimated a
| 81 600. Fhe cause of the fire Ia no
known. Two residences ana Q barn i'm
medialely adjacent to the bottling plan
were consumed before the fire was con
trolled. When thu flames reached tn
charging tank it exploded with a terrih
roar and pieces of the heavy metal wer
thrown with great force in every direc
ton, subjecting the employees who ha
not made their escape to a ve'itabl
charge Of shrspnel. Wsl'er Fries, /
years old, VAS itrack aHd instanlg XII
ed. and several others seriously injured