Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-20
News Of the Day.

of the victims we're batheTs.
FIR. Hitchcock's Tangle, who ran
second in the Saratoga Handicap. Saiur-
day. won the $1,000 Great Republic
Stakes. one mile and quarter, at Ssr-
atoga.
A dispatch from Denver, Col says
that William l.. Petrikin, secretary OF
the Great Western sugar Company, gives
out a statement that the estimated value
Of the sugar beet crop in Colorado lor
this season is 10000, 0OO. ms il
81. 6sS, I27 more than last years crop
brought TO the farmers.
Flourishing a revolver and declaring
she would kill Paul o. Stensiand II she
could find him, woman led mob %OO
strong in a charge on the doors OF the
wrecked Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
in Chicago Saturday. Baked IN her
effort to enter, she turned aud delivered
haraDgue to the crowd.
B. w. Hanback,, Of Fauquier county,
Va, who says that he is employed as a
csnvasser by B. l.. Umberger, of @ W
cord, Va, was taken to the City Hos
pital in Baltimore yesterday morning
suffering with painful bruises about the
BODY and confusion of the back Hau-
back was walking on the Northern Cen
trail Railroad track When he was struck
by train.
Jefferson t. Mason, solicitor and COL
lector for the defunct Federal CONNER
cial and Investment Company, of Phila-
delphia, who was arrested in Washing
ton on Friday night, charged with OBJ
tanning money under under ia se pre-.
lenses, was released from jail late Satur.
day afternoon on $3.50 bond for his
appearance In the Police Court next
Thursday, when the case will be given
an airing.
BOokbinders in the government print
ing Office in Washington threaten to go
on strike on account OF the suspension
of Alvin j. Tanner by acting Foreman
Ashton Saturday morning. Members
of the Bookbinders Local Union No. 4
have taken the action of the foreman as
directed at themselves, and have deter
mined upon radical action in the effort
10 secure the reinstatement OF Tanner.
Final action will be taken by the book
binders at special meeting Tuesday
night.
In duel between two boys for the
affections of Miss Catherine Cannon, in
Chicago, Saturday night, Charles Martin,
IS years old, was probably fatally wound
ed and one of his seconds, "Lucky"
Hanson, received wounds that will
probably result In his death. Hanson,
after the trouble, was spirited away by
several companions and has not been
found BY the police. The other duelist,
William 8. Sweeney, escaped unhurt
and is under arrest, held for the double
shooting.
Two boys were killed snd another was
probably fatally injured yesterday, when
powder house No. i, belonging to the
Grant Powder Company at Yreka, CAL,
was blown up. In nearly every bust
ness house in Yreks, windows were
broken. Remnants Of clothing and
parts of bodies found on a hill indicate
that two boys were blown to atoms. II
;s supposed that the boys fred into the
powder house through vegtilatQr. 4
carload of powder had been stored in a
rife magazine Saturday.
The police of Marselles, France,
Yesterday arrested an Italian anarchist
of the name of Cirilo Francese, boot.
maker, on suspicion. of being in a plot
| TO asssssinate President Fallieres on hi:
approaching visit to Msrseilles Exposi'
ton. When Francese's lodgings were
searched the police found $40 grammes
of illuminate, 500 lead screws and Other
bomb accessories, all of which had been
brought from italy. The arrest was
the result OF the receipt OF an anony-
nous letter denouncing the plot, which
bad wide ramifcations,
The corpse of a man, name unknown,
employed with John Robinson's circus,
was found yesterday by a track hand on
the Getty sburg division OF the Western
MARYLAND Railroad near Porters. The
officers think the man was murdered, "a
his body contained several wounds that
looked as if they had been made by a
| knife. The mans hands were tied with
Irvine, egideRce that he had been proba-
bly, murdered aud then placed on the
railroad track by his slayefs 10 CONCEAL
their crime. This is the second employe
of the circus to ne killed within few
days. Harry Cell. colDred, was recently
stabbed to death al Luray.
There was race riot at Seaford, Dell,
Saturday night in which four men were
seriously injured. One of a large num-
her of negroes from Maryland and Vir.
GINA gla vent TO that section OF the
State looking for york IN connection
with The handling of the peach crop be-
came involved 10 quarrel with a white
COY. The negro, it is said, struck the
boy and the citizeus Of the town organ
lied and proceeded TO run out OF town
all the strange negroes seen on the
streets. The negroes resented the treat
meut, and attacked the white men,
which resulted in William T. Russell, a
travelling salesman, of Cumberland, Nd
and Linden Short, Of Seaford, two colored
men being seriously hurt. A temporary
Lookup had to be provided because the
town Jail was filled with prisoners.
TUE EARTHQUAKE IN CHILL.
Dispatches received during the past
two days chow that Valparaiso, Chill,
and, in fact, the whole OF Chill, has met