Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-01
News Of the Dav.

Judge Alton b. Parker has been elect
ed president Of the American Bar Asso
citation.
According TO a circular issued in Phil
adeI phia yesterday the wholesale prices
for all kinds of coal wilfremain the same
AS those of last year.
The situation in Cuba is far darker
than at any previous time since the in
surrection broke out. News of an up
rising in Santiago province is spreading
about Havana and causing the graves
concern.
Charles Richard Williams, claim
agent for the Chicago, Burlington anu
Quincy Railrad, shot himself dead in
his home, in Chicago, Yesterday. He
grieyed because his wife had obtained 3
divorce from him.
Henry Watterson in sharp editorial
in today's Courier-Journal, takes issue
squaely with Bryan on his government
ownersh ip of railroads, and warns the
twice-defaated candidate for the presl-
dency that the South will not tolerate
the idea.
Bishop Charles G. McCabe has sent a
letter to Judge Parker, chairman OF the
executive committee of the international
policy holders committee, protesting
against the attacks made against the
| New York Life and the Mutual Life In
surance Companies, and recommending
the adoption ofthe administration ticket
The main engine driving the dynamo
at the Cumberland, Nd, municipal
lighting plant was wrecked last night.
The city was in darkness The crank
shaft broke and both fywheels were let
down. One was stripped and broke.
Cagt iron was thrown in all directions,
some going through the ceiling. No
one was in the room at the time.
The Taylor Park Mining Company, a
Colorado corporation, capitalized for So,
600, 900, was placed in the hands OF
Thomas T. Goodale as receiver, in Boston
Yesterday. The receivership is the re-
suit of charges made by Clarence h..
Knight. creditor for $1,000, who al
legged that the comp sny is hopelessly in
solvent and owes $4,000. The com
pany is engaged in mining gold at Dor
chester, C1l.
The last day of August broke all heat
records in England The official instru-
ments in London at 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon registered 81 degrees in the
shade and 1923 in the snn. a number
of heat prostrations in The streets were
reported The heat in England in gen.
era is so intense that in some places the
Judges presiding over the county courts
are reported to be dispensing justice in
their shirt sleeves.
Flat Top Tony Pizelli. Italian gang
foreman in the mines at Hinton, w.
Va, was shot and Instantly killed yes
terday by Carl Luigi, with whom he was
in love. The girl had rejected him in
favor of Bob Jackson, miner, and he
plotted with an enemy of Jackson to do
away with the successful rival. A forged
note was sent to the Luigi woman, signed
by Jackson, saying be was done with
her. She started out to kill Jackson,
because of supposed faithlessness, but
mel Pizelli in a dark mine entrance and
mistook him for Jackson. She fired three
shots, killing him instantly.
Receiver Earle, of the Real Estate
Trust Company in Philadelphia, says he
unesrthed yesterday in the bank secur-
tiles aggregatiug about 81 900, 900 face
value in the name of Adolph Segal. Un-
til he investigates more fully he will not
be able to say how much they are worth.
Mr.. Earle reiterated his firm belief that
the officers of the bank must certainly
have had knowledge of President Hip
pies transactions with Segal and Others.
Additional developments, sensational in
character, continue TO crop out Yes
terday it became known publicly, for
the first time since the suspension Of
the trust company, that there had not
been a meeting of the directors of the
failed bank for nearly three years, every
detail having been lett to the president.