Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-27
News Of the Day.

tne track last night and injured FIVE
persons.
The primaries are being held today iu
Alabama and the indications are mat B.
B. Conner will be elected governor over
r. M. Cunningham.
To date 900 bodies Of victim Of the
earthquake at Valparaiso bav been
buried. Over 1000 bodies . re said to
be still under the ruins,
The Budapesth authorities b ave decided
to unveil the Washington STATUE Septem-
Der is, and have invited mayors OF
American cities TO attend.
All records of accidents in Baltimore
have been broken this month. According
to the Health DEPARTING OF figures 60 per-
sons have died from acc idents in August.
At Bayonne, N. j., yesterday burg
lar, who had entered a house, refused to
take any booty after the woman of the
house had asked him not to awaken her
children.
Governor Folk of Missouri has granted
another respite to Mrs. Aggie Myers,
convicted and sentenced to be hanged
for completely in the murder OF her
husband in Kansas city.
Mrs. Margaret Dorworth, an S0-year-
old resident OF Jersey Shore, Pa, on
Saturday kneeled in front OF fast pas
senger train. A few seconds before the
locomotive reached her she laid her head
upon the rails and was killed in the
twinkling of an eye.
Mrs. A. r. Spangler, bride of few
months, aged Is years; Miss B'ulah
Hancox, aged Is years, and Miss Pearl
Ramsey, Of Columbus, aged Is years,
we're drowned Saturday while bathing in
small branch in the northern suburbs
of Griffin, Ga. The only eye witness to
the affiir was a 4-year-old sister of Miss
Hancox, aud the child is so badly fright
ened that she cannot give particulars of
the accident.
The lives of forty tenants of a big
apartment house on Carroll street,
Brooklyn, were endangered, end Vincent
Chrisiiana, an iron dealer, was seriously
hurt by an explosion Saturday, believed
to have been caused by dynamite. The
section w9ere the explosion occurred is
notorious for feuds, and Black Hand
outrages, and the explosion may be
traced TO these causes. Several persons
in the house told the poll ice they had re-
Gently received threatening letters.
Spurred by the advice of the Atlanta
News, which is owned by Col. James
w. English, IT,, WHO is Governor Ter
relPs chief Of staff, the white men of
Atlanta aud the suburban towns began
Saturday to organize ''Ku Klus Khan"
for the purpose of avenging assaults on
white women by negroes. During the
last two weeks six white girls have been
criminally assaulted by negroes in At
lanta aud its suburbs, and only one me-
gro has been lynched, the others having
escaped.
The twelve members of the 18th In
fantry, recently stationed at Fort Brown,
Texas, who are charged with being re-
spousible for the shooting OF civilian
aud a police officer at Brownsville, have
been taxed to Fort Sam Honston, where
they arrived safely this morning. Gen.
McCaskey reports to the War Depart
ment that they will be beld there pend
ing examination and later will be turned
over to the civil authorities L. was
| thought best, on account of the excited
| state OF public feeling. 10 remove them
temporarily from Fort Brown.
Miss Florence Cryst, aged seventeen
years, of Hackettst0wn, n. j., was in
stantly killed yesterday by a Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western express at the
Stannope Netcong station. While wait
ing for train, she was walking down
the track facing the coming train, which
the engineer was trying to stop and blow
ing his whistle. 1t is supposed that she
thought il was her train and that it would
stop. She was thrown about eighty
| five feet. Her head was crushed and
nessly every bone in her body was
broken.
Ordered by the court TO mete out pun
ishment personally, Mrs Emma Belheld
took her husband into an snte-room OF
the hall of Justice al Shermervila, ILL.,,
Saturday and administered a tirst-class
argbbing, while officers stood guard out
side the door to ace that she made a
| good Job of it. The woman complained
that her husband had been cruel to her
so long that she could stand it no longer.
When the door was opened the Belfields
came forth, the wife with smile of
triumph on her face and the husband
nursing blue eye.
Julia Morrison, the actress who shot
an actor in Tennessee three years ago,
Knocked down Wall street "masher"
in the Broad Exchange building one dav
last week He left a note with her friend,
cigar stand attendant, asking date.
Later he came up smiling, and, coming
close 10 her, began to talk in low tone.
Like fash, her right arm was flung
out and her clenched fist struck him in
the face, staggering him. In second
another blow hit him on the knockout
point of the chin, sending him sprawl
ing. He fled, threatening arrest, but
his father ran out and effusivelY thanked
her.
Suddenly becoming insane, Mrs. Frank
Polsgrove, wife of well-known farmer
of the st. Francis, Ark, neighborhood,
on Saturday night killed her husband
and four-year-old child with An axe and
fatally wounded her two other children,
boy of thirteen years and q girl Of