Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-06

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! ia the public schools of that city this
year.
George II. Gentle, one OF the alleged
/ lyncbers of the Gillespie negroes at
Salisbury. N. @, lastmoptb, v syester-
day afternoon acquitted in Rowan St.
periof Court of the charge OF breaking
into the Jail there to seize the victims OF
| the mob.
Secretary Taft, who is helping Con-
gresham Little6eld to re election,
delivered carefully prepared speech at
Bath, Me-, last night in which he said
that Roosevelt and bis acts were the
issues. He also declared in favor OF a
revision of the tariff.
| Former friends of Herman Oerichs
said after the funeral that his entire.
estate, amounting TO more THAI ~, O0O.-
600, would revert to his l5-year-old son
| Herman, who would come into full
possession of the property upon attain
ing his majority.
Secretary Shaw announced IN Wash
ington yesterday that after September 10
the Treasury would make deposits with
national banks to aid gold imports, ac-
cepting savings bank investment secur-
tiles as collateral In New York yester-
day money on call was quoted at 40.
Mr.. Walter Lea, we'll known travel
ling salesman of New York, Committed
snicide Yesterday afternoon at the Hotel
Rennerl in Baltimore, by shooting him
self through the head while gszing in
mirror to direct bis aim. Ii was said at
the hotel that Mr.. Lea had been COM
planning of his health for several days,
and the theory was advanced that it may
have preyed upon his mind until he be-
came respondent.
Singularly pathetic was the death
early yesterday morning of "Willle"
CLARK, Is years old, one of the brightest
usbers at Chase's Theatre, Washington,
who, believing that he WAS drifting into
consumption, fred bullet into his
brain at the residence OF his grandmother,
Mrs. L. q. Coukling Both Of the un-
fortunate young mans parents had died
of the disease. aud the fear that he would
go in the same way preyed upon his
mind until he became respondent.
SEIZED with q frenzy of fright at a
dream that a negro was trying to kill
her, Miss Annie Morgan, thirty seven
years old, of Columbus, Ohio, was over.
come with an attack of heart trouble
Tuesday night, and died within a few
minutes. Ia her fright Miss Morgan
ran out of her room, shouting: "a big
colored man is standing over my bed
trying to kill me with knife" Then
she sank TO the floor unconscious and
died in few minutes after a physician
wss summoned Death was due TO heart
disease.
Esther Bean, the 3-yesr old daughter
OF Mr. and MIS-. William c. Bean, of
Rockville Md is critically i'll as a re-.
sult of drinking quantity of gasoline
Tuesday. The little one was missed
from her home and was found lying
upon the ground back of the house I'M
conscious A bottle that had contained
gasoline WAS found nearby. A physician
was hastily summoned, but the little
girl continued ia state OF stupor, and
her condition yesterday showed little or
no improvement. 1t is feared she can
not recover.
The latest returns from Tuesdays pr:
mary elections throughout Wisconsin
,hows that Gov. j. o. Davidson. repub.
lcan, swept the State, winning from his
opponent, Speaker |. L. Lenroot, in the
race for The nomination for governor by |
majority of 40, 900 votes. Senator La
Toilette, who had been speaking four
times day for Speaker Lenroot suffered |
his first defeat since being elected COVER
nor six years Sgo. The defeat, too, is
more decisive than any inflicted upon
him during the days when he strOye in |
vain for the gOvernorship.
A carriage occupied BY DR.. Karl Bur
bank and young woman, whose name |
was given al Gertrude Burnhsm, crash
ed into another vehicle en- the speedway |
in Washington last night and both |
we're thrown to the ground. DR.
Burbank escaped with slight bruises, but |
Miss Burntam misaed death by slight |
margin, and was taken to the Garfield
Hospital. 1t is feared that she is suffer-
ing from conclusion of the brain. 1t is
said at the hospital that the name of the
young woman is q fictitious one. and
that she is from a prominent family.
In petition filed in Lexington, KY,
yesterday in the Circuit Court John
T.. Madden, the noted lHriman, charges
his former wife, Anna Louise Madden,
with living unlawfully with l.. Y. Bell.
Madden seeks divorce and the custody
of the two children and slsO the annu'l-
ment OF the alimony given Mrs. Madden
by Judge Swing, in Cincinnati. Mrs
Madden secured divorce in Ohio and
married Bell in New York, sailing i'm,
mediately for the Orient. The petition
charges that her divorce was granted
through fraudulent allegations that she
has no legal divorce, and that her mar
risge to Bell is not legal.
Il. S. Adams, now manager of tao
Quinn-Shsrpe Drug Company, but for
merly assistant cashier of the citizens
National Bank, Of Vicksburg, Miss,
was arrested yesterday by United States
Marshal Wilson and taken to Jackson
on the charge of being short in his cash
to the amount Of $4s, 900, while employ
ed in the Citizens National Bank at
Vicksburg. Adams left the employ OF
the bank in August last, when be con-