Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-21
News Of the Day.

The ice famine In baltimofe ID sio"-
ing acute.
Secretary Taft will shortly make forfa-
al announcement to the President that
he does not desire the proffered position
on the United States Supreme Court
bench.
Sixteen men condemned for particle
patton in the mutiny at Cronstsdt,.
August we're executed at daybreak
yesterday morning Among the number
we're two students and army surgeons.
Whether it plesses him or not Mr.
William j. Bryan will be Endorsed as the
next presidential candidate of the demo-
cratic party by the State convention OF
the Illinois democracy which met at
Peoria today.
A large committee, headed by Gov.
Glenn, OF North Carolina and Senators
O yerman and Simmons, will go to New
York to invite William Jennings Bryan
to visit Raleigh and deliver an address at
the North Carolina State fair in October.
If he goes, he will speak from the same
platform which President Roosevelt used
last October
The feature of the republican State
convention which meets at Springfield,
ILL.,, today will be the Endorsement of
Speaker Joseph g. Cannon as the re-
publican nominee for the presidency of
the United States in 1908. This action
was decided upon last night at con-
ference of the State party leaders held
at the Statehouse.
A report made to the County Oour at
Sunbury, Pa, yesterday showed that
William H. Berry, tax collector OF that
city, had embezzled $4,000. He was
Immediately dismissed from Office by the
court. Berry was bonded in SIS, 600,
and his bondsmen expect to realize nearly
that sum from his property, which has
been seized by the sheriff.
John B. Roper, the man with many
aliases, who murdered without cause two
fellow prisoners named Trawick and
Crowder In the county Jail at Lufkin, Tex.
August Is by beating them to death with
heavy bucket as they slept, ended his
life by hanging himself in his cell Sun.
day night, using strip from a blanket.
He acknowledged few days ago that he
was a member of the Dalton gang of
bank robbers at Long View, Tex, in
1892.
A wire suspension foot bridge across
the Juniats river, near Williamsport,
Pa, gave way Sunday night as Chester
Robinson, his wife and two small chill
dren we're crossing it, and the wife and
the youngest child we're drowned. Rob-
inson had his four-year-old son Ralph
in his arms at the time, and succeeded
in reaching shore with him. He return
ed to rescue his wife and lS-months-old
child, but they were washed down stream
by the swift current before he could
reach them.
As result of the recent earthquake,
every building in Valparaiso is reported
damaged and half the city wrecked,
while the property loss is placed at
$3.50, 900, 900. The structures destroyed
include the administration building, the
Hotel Ingles, the Victoria Theater and
the palace of Dona tra-Buruags, the
most brilliant woman in Chill. The
prison fell and killed l40 prisoners.
Twenty Thousand inhabitants are with.
out shelter. The banks have suspended
business Tor two weeks.
Elmer Beck, a son of Alexander Beck,
Of York, Pa, while witnessing game
of baseball at Enola on Saturday, was
struck on the side of his head with a
batted ball. His skull was fractured.
Young Beck had been working at Lebanon
and was on his was to visit his wife,
who was stopping with her parents at
Enola. He had few minutes TO stop
between cars and was watching an anna
teur ball game. He became very much
interested and was struck on the head
with a foul ball. He was taken to a
hospital. His conditions is serious.
Premier Ssrrieu, who has been elected
president of tbe Departmental Council
of Saone Ell Loire, France, made speech
yesterday in which he said the govern
ment, supported by parliament and public
opinion, was determined to enforce the
law for the separation of church and
state. He was confident, he said, that
attempt now preparing to stir up reli-
giOus war would fail before the good
sense of the people, who recognize, he
said, that liberty of worship never can
be threatened by republicans, who are
the most sincere and resolute defenders
of freedom of conscience.
Scott Coberly, well.kno@n river man
of Psrkersburg, w. Va, who pilots the
little steamer Albstross between that
place and Elizabeth, on the Little Kama
wha, is lying at his home in serious
condition as the result of being struck |
BY lightning. Coberly was plotting the |
boat to Parkersbnrg yesterday morning |
during heavy electrical storm. H.
had one hand On the wheel when the
bolt struck 1t, aud from the statement Of
others on the boat the current ran around
the wire on the wheel three times before
Coberly could release himself. When |
he did get loose ne fell to the deck I'M
conscious.