Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-15
News OF the Day.


mill at Msrids, Menifee county. KY,
exploded yesterday, killing instantly
John Hale and Ross Byrd. Three Others
we're burned so they will die. The mill
was blown 10 pieces.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
announced yesterday that 1t would take
under consideration the petition tor a
waiver of the 30-asy notice provision OF
the railway rate law regarding intended
changes in cotton rates.
Caught by swinging chain from a
passing train Henry Schrader an electri-
clan was dragged for blocks today on the
New York Central visduct in Harlem.
His agonized cries for help were not
heard until TOO late. His brains were
dashed out.
Chief Justice Richard Ii. Alvey, OF
the Court of Appeals OF the District OF
Columbia, retired, died rather suddenly
at 7 O'Clock yesterday evening, at bis
residence in Hsgerstown, Md, after an
illness of about eight days. He was 10
his eighty-frst year.
Ia connection with gossip concerning
the reported prospective appointment OF
Attorney General Moody to the United
States Supreme Bench it is reported that
Associate Justice Rufus w. PeckhSm
will avail himself of the earliest oppor.
tunity tn retire. or resign, on account OF
i'll health.
The United Fruit Compa ny's steamer
Brewster, seven days overdue at Boston,
from the West Indies, arrived at Port
Antonio, Jamaica, yesterday The
cablegrams id that the Brewster suf-
fered great damsge in the hurricane last
week. She carried crew of thirty-hve
men, but no passengers.
After cutting the throat of her three
year.old daughter aud trying to persuade
her three other children to come into the
house evidently for like fate, Mrs. Vic
Tor Herbert leaped from tie roof of her
home, at l1S Pavonia avenue, Jersey
City, Yesterday afternoon, to the track on
which freight train was approaching.
The train was stopped only few feet
away from her, but her injuries are such
that she will die.
While Miss Ethel Roosevelt was driv-
ing down from Sycamore Hill yesterday
afternoon her horse became frightened
by an automobile and boiling down the
road, wret ked the light cart. Miss
Roosevelt was thrown out, but escaped
serious injury. Miss Roosevelt's nerve
was, apparently, mistaken by the acct
dent, for a short time afterward she
drove back TO the village. She bore not
the slightest trace Of the accident from
which she escaped 80 fortunately.
w. l. Williams, aged twenty-five
years, g prominent young man of Will
mington, Del was sho' yesterday morn
ing in brawl 10 the red light district.
He died several hours later. Toe man
who fred the fatal shot was Lonnie
Snipes, who is now in jsil. Williams is
a native of Covington, Ky. He was one
Of the most prominent young men IN
Wilmington, and was engaged to prom
inent young woman of Wilmington and
member of one of the Oldest families in
the State.
la the presence of four of her six starv-
ing children, Mrs. Louise CHASER at
tempted to commit suicide in New York,
Yesterday afternoon by drinking csrbolic
acid Antidotes promptly administered
by two policemen saved the woman's
life. Mrs CHASER and Der husband,
Fred, herded their six children in two
squalid rooms in a West Eud avenue
tenement. Most of their money went
for drink and shortly after the arrival NJ
The last child, Lillian, born six weeks
ago, Fred CHASER disappeared.
By the manufacture of alcohol from
corncobs and cornstalks at small cost the
Department oi Agriculture is developing
new industry that, the department
says, is likely to be of large commercial
value. Investigations which the de-
partment is making at Hoopeston, ILL.,,
have proved that the large quantities OF
corncobs which every year heretofore
have cone to waste can be converted into
alcohol in sufficient quantities to justify
the erection of distilling plant 10 con-
nection with corn cannery.
During a quarrel yesterday Michael
LaeskO shot aud instantly killed bis
wife, Mary in The presence of his brother
in-law, John Hutch, and his own three
year-old daughter, in tenement house
in New York. He then tried to kill
Hutch, it is alleged, but after fierce
struggle between the two men he was
beaten insensible with his own revolver
by Hutch. Mrs Laesko had left her
husband recently because of their diff
erences, aud Laesko yes erday kidnapped
his little daughter. The shooting fol-
loved the mothers demands that the
child be returned to her, LseskO was ar
rested.
After the Cabinet conference with the
President yesterday it was announced
that Secretary Of War Taft and acting
Secretary of State Bacon will leave for
Havana Sunday. The President has adj
dr. ssed letter to Minister Qdessds, in
which he declares the present condition
cannot continue Cubs's Congress met
aud gave President Palma fullest powers
for carrying on the war, authority to
spend all money in The treasury for the
purpose and to triple the rural guards
and double the artillery. The United
States will have strong feet 10 Cubsn
waters, manned by marines, and eight
or nine cruisers are expected to be assem-
bled there shortly.
Two men were drowned in the races of
the Motor Boat Club OF America, on the
Hudson river, near New York, yesteI-
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