Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-07
News Of the Day.

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Western Kansas was visited yesterday
afternoon snd last night by violent
storms, taking the form Of tornsdoes in
some places, but no loss OF life has been
reported.
One man was fatally injured and FIVE
others severely hurt BY tornado which
swept the village OF Stoddsrd, Wis, last
night. Tea buildings we're demolished,
and much other damage done.
Toney Giuseppe aud Giovanni Luigi
we're killed by Tightening at Gardner
railroad camp near Blue Sulphur, w.
Vs., Tuesday night. Several other
laborers were badly shocked, tut will
recover.
Henry H. Matthews, grand master OF
the Alabama Masonic fraternity; past
grand commander of the Alabama Knights
Templar aud for IL years clerk oil the
City Court of Montgomery, died al the
latter pace yesterday.
By a two-thirds vote striking miners
of The Hickman Coal Company, at
McMechen, w. Va, Tuesday night de-
cided to apply for work at the mines
thus severing the ties with the miners
organization An independent miners
organization will be formed, national in
its scope.
A tornado passed about one-halt nile
east of North Branch, Mimi, yesterday
evening, doing heavy damage to farm
buildings. It is feared that number oil
lives are lost. The storm is known to
have destroyed three farmhouses near
town. The village of Wyoming WAS al
so struck by the tornado.
The Breathtl, KY, grand jury return
ed an indictment Yesterday against
James Hargis, former county Judge OF
Breathitt county, charging him with the
murder of DR.. B. ID. Cox, who was
assassiDated three years ago at Jackson
Cox WAS killed with shotgun, he
WAS knsman OF James OOckrill, tcr
whose alleged murder Hargis is also un-
der indictment al Lexington.
At Mount Carbon, Fayelte county,
W. Va, yesterday morning, William
Johnston killed his wife, severing her
head completely from her body with a
bread knife. He then attempted unsuc-
cessfully to kill himself. Alter his ar
rest Johnston stated that he and his
wife had quarreled The murdered
woman was Johnsion's second wife, and
had been married to him only a few
weeks
Seventy five clergymen of Delaware,
mostly Melhodisls, met in convention
at Dover yesterday and protested against
the running OF sunday trains on the
Delaware division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad as a shocking violation OF the
Sabbath. Rev. DR.. Robert Watt, OF
Smyrna, who presided, declared that
unless Sunday trains are abandoned he
was in favor Of arreslIng the crew aud
prosecuting them under Delaware blue
law.
Mr.. Terrett, chief inspector OF meat
at the Smilhfeld, London, Market, says
that numbers of frozen hogs arrive from
the United States ia shockingly dis
essed condition, yet bearing the govern
menl inspection seal. Mr.. Terrelt adds
that il is impossible for the inspectors
10 London to discover, while the hogs
are frozen, whether or not they are
healthy. If, when the hogs are thswed,
they are fognd to 'e diseased, they are
Immediately seized.
Morris Osborn, aged nineteen, son OF
+. NJ. Osborn, prominent Cleveland
coal operator, WAS instantly killed last
night in an automobile accident few
miles east of Cleveland, Ohio. With
companion he was on his way in an au-
tomoble to his fathers summer home
near Willoughby, when the machine
struck an obs TucliOn in the road, and
was completely overturned: Young Oa-
born was found to be dead when taken
from underneath the wreck, having been
crushed by the machine. His com
panion, Walter Robinson, escaped with
bruises.
In the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Relair, Md, yesterday evening Miss
Adele Anderson, only daughter of Mr..
and Mrs j. w Anderson, was married
to Charles n. McComss, a sou of the
late Alexander McOomss, and a mem
Der of The Hartford bar. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Daniel II. Mar
tin, assisted by Kew. Spencer 5, Green
we'll, pastor of the First Presby terrain
Church. An interesting feature of the
ceremony was the kneeing of the bride
aud groom on pillows filled with the
letters written by each to the other dur
ing their cOurtship.
An Atlanta and West Point excursion
train was run into by Central Of
Georgia passenger train at the south end
of the terminal station at Atlanta, Ga,
last night. The Central of Georgia en-
gineer claims no cautionary signn.s we're
given him. Roy Cook, of Atlanta, vas
killed, six persons we're seriously injured,
two of them, it is believed, fatally, and
large number were badly shaken up.
The excursion train, on the West Point
road, carrying sixteen cars crowded with
picnickers of the Junior Order of Me-
chanics, had just returned from Pearl
Springs when the Central passenger train
from Macon crashed Into the rear car,
lelescoping it,
Herbert OstraEder, Of ST. Louis, Mo-,
shot aud Instantly killed Mrs. Anna
Mckee and then killed himself at Find
ley, o., yesterday. The tragedy occur