Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-29
News Of the Day.

tarIes bODaparte ana SHAW hfc oAPcOtc"
TO take part in the campaign in the Sec
ond Congressional district of Virginia.
Justice Bischof yesterday denied the
application of counsel for Harry K. Thaw
for the removal of his indictment from
the Court of Special Session TO the
criminal branch of the Supreme Court
of New York.
A great mass-meeting is to be held
at Gainesville, Tex, today FOR the pur-
pose of proclaiming to the country that
the people of Texas have no distrnst OF
Senator Joseph w. Bailey, and that the
attacks upon him have no respectable
support.
The loss of life by the recent storm in
Mobile is variously estimated at from
5 to so persons. Many persons we're in
jured, 5000 houses damaged, the busi'
ness quarter devastated. and property
loss of fully SO, 0OO,O 900, is the effect Of
the hurricane.
Isaac B. Williams, white, aged THIRTY
eight, of Columbus, aud Elizabeth Fos-
ter, colored, aged twenty. seven, of Gin
cinnati, Ohio, were married in Wash
ington yesterday morning. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Walter Il.
Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth Street
Baptist Church.
John d. Plat, AZ years old, New
York real estate agent, and who had
been employed for the last Is years by
the House and Home Real Estate
Company, of east Twenty.third street,
died yesterday at the Bellevue Hospital
as the result of falling out of bed. Plat
fell while getting up to get medicine,
and although he fell only three feet, frac-
tured his skull.
At Yesterdays session of the conven-
ton o: the social democratic party in
Mannheim, Germany, resolutions we're
unanimously adopted expressing SYM
patty with the Russian revolutionists,
and ii was decided not to use general
strike as a political weapon. By vote
of $50 10 8, the convention also deter
mined not to make demonstration on
May Day in favor of the revolutionists
of Russia, as such demonstrations were
largely futile.
While playing with several children
in the rear of his parents home in To-
ledo, Ohio, yesterday morning, the four
teen. months old son of George Wenz
was burned so badly that he died within
half hour af erwsrd. The little fell
lows four-year. old brother had buried
the baby in pile of leaves and straw,
which he set on fire, intending to play
fireman aud make rescue. Mrs. Wenz
reached the child too late to save his
life.
On Monday the new Federal Meat
Inspection law goes into effort. 1t pro-
yides that no cellars or subcellars can be
used for the storage of meats. This
means that in place of sll the cOld-stor
age plants constructed under ground
others must be constructed above the
surface. Another provision relates to
the sanitary arrangements and the con-
structiOn of the buildings, involving in
many cases complete reconstruction. The
law requires that all meat shipped out
of the State in which it is packed must
bear the stamp of the government in
spector.
Discovered Just as an attempt at sui
eide was about to succeed, Henry Suss-
man was yesterday taken in charge by
the Minneapolis, Mimi, police. Later
he confessed to the murder of his young
wife as she lay asleep in room in the
Glenwood Hotel last Wednesday morn.
ing Sussmsn was found in room at
the Nashville Hotel, lying unconscious
on the bed, with five gas jets turned on.
He was in stupor, but was revived,
Sussman said he had endeavored to in
duce his wife to go to La Crosse with
him to testify in his behalf in his trial
for forgery. She would not agree, and
he :reproached her with in6delity. Ac-
cording to his story, they quarreled all
night, and he then shot her.