Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-22
News Of the Day.

WHICH tuty hdu iOuud VIZ So
a yacsnt lot in Jersey City.
Two families of Italians engaged IN
battle in Buffalo, n. Y, last night.
Two men are dead and four are In ihe
hospital with serious wounds.
Stephen Russell, hack driver, 40
years old, living on Missouri avenue.
near Third street, Washington, died at
O'Clock yesterday morning as the re-
suit of injuries sustained Monday night
in a runaway accident on @ street, near
Fifteenth, northwest.
A tornado swept over Tunis Yesterday.
1t was accompanied by terrific hail
storm and lightning, which killed eight
farmers and hundreds Of head Of cattle.
Laudslides, resulting from the storm,
have virtually destroyed the railroad and
have broken down the telegraph wires.
A telegram received by George Lilly,
OF Fsirmont, w. Va, from Fairchance,
Pa, yesterday morning, states that his sis
ter, Mrs. Mary Price, and two daughters
were killed yester lay by bolt OF light
ming during a terrific storm. Besides,
Mrs. Prices two sons were seriously in
jured.
The negro federal troops have been
ordered out of Texas. Instead OF going
to Fort RiDggold, which is about 100
miles up the Rio irsnde from Fort
Brown, the battalion of the Twenty
fifth Infantry has been ordered to Fort
Reno, Oklahoma. Fort Brown is to be
abandoned.
There is danger of renewed anti-Jew-
ish disturbance at Odessa as result Of
the campaign CARRIED on by certain negs-
papers there who are deuopnciDg the
Jews as being responsible Tor the MUIR
ders of police and soldiers in the Vistula
provinces, which has created a perilous
anti-Jewish feeling.
Passenger train No. 20 on the Cleve'
land, Cincinnati, Chicago aud st. Louis
Railroad was derailed at Taft, a small
citation twenty miles northeast OF Indian
apolis ias, a;ght The engineer and
fireman we're killed, the engine sql!lng
down an embaDkmenl, burying them be.
meath it. None of the passengers wss
injured.
Engineer Robert l. James, OF Spencer,
n. O., was seriously hurt late Monday
oipht seven miles west OF Salisbury.
His head struck a projection over the
tracks. He was running passenger train
70. IS, and while watching the track
10 front OF his locomotive was knocked
senseless in his cab. fsrp % ~ nose
was knocked of aud his face was badly
As the result OF the discharge OF
yard conductor employed at Greensboro,
N. c., by the Southern Railway, all OF
the trairme employed by that company
at thst point went out on strike yester.
DAY. The strikers include call boys and
clerks. They refuse 10 20 back 10 their
duty until the discharged man is rein
stated. He belongs to the Order Of
Railway Trainmen.
Four large cables of the Delaware and
Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone Com
pspy at Wilmington, Del have been
,ut. As each cable contained 1870 wires,
be service was seriously hampered until
repairs we're made. 1t is charged that
hp cutting was done by cable splicers,
who have bees NJ si.iss for several
weeks. Similar depredsiiOHs have oez
,urred on other occasions.
Prof. A. Leteve, 10 charge OF the
Magee Pathological Institute at Pitts
,arg, Pc, reports a great prevalence of
lydrophobia IN western Pennsy yanis,
ohio, West Virginia and Maryland. At
present there are l6 cases under treat
nent at the institute for the prevention
# ibe disease and as many as 30 have
,een under Professor i4eteye's care at
me time during the last Two Iaopths.
While the Polk county, Fla, authori.
les were bringing Will Lawrence,
legro, to Tampa, Monday night, TO pre-
Ielt bic beipg lynched, an Infatuated
mob at Mulberry. aisa in Polk county,
ranged John Bapes, negro, and rid
lied his body with bullets. Bspes at
empted to kill Capt. Hughes, a promi-
tent white citizen. Lawrence was charg-
d with an attempted criminal assault
n young white woman.
News mas Just reached Laredo, Tex,
rom Sslome Bottle, Mexico. thsi ssIen
gorkmen we're killed at that place Nor
lay in big rock quarry being operated
y the National Railroad of Mexico |
Intsnio Perez, the foreman of the quarry
,as among those killed. Perez was
lasting and in,some unknoSn manner an
x!ra heavy charge Of powder exploded |
lille the seven men were in the quarry,
nd the result wss that their bodies we're
uried undernealha heap of large stones.
Experts say the only thing that saved
antiago from complete ruin by the re-
snt earthquake was the circular motion
the earthquake. The casualties are
ow placed at 1000; the number of
omeless people 90, 06G, Another severe
rock was felt at Valparaiso Monday
ight. Slight shocks were felt at Lima
I'd other points in Peru. The town of
uiliota. 26 miles from Valparaiso, hav-
& population OF 10000, was COM
eteiy destroyed.
The State convention OF toe socialist
arty was held 10 Chicago yesterday.
bout 600 delegates we're present. The
invention turned at once TO the adop
On of resolutions and platform. The
ussian revolutioniss we're congratn-
ted, and Meyer and Haywood, the