Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-06
News Of the Day.


Snow fell in Cleveland, Ohio, yesier-
day. Snow is also reported from other
interior points in the State.
State Representative John o. ShestS,
who was opposed by Senator Penrose IS
candidate for State treasurer, was nomi-
mated by the republican State conven-
ton at Harrisburg, Pa, today.
Mr.. Helen Cougar, the noted lecturer
ard writer, dropped dead at her home
in Lafayette, Tod today of heart disease.
She was about 65y years old. Mrs. Gou-
gar took the stump for William j. Bryan
in the campaign Of 1898.
According to a telegram received in
Mexico City u of the 10 men condemn
6 / TO death by court-mqrtial because OF
alleged attempt on the life of President
Cabrera. of Guatemala, will be executed.
Eleven of these men are Gustt malans.
A strong gale of wind, followed by
heavy rain and hail, passed over Balti-
more and vicinity shortly after O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, doing considerable
damage, especially in the northwestern
suburbs. The storm extended over
large area in Mary land, aud damage is
reported by wind, hail and lightning.
As a result of wholesale and accident
ally poisoning at the farmhouse Of John
Montgomery, fifteen miles from Wilkes
barre, Pa, yesterday evening, Joseph
Brown Is dead and Mrs. Ellen Kelley,
Andrew LukeD, Paul KOstenbauer, Beu
lab Harrison and Stanley Sherwin arein
serious condition. Arsenic was placed
in some apple dumplings which Mrs.
Kelley, the houSekeeper, made Tor din
ner Tuesday night in mistake for SAL
eratus.
On his way to witness the grad uslion
of daughter at Vassar, the one fond
hope that he had anticipated all winter
long, John A. Htdrick, one Of the
wealthiest planters and real estate own
ers OF Rowan county, n. @, brother
of the late Ben amin 5. Hedrick, prin-
cipal examiner at The Patent Office for
many years, died at the Georgetown
Hospital yesterday Of enlargement of the
heart and a complication ofluDg troubles.
Mr.. Hedrick was the father of Mrs. Red
field Proctor, it,, whose husband is
son Of Senator Proctor, OF Vermont.
Going at a speed of between twenty
and thirty miles an hour, Southern
passenger train No. 2 leaving Nash
vile at 1890 a. M, plunged down Is
foot embvnkment at Black Branch, near
Lebanon, Tenn, thirty-three miles east
of Nashville, shortly after II O'Clock
yesterday morning, ipjuring ffty.s57en
persons out of total of sixty on board.
Two passenger coaches, the mail and
baggage cars left the track. One report
says the wreck was caused by spreading
rails, and another thai the front trucks
OF the engine jumped the track and threw
of he baggage coach and two passenger
coaches.
A dispatch fom HoDgkOng says that
a serious rebellious outbreak is reported
to have occurred at WeichOu, about 80
miles south of PakhOi, formerly the ref
uge of the pirates in the Gulf of Tong
king. A mob OF rebels is attacking the
city, and troops from Canton have been
asked for. The outbreak at Lien Chow
is dying out, owing TO the energetic &C.
ton OF the local authorities. No Amer
lean missionaries are believed to be among
those mentioned in a special dispatch
from Hongkong to London as fleeing
from the Swallow and Iskhoi districts OF
China to Hongkong for protection from
mobs of Chinese. Neither the Meth
odisls nor the Presbyterians have missions
in that section of China.
A lockout of all the building mechan-
les of the trades in Washington which |
went on a strike on the new Metropoli-
tan Club building, which is being erect |
ed by Richardson d Burgess, at the |
corner of Seventeenth and II streets
northwest, and on the row of houses on |
Park road, near Seventh street north
west, being constructed by Middaugb |
& Shannon, was declared by the EN-
Dloyers' Association Of the Building
Trades yesterday afternoon. The lock-
)ut went into effect this morning, and
lie men, when they went TO work, we're
that their services we're no
onger needed, for the present, at least.
This action was approved and intOrsed
by the two Master Builders associations,
integral parts of the Employers Associ-
Ition, in joint meeting last night.