Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-02
News of the Day.

letter warmly commencing Admiral
Davis for all he did In Jamaica.
Twenty nine men we're drowned By
the loss Of the British steamer Clavering
at the mouth Of the Tees on Thursday
night.
To dispute at the breakfast table be-
tween John Gebhardt and his son Charles,
at Steubenyille, O., yesterday, the father
was shot and killed.
A dispatch from New York says that
the reported illness of Thomas A. Edi-
son, the Inventor, at Atlantic City IL
without foundation.
Professor Marshall of Ohio Wesleyan
University, in an address on Grace FL.
iecls of immigration . yesterday SAID
race suicide was due to immigration.
Congressman VIM. II. FIack. OF Ma
lone, \. Y, who he's been seriously i'll
for several months, past, died at that
place this morning. He wss 4G years
old.
The second trial Of Cornelius p Shea,
president of the Teamsters Unioh, and
other labor leaders, accused of copspi-
racy in connection with the teamster .
strike Of 1906, was begun in Chicago yes
terday.
Gen. Luis Maray Has, the Governor
of Caracas, has been asssssinated. The
crime is charged to a crowd of intoxi-
Gated partisans of Vicente Gomez, the
FIRST Vice President Of the Venezuela
republic
Mrs. Freel West, proprietor of "baby
farm" near Des Moines, lows, has been
arrested on a charge of murder in the
fr,t degree, it being alleged that bodies
of O number OF infants born at Mrs.
Yeats home we're burned 10 the furnace
and the ashes dumped 10 cinder pile.
The Senate yesterday passed bill in
crossing the pension Of all Indian war
survivors from IS to $40 per month.
The Senate also passed bill providing
for the re classification of let,er-carriers
in free delivery Offices. and giving them
and rural carriers an increase in salary.
Tie jury to try Harry X. Thaw for
killing Stanford White was completed
late Yesterday afternoon, in New York,
AFTER long and tedious all-dsv search
TOT the twelfth map. When the lnror had
been sworn in court adjourned to 1880
O'Clock Monday morning, when il is ex-
pected that the real trial will begin.
A dispatch from Morgantown, Ky,
says. "Tnirly masked men called Jesse
Phelps from his home Thursday night
and whipped him severely. Phelps was
accused Of cruelty to his three -year-old
child and was ont on bail. IL is said
that he stuck pins in the child, burned
him with a hot poker, and made the
liula fellow hold hot potatoes until the
boys hands we're blistered.
The subcommittee OF the military
affairs committee of the House by astrict
party vote yesterday laid on the table
the resolution commencing the President
for his action in discharging the colored
soldiers engaged in shooting up the
town Of Brownsville, Texas. Mr.. Hay,
OF Virgins, and Mr.. Clayton, of Texas,
the only two democrats on the subcom-
miltee, voted against tabling the resolu-
ton.
Two engines upon which were riding a
lsrga number O! men who had been en-
gagged in breaking the snow blockade,
near Saltee, Mont, plunged over an en-
bankment two miles west OF De Borgis,
Thursday, killing Conductor Mcdonald
and q fireman and ipiuriug about 20
Others some OF them seriously, Con
ductor McDonald's death occurred Thurs
LAY night, after lie had lain for ten honrs
pinned beneath boiler with his body
partly submerged in the icy waters of
the river. Hist .llOw.workmen, unable
10 help him. kept his head above the
water nutil he died. lie steadiastly re-
fused to have his leg amPutated.
Tho seaboard Air Line bridge over
the Roanoke river near Norlina, \. c.,
gave way yesterday afternoon under a
double header freight train bound south
from Richmond. Both locomotives aud
twelve freight cars dropped into the
river. Engineer Curtis Constable, whose
home was at Union Hill, ~ j., VAS so
badly injured that be died while being
taken to Raleigh, Fireman Rigging wss
killed. The bridge is e complete wreck.
Several days will be required to repair
It. In the meantime, all the north and
south bound SesboaFd trains are de-
toured over the Atlantic Coast Line
tracks from Richmond to Weldon, n. c.