Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-09
News Of the Day.

A runaway electric Car in Pittsburg,
Pa, Saturday, turned over, ipjuring is
or 90 persons.
The Central American republics have
agreed upon q Supreme Court OF fiSe
members, to which all disputes shall be
submitted.
Desertions from the ships of the Pa
cific feet now assembling in Hampton
Roads are 80 numerous that shore leave
has been restricted.
Guiseppi Qusttrocchi and his wife,
ofGenos, Italy, Saturday, murdered their
landlord and his wife and four children
and we're 10 turn lYnched by mob.
All places of amusement we're closed
in New York yesterday for the first time
in wears. New York's "Blue Sunday"
is expected to result in mod ificstion OF
he law.
There is some talk OF putting Repre-
sentative Flood, member of the Congress
sionsl campaign committee from Viz
ginis, into the position Of chairman OF
the committee.
The Library Of Congress is now the
third in point OF size among the-librsrles
Of the world. In the library are l, 49,
S4S books and pamphlets and some 9OO,-
900 other articles.
The steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm,
just arrived ct Plymoulb, Fog, repors
receiving wireless message st sea fro m
the Red Star liner Kroonlard, saying the
latier's shaft is broken.
The first witness at Saturday. sets;' Il
of the Caleb Powers trial at Gsofgetowu,
KY, was Wharton Golden, who assers
that he was intimate with Gov. Taylor,
Powers, and Charles Finley in coOstruc-
ton the plot to murder Goebtl. G llden
told of The alleged conspiracy, implicst-
ing not only Powers, but former Gov.
Taylor, Finley, Howard, Youtsey, JohO
| L. Powers, and others.
But ffty.three bodies have been re-
covered from mines Nos. 6 and s OF the
Fairmont Coal Company, w. Va, when
darkness closed over the little town ct
Monougah last night. Shortly after 3
O. clock yesterday afternoon fire broke
out again 10 mine No. s, and the res
cuers 1ere at once ordered TO the sur
face. Thousands of sight-seers from the
surrounding towns had gathered about
the openings.
| 1t ia expected that Mr.. Bryce, the
British ambassador at Washington, will
visit London carly next year for the
purpose Of consultation with the autho'
rites of the foreign Office principally
with reference TO the relations between
America and Japan. 1t is by no means
certain that be will return, and in case
he does not bis successor will probably
be Sir Henry Howard, the British minis-
ter at The Hague.
"You choose between your religion
and me % shouted twenty-two-year-old
Harry Weber, of Lisbon, Ohio, a.!
church time yesterday, as he confronted
his bride of four weeks at the door of The
Lisbon Disciples Church. The young
wife stepped aside to enter the church,
and Weber, drawing revolver, fired
two sbols at her, then put a bullet into
bis own brain. Weber died in half en-
hour The young bride will die.
| Rev. w. z Mason, pastor OF the
Second Baptist Church, OF Cleburne,
Texas, WAS retaining from bis church,
Saturday night, accompanied by his wife
and the lstter's mother, when an I'M
known man confronted them In the
street and opened Are with pistol. Mr.
Mason was shot In the hip and 10 the
head. Mrs. Mason was shot through
the body, and is fatally wounded Her
mother was shot ia the head. The man
who did the shooting disappeared.
Mrs. Louise Taft, mother Of Secretary
Taft, died at an early hour yesterday
morning. She had been slowly sinking
for several days. Mrs. Louise M. Taft
was the daughter of Samuel d. Tory OF
Millbury, Mas. She was born In Bos'
ton, eighty yeas ago last September, but
spent the early part Of her life in Mill
bury. When sac was about twenty Height
years old she became the second wife OF
Alfonso Taft, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who
later gas Secretary Of War under Pres-
dent Grant. The funeral OF Mrs. Taft
will take place tomorrow morning. The
plan to postpone the funeral until the
arrival Of her son, the Secretary OF War,
has been abandoned.
Charles Miller, alias w. A. Newman,
forty years old, who was arrested in
London, England, on September 8, at
the request Of the Richmond authorities,
who charged him with series of bag
gage robberies ip that city, was taken
from Washington 10 Richmond today.
Miller, the police say, obtained about
5000, 900 worth OF property by robblng
trunks aud vslises shipped over the pTin-
cipal railroads of the country. He OPP
Grated in Washington, it is said, about
three years ago. He was arrested 10
New York, January 10, 1906, but made
his escape while his friends we're lighting
bis extradition to Virginia, He went
to London and when arrested was known
, rs William Arthur Newman.
DEATH OF KING OSCAR.
King Oscar died at 9.l5 o'clock yes
terdav morning in Stockholm.