Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-06
News of the Day.


police force to energetic action.
In foil view of the girl he was about
to marry, IgDste Grabbere, an emplOye
OF the Lindenhurst embroidery plant, a!
Hampstead, N. Y, was drowned in the
surf yesterday afternoon.
1t was officially announced in st.
Petersburg yesterday that the provinces
of Astrakhan, Saratov, Simbirsk, Ufs,
Kszan and Ijni-Novgorod are threaten
ed with an outbreak of cholera.
A dispatch from San Francisco, says
Jimmy Britt and Joe Cans have signed
articles to fight next month. The num-
Der OF rounds, the date of place where
the battle is to be fought have not
been agreed upon.
John d. Long, former secretary OF the
navy, who lie confined to his room 10 q
hotel at Brunswick, Me-, today is said
not to be in a serious condition. His
illness is said to be due to fatigue as the
result Of long automobile trip.
Jacques Simons committed suicide at
Anvers yesterday by jumping froD, the
second gallery Of the cathedral, falling
among the promenaders in the Cathedral
square. The height of the second gal
lery is 2l5 feel. Death was instanta-
neOus.
Harry B. Weymer, the missing Lens
downe, Pa, banker, was found dead in
Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, early
today. He had committed suicide by
poisoning. Weymer disappeared from
his home a week ago. 1t is thought his
mind was sllected by the failure of the
Lincoln Trust Company OF which he had
been an officer.
The latest advices from CasablaDca,
Morocco, say that most of the hostile
Moorish tribesmen surrounding the town
have retired after a bloody fight with
the natives inside. Signals have been
arranged by which the French cruiser
Galilee will lombard the native quarters
of Cssablanca in the event Of a renewal
of the attacks on Europeans.
The strike situation in Belfast, Ire
land, is again grave. The efforts made
to settle the carters's dispute have failed
aud negotiations have been broken of.
The carriers declare they will fight to a
flush. The coslmen's dispute has again
broken out, involving two important
firms. Police who were protecting wag-
ons yesterday were stoned by millwork-
efs.
Mrs. Christina Nanadah, aged 26 years
wife of Joseph Nsnadsl, of 100 Carlisle
Place, Baltimore, strsngled her two
chidren-Mary, eyed 3 years, and
Joseph, aged 16 month";, yesterday. The
mother, former inmate of the Spring
field Hospital for the Insane, believes
her children are enjoying quiet peace
full sleep. The mother was taken in
custody.
Cardinal Gibbons is the largest bene-
ficisry named in the will of James p.
Rock, which was fled for probate in
Baltimore yesterday. The will dispos IS
OF an estate estimated to be worth Sl25,-
600. The cardinal is left Sc, 600 with
which to erect a chapel in memory OF
Mr. Rocks wife, Marie L Rock, who
died in 1896. Other requests TO churches
and for nurses total SO, 500. Mrs.
Elizabeth Woods, of Richmond, Va, is
left $500.
Mrs. Scism and Miss Barnes, living
near Charlotte, N. c., were the victims
of an attempted assault; yesterday after
noon at the hands of two white men who
were afterward pursued by four police
men and number of angry friends OF
the women. The ladies were going to
the mill and were passing through a path
hemmed in on either side by undsrbrush
when two men rushed out and seized
them. The women screamed, 80 they
we're released, and their assailsnts fled
in different directions.
Because he thought that his sweet
heart had ceased to care for him, Floyd
Upright, of Ellenvile, n. Y, on sun
day night drove to the home Of Miss
Flora Wright, at Yutau, Sullivan coun-
ty, and invited her to take a drive
with him. Upon her refusal, Upright
drew a revolver and shot her twice, one
bullet taking effect in one of the young
woman's arms and the other in her
abdomen. He Their turned the weapon
upon himself and put bullet close to
his heart. 1t is believed both will die.
Judge Lands swung his judicial club
in the United States district court in
Chicago again yesterday and landed 8
Knockout blow on the Church School
Furniture trust which he fined recently
$43, 900 for violation of the antitrust
laws. The court entered decree by
which permanent ipjunctions were issued
against the companies that were fined,
restraining them from tcrther trust
agreements or conspiracies to monopo-
lie and restrain trade in violation OF the
Sherman law. There WAS no resistance
to the courts action.
After attacking four-year-old Anita
Palucni yesterday afternoon, Luke For
tuizo, who boarded at the home of
Anita's parents at New Brighton, S. l.,
was mobbed by 1000 iniuriated men
and women, who took him away from a
policeman and prepared to drown him
in the bay. Even after four other police
men came to the rescue with drawn re-
vovers the crowd followed from the
scene Of the attack upon the little girl to
the court in Stapleton, surrounding the
courthouse and vowing to kill the wretch
If he was not mt to Jail.
The struggle of the Lithographic Art
lists, Engrsvers and Designers League