Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-09
News Of the Day.


Tmaqua, was killed.
Rescues of ten persons from watery
prav es and the death of two were record
ed Yesterday in dispatches from tho sum-
mer resorts about Milwaukee.
About $50 men, principally bricklay-
ers and carpenters, went on strike In
Washington yesterday in obedience to
the calls of the business agents OF the
various locals, who acted under instruc-
tons to enforce the general mandate
against the open shop.
Four trainmen were killed aud three
seriously injured in head-on collision
between freight trains on the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, one mile north OF
Dalton, Ga, yesterday. 1t is said that
the collision was caused by the failure
of one of the trains crew to read its
orders.
A boat accident On the river Pregel at
Konigsberg, Prussia, yesterday, resulted
in the drowning of nine men, all members
of the engineer corps of the army. The
boat, with seventeen engineers abroad,
was being towed by steamer when it
turned over. Eight succeeded in reach
ing the shore.
One dead and four dying is the result
of family party eating toadstools for
mushrooms at Deep Valley, W. Va.
DIR. Diusmore, who died from eating the
toadstools, gathered what he thought
were mushrooms Sunday, and the family
partook heartily of them. They became
sick shortly afterward, the doctor dying
yesterday morning. The others are un-
conscious.
1t developed in Pittsburg yesterday
that G. w. Delamater, former candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, who COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
Wednesday, carried life insurance to the
extent of $95, 900, all OF which was pay
able to his wife. There was suicide
clause in each of the policies, but as he
had outliyed the period covered by this
clause the money will be paid to the
widow.
Infatuation for Iris Hoey, an actress,
led Shirley Falcke, eighteen years old,
son of wealthy stock broker of Chica-
90, to attempt suicide in London yester-
day by shooting while riding in a han
som cab with the girl, from whom he
was about to be separated-almost dup
LEGATION of the tragedy when Caesar
Young, according 10 the famous murder
case defense, killed himself while riding
in a hanson cab with Nan Patterson, q
New York actress.
Laurence Gilkinson, of New York,
and Miss Adelaide Madeline Rivers, of
Boston, both summer boarders at Ham,
burg, Conn, were drowned last night
in the Hamburg Cove while boating on
Eight Mile river, branch OF the Con-
neclicut. They were in small row.
boat. Gilkinson's hat went overheard,
and Miss Rivers, in reaching for it, lost
her balance and fell into the water.
Gilkinson attempted her rescue but both
went down in thirty feet OF water.
A downtown bank robbery was re-
ported to the Pittsburg Pa, police yes
terdsy and the name of the bank is being
concealed. Notice has been sent all
over the country that coupon notes of
the Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company to the amount OF
many thousands had been stolen, and
the public is warned not to buy. The
OF the missing notes have been
sent TO every banking house Of impOr-
lance in the country and to all police
heads. Two detective bureaus, as well
as the local police, are at work on the
theft.
While an Italian workman, employed
On the reservation at West Point, n. T.,
was getting pail of water at an Isolated
spring yesterday, he was set upon by |
Two Italians, who beat him into insensi-
oility aud robbed him of his money and
watch. The matter was referred to the
1uartermaster, who turned out guard
If soldiers to search for the robbers, but
hey escaped into the woods. Later,
he two Italians were caught by some
If their own countrymen, who also join
ID in the search, and one of the two
vas promptly strung up to a tree in the
woods.
Alleging that she was almost COM
,leteIy disrobed by a live wire. Mrs.
Maud S. Orr, prominent in Atlanta, has
ued the Georgia Railway and Electric
Company for $4,000 damages. Mrs.
Orr was shopping in Atlanta when the
broken end OF guy wire, which had
,een charged in some way, touched her
eet. The current tore off her belt and
ther portions Of her attire, until she
TODD almost nude in the crowded street.
q addition to the humiliation caused by
Ter clothing being stripped from her in
'ublic, Mrs. Orr alleges that the shock
lso caused serious physical injuries.
Pinned beneath locomotive, Charles
,hudley, brakeman on the New York,
lew Haven and Hartford Railroad,
Uttered the amputation Of leg before
10 could be extrica:ed from under the |
ngine, which had run over him in the
abroad yards in New York, yesterday. &
he operation was performed by an am-
ulance surgeon without the use Of an
sthetics, and frequently Shudley gave
lggestions to the surgeon during the {
peration. When the operation was 8
Dmpleted and he was extricated from
is perilous position he was taken to a i
ospitsl, where it is said he may re-
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