Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-26
News of the Day.


As s result of the Georgia accident,
naval experts recommend change in
the type of turrets in American war
vessels.
President Roosevelt has issued his
proclamation putting into effect the
treaty with Santo Domingo, providing
for the collection of its customs dues BY
Americans.
Officials of the Chicago police depart
ment today declared that dynamite plots
against big gamblers are foot as part
Of the war between rival camps Of the
profession.
Today Gov. Hughes, of New York,
signed Senator Saxe's bill which pro-
yides that no shares of stock of banks
or banking associations shall be exempt
from taxation.
Lockjaw, resulting from the sting OF a
bee, ended the life of 4-year-old Ralph
Foy in the Municipal Hospital in Phila-
delphis Yesterday afternoon. The boy
had been under treatment for diphtheria.
Grover Fels, captain of last years
Yale freshman baseball team, lies at Lis
home at Lowell, Mass, unconscious and
probably dying from the effects OF be-
ing hit by a pitched ball, delivered by
his brother, Max FEELS, in a game yester-
day.
Chin whiskers, that formed a grip for
Life Guard Davis, saved the life of Herr
Ines thinner, German savant, from
Ingolstadt, Germany, who was seized
with cramps while swimming in the
surf off the steel pier, at Atlantic City,
late yesterday afternoon.
A dispatch from Duluth says that the
backbone of the strike on the ranges is
broken seems to be the general impress
sion in the range town., and the strikers
yesterday appeared to De gradually re-
turning to work. Tb men are assured
of protection by the firm stand taken by
the citizens.
After writing an open letter, in which
he said "the heat is driving me crazy,
Ernest S. Simon, a millionaire silk man
ufacturer, of Lyons, France, sent
bullet into his brain while he was seated
before mirror in his room in the I'm
perisl Hotel in New York yesterday
afternoon. He died shortly afterward at
the New York Hospital.
Battling for two hours against fren-
zied mob the police of the stock yards
station in Chicago last night succeeded
10 reaching the cell house and prevented
the lynching of John Casper, Santa
Fe passenger conductor, arrested on
complaint of the mothers of four little
girls living in the neignborhood who
charged him with i'll treating their
A band of Bulgsrians having as its
Object murder, and busy in plots against
Greeks, is now operating from Cincin-
natl headquarters. According to DIR.
n. Salopulos, counsel for the Greek
government ct Chicago, Cincinnati is the
hea quarters Of the Bulgarian commit
tee, the secret society which, according
to DR.. Salopulos is maintained for the
purpose Of numbering and prosecuting
Greeks.
A dispatch from Clinton, ILL.,, says
Miss Margaret Magill states that her
mother, Mrs. Pet Magill, committed
suicide. The daughters testimony ap-
parently clears her father, Fred Msgill,
Of all blame for her mothers death and
sweeps away all suspicion that the State
authorities attach to his movements after
his wile's death. She exoDerates Faye
Graham Magill, her stepmotner, and de-
clares no blame attaches to her for her
mothers death.
The ruins of w. S. Hemingway's
hardware store at Otter Lake, Mich,
are being searched today for the victims
Of peculiar accident last night. A bolt
Of lightning struck the building and set
off quantity of dynamite. Maynard
Hemingway had been alone in the store
when the bolt came. His wife, fright
ened by the storm, hurried to the store
with her fve-year-old chill. These are
known to have persisted. 1t is believed
hat a customer was also in the bulldog,
Fire followed the bolt and explosion and
he bodies of all the victims were pract-
cally consumed.
Much mystery attaches to $4,000 diam
md robbery reported to the police in Phila.
lelpbia this morning. The robbery followed
loosely 90 the numerous burglaries reported
rom the fashionable neighborhood Of Walnut
md Rittenhouse equare.
It is said that the contemplated divorce
ui. Of Mrs. Howard Gould against her hus'
Dsnd has been amicably settled and there
will be no court proceedings.
HnnODAIAN GEES GHOST