Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-26
News of the Day.

cations of Paris has begun.
AMI Smith, superintendent of the
Senate document room, died Saturday
in Washington.
A tornado in Wisconsin Saturday
picked up building and carried 1t
mile and half.
Edmond F. Noel, of Lexington, has
won the democratic gubern atorial nomi-
nation in Mississippi.
A race war is Threatened at Seaford,
DEL, as theresult of negroes MORALLY
wounding a county officer yesterday
morning.
andre Roby, who murdered his sweet
heart, Bertha Carlyle, at Norwslk. Conn.,,
on the night OF July 5, has been cap
tured in Hungary.
The value of the land in New York
city is computed as worth nearly twice as
much as all the real estate and improve
ments in New York State.
The diamonds owned by Mrs. Leland
Stanford, OF Californis, have been sold
in London. The proceeds will go to the
Leland Stanford, Jr., University.
1t is announced in Washington that
the Congressional committee in charge
of Panama Canal expenditures will make
personal investigation OF conditions on
the isthmus.
Two persons were killed and two in
iured by an explosion in the Carnegie
Steel Mill, Pittsburg, Pa, Saturday,
caused by the pouring of cold water on
molten metal.
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan said at
Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday, that the
Presidents plan for federal control OF
railroads would serve as a protection to
them against the States.
Speaker Justice, of the North Caro-
lima legislature figured out in Washing
ton on Saturday that the Southern Rail
way earns 200 per cent. on passenger
traffic in North Carolina.
Having refused to accept the froPo'
siiion Of the packers, the striking meat
drivers in New York today announced
their intention of completely blocking"
the meat business there.
One of the officials of the Chemical
National Bank, Of New York announced
today, that the report that defalcation
had been discovered in the bank was
absolutely without foundation.
Private cable advices stale that the
Arnhensche Bank of Amsterdam, Hol-
land has failed. The institution is said
to be ofno great importance as concerns
the general financial situation.
DIR. Seneca d. PowelPs death at
Greenwich, Conn.,, yesterday, was said
to be due to experiments with carbo!ic
acid before his class st the New York
Post Graduate Medical School.
DR.. Dietz, counsel for Professor Hsu,
now SAYS that Hau's wife had threaten
ed to kill herself because of his unfaith-
fitness and not because of the charge
against him of killing her mother.
Four persons were killed and thirty
injured Saturday afternoon, when q
St. Louis and San Francisco passenger
train and an east-bound passenger train,
both loaded heavily, collided, near Sa-
pulpa, l. 7.
A review Of the record of Parliament,
which will be prorogued Wednesday,
shows that while much useful legislation
YVES accomplished some of the principal
bills mentioned in the kings speech
failed of passage.
A man answering in every detail the
description of James Arthur Kemp, late
property clerk of the District of Colnm-
bia police department, who absconded
July 8, leaving shortage estimated at
81, 500. has been captured at Logan, W.
Va.
England is preparing for complete
overhsuling of her forces in the far East.
While there is announcement to that
effect, the step is generally regarded as
he outcome of the United States preps-
sion to make great naval increases in
the Pacific.
According to the desire Of relatives to
await the verdict in the second trial OF
Harry X. Thaw for the murder of her
husband, Stanford White, Mrs White,
widow of the architect, has consented to
postpone her contemplated marriage to
Charles f. McKim, her former husbands
partner.
Chief Judge Ira p Bowen, of the
Orphans Court of Worcester county,
Md, accidently fell under moving
passenger train at Berlin Saturday and,
as a result of the accident, both of mis-
legs we're amputated at the Peninsula
General Hospital, in Salisbury, Salur-
day afternoon.
Four small children OF Jacob Helm
richsen, Of Chicago, disappeared, from
home while playing, and for "A hours
no trace of them has been found.
Neighbors have made a systematic
search and have come to the conclusion
chat the little ones we're taken away by
a band Of gypsies.
Mrs. J. E. Shoemaker, wife Of j. L
Shoemaker, on Saturday evening lost
81 900 worth of diamond rings which she
left in a retiring room at the New Will
lard Hotelin Washington. Last night
Mr.. Shoemaker reported 10 the police
that the rings were found by young
lady friend of his wife and had been
returned.
While coming into Baltimore hsrbor
at midnight, last night, with cargo of
bananas from Port Antonio, Jamaica,
the big fruit steamer Barnstable, of the