Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-11
News Of the Day.

/ A landslide destroyed forty houses
today at the village Of Felines, France.
The inhabitants escaped.
The Isthmian Canal Commission bss
appointed s. E. Blackburn, of Kentuc'
Ky, a district judge in The Canal Zone.
Members of the Gould family do not
credit the reports from London of the
marriage of Nine. Anna Gould, formerly
Countess de Oastellsne, to Prince de
6sgsn.
Dennis Sheckrow, died last night 10
Milbury, Mass in his 1o4th year.
For years Sheckrow had the reputation
Of being the strongest a. well IS the
oldest man in Milbury.
Saturday nights refusal by striking
employees of the United Railways IN
Cuba to consider the company's propo-
sition for settlement mas giveL the sit
ustion q much graver aspect.
On account of the improvement in
the Moroccan situation the French
government has ordered the withdrawal
of four cruisers and nine torpedo boats
from duty off the coast of Morocco.
Charles T. Reddick, a wealthy Penn
syl,snia oil man, has been sued Tor
$40, 900 damages by an oil-driller, who
charges alienation Of his wife's affections.
Reddick says it is case Of blscknail.
HisI spine Injured 10 q football game,
Levi AFTER aged 20 years, OF the Al
lance High School team, Is dying at
city hospital at Alliance, Ohio. He
has been unconscious since his injury
Saturday.
The Anti Olericals, according to re
ports from Rome, won the greatest vic
tory at the polls since the fall of the
Papal temporal power; the Clericals,
foreseeing inevitable defeat, withdrew
from the contest.
Giovanni de Ohichicio, thirty-one years
old, formerly q lieutenant of cavalry in
the Italian army, committed suicide yes
terday in the Tombs prison, New York.
he jumped from the third tier Of cells
to the floor, thirty feet below. His skull
was fractured.
A dispatch from Amsterdam, N. T.,
says the knitting mills Of A. B. Morris
and Sons; Yunds. Kennedy and Yunds,
and Gardiner, Waring and Company,
employing about $500 hands have
closed down. 1t was believed many
mills In the Mohawk Valley will be
forced to suspend.
Michael McCabe, a miner, Is in liy-
ing tomb near Msboney City, Pa, the
result Of a csve-in. he Is buried far
under the groud, and the best mining
experts say it will take months to cut
through the debris to the chamber where
the doomed mining is slowly starving to
death, alone in the dsrk--perhsps in
sane by this time.
Ill-luck in love and the impossibility
of securing work are believed to have
caused the suicide today Of man be-
lieved to have been Samuel Brass, who
shot himself dead in q hallway Of a
Sixth avenue Office building in New
York, in the presence of several women
who had Just slighted from an elevator
and their shrieks as they stsmpeded from
the building nearly caused panic out
side.
In a lonely spot, fifteen miles south
of Pittsburg, party Of masked men,
with dynamite and Winchester rifles, on
Saturday wrecked snd attacked a car
laden with money for the pay of miners
some miles ahead. Many shots we're
fred, and several persons on the wreck
ed Car were hurt. The attacking party,
which is said to have been composed Of
miners out of work, finally was driven
of. The car with money for the miners
was closely followed by the pay car Of
of the interuban road, and it almost ran
into the wreck in the fog. 1t is thought
the attacking party intended to wreck
both cars.