Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-01
News of the Day.

Inc threatened biIlhc VI tuO $1,000
and first mates OF the Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company to en-
force demand for higher wages wss
begun at Baltimore yesterday.
Capt. VIM. II. Thompson, former
member of the Legislature and a veteran
oystermsn, died at 1920 a. m. yesler-
day at The City Hospital. in Baltimore,
from a pistol wound which he had in
flicted in his left breast with suicidal in
tent.
With a sharp, raw wind blowing and
heavy clouds banking the sky, Captain
Charles de F. Chandler, U. S. Signal
Corps, and J. c. Mccoy, of New York,
stated from st. Louis last night on their
delayed long distance balloon trip to
Washington.
As the result OF fire in three story
frame house one of the landmarks of old
Greenwich valley, New York, today,
fur persons are in St. Vincents hospit-
a ! 50 badly burned it is feared they will
die. Only the quickness of two police
men who formed "human ladder"
saved the lives of two men.
After being entombed since last Fri
day noon in the Berwind-White Coal
Company mine, No. 3S, at Foustwell,
near Johnstown, Pa, the seven miuers,
who we're shut off from the world by a
sudden rush of water caused by the
breaking of a wall of an abandoned mine,
were rescued at 10 o'clock last night.
William II. Tucker, who murdered
his wife and was sentenced to liie-im-
prisonment 10 the Connecticut Hospital
for the Insane, and William Carpenter,
who was declared insane after shooting
his sweetheart in Norwslk and was sent
to the same institution, escaped together
yesterday from the asylum by removing
bars from a window.
Within few minutes after an address
before his feliOw-members at the annual
banquet of the Society of Philosophical
Inquiry, Charles H. Hinton, second as
sisiaut examiner of patents, was stricken
with heart disease in the lobby Of the
main floor of the new Young Mems
Christian Association building iD Wash
ington about / clock last night, dying
almost instantly.
A car in charge of strike breakers
at Montgomery, Ala, today ran over
three year old child. Though the lad
ran directly in front of the car and the
crew was in no wise responsible the In
cident stirred up the anti-strike element
TO renewed frenzy, and it was Sith the
greatest difficulty that the police pre-
vented lynching of the non-union men.
Further trouble is expected
Wilson Miner, the husband OF the
widow of Charles L. Yerkes, was today
named as the defendant in suit brought
in the New York Supreme Court by
Mrs. Yerkes-Mizoer, The papers in the
case were sealed and the attorneys re
fused to divulge the nature OF the con-
tents. There is the best OF reasons foi
believing, however that the former wife
of the great fnancier, ia seeking di'
vorce from her young soldier OF fortune
husband.
Great dissension has been caused in
the congregation of St. Johns lnde
pendent Methodist Church, in Baltimore
by the action of the quarterly conference
in accepting the resignation Of Rev. +,
IT. Benson, the pastor, and calling in
Rev. DIR. NJ. D. Mitchell, of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church South, as pastor
and requesting the congregation of En-
manuel Methodist Episcopal Church
South, which had been worshiping with
it for many months, to withdraw. Th'
| congregation of Clark Memorial Jude
pendent Methodist Church is also mixeC
up in the affair. The situation is 81
complicated that many Of the member
do not comprehend it.