Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-10
News Of the Day.


yesterday mcrning grabbed burglar
who pointtda revolver at her, and after
/ drew blood with jimmy, chased the
man until she was out of breath.
Prime wheat sold in Baltimore Sat
nrday at $1.001 bushel. This is
about a record price for the nearby crop
this wear and is 81 cents bushel higher
thar the same grade of wheat sold for
year ago.
Edward F. Bingham, retired chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, died at Union, w.
Va, last Thursday. No information OF
the death and burial of the late chief
instice reached Washington until yester-
day.
lightning struck the Cleveland Springs
Hotel. near Shelby, N. @. yesterday
morning, and set it on fire. The an
.iquated building was burned to the
ground and three persons, Miss Cora
Smith, of Ellenboro, aud two colored
cham bermaids persisted.
A story Of imprisonment and enforced
seryitude was told in Pittsburg yesterday
BY Loons Luti, %, when shes wore out
warrants for the arrest of two American
women and Emil FojO Spaniard. She
said she went to the house where they
live to work that she was held prisoner
ten days and cruelty mistrested.
The Central Labor Union, of Washing
ton, at a meeting last night adopted
resolutions calling upon the President to
remove Public Printer Stillings. The
resolutions charge Mr.. Stillings with be-
ing an enemy to organized labor, an sd-
voca.e of the open shop and as using
his position to oppose union men.
Bids were opened this afternoon on
the $40, 900, 900 OF New York City
bonds. The bids ranged from lOS on
million dollars offer down to par. A
syndicate headed by J. Pierpont Morgan
& Co., the National City Bank, First
National Bank and Harvey Fiske d Co.,
offered to take $95, 900, 900 of the issue
al 100, GU.
Mrs. Charlotte Phillips, accused of
the murder of her husband, j. j. Phil
lips. was taken 10 an invalid carriage to
the town hall in East Cleveland, Ohio,
yesterday afternoon, and placed under
81, 500 bond on the charge Of secoDd-de-
gree murder. She returned at once to
her home and the guards we're removed.
Mrs. Phillips did not leave the vehicle.
William Harris. colored, was convict
ed of attempted criminal assault in the
Chesterfield Court yesterday and sem
fenced to pay the penalty for his crime
upon the scaGold. His victim was Miss
Lena Rowland, eighteen years OF age,
who escaped from the the negro's clutches
through the interference of her small
brother, who frightened the negro away
with gun.
While on the way to be mar
ried, Edward Barnes, of Hot Springs,
Ark, was killed by lightning Sunday.
He was riding 10 wagon at the time.
A boy with him was knocked uncon-
scious and the horses we're killed. We'd
ding guests had assembled in anticipa-
ton of the marriage of Barnes, and when
he failed to appear they began search.
They found his dead body while going
toward his house.
With the recent death of Louis Sells,
at Columbus, Ohio, passes the last OF
the Sells brothers who made themselve
rich and well known through the circus.
Born of poor parents, they started life as
peddlers, and it was as peddlers that they
first began to follow the circuses they
met throughout the country. Often they
had to fight the employees of the circus,
but they usually managed TO hold their
own, and they thriyed on the circus
crowds.
The Vesuvius Manganese Works, ope-
rated by the Manganese Corporation of
Virginia, near Steele's Tavern. Augusta
county, WAS blown up by an explosion
early Yesterday morning. The cause OF
the explosion is unknown. The powder
and oil houses were blown up, and the
black smith shop was burned. Steele
Wright, the night Waterman, war BADLY
injured in the accident, and two negroes,
whose names could not be learned, were
also injured. The exact loss ia not known
but may reach several thousand dollars.
Two young men and two girls were
drowned in the Saginaw river, at Sagi-
nav, Mich, last night, when a gasoline
tank exploded in power launch in
which they were taking an evening ride.
1t is thought that the tank caught fire
from one OF the boats signal lights.
The explosion blew the engine from the
boat and set the launch afre. Fighting
desperately to control the flames, the
nine persons on board all got their
hands badly blstered. Four of the
party jumped overheard. Whether they
were driven into the water by being
more severly burned than the others or
whether they jumped overheard from
fright is not known. The FIVE who re-
mained on board succeeded 10 con-
trolling the fire aud finally drifted ashore.
With the mysterious return yesterday
of three blocks Of the stock missing from
the American National Bank of Wash
ington supposed TO have been taken By
a former clerk, Edwin Fl. Potts, all the
. ock is sccounted for, although so far
no steps hsVe been taken to recover the
collateral hypothecated with the Me.
chanic's National Bank OF Baltimore.
The stock was enclosed in an envelope
with the following note; Enclosed you
will find three blocks of, stock. Don't
pot this in the paper Doubtless, it will
have enough IN i about me, anyway.