Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-20
News Of the Day.

Cuba, today.
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller's income on
Standard Oil stock for eight years was
yesterday shown to be 1925, 600, 600.
II. H. Rogers, the Standard Oil
magnale, is said to have sunk $40, 900, =
900 in the Virginia Tidewater railroad
project.
Eight hundred workmen in Marcus
Silberman's cotton mill, at LODI, where
SHERMAN was recently murdered, were
arrested today.
Three new cases OF yellow fever are
reported in Santa Clara province, CAL,
and the malady is spreading rapidly caus-
Jog apprehension.
Herman Joerns, well known insur-
ance man Of New York, died suddenly
late laSt night. He was veteran Of the
Confederate army during the civil war.
Another reduction of forces has been
made 10 the Southern Railway chops at
Spencer, N. @, and 800 men are DOW
laid of, leaving 500 at work. Further
reductions are expected.
Sitting opposite her husband and 16-
year-old son at the breakfast table in
Buffalo, N. Y, this morning, Mrs.
Mary Kent, 40 years old, without warn
ing drank half a cup of carbolic acid
and died from its effects.
Three young daughters of Samuel
Cook, of Durango, Col, persisted as a
result of cloudburst which filed a
guIch in which they had taken refuge
Wednesday. The girls entered cave
for shelter, aud the gulch became filled
with water, which rushed into the cave.
The roof OF the cave fell and buried the
children.
Former u. S. Senator Carmack, of
Tennessee, has decided to enter the
democratic gubernatorial race against
Patterson, on a platform of lower freight
and passenger rates and the abolition of
saloons. he will probably demand a
State primary. His decision followed a
conference with number OF political
friends.
A daring attempt 10 steal the corpse
of Mrs. l.. L. Northstone, who died of a
disease that attending physicians aud
the county coroner could not diagnose,
was prevented early yesterday in Colunl-
bus, Ohio, by house dog which aroused
the dead watch seated in an adjoining
room. A doctor and an undertaken are
suspected Ofthe attempt to steal the body.
Side by side ia the Mckinley msuso.
leum in Canton, Ohio, in heavy dupli-
cate bronze caskets, the bodies OF Presi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley repose. The
transfer Of the Presidents caskct was
| msde from the vault in WeSilswn ceme-
terry to the receptacle in the mausolepm
yesterday afternoon, six years to the day
ard hour since the funeral of President
Mckinley was held.
After quarrel at the breakfast table,
Louis Cote yesterday shot and killed
Mrs. Nellie Clark T'ennock, with whom
he had boarded, at her home in Franklin,
In. H. He then cut his own thross
with razor and died shortly alter
ward. Mrs. PennOck was divorced
woman. Cote, it is alleged, was sugry
at Mrs. Pepnock because she had c.
dered him to leave her house on &C
count of his alleged tendency to drink.
After running rampant throught the
streets in OoliDsville, ILL.,, Wednesday
night, chasing people into their homes
at the point of revolver aud clearing
saloons of pstrous, George White. 3 ne
gro, was shot and instantly killed by
Deputy Sheriff William Blake. After
terrorizing the town the negro re'reated
to his saloon, barricaded the doors aud
refused to surrender. Deputy Blake
broke down the door and shot White
through the heart.
Returns from ward primaries held in
Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday indicate that
Mayor Tom l.. johnson will be renomi-
mated for mayor by the democratic city
convention Saturday by reclamation.
The indications also are that sll of the
candidates for places on the council
ticket, who had the Endorsement of the
mayor, including Councilman f. B.
Haserodt, republican, who was recently
defeated in the republican primary, and
who has been a supporter of Mayor
Johuson's street railway policy, have
won.
The Detroit Baptist Association, rep
resenting 40 churches in eastern Mich.
gan, Yesterday adopted recJmmeu-
dation that the pastors OF the association
be given 10 per cent increase in salary.
1t was also recommended that the mimi
mum salary hereafter should be $3.50
year. Increased cost of living was
given as the reason why ministers could
no longer support families on salaries Of
$500 and $500. 1t is understood that
the few churches which pay 81, 900 and
SO, 900 year will not be held strictly
to the 10 per cent. increase. 4.
Crscksmen made a raid on Vernon,
Ala, Wednesday night and blew open
the safe in Thomas Guyton's store and
obtained more than $1,000 in gold.
They also cracked the safe Of j. A.
Cobb, another merchant, and took $50
in cash and SC, 900 worth of valuable
papers. They then stole the sherjfi's
horse and escaped. The sheriff organized
a posse early yesterday, and near Cat
man, Miss, fifteen miles from Vernon,
got near enough to the robbers to cap
ture the stolen horse. The posse is
still in pursuit, and battle is expected.
Central Office Detective Evsus last
night arrested Owen H. EdmonstoD,
FOR y-three years old, OF Washington,
cook at the Eugle Hotel, for the Bslti-