Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-27
News of the Day.

The Bermuda Asphalt Company has
been fined $4,000, 900 by Venezuelan
court.
Congress will be asked for largely in
creased naval appropriations by the fres-
ident.
William ]. Bryan, in a reply to Secre-
tary Taft's speech ut Columbus, ONO,
called him stradder.
The Earl of Dunmore, one of the most
prominent advocates OF Christian Science
in England, died suddenly in London to-
day.
A posse led by Sheriff Carter has sur
rounded swamp near Miller, Indiana,
in which the murderer of Ella 5chrader,
aged 9, is believed TO be hiding.
In the North Carolina rate hearing in
Washington yesterday it was shown that
the cost of operating the Southern Rsil-
way there is higher than in any other
State.
Ex-Governor Brown agrees with Sena-
tor Tillman that, owing to the influx OF
negroes from the South, Maryland will
be 10 the republican column 10 years
hence.
Three men were killed and one serious
ly injured early yesterday by the explo-
sion of a stationary engine near Ponds
vile, eight miles southeast OF Hagers-
town, Nd.
A Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
express collided early today With a street
car filled with passengers in North La
crosse. OF the injured, several are re-
ported fatally hurt.
Jealousy, together with other domestic
troubles, it is alleged, caused Mary Nc.
Ksnna, only recently married, to end
her life early today by drinking poison
at her home in Roxbury, Mass.
Oren Root, brother of Secretary of
State Elihu Root, and professor of mathe-
mates and natural science at Hamilton
College for twenty seven years, succeed
ing his father, died last night at his
home in Clinton, n. Y.
With his baggage on board the steam
er Caronia, which sailed today for Eng
land, Martin kaufman, of Salt Lake
City, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head at the International
Hotel, New York, today
The prisoner held at Logan, W. Va,
who gave his name as Con Farley, and
who was thought to be James Arthur
Kemp, the Ascending Washington po-
lice Official was declared to be the wrong
man by Detective McNamse, upon his
arrival there last night.
!; tornado struck the sof Woods
ssid ord Nc--~Gaslle, Ohio, yesterday
wrecking a number o. N"ildings snd DO
ing other damage. The home ol - ''"''
Bariemis, near Woodsfeld, was destroy
ed. A child was torn from its mothers
arms and'carried nearly quarter OF a
mile aud killed.
The steamer Acapulco, which was to
have sailed from San Francisco for Pan
ANA yesterday, turned turtle and is lying
at the bottom OF the bay alongside the
Pacific Mail dock, with only part Of her
main deck and superslrucIure showing
above water. The 200 people she had
on board escaped to the wharf.
OverpOweted and almost scalded 10
death by boiling water poured upon her
ny maniac, Mrs. Mary Burt, nurse at
the Burlington county, N. j., asylum
for the insane, was rescued from hor
rble death today by Superintendent
Deacon. Mrs. Burt is in critical con-
dition but probably will recover.
Mrs. Amanda Bland Brannon, aged |
eighty years, widow of Judge John Bran
non, who was a member of the Confede-
rate Congress, died yesterday at her
home in Weston, w. Va. With other
residing in West Virginia,
in 1868, Mrs. Brsnnon and children
we're expelled by order of the War De-
partmen:, rushed through their old home
in government wagons by order of Gen.
MilroY, and unlOaded at night near
KernstOwn, in drenching rain, and told
10 look for shelter.
Jay Gallogly, attendant at the Bailey
Sanitarium in Lincoln, Neb., died yes
.erday from the effects of carbolic acid
thrown in his face Sunday night while
be slept near Irene Nickel, an insane pa
lent. The woman had been kept hand
,uffed because of her frenzies, but she
occurred her freedom in some way, and
ook the acid from the medicine chest.
Gaining entrance to the mans room,
he threw large quantity in his eyes,
lOstrils and mouth. He died in great
lgony. The woman bad an insane de-
usion that Gallogly had been trying to
kill her relatives.
Attorney General Bonaparte has sign
ID an order permitting the removal of
John ?. Gaynor from Bibb county,
Georgia, jail to Iudis Springs, Georgia,
/ health resort, in the hope that Gaynor's
life may be saved. Gsynor suffers from
'sthma, and was lately stricken with
OcomOtor ataxia. United States Deputy
Marshal Riley, Mrs. Gaynor and q ply
ician will accompany the prisoner Ben
amin Greene, who was convicted with
Iaynor Of completely in the Savannah
IarbOr frauds, will remain in jail at Ma
on, Ga. The case of Gaynor and Greene
las been appealed to the United States
supreme Court.
Gen. Samsam Dowleh and other Per-
ian officers according to reports received
n Teheran, have been killed by the in
aiding Turks after having been taken
prisoner. Many inofeDsive Persian vii
agers, including women and children,
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