Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-12
News Of the Day.

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900 up to December 81 last.
The chief of The secret police at Ink
utsk, Siberis, Gavrilof, was asssssinated
yesterday.
Secretary Taft heartily favors Com
gresham Burton in his race tor mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio.
King Alfonso of Spsin yesterday un-
derwent an operation with the object OF
dilating the ducts of the nose.
Archibald Henry Blount, lord Of the
manor of Orleton, England has bequeath-
ed about $500, 900 to Yale University.
NJ. BoroduliU, superintendent of the
political prison at Akatui, Transbailkalia,
was killed by an unknown person on the
streets of Pakoh, his home village, Tues
day, where he was spending vacation.
Mrs. Marguerite Croft, bride of few
weeks, and wife of John Croft, Of New
York, was swept overheard from yacht
in the Delaware river last night and
drowned. Mrs. Croft and her husband
were on their honeymoon.
Fifty persons were injured last night
by flying glass by the explosion OF pow
der or gas in Wheeler & Coshard's
store at Touon, Ill. Three men lost
their ears by flying debris and many
others we're cut about the face.
Former Chief of Police Matsevitch, of
Bialystok, Russia, where the anti-Jew-
ism outbreak cccHue1 in June 1906,
was mortally wounded by terrorist at
Grodno, yesterday. The mar who at
tackled Matsevilch was captured.
Two large sarcophsgi, carved out Of
granite at Buffalo, n. Y, we're shipped
today to Canton, Ohio. They will hold
the bodies of President and Mrs. VIM.
Mckinley in the beautiful msus6leum TO
be dedicated there on September SOih.
They weigh four tons.
Driven frantic by the twinges OF rheu-
matism during the rain storm of last
night Mrs Pauline Heinech, 81, of
New York, killed herself by inhaling
Illuminating gSs. She was found by
her daughter and sOn-inlaw early today
sitting in chsir with gas tube in her
mouth.
A $4,000 shortage was discovered
Yesterday in the accounts OF the State
tax commissioner ia New Orleans. The
police are searching for Charles F. Let
ten. chief clOrk in the Office, who is
charged With the deialcatiOn. This is
the third defalcation in elk months in
the Louisiana State tax department.
Randolph Guggenheimer, of the firm
of Gueggenheimer & Marshall, is dead
of apoplexy at his country home in
Long Branch. Mr.. Guggenheimer was
for wears prominent in school affairs IN
New York. He was acting mayor in
the summer absences of the executive
during the term of Mayor VanWyck.
COL Robert |. Fleming, one of Wash
| ineton's widely known citizens, died yes
terday at his suburban home, Oak View,
Cleveland Park, of Brights disease.
He was 65 years old, a native Of Vir-
GINA and served during the civil war as
a member of the Richmond Fayette
Artillery and an officer in Lees army.
A dispatch from Chicago says that
all other plans to fill the treasury having
failed, certain promoters of Zion City
have decided to established race track
within the gates of the city built by
John Alexander Dowie. The project ia
sanctioned by the receiver of the city,
but Voliva, who succeeded Dowie, OPP
poses 1t.
When Mrs. Arch Feaman, revolver in
hand, burst open the door leading into
her husbands room in the Wilson Hotel
at Charlottesville, Mo-, Lucy Lofsden, a
waitress, who was in the room, jumped
out of the third-story window. She was
fatally hurt by her fall Mrs. Feaman
was arrested, but was released on bond.
Feanan and his young wife have been
living apart for six months.
The body of Homer S. Casey was
found early yesterday sitting upright in
buggy in the barn at his nome, in
Bloomfield, Ind, with a bullet hole
through the left temple. He was to
have been married yesterday afternoon
to Miss Anna Stone, daughter Of Peter
Stone. Mystery surrounds the death.
The horse was still hitched TO the buggy.
There was no revolver found.
Lloyd Gribble, a nine-year-old boy Of
Charlotte, n. O., was electrocuted yea
terday afternoon upon a tower thirty feet
high by taking hold of an electric wire.
The moment he touched the wire the
current passed through his body, but did
not kill him outright. He was suspend
ed in the air, with his hands fast TO the
wire. Two colored men went up and
brought the little fellow down. He was
taken to hospital, where he died.
The Navy Department yesterday made
public the fact that through fire in her
cosl bunkers, on the morning Of Seplem-
Der 5, the battlesbip Indiana, now ur-
dergoiDg repairs at the League Island
navy yard, narrowly escaped destruction
the ammunition in the adjacent maya
zines being safely removed only through
the exhibition of the greatest courage on
the part of he officers aud crew. No
damage resulted from the fire, which WAS
caused by spontaneous combustion of
coal. The two magazines aud the she'll
rooms became dangerously heated and
were flooded to a depth of 20 inches.
]. w. Joyner, conductor Of freight
train between Whist oD-Salem, and
Charlotte, n. c., was killed instantly
at Mooresvile yesterday afternoon. He
was swinging from car when the train
entered the Mooresyille yard. His head
struck a telegraph pole and he was
| tbrorn uDder the train Hia hodv wea