Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-05
News of the Day.


Frank Brown to be the standard bearer
of that party for second time.
AtFulton, Is miles from Jacksonville,
Fla, four persons were struck by light
ming Yesterday, one of them, Charles l..
Eddy, jr., IA years old, being killed.
The Sultsn's forces have suffered q
reverse in the attempt to rescne Kaid
MacLesn, military adviser to the Mo
roccsn ruler, nov prisoner in the hands
of Raisuli.
Gen. Bsllington Booth, commander
in chief OF the Salvation Army, will
20 to Baltimore in October and a
number of prominent citizens will be
invited 10 meet him.
One white man died today and another
is dying as the result of the 6ercest race
riot ever known in Hsrlem's '1itlle
Africa" starting over an umpire's de-
cision in ball game yesterday. More
than City whites and blacks were badly
hurt and fifteen are under arrest.
Electric railway trains between Wash
ington and Baltimore and Annapolis
will be in operation by the lst of No
vember. This announcement was made
Saturday at the general Offices of the
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
Railway Company in Baltimore.
Father Levont Martoogessian, the Ar
merriam priest now in the Tombs, at New
York, charged with having sent black
mailing threats to rich Armenian mer-
chants, and who is suspected of knowing
muchof the plans for the killing Of
Hovhannes S. TavshaDjian, has been uu-
frocked.
Ralph Helm, Is, son Of Deputy
Coroner Oscar B. Helm, OF Reading,
Pa, died In a hospital at MOrristown to-
day from injuries sustained last night at
Valley Forge when he was jolted of a
Reading Express train. The boy had
just left his parents to get a drink and
was thrown from the car while standing
near a door.
Prof. F. Arnold Baumsnu, Sc years
of age, of New Braunfels, COmal county,
Texas, killed himself in Sweets Hotel,
New York, yesterday. He placed the
muzzle of heavy slngle-barreled pistol
in his mouth as be sat in front of mirror
and blew the top of his head off. Pro-
fessor Baumann had been sufferer from
rheumatism.
Dependent because the boarding
house which she had been conducting
since last May was failure, Mrs. Isabelle
NJ. Chalmers, formerly a nurse in
Newark, N. j., locked herself in her
room in Middetown, Conn.,, some time
Yesterday and today was found dead with
the gas turned on. Mrs. Chalmers was
so years of age.
Augustus st. Gaudens, LII. d., L.
Fl. D., the sculptor, died at his home in
Cornish, N. H., Saturday evening, after
long illness. Death was due to gen
eral breakdown of the system. Born in
Dublin, be was brought to New York
six months later. His figure Of grief in
Washington cemetery is a notable
specimen of his work. He designed the
new gold coins now being completed.
Yesterdays record of crime against
women and children in New York in
cluded a murderous assault upon wom-
an in her fiat and alleged crimes or in
tended crimes against two little girls. Two
arrests were made, the police in each in
stance rescuing the accused from an in
fu lated mob. Incidentally an innocent
man, mistaken for child's asssilant,
was sci upon and probably fatally beaten
The King of Siam has generous taste
for jewelry. He is credited with having
spent 81, 500, 900 for gems and baubles
in the course of his European tour,
which is now drawing to an end in Ber-
lin. The agent of London firm has
Just arrived with jewels valued at $625,-
900 which his majesty bought in that
city. Another purchase that he made in
Frankfort on the Main amounted to
$500, 900.