Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-13
News Of the Day.

Walter Wellman has arrived at
,Tromsoe. Norway, on board The Fibfertn
and announced definitely that his trial
trip to the north pole has been declared
off for the season.
The bottom dropped out of Copper
shares 10 New York to-day and Anal
gamaied reached a neS low record Tor
the wear by falling to 5S, three and
three eighihs points below yesterday
closing.
The pardon board today refused to
parole Paul O. Stensland, wrecker OF the
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank a, Joliet,
Ills. The board gave out q statement
that Stensland must serve his fuli term,
ard refused further to discuss the case.
DIR. Willis James, Of the stock broker
age firm of Phelps Dodge Il Co, at New
York, died today at the Mount Wash
incton Hotel in the White Mountains.
He was a victim OF heart disease. james
was First National and Nortl ern Pa
cific director aud an official Of many rail-
road, mining and financial concerns. DE
was born IN Liverpool in 1882.
Because he bsd been whipped by his
father and ordered to return to work,
Andy Sisbo, a Hungarian boy, twelve
years of age, committed suicide in Nor
paptown, w. Va, yesterday, by shoot
ing himself through the heart with
shotgun. TIE boys father became vio-
len,ly insane when he heard of the deed,
and made four unsuccessful attempts to
kill himself
Chss. G. Burton, of Nevada, Mo-, a
former member of Congress, was yester-
day elected eOmmander-in-chief OF the
Grand Army of the Republic, which is
holding its encsmpment at Ssratoga n.
Y. He VISA opposed by Gen. I. Wilder,
of Knoxville. Tenn; Charles Burrows,
of Rutherford, N. j., and Patrick b.
Coney, OF Topeka, Kan.
Ms. Mollie Leads was shot and killed
by Walter L. Frazier, in Friedrich, Md,
Yesterday. Frazier then killed himself
in the same manner. Mrs. Leads was
forty-fge years old. She went to Fred
erick about 10 years ago from Leesburg,
Va. Frazier was thirty-six years old,
and a son of the late George w. Frazier
well-known merchant of Frederick.
Tho motive of the double tragedy has not
been discovered
Charles E. Letten, chief clerk in the
office of the first district tax collector oil
New Orleans, who disappeared Two days
ago, leaving q shortage of over 500, 900,
was discovered Yesterday on the bauk OF
the Mississippi, attempting to summon
up courage enough to jump in the water
snd commit suicide. He said be had
spent most of the money on a negro
woman. who lives in handsomely fur
pished house in the old French quarter
of the city.
An anonymous letter received at Bell
ineham, Wash, Wednesday warns all
Japanese and Chinese in that city to
leave at once. japanese working at the
canneries have armed and say they will
| resist any dlltIupt ~ iOiOO ehNA" 80 "
town. The Chinese however will moi
make a strong stand. E. B. Deming,
general manager of the Pacific American
Fisheries, says if the Orientals leave the
salmon canning industry is doomed, as
the japanese are being persuaded to
affiliate with the labor unions.
Police of every precinct in Washing
ton secured that city last night in search
of Mrs. Ada G. Smith, (uee PadgetD, a
Young and beautiful woman, who quit
her home at 1919 G street northeast
Yesterday afternoon, leaving note to
her husband saying that she knew she
had wronged him and that she was going
to kill herself when night fell. Forrest
G.. Smith, the husband, who is associa,-
ed with Chandee e. Chandlee, patent
attorneys, at 9O6 i street northwest,
rushed into police headquarters at III
O'Clock last night to ask the assistance
Of the police in finding his wife and
preventing, if possible, her carrying out
her purpose.