Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-21
News Of the Day.

engaged in securing a jury IN the nay
wood case.
Two csboOse, one containing 70 men,
collided on the Pan Handle at Golfers
near Steubenville, o., today aud 10 men
were injured, two fatally.
Two thousand delegates have arrived
in Dublin to attend the convention
which will decide whether to accept or
reject the Irish bill 10 parliament.
Governor Warfeld, of Maryland, an
nounces that he never has been, is not
now and will not under auY circum-
stances be candidate for reelection.
The republicans elected four out OF
the six Cumberland, Nd, city council
men voted for yesterday, which still
leaves them in control Of the council,
which will stand eight republicans to
three democrats.
Leonard J. Mosness, thirty-6ve years
old, formerly a trusted employe in a
stock exchange house in New York, has
been arrested charged with swindling q
brokerage firm out Of $500 by means
of worthless mining shares.
At Grayesend yesterday Superman,
the three-year-old colt of james R.
Keene's stable, won the Brooklyn Han
dicsp on a track fetlock deep in mud.
Supermsn covered the course of mile
aud quarter 10 2:09. The purse was
500. 900.
Passenger train No. 2, on the Central
of Georgia Railroad, leaving Birming-
ham, Ala, at 7 O'Clock yesterday morn
ing, vas wrecked at Wsverly, near Ope-
liks, Ala, about neon. Tsenty-'even
are reported injured. The train went H.
to a ditch.
CASTOR Philip, a wealthy young club
man, was held at the coroner's Inquest
in Washington yesterday for the action
of the grand jury for causing the death of
Frank MacAbOy, a csbmaD, who was
shot at the Arlington Hotel Saturday
morning.
The old Baltimore City Council ad-
iourned sine die yesterday. Mayor-elect
Mshool received resolutions and gifts of
sverware from the members and en-
ployes of the First Branch of which he
was the president. Mayor Mahool en-
tered upon the duties of his new office
today.
The minority and majority reports
we're presented to the Southern Pres
byteriau assembly at Birmingham,
Ala, yesterday on the adoption of the
Charlotte agreement. The majority re-
port Of the committee favored the adop-
ton of the articles. The advocates Of
the respective reports made speeches
upon the same.
Kathrine Clemmons Gould has begun
suit in the New York Supreme Court
for separation from Howard Gould,
to whom she was married in October,
1898. She asks for permanent alimony
and places her husbands income at 81
900, 900. Mrs. Gould declares that her
husband abandoned and deserted her in
July of last year, and tbat since Septem-
Der he ha, not contributed anything to
her support.
Tae Louisville and Nashville Rail-
way Yesterday followed the example Of
the other corporations which are con-
testing the right of the State Corporation
Commission to order two-cent passenger
rates by instituting suit in the United
States Circuit Court. Rumor has it
that the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad, whose stock is owned
in large part by the State, will also sue
in he United States Court.
After going to Birmingham, Ala,
from Sewanee, Tenn, expecting TO marry
Miss Mamie Shaw, only to fad her the
bride of another, j. n. Castleberry, a
prominent business nah of the Tennessee
town, killed himself. Castleberry had
received no intimation Of Miss Shsw's
liking for another, and the first word of
her marriage was broken to him on his
arrival at Birmingham. He went to
Miss Sbaw's home, and, standing on
the doorstep, blew out his brains.
There were two serious wrecks on the
Central of Georgia Railway yesterday,
one of them occurring near Hillsboro,
g., about noon, when sOuthbound
passenger train went into a ditch and
% persons were injured, the other hap
pening at Waverly, near Opeliks, Ala,
at nearly The same hour. The latter
crash resulted in injuries to 81 persons.
The wreck near HillsbOro was due to
the turning Of rail. No one was
killed and of the injured, all but one,
were passengers.
Mrs. Mary Z. Bowie and her son, r.
Henry Bowie, of near Hill Top, Nd,
will have to stand trial for the murder
of Hubert Posey, % years old, the al
legged betrsyer Of the woman's daughter.
Posey was fatally shot January Is last
The grand jury selected for the May
term Of the Circuit Court, which began
at La Plate, Nd, yesterday, With Judges
Briscoe, Crane and Merrick on the
bench, returned true bill of indictment
against both of the defendants. The
trial of the accused will begin next Fri
day.
Odessa, Russia, was last night in the
hands of mobs of the Black Hundreds
Rioting followed the assassination of
three police officials by an Internal ma
chine which had been placed in the
Office by a young woman. Following
the assassination of the police officials
serious rioiing occurred, ard last night
the Black Hundreds we're running wild
through the street, mercilesslY beating
people, particularly Jews, more than
hundred Of whom we're seriously injured
aonn afIer the dislnrhances hegan. The