Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-19
News of the Day.

A dispatch from Manila says Bishop
Frederick Zadock Rocker, OF the Catho-
lie diocese of Jaro, lilo, is dead of
paralysis of the brain.
The meat kings of Chicago may be
indicted as a result of an investigation
being made by the government into the
causes OF the recent rise in the prices of
meat.
A dispatch from Rome says that the
next papal consistory will be held 10 the
middle of November or the middle OF
December. 1t is not believed that any
foreign cardinals will be created, but
the names of four Italians have already
been decided upon for elevation to the
cardiDalate.
Thomas Sellmsp, thirty-three years
old, farmer who lives at Bsrwyn, Nd,
Is dying at the Emergency Hospital in
Washington from injuries received by
being hurled from his team in collision
with a street car at 1880 o'clock last
night at the intersection of Thirteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
More than ten thousand people wit
messed the death at Troy, n. Y, yester-
day of Edward Richards, an aeronsut.
The parachute became unmanageable
because Of the wind. Richards loOsened
his hold and shot toward the ground
like rock. He fell into tree nearly
a mile from where he started add was
dashed to death.
The dead body of Georgia Brooks,
who lived in the northeastern part Of
Troy, Ala, was found in Henderson's
wood, about quarter of mile from her
home early yesterday. On Tuesday
night three shots were heard from the
vicinity in which her body was found,
and the examination of the body dis
closed the fact that she had been shot
three times. There is no clue to the
murderer.
Passengers from Havana arriving at
Mobile yesterday stated that on outbreak
OF negroes is expected in Cuba about the
commencement Ct the sugar-grinding
season. The seeming unrest is attrib-
u,ed to the action of American negroes,
who have gone to the Interior and told
the half breeds and Cuban negroes that
if they came under American rule they
would be compelled to suffer the same
'indignities" as the negroes of the
southern States. Tnis has aroused the
blacks and trouble is expected.
At an early hour yesterday morning
the body of William H. Desmond, jr., a
prominent young stenographer, eighteen
years old, was found by the Southern
Railway tracks, near the depot at Char
lotte, N. c., horribly maDgled. 1t was
learned later that the young man went
to the station to see some girl friends of,
and attempted to jump from the moving
train st crossing. He evidently fell
beneath the wheels, and probably every
wheel passed over his body, rs his head,
arms, and legs were entirely severed
from the trunk.
A final effort was made at The Hague
yesterday by the examining committee
CT the peace conference to reach an
agreement in the selection of judges for
the permanent court, but without result,
and the whole scheme now seems mark
ed for failure. Germany and Great
Britain adhered immovably to their de-
termination that the great powers should
have a predominant position in the
court. The representatives, Of the small
er powers were equally resolute in refus-
ing to recognize any court not based on
equal rights for all the sovereign States.
News hss just reached Charleston, W.
Va, that Theodore Darby, aged twenty
one, shot snd killed Samuel Blackman
at the church door at Sun, Fayette
county, near Mount Hope, Tuesday
night. 1t appears that Darby had taken
sister of Blackmsti to church and
the girls brother objected. Blackman
lay in wait at the church door for the
couple, and when they departed from
the church BlacKman struck Darby over
the head and shoulders with a club, fell
ing him to the ground, badly bruised
and injured. Darby, who is a good
shot, is said 10 have drawn pistol as
be sank 10 the ground under the blows
from the club welded by Blackman, and
fired one shot at his asssilsnt. Black
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