Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-11
News of the Day.

The Delaware democratic State COM
mittee adopted resolution indorsing
Judge Gray for the presidency.
A disastrous fire early today destroyed
the big factory Of the Pau Manufacture
ing Company at Cincinnati, o., with
500, OCO.
Roman Catholics of the United States
are planning to erect at Washington the
largest and most magnificent cathedral
in the world.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has added 81
900, 900 to his endowment Of $40, OOO,-
900 for the Carnegie Institution at
Washington for scientific research.
Worcester, the second largest city in
Massachusetts,, Joined the no-license
ranks in yesterdays election. Lynn
and Woburn also swung to their stand
ard.
Before the court-martisl in 81. Peters
burg yesterday Lieutenant General Slo-
essel pleaded not guilty to the charge Of
ueedlessly surreDdering Port Arthur TO
the Japanese.
The Oklahoma legislature yesterday
elected Robert Latham Owen, whose
mother was a Cherokee Indian, and
Thomas PROT Gore, blind man, to the
United States Senate.
Harold B. Lswis, q student In the
law school of the University Of PenDsyl-
vanis, at Philadelphia, attempted suicide
with gas today and is in the hospital in
a serious condition.
Because his wife refused to deed back
to him two fat building in Chicago 10
which they lived, Frank Nelson, book
keeper for Swift & Co., killed his wife,
shot his mother-in-lsw, and now is held
at the Sheffield avenue police station.
Forty cars of through freight train
on the New Haven Railroad were de-
molished as the result of the train
jumping the track and rolling down an
embankment east Of Bridgeport today.
The loss will reach $40, 900. No one
was hurt.
One hundred and forty-two bodies
have been recovered from the wrecked
Monongah, w. Va, mines, and it is be-
lieved that the rescue work will be COM
pleted within Sc hours. 1t is feared that
an epidemic may result from the stencil
from the bodies of the dead bodies.
Fire broke out yesterday in the large
store of the VIM. Bud Furniture Com
pany, OF Petersburg. The structure was
DESTROYED, only the walls being left stand
ing. 1t was valued at $40, 900, and was
owned by Miss Maud Taylor. The Bud
Furniture Company lost their entire
stock, valued at $50, 600.
II the story of Henry E. Youtsey, told
on the witness stand 10 the trial OF Caleb
Powers at Georgetown, KY, yesterday,
IL tue, not only Powers, his brother,
John L. Powers; Gov. w. 8. Taylor,
w. HI. Culton, and James Howard, all
of whom have been indicted, knew that
William Goebel was to be asssssinated
on the day he was shot while entering
the capitol grounds at Frankfort, but
practically every prominent republican
10 The State about the executive build
ing for several days prior to the shooting
knew that it was 10 be done.
The steamship Friesland from Philadelphia
has brought to Queens own, Ireland, in the
crow of the Norwegian Barquelert, sunk in
mid-Atlantic on its way from New York to
European ports.
John, Mitchell, President Of the United
Mine Workers, was at his desk this morning
at Indianapolis, Ind, for the first time in sew
eral months.
Toatyay Saidler, manager ofthe West End
End Branch Of the California Safe Deposit
and Trust Company committed suscide today
in Gan Francisco.
Benjamin Chsmpney. one OF this country's
most noted landscape painters, died today in
Boston. Champney was 80 years old.