Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-30
News of the Day.

phaIically report which became current
in New York today that she is to return
TO the stage.
Mrs. Florence McBlsir, wife Of Charles
Ridgely McBlair, died yesterday morning
at the Columbia Hospital, in Washington.
Mrs. McBlair had been i'll for time.
William Nelson, negro, was executed
in The electric chair in Sing Sing prison,
at Ossining, N. Y. yesterday, for the
murder of Lizzie Norman, with whom
he lived.
The wheat crop of Maryland is ex-
pected TO aggregate $4,000, 900 bushels
this year, which will be the largest yield
since 1900. when the crop was l5,lSS,-
900 bushels.
A quantity of dynamite in a miners
trunk exploded while the trunk was
being handled at Union Station in st.
Louis yesterday, seriously iDjuring two
men, slightly wouuding six others and
creating a noise and shock that almost
started a panic in the station.
The official announcement of Mr..
Bryan's candidacy for the democratic
nomination for the presidency has been
followed by the announcement that Mr..
William Randolph Hearst, of New
York, will also be a candidate.
While the seven-month-old child OF
Mrs. Morris Tarsich, was sleeping in its
carriage on East Pratt street, Baltimore,
about 1880 o'clock yesterday evening a
sneak thief stole from beneath the pillow
leather sltchel containing all Of Mrs.
Taraich's jewelry and money, valued at
1856.
Charles F. Pope, living in Wetmore
county, near San Antonio, Texas, late
Saturday shot and killed his sister, Miss
Christine Pope, who insisted on marry
ing a man to whom her brother objected
and within an hour and half after be-
ing arrested hanged himself in the coun-
ty Jail.
10 fight over crap game at &C l.
ored campmeeting near Seaford, Del,
Sunday night five negroes are said to
have been MORALLY wounded and a sco'e
of others received bullet and razor
wounds. The blood on the ground
resembled small stream, and at one
time more than one hundred persons
we're in the fight.
A dispatch from Guayaqnil, Ecuador,
says a courtmartial has sentenced 10
soldiers implicated in the recent political
plot against the president of the republic,
General Alfaro, to death by shooting.
Eight of the men were executed yester-
day morning. Nine other soldiers have
been sentenced to penal seryitude for
life on the same charges.
Thomas Black, the most prominent
lawyer in Kenton, Ohio, a leading re-
publican and mayor for two terms, is in
jsil on a charge of forgery. He gave
himself up to the sheriff yesterday and
asked to be placed behind the barr.
Black scknoV Lodges the forgery of papers
involving the sum of $4,000. His
operations extend, be says, over period
of nine years. Black was entrusted with
the business of many clients aud the for
geries were in connection with interests
entrusted to him.
For the second time within 80 days
Rev. S. L. Crouch, a Methodist preach
or, OF Chattanooga, Tenn, shot and kill
ed negro Sunday, who he was assist
ing to arrest. 10 the first tragedy,
which was also on a Sunday, the negroes
of the section formed conspiracy for
The purpose OF getting DR.. Crouch into
a difficulty and killing him. On Sunday
the minister was called upon to assist In
arresting Bud Wyley, who had broken
into his and Mrs. Robinson's house. A
party of negroes gathered about the
house and threats were made. The
prisoner pat up fight, depending upon
the others for assistance, but was i'm
mediately shot by DR.. Crouch.
When Fred Dayton, lessee of a fur
nished room house at AIS west Twenty
second street, in New York, yesterday
afternoon broke in the door of room on
the second floor to see why it was locked,
he found the body Of woman lying in
bed. Around her neck WAS a mans
black polka-dot necktie, knotted hard
and pulled so tight that it had cut into
the skin of her throat. Pieces of flesh
had been bitten out of her face and right
forearm. The woman lay on her back,
with her hvnds folded across her breast.
The woman had been sLrsngled eighteen
or twenty hours before. The woman
had been living in the room with man
who passed for her husband, who gave
his name as Davis. He has disappeared.