Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-03-20
News Of the Day.

Count Lamsdorf, formerly Russian
minister of foreign sfiairs, died at San
Reno, yesterday.
! 1t was lesrned late last night that
Frank Jones, for years teller of tie
Charlotte, n, O., National Bank, disap-
peared Saturday night and much of the
institutions available cash is missing.
Miss Selma Adelside Allen, of Allan
ia, whom President Roosevelt, IN 1905,
pronounced tho "most beautiful girl l
have seen 10 the South" will be married
on April "a to Leonard Day, an engineer
and lawyer, of New York.
Brig. Gen. John Moore, formerly
Surgeon-General OF the United States
army, and since his retirement prOmi-
nent citizen Of Washington, died Mon
day. night at his residence there after an
illness of about three weeks.
| A dispatch fiom Huntington, w. Va,
says that boiler ct the lumber mill
owned by Adkins Bros, and located on
Shelby creek, on the Upper Sandy,
blew up yesterday, killing two men. a
dry boiler is the supposed cause OF the
explosion.
Public demonstrations accompany the
submitting to thejury at Elizabeth City,
IN. O., today OF the case Of James Has'
rison, charged with kidnapping and
numbering the ten-year-old-son Of State
Senator Beasley, two years ago. 1t is
thought the case will 90 to the jury late
this afternoon.
r. II. Thomas, a travelling salesman,
whose home is at Bedford City, Va, at.
tempted suicide at the Hotel Schmitt,
| in Middleton, N. Y, Monday, and is
now In hospital in serious condition,
but it is thought he will live. He bad
| jabbed q pocketknife into his thigh
several times. No cause for tho act ia
known.
Olin Bryan formerly president, and
Walter A. Mason, formerly treasurer
and a member of the board OF directors
OF the United Surety Company, we're
both presented in Richmond yesterday
by the grand jury on the charge Of con-
spring to defraud the Munich Fire In
surance Company of the sum OF SAC, $50
on OF about March 30, 1906.
/ A dispatch from Pitisburg, Pa, says
that the Monongahela, Allegheny. Ohio,
Youghioeheney and Kiskiminetis rivera
we're rising rapidly last night on account
of heavy rains throughout western Penn
sylvanla. Creeks snd other small streams
are already swollen beyond their banks
Great anxiety is being experienced by
people living in the districts threatened.
The mysterious disappearance Of
Charles r, Monroe, Of Washington, who
had been missing from his home for the
last five days, was practically cleared
yesterday morning, when 1t was learned
| that he had committed suicide last Sun
day evening in the Klmball House, At
lania, Ga, where he registered under
the name or &c. r. Morgan, Norfolk,
| Va"
President Mellen, Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad, had
an interview yesterday with the Presi-
dent on the railroad situation but is not
permitted to tell what took place at the
conference. lie, like the other railroad
msgnates who called, has remedy for
prevailing evils, but no two OF them
alike. The President is in receptive
mood.
| Cumberland, Nd, Is said to be in
peril. The Potomac river food Is sweep
| ing through the streets ard the business
section Of the city is suffering. The
river is expected to reach a higher stage
than last week. Railroad bridgts are in
danger and lower streets at Piedmont
are under water. Train service ia again
demoralized. A landslide has occurred
near Shaw.
Forced to jump for their lives, the
crew Of the ocean going tug W. j. lice,
had narrow escape from death yester-
day when tho tug was rammed and sunk
In the Hudson river opposite New York
by the tug Robert Y. Sayres. The
Sayres was proceeding up stream with a
float when the strong tide caused her to
crash into the Tice. The latter sank
Immediately.
Nine persons, eight Of ,hem school
children, we're instantly killed yesterday
and many others injured at Durango,
Mex, by the collapse Of the roof of the
public school building, while the fooms
we're crowded with pupils, The dead
include one Of the teachers and eight
| members OF her class. Scores we're buried
under the wIecksge. Many Of the vic
Tins are dangerously hurt.
| DR.. julius Weinsberg, q we'll known
| physician Of st. Lonis, Ia lying in q
serious condition at q hospital a. a result
of being shot four times Monday night
| by h!s son Oscar, aged Is years. The
boy, who is under arrest, said he had
only recently learned that his own
mother died al his birth and that the
present wife Of Or. Weinsberg is his
stepmother. This caused an estrange-
ment and illuminated in the shooting
1t was stated at the White House
yesterday evening that tho President
has given no consideration 10 the alleged
intention of Secretary OOrtelyou to COM
pei the national banks to withdraw the
railroad bonds they had deposited SO
security for government deposits. 1t
vas added that the question had never
been discussed between President Rose
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