Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-25
News Of the Day.

Frank I. Fitzgerald, surrogate Of New
York county, died at his home in River
side Drive today.
At Cambridge, Mass, on Saturday,
Yale defeated Harvard in the football
game by a score Of IL to 0.
EIyira Giordauo dropped dead while
dancing in the ballet during the per-
Torrance OF "MignoD," in Oakland,
CAL, yesterday.
Al Annapolis, on Saturday, the Mid
shipmen won from the football eleven
OF the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by
a score OF II TO 0.
Tue second tria of Harry Thaw will
again be postponed until January. His
counsel has applied TO the court for per-
mission to inspect the secret evidence
presented before the lunacy commission
during the first trial,
John Ayling, step-son of John Nor
ley, Secretary OF State for lndis, was
sentenced today in Edinburgh to ten
years penal servitude for forging the
names of his step-fsther and several
Edinburgh merchants to documents rep
reseniipg &c., 900.
French troops have killed thirty
Moors aud wounded as many more and
are Smelling Arab villages in the vicinity
of Port Said in punishment for the
ambushing of reconnoitering party in
gorge some distance from the town
Yesterday. TIE Inhabitants are fleeing
TO the mountains.
The court-marial began in Vl1d.yo-
stok today Of 1913 of the sappers aud
sailors accused of participation in the
military mutiny OF OCTOBER 20, and tho
outbreak smong sesmen of three des-
troyers in the harbor here the following
dsy. 1t has been reported 500 Of the
mutineers we're shot some time ago.
The United States Exchange Bank, at
25 West One Hundred and Twenty
Fifth street, New York, Which closed
about q month ago, reopeued its doors
today. A majority Of the depositoTs
have signed an agreement not to with
draw more than a certain pr cent. OF
their deposits in the next six months.
With her infant in her arms AMI Der
three other small children tied to her
with ropes, Mrs. Margaret Deters, aged
twenty eight years, jumped into the
River Des Perea near st. Louis on Sat
urday in an attempt to drown herself
and hel children. The plunge into the
cold water caused the terror-stricken
children to scream. Policeman Rey-
nolds heard, and rescued the woman
and children. At the police station Mrs.
Deters ssid she had left home Friday
evening and had wandered around all
night before determining to drown her
children and herself.
The mysterious death of Mr.. and Mrs,
| N. NJ. Smith, of New Rochelle, n. Y,
on Saturday, has been explained. Mrs.
Smith shot her husband while he was
asleep. Thel she spent al hour arrang-
ing to fire the house by laying train OF
inhamma5les from two barrels OF oil IN
the cellar. After she had set the spark
to the finder and when the flames bad
eaten their way into the room in which
she W as, MIS-. Smith hailed the firemen
who were pounding for admiitance with
out, then lay down on 0 bed and sent
bullet through her heart. Che claimed
to be an heiress and had married under
the name of another woman and traded
on it for years. She had once been in
an Insane asylum. None OF the woman's
alleged relatives, the Bulkleys, OF Con-
neciicut. have appeared TO claim her
body, and it is now believed that they
never will, as they say the woman is an
imposter who has given them lot Of
trouble by appropriating their name tor
her matrimonial adventures.