Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-02
News of the Day.

10 speech IN We" LUX ia's nsn't
William Randolph Hearst said unequiV-
ocally that be had Withdrawn from
politics permanently
Frank Mantell, of Providence, K. l.,
Knocked out Honey Melody, of Boston,
in the fifteenth round of their fight last
night at Dayton, Ohio.
BY afixiug his signature TO legal
paper in New York today, Justice Nc
Oall, placed approximately $l2, 900, 600
| ia the hands Of Gladys Vanderbilt, who
is to marry Count Schenzyi.
Secretary of the Navy Melcalf has
made public the amount the estimates will
be necessary for the naval service for the
fiscal year beginning July l, 1908. as
1925, OBJ, S99.SO For the present fiscal
yesr the Last Congress appropriated $780,
303, COZ 90.
Il il the current belief 10 New York
that Raymond Hitchcock, the missing
comedian, who suddenly disappeared on
the eve of bis threatened indictment for
alleged vrcgg TO young girls, has not
lff. the country or even gone many miles
from Broadway.
Fears are entertained thst the bubonic
plague has gained slight foothold in
Seattle through the diagnosis yesterday
of The illness causing the death OF Mrs.
George Osborne as the dread disease.
Three deaths 10 the family have occur
red within two weeks.
The President ald members Of the
Cabinet yesterday discussed the f oaDcial
situation but although the Presiden.
hiss received numerous letters urging hs
calling of an extra session of Cong $
to enact needed currency legislation
there is no likelihood that this will De
done.
The Fernwood breaker, three miles
south Of Pit,ston, Pa, was burned last
night. The electric wires by which the
D remises were lighted were torn down.
Johu f. Williams, colliery superlnten-
dent, and Tammany McNall, lsborer,
stepped on one OF the wires and were
electrocuted.
A band OF burglars operated on an
extensive scale in Lima, Ohio, md vicin-
ity Thursday night by rObbing jewelry
stores. Reports from these towns show
that the robheries were part of general
raid, executed 30 successfully that no
clews we're left to aid in trailing the
burglars.
Theodore Kutisch, a Russian who
killed fellow-countryman at Statesboro,
Bullock county, Ga, and was Thursday
sentenced to the peniteDtisry for life,
committed suicide 10 his cell yesterday.
When sentenced be said he would rather
die than to go to the penitentiary. He
hanged himself with cord taken from
hammock in his cell.
1t is understood that one of the pri-
mary objects which induced Presi dent
Oscar G. Murray, OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, to undertake the inspec-
ton trip of the system in which be is
now engaged, was to learn from his own
personal observation where and how OPP
ersting expenses can be rednced. There
is no secret about the fact that more
rigid economy is to be enforced through
out the system, but the way in which
this can be best brought about hiss not
yet been determined.
Ia daring attempt to effect general
Jail delivery at the State penitentisry at
Rawlins, Wyo., yesterday, A. Eckhart,
serving life sentence for murder, shot
and killed Ed 5amuelson, day dollhouse
keeper. After numbering the guard,
Eckhart, who had been provided with
dynamite, made three Intellectual at
tempts to blow of the lock on the door
leading to the main corridor, where The
keys were kept. Then he killed him
self. Three other convicts, who hsd
been released from their cells made 20
attempt to get away.
Police headquarters In Buffalo burned
yesterday afternoon. The fire is believed
to have been of incendisry origin, yes
lerdsy's being the sixth fire 10 the build
ing within a year. Fighting the fire
from the four sides of the building for
half an hour, the 6remen apparently
had the situation we'll in hand, when the
cupola suddenly collapsed and fell into
the interior of the building, crashing
through 10 the third floor. Two COM
panies of fremen were caught in the de-
bris, eight men being badly injured. The
financial loss is estimated at 500, 900.
The rogues' gallery, police records and
other important documents, including
the original copy of Leon Czolgosz's con-
fession of the assassination of President
Mckinley, were destroyed.