Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-19
News Of the Day.

Leavenworth, Kansas, To-Day ana lmmed-
lately took train to Kansas City.
Experts of the Department Of Agricul-
ture, it was learned, report shrinksge
of $40, 900, 900 in the value Of farm
lands in New York State since 1880.
District Passenger Agent Wood and
Ticket Agent Wilson, of the Southern
Railroad, were sentenced yesterday in
Asheville, N. c., 20 80 days in the chain
gang for selling tickets in disregard Of
the new rate low.
The board of inquiry is expected 10 re-
port that the explosion on the Georgia
was caused by "fare-back" from the
tight-inch gun. Burning powder fell
into the ammunition handling room,
threatening the ship with destruction.
Mrs. Catherine B. Wilson, recognized
az the handsomest woman ia Pittsburg
and prominent in society and club circles,
instituted proceedings in divorce against
George A. Wilson, a well-known local
broker, yesterday. Desertion is the basis
Of the suit.
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi has
granted an unconditional pardon to Mrs.
Birdsong. Mrs. BirdsOng was convicted
of the murder of DR.. Butler, her family
physician. who, she claimed, had in
suited her. She was sentenced to prison
for five years.
Joseph Choate, in explaining to The
Hague Peace Conference committee the
reason for the United States proposing,
general treaty of arbitration, said
there was no reason why nations that
agree by each other or two by Two should
not agree all together.
An unknown man, walking with
a crutch and a cane, leaped into the
rapids above the Niagara falls yesterday
and was carried over the American cat
aract. His crutch and cane he left be-
hind, with a uOte signed ID. j., saying;
"Tell my friends that l have gone to
glory"
Upon petition of creditors Justice
Anderson in Washington yesterday, hold
ing a bankruptcy court, issued rule,
returnable August 6, directing William
]. Zen, president and treasurer of the
William j. Zeh Company, to show cause
why the corporation should not be ad-
judged bankrupt.
A thrashing machine owned by John
Fields, a non-sssociation farmer, was
destroyed yesterday on the farm of DR..
Word, at Oak Grove, KY, by dynamite
that was concealed in the wheat. Two
lsborers were badly injured. Fields had
been warned to join the association
before attempting to thrash bis wheat.
Henry Berg, retire grocer of Chi
cagO, committed suicide yesterday by
throwing himself over the railing on the
twelfth floor of the Chamber of Com
merce building. Berg was consump-
live, and had been respondent. He
read the account of the suicide of Anna
Normoyle, who killed herself by jump
ing from the fifteenth floor OF the Ma.
sonic Temple, and, it is thought, the
story suggested the method OF a quick
death.
Twenty-Five masked men took Nathan
Hester, aged fifty years, Trigg county,
KY, farmer, from his home at midnight,
and at the point Of a shotgun, merLiless-
ly logged him with rswhide. His
wife tainted when she saw her husband
dragged away, and is in critical con-
dtiOD. Hester was former member of
the farmers association and deserted
several months ago. He had not heed
ed the warnings to raise no more tobacco
and wheat.
Announcement is made by the Bureau
of American Republics that the Third
International Sanitary Convention will
be held in the City of Mexico beginning
December and lasting until the 7th.
The last convention of this character
WAS held in Washington in October two
years ago. Every delegate will be asked
to suggest some practical means TO pre-
vent persons who may be suffering
from tuberculosis from transmitting the
disease TO healthy persons who may be
travelling in their company.
Two companies of militia were last
night ordered to protect from threatened
lynching the four Italians convicted,
"without capital punishment" of COM
plicity in the murder of little Walter
Lamana, of New Orleans, who was kid
mapped and strangled about a month
ago. The verdict, which was returned
just before dark last night, after the
jury had been out forty-6ve minutes,
fines Campisciano, Mrs. Campisciano,
Tony Costa, aud Frank Gendusa guilty,
without capital punishment. Absolute
silence greeted the fOreman's announce
ment.
Charles Hood, aged twenty-five years,
yesterday killed K. E.IClingsn, aged 30,
a mine boss from Bowlesburg, w. Va,
with catsup bottle, at Oakland, Md.
Hood was clerk in restaurant of VIM.
limbaugh. Cingan, who had been
drinking, it is alleged, used offensive
language in the restaurant, and Hood
ordered him out. Gilman went out,
and, looking up to the second story
window, saw Mrs. Hood leaning out.
He is alleged 10 have made very ofen-
sive remark concerning her, and in the
hearing of both her and her husband.
Hood grabbed catsup bottle, and, rush
ing toward Clingan, struck him over the
head. He fell on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad tracks, his head striking
the rail. He never moved after he fell.
Hood is in Jail.
Woman In Snakes Coils.