Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-21
News Of the Day.

30 much 10 healtn InAI nc mas IeeuHcu
work.
Over III, 900 British and Irish emf
grants came to the United States and
Cinsds The past year.
II. II. Rogers. his New York friends
declare, is likely to return to bis office
soon and agsiu take up active control
of his affairs.
Prot. Wilbur o. Atwster, noted for
years as professor Of chemistry at Wes-
leyan College, at Middleton, Conn.,,
died today.
An attempt TO rescue Frank Constan-
tine, the murderer of Mrs. Gently, from
the Chicago jsil failed yes ieTdAy though
two other prisoners made their escape.
Coniessing that she fears she will not
survive her present illness, Mrs. Levi u.
Letter widow Of the Chicago millionaire,
has sent me ssages from Paris urging her
children to hurry to her bedside.
Ellis Island officials today received
word from Washington tina, the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor has decld-
ed that Paula Klppenburg, the young
Viennese actress, recently held up as an
undesirable citizen shall be deported.
r. bert Peters, of Brooklyn, and Geo.
Taylor, of England, were sentenced to
serve seven years in Auburn prison, at
Buffalo, n. Y, today. They tortured
Fred Smith by hammering his toes until
he nails dropped off in an effort to force
him to tell where his employers money
WAS hidden.
Several tons of chocolate we're con.
snmed by fire yesterday in the chocolate
and cocoa mills of William H. Baker,
on the fifth and sixth floors of large
six-story brick factory building at Will
llamsburg, New York. The blaze is be-
lieved to have started from spontaneous
combustion among cocoa beans.
On a dead track and amid the coming
cheers of 10000 persons, james r.
Keene's Ballot, second choice in the bet
ting, won the First Special, one
mile and quarter, at Gravesend, New
YOfk, Saturday. Electioneer was second,
with Savidere third. The time, 2:O7, was
good considering the track conditions.
Gov. Conner, of Alabama, has issued
a call for an extra session of the legisla-
iu-e TO pass legislation which will force
these railroads which nave not adopted
the 2 IL cent passenger rate and the
reduced freight rate to do 80, and, like
wise, TO 50 frame this legislation that
Federal courts cannot interfere with its
enforcement.
SIX, larkihg in rOwboat, in which
were five young people of a party OF
sixty thr e couples on an outing on the
shore OF Bear creek, near Baltimore,
yesterday, resulted in the upsetting OF
the ~frail craft and the drowning OF
Myrtle Lee, aged fifteen years, and
Herman Behnke, aged seventeen years.
Three others, Miss Ida Lebrun, Henry
Wmener, and Henry Sireckfus, were res
cued with difficulty.
A dozen determined masked men took
Nose Dossett, cOlored, from two deputy
sheriffs yesterday morning at 2 o'clock,
three miles from Mobile, and hanged
| him to a tree The crime for which
Dossett was lynchej was an attempted
assault upon MIS-. j. Beeder, widow.
1t is said that the negro, after the rope
had been placed around his neck, con-
fessed the assault. Dossett was positive
IL identified by hrs. Beeder.
A windstorm of cyclcnic force. accom-
panied by sharp lighting, visited Schuyl-
kill county, Pa, Saturday afternoon,
with Il result that seven persons were
fatally and seven seriously hurt and
fifty Others we're severely injured by the
falling OF q grandstand at Higgins, near
Pottsville. Almost simultaneously three
persons were fatally hurt in Pottsvilla,
| lightning striking them and burning the
hair from their heads. The bolt knock
ed twelve others unconscious.
Right Rev. Bernard j. MtQuald, the
venerable bishop of the Roman Catholic
diocese Of Rochester, n. Y, made the
startling declaration yesterday before q
vast CROW d gathered to witness the cere-
mony of blessing the graves, that an al
tempt had been made by the Italian
Black Hand Society to extort money
from him, and that he was Informed
that four of the gang were under oath TO
kill him. Bishop MtQuaid has been
bishop of the diocese of Rochester for
nearly forty years.
Because business men of Helena,
Mont, refused TO discontinue the use of
telephones pending settlement of the
Rock Mountain Bell Telephone Com
pany's strike, the Helena Trades and
Labor Assembly has decided to call
general strike in Helena today. The
result of this action, it is said, will be a
complete tie-up of sireet-car service and
the closing OF hotels, manufacturing es-
| Establishments, business houses and even
saloons where the use of telephones has
not been discontinued
With his wife afraid to disarm him
for fear he would turn the weapon
against Ter, w. S. Unglauh, railroad
fireman, committed suicide at his home
il Washington, shortly after | o'clock
yesterday morning by shooting himself
through the heart. Unglaub WIS de-
spondent over his continued i'll health
and feared that he would never again be
able to engage in any active work.
For several wears Unglaub bad been en-
ployed as q fireman on different branches
of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Mrs. Mary Scott Hariie, OF Pitlsburg,
has refused an offer OF 81 900 week for
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