Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-04
News Of the Day.

Boys employed in making Teddy
bears" in New York, formed a union and
went on a strike.
James ]. Hill has announced aplan
to unite the seventeen lines owned by
the Great Northern Railway Company
into one corporation.
A flock of seven storks caught the
Red Star liner Kroonland on the trip
just completed across the Atlantic. One
birth occurred in The cabin and six in
the steerage.
Southern southbound passenger train
No. 35 was sideswiped last night at Con-
cord, N, c., by the first section of north
bound passenger train No. 80. Five
persors we're injured.
Broken hearted because as she charged
she had been cast aside by the man to
whom she bad been engaged for two
years, Miss Louise Bronimsn, commit
ted suicide by inhsling gas in New York
today.
Prince Ari Pail, of Tsbits, is in San
Francisco on his way to Honolulu to
marry ex-Queen Lilioukalna of Hawaii.
The prince who weights 800 pounds, is
IN remain here until word is received
from Queen Liliuokalna.
Efforts on the part of committee
representing the several commercial
bodies OF Louisville, KY, to avert the
threatened street car strike have failed
and it is expected that walkout will
come within the next AZ hours.
N kitenko, Purkin and Nsumof, con-
demned to death on August 30, after
conviction of having plotted against the
life OF the Car last May, were hanged
at dawn yesterday in st. Petersburg.
Nikitenko and Purkin refused to accept
the last sacrament.
A Washington firm Of attorneys yes
terday entered appearance in the District
Supreme Court on behalf Of the Amer
lean Federalism of Labor and its officers
in the suit brought by the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers TO enjOin the
publication of the ave Don't Patronize
List" The American Federation Of Labor
is given until the opening of the fall
term Of court TO make formal answer.
Blairsville, Pa, is in a state of terror
over the Black Hand crimes of the past
few days, and yesterday afternoon Bur-
CESS Howard Graham appealed TO Gov.
| Stewart, at Harrisburg, to have a troop
OF State constabulsry sent TO that town
for protection. The latest outrage was
the murder eff Joseph Guipara, who was
stabbed to death on the street, and for
whose killing six Italians are now in
IjAiI.
! Following a riot started by union
labor parade Monday, in San Francisco,
Policemen Edw. NJ. Mccartney was shot
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning by John
! J. Tsnsev. one of the striking carmen
of the United Railroads. Mccartney
and a fellow officer, P. j. Mitchell, had
dispersed crowd when Tansey and a
companion returned toward the officers.
T4nsey drew a revolver and fired at
Mccartney, inhicting fatal wound.
He also fired at Mitchell twice, bnt
missed him. Then the two men fled.
They we're later arrested.
Thomas II. Harmon a member of a
wholesale and retail liquor house in
Clarksburg, W. Va, sho. and killed
Mrs. Fred Pickett yesterday afternoon.
For sometime there had been feud ex-
| ting betwe the Harmon end Pickett
families, and this is supposed to have led
to the tragedy. Harmon, who had been
drinking, went to the woman's home
and called for man who was staying
there. As Mrs. Pickett turned to call
the man Harmon fired at her, the bullet
passing through her heart, killing her
Instantly. Harmon went into the parlor
and sat down, where the officers found
him.
The President has approved the SELL
tence of court-martisl in the case OF
First Lieut.. Charles f. Mccullough,
Thirteenth Cavalry, recently convicted
in Cuba, of giving worthless checks, du-
plicating his pay accounts, embezzling
the funds OF the camp exchange and
officers mess, desertion, and presenting
false claims against the United States.
He YVES sentenced to dismissal and two
years. confinement and publication of
his crime, punishment and place ofabode,
in the newspapers of his State. The
Uuited States military prison, at Fort
Leavenworth, Ksns., has been desig-
mated as the place of confinement.
Imagining that the Lord had COM
manded her to share the fate of Joan of
Arc, Mrs. Joseph La LondS, of st. La
care, a small rench-Oanadian village
near Vaudreull, Canada, burned herself
to death Sunday ona funeral pyre OF her
own making. While her relatives were
at high mass she built pyre from fence
logs and tree branches, undressed herself
entirely, and climbed on the pile, to
which she set fire. People coming out
of church saw the smoke and the woman s
clothes hanging on branches of nearby
trees. Her body, partly consumed, had
fallen from the pyre. She LETT letters
explaining why she committed the ter
rible deed.
COURT OF APPEALS.
The Court of Appeals opened its fall
term at Stanton yesterday with four
Judges on the bench, Judge Keith being
absent. The court will be in session sew