Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-08
News Of the Day.

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Four persons, employees of the Nor
wood House, Allenhurst, N. j., were
instantly killed last night when theiI
carriage was run down by a Pennsyl'
vania passenger flyer known as the
Bankers Special, at Allenhurst.
James johnson, aged twenty-one, OF
Jersey CITY,. Harriet Slinkard, aged six
teen, of Brooklyn, and Helen Bloomer,
aged eighteen, also of Brooklyn, guests
at the Hunt House we're drowned while
bathing in the lake at Newton, n. j.,
yesterday.
All the telegraph operators in the
Los Angeles, CAL, Office of the Western
Union Telegraph Company walked out
yesterday afternoon. 1t is stated that
but one man remained in the operating
department. There was no previous in
timation of strike.
The congress of George Washington
University in Washington, made up OF
the students from different departments
Of the institution, after spirited debate
Tuesday night passed bill providing a
Jim Grow" law for the District OF Co
Iumbia. A resolution was introduced
by a student congressman impeaching
Judge j. @. Pritchard for bis decision
in the railroad case in North Carolina.
The latest advices from the Persian
frontier say that the Turkish troops
which recently crossed the northwest
frontier of Persia are marching on Uru-
miah, burning and devastating villages
along their route. The Christian village
of Mevan is reported to have been
shelled and 90 persons, including many
women and children, are said 70 have
been killed. Ten girls were carried off,
A panic prevails at Urumiah.
Ex-Policeman Ben Curuth was arrest
ed at Helena, Ark, yesterday charged
with the assassination Of j. NJ. Scott,
city editor of the Helena World, on Sun
day morning. Curruth denies the charge
but the police claim to have strong cir
cumstantial evidence against him. Cui-
ruth was a member Of the police force at
the time the entire force was compelled
to resign upon the demand of the citi.
zeus' mass meeting following charges OF
graft by the World.
Efforts to secure the $l5, 900 bail de-
manded having failed, Mrs. Anna M.
Bradley, slayer of former Senator Arthur
Brown, of Utah, has been returned to the
District of Columbia jail to await her
trial two months hence. For three
weeks Mrs. Bradley has been in hos
pital, where she was taken to undergo
an operation, which was successfully
performed. Mrs. Bradley rallied from
the operation and has been couvalescent
since the first day she was taken from
the District Jail.
After having about one chance 10
hundred of saving his life and losing
that chance, Samuel Lee, who fell on the
sliding strap Of a circular saw yesterday
afternoon in the Baltimore jail, was
carried into the whizzing teeth of the
saw and cut to death. Before the rapid
machinery could be brought to a halt
Lees body had been almost severed.
His stomach, liver and kidneys, several
ribE and part of his backbone we're cut
as clean as if a butcher had done the
job with the tools of the slaughterhouse.
While nursing her dying son George,
who was gu fering from rabies, the re-
suit of a dog bite, Mrs. Charles T.
Davis, of Danville, ILL.,, was bitten on
the chin by the child week sgo, and
Vance Davis, brother, was bitten aud
scratched about the face and hands.
They are now undergoing treatment in
Chicago. The child died in gres. agony
a few hours after Mrs. Davis was bitten.
The attending physicians became fright
ened at the possible result of the bites,
and brought took the mother and son to
Chicago for treatment.
George Wallace Delsmater, once can
didate for governor of Pennsylvania,
and who served as Slate Senator from
Crawford county, Pa, from 1887 to
1890, committed suicide by shooting in
yesterday. Grief over the
death of his father, George B. Della
mater, at Meadville, Pa, on May 6, and
the sudden death of his son, James
Scott Delamater, in June, at Oonnells-
vile, Pa, is believed to be the cause Of
his suicide. Delamater was connected
with the Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany in this city, and leaves a com
Portable fortune to his family, being
heavily insured,
Duncan Campbell Sayers, who for
twenty years has been employed by the
school of st. PauPs Cathedral, Garden
City, Long Island, n. Y, and who was
arrested at the Ashland House, New
York city, Tuegdey night, on charge Of
'orgery, was arraigned yesterday morn
ng before Justice Charles b. Citizens
md held for further examination. 1t ia
charged that Sayers, who is ffty-three |
,esrG OF age, has falsifed his books for a
ong period OF time and that the aggre-
rate sum missing will be large, Experts
we're set to work on the books last rlonth !
md they had been at the task but few
lays when Savers disappeared. A war
ant was issued for his arrest, and he
vas recently located in New York.
Col. William H. Mcclure, the oldest
md at one time the most brilliant law
,er in central Iowa, went insane Tues
lay afternoon at Cedar Falls, and made
n unsuccessful attempt to brain Father
luke Donlon with an old army musket
10 had carried through the civil war.