Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-05
News Of the Day.


10 a receivers hands owing to non-arri-
val Of the pay roll, Superintendent Chas.
Poters was named. 1t is thought the
furnace will resume.
Laura Garter, the woman on trial in
New York, on the charge Of sharing III
the money stolen by Chester B. Runyan
from the Windsor Trust Company, to-
day asserted that her reason for caring
for the fugitive bank teller was because
she considered him to be one of the noted
Pittsburg class.
Joe Yeager, the western plunger,
made one OF his characteristic plays at
New York yesterday when he bet the
bookies to stapdstill on Keep MoviDg's
chances in the third race. The price
fell from 40 to 20, and it is said the
young westeruer cleaned up $50, 900 on
the flly's victory.
The suspension OF Watson & Company
was announced on the New York stock
exchange today. Losses in the stock
market are believed to be responsible for
the failure. 1t is feared the failure will
be felt more seriously in the West. The
firm had large number of clients there.
They are believed TO have sustained
heavy losses owing to these stock de-
clines as they were on the bull side Of
market.
While crossing the railroad tracks
near Thompson's cannery, six mi les
north Of Elkton, Nd, yesterday even
ing, Mrs. Ida Robinson and Ella S.
Bradley were both run down by train
and killed. The women we're employed
at the CANARY and we're returning home
for their supper when the accident oc-
Cured. Their bodies were terribly
mangled.
While the illumination OF the Falls Of
Niagara was in progress last night, a
man made the awful leap from the center
of the upper steel arch of the bridge to
the river 200 feet below. His body was
seen to cause mighty splash as it struck
the water, after which it disappeared
from sight and was carried toward the
whirlpool rapid6. Hundreds witnessed
the suicide.
Alvin Mauppin, a yeoman in the
United States navy, committed suicide
yesterday morning at Annapolis by
swallowing four ounces of carbolic acid.
Mauppin was married Tuesday to Miss
Ellen Curran, of Annapolis. 1t appears
that the reason for the suicide was that
Mauppin had received orders to go
to Nashville, Tenn to perform duty in
connection with the recruiting Office
there, and would have been compelled
to leave his young wife.
Details of the disastrous effect of
lightning stroke at Buckhorn Falls, in
Chatham county, N. c., Tuesday, show
that seven men were killed and ten in
jured. A heavy storm had forced 80 to
20 men to seek shelter in the cement
house Of the Buckhorn Falls power
plant. Lightning struck large tree
back of the house, and the tree, split
ting, fell over on the building, instantly
killing two white and five colored men
and iujuring three whites and seven col
ored.
Mrs. Mary Lsnham, 45 years old,
widow, of Good Hope, d. O., vas as
saulted in her hons by a strange man
yesterday afternoon. Her assailant is
described as a muscular white man, and
1t is believed the OH ect of the attack wss
robbery and perhaps criminal assault.
The struggles OF Mrs. Lsuham, how
ever, the police say, prevented the
crime. Some persons believed the as
s,ilant is a demented man from the
neighboriug asylum.
Clarence j. Camp, secretary of the
Union, of Chicago, has
cen arrested on warrants sworn out by
George NJ. Briggs, travelling auditor of
the International Brotherhood of Team
sters, on a charge of having stolen &c.,
SOC from he union. Camps shortage
il said to have been discovered when
check was returned from Boston bank
marked mo Funds" Briggs declares
that he found the treasury of the union
almost empty.
The mackerel feetof sixty-five SAIL
mostly of craft from Portland,
Me-, and Gloucester, Mass, is now in
port, nearing the close of summer mack
erel season, and report that in the sggre-
gate the vessels have stocked $500, 600
worth of fish. The Greyling, Captain
Joseph Smith, of Gloucester, caught |
and sold $25, 2O5 worth of mackerel.
Each man of the crew earns 1907 as his |
share of four months work. Captain |
Smith is seventy-four and the oldes! |
skipper in The feet.
Strikers in Antwerp last night set fire |
to another lumber yard, using petroleum |
for their purpose. The lumber covered |
8, 900 square yards. The strikers set
fire to two other warehouses shortly after |
midnight. In spite of the assistance
rendered by the military, the fire in the
lumber yard spread. The damage is es-
timated at $500, 600. Officers of the
militia declared last night that the
strikers were in most dangerous tenn
per, as free liquor is being distributed
10 them in the saloons. The men who
look part in the recent disorders have
largely been led by women.
.. .. RECEIVER APPOINTED.
Judge A. X. Skeen, of the United
States Court of Bristol yesterday appoint
ID Col. L. o. Petit, of Big Stone Gap,
receiver of the Union Iron and Steel Cor