Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-07
News Of the Day.

| BROOKLYN, early yesterday ni"ini"ei
Joseph Sullivan was scalded TO death.
Nicholas Dun, of Belfast, Ireland,
after searching for his son, James ID.
Dun, for thirty years, recently discover
ed him in Alaska, and was 30 oye1oyed
at sight of him that he fell dead.
Jefferson Scott, the Oldest man 10
Ohio, Is dead at the Seneca, Ohio, ln-
Urinary. Certificates issued ucder the
seal of the State OF North Carolina show
that Scott was born on July 4, 1874, 10
Halifax county, that State.
Clear Lake, Hanlontown, Iowa, and
Lake Mills we're swept by three distinct
tornsdoes yesterday evening. Many
barns and farmhouses we're destroyed.
One person was killed and several were
injured at HanlontOwn.
A dispatch from Naples says Mr.. and
Mrs. Buckingham, who came from New
York, committed suicide by taking
poison at CastelIamare yesterday. The
reason for the act was that they had lost
all their money at Monte Carlo.
Venezuela advised Belgium on We'd
nesdsy, July 81, that in recognition OF
the principle of arbitration she would
pay the disputed claims of Belgium
creditors, amounting to 81, 900, 900, In
conformity with the decision of The
Hague tribunal.
The second reunion Of the Tri-state
League OF West Virginia, Virginia and
Maryland, Independent Order OF Odd
Fellows, was held at Island Park, near
Harper's Ferry, yesterday. The gather
ing was one of the largest ever assem-
bled on the island, 1000 or 5000 per-
sons being present.
While in a state of temporary sberra-
ton of the mind Miss Frances Gardiner
Weekes, 20 years old, committed suicide
at the home of her brother-in-law, Mr..
j. Schenck s. Remsen, at HacketpS
Point, Nd, the old homestead of the
Moss family, about 10 miles from An
nspolis, yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee has announced the
engagement of her daughter, Virginia,
to Lieut.. John Garter Montgomery, OF
the United States army. Miss Lee Ia
the youngest daughter Of Mrs. Lee and
the late General Fitzhugh Lee. The
time and place of the wedding have not
been definitely decided upon.
H. B. Krumholtz, an Austrian, early
yesterday in Atlantis, Ga, shot and kill
ed his wife, whom he took for 8 burglar.
The couple was awakened shortly after
retiring by an unusual noise. Being
awakened the second time Krumholtz
fired. On securing a light he found
that he had killed his wife, who had left
the bed and was in another part Of the
room.
A negro named Tom Hall, living at
Golad, Texas, was arrested Monday
night charged With an attempted crimi-
nal assault upon two young white
women. He was placed in the city jail.
Early yesterday his dead body was found
hanging to tree in front Of the Jail.
Several negroes who had indicated their
displeasure we're yesterday ordered to
leave the town.
Miss Bessie Frances Lsmbertson,
daughter of John O. Lamber!son, resid-
ing near KY Grange, Md, and who was
shot by her rejected lover, Lode Davis,
of Stockton, on the evening OF June II,
Is dead, after lingering for almost six
weeks since the shooting occurred. Hiss
Lambertson lacked only few days of
being eighteen years of age. Davis
wanted Miss Lsmbertson to marry him,
and when she refused he shot her. Then
he shot and killed himself.
Angry men and woman formed mob
which threatened to lynch Walter Nc
Cracker, q carpenter, who Monday even
ing approached in Cleveland, Ohio, with
insults, the police say, two little girls.
As a half dozen men held McCrscken to
the ground and were beating him with
whips and kicking him with their feet,
others we're searching for rope. The
arrival of the wagOnlOad of policemen
called out under riot summons saved
McCracken's life. He was quickly hustled
into the patrol wagon and locked up in
safety from the mob.
A lynching was narrowly averted OF
Conover, N. O., yesterday afternoon,
the mob's intended victim being negro
named Yanks Petree. Petree attempted
to assault Mrs. Emma SigmOn, promi-
nent white woman, at Oatawba Springs
yesterday, and after fleeing short dis
tarce was caught by Mr.. Sigmon and
another man. A crowd had him in
charge when a man in buggy arrived
on the scene and persuaded the men to
let him take the negro to Newton Jail.
A telephone message at IL o'clock last
night said there was still danger OF an
attack on the Jail, though the jailer was
prepared for such an event.
A party of visitors, touring in New
York in a sightseeing automobile, were
mobbed by crowd Of several hundred
persons yesterday when the machine
carrying the sightseers accidentally ran
over and killed boy on the East side.
The sightseers were observing tenement
life in the foreign populated district
when a little Italian boy, Tony Pas
queratti, taking surreptitious ride on
the step of the automobile, fell beneath
the wheels and was crushed to death.
A crowd gathered and rsined shower
of stones and bottles at the sightseers,
who fed from the machine. The crowd
then tried to burn the machine, but
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