Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-24
News Of the Day.

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II is said that the Mauritania. the
new Cunards, will approximate "a kno s
sn ,hcur. She has just flushed Der trial
trip.
Emperor William Of Germany hss
presented to the United States Military
Academy busts of Frederick the Great
and Field Marshal Count ven Motif as
toleis of his interest 10 the American
army. The busis are the work Of Pro-
fessor Usheus aud Professor Kruse, OF
Berlin.
After writing 10 his vile, "l'm tired
Of you" Leo Antoine eat down ON four
teen sticks OF dynamite at Faye:le, W.
W., yesterday afternoon, after lighting
a fuse attached to one Of hem. Fellow
w,rsmeu tried to get him away, but
failed. he was blown 10 atoms, not q
piece beiog found, 30 far.
According 10 a dispatch received in
Paris yesterday the earthquake in Italy
would appear to be much worse than was
at first reported. Many Of the villages
that were destroyed by the earthquake OF
1905 and since reconstructed, have been
d s,royed second time, and numbfr
of perscns are buried io the ruins.
Al Italian section hand employed near
Corbir, Ky , killed bUzzard Tuesday
and cooked the bird, sewing it with
Gumplirgp. Three other Italians partook
with him of the meal. Immediately after
ward sll four became violently ill. 40
hour later the host died in great agony,
snd his coubtrymen are no, expected to
recover.
Ole Of those who managed to draw
cut funds in the run On the Knicker-
booker Trust Company 10 New York yes
lerdSy is being hunted by the police and
private dstectivts He is Philip SsPper-
stein, the messenger boy whom the
Night and Day Bank sent after Sc. 500
a. tie Knlckerbocker, and who n.Ver
came back.
A dispatch received yesterday in ST.
Peters, urg from Teheran announced that
the Shah of Persia received the president
OF the Persian Parliament and signed a
decree dismissipg the cabinet. The new
premier hes not yet been appointed
TIE situation in Persia is growing so
critical that joint Russo-Britiih action 10
restore order is regarded in diplomatic
circles IS being imminent.
At public demonstration given st
The Marconi wireless telegraph station,
at Gace Bay, G. B., yesterday, q mes
sage was sent from there to Clifden,
| Gland, and reply was received in FIVE
minutes. Independent persons were
stationed al both ends, and the accuracy
of the test was confirmed by cable. Mar
conf states that the local station is trans
hitting about 5000 words day to Ire
land.
The Hartford Manufacturing Com
pany, cf Hartford. Conn, which lad the
contract up to July l last for manu-
ficiuiing stamped envelopes ard ners-
psper wrappers, yesterday made q cash
MEET to Postmaster General Meyer
of 800, 600 as q settlement for all dam
ages aud Injuries which The Postofice
Department may have sustained by rea-
son of the compsDy's failure to furnish
pspsr up TO the contract.
SENATOR Beveridge, of Iudisna, Ia re-
por @ ! to have said recently: 81 bav.
given my pledge to support Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks in his candidacy for the
presidential nomination. He will have
the indorsement OF our State, and it is
my purpose to stand by him and work
for him. At he same time, 1t is my
opinion that Col. William j. Bryan will
bs our next president unless Mr..
Roosevelt is renominated by the republl-
cans"
Charged with having insul!ed and
threatened the life OF a young white
soman of Okloos, Mics, Henry Sykes,
negro, was taken from the custody Of
an officer near Van Wet, Tuesday night,
and lynehet. TIE negro, it is alleged,
made improper proposals 10 the young
woman over telephone, end threatened
her life il she did not tccede to his de-
msnds. When arrested Sykes drew o
revolver, hut WAS oyerpoSered before he
co1ld use it. He Was Being removed to
The county Jail at Houston when be was
taken from the officer by mob and
banged to tree.