Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-15
News Of the Day.

the fourth floor 10 the basement down
the elevator.
Mrs. Sallie Gibbons, of Columbia, S.
c., was robbed of SCI, 900 while out in
spectiug Texas lands in which she was
about to invest.
The Hartman Island alternate
control of the Chicago and Alton Rail-
road has been abrogated. sn! the stock
holders will resume control of the Alton
road.
1t is said that Immediately after the
funeral Of Senator Morgan the Governor
OF Alabama will appoint John II. Bank
head as his successor in the United States
Senate.
Eddie Tate, the gentleman burglar"
says he was paid to blow open a safe and
seal evidence in a case against former
superintendent of public schools at Pc
oria, III.
Fifty persons were Injured, several Sc
riously, yesterday at Wellsville, Ohio,
when a grsndstand collapsed during
ball game between the Boston bloomer
girls and the WelIsyille team.
Secretary of War Taft alarmed bis
friends yesterday by falling in faint,
due 10 indigestion, while at Fort SMELL
ing, MIMI, to review troops. He recov-
cred and attended banquet at night.
Secretary OF the Treasury Cortelyou an
nounced yesterday that he had no present
intentions of making any further issue OF
Panama bonds as there is plenty Of
money 10 the Treasury to meet all de-
mands.
The Senate committee on military af-
fairs yesterday adjourned its investiga-
ton of the Brownsville ARRAY until Nov
ember Is, when the committee will
meet TO consider whether subcommittee
will be sent to Texas.
Charles Shafer, who shot and killed
his wife aud little son and fatally wound
ed his mother.in-law near Huntington,
w. Va, Thursday, and for whom posse
of 200 farmers was searching, is dead.
His body was found yesterday afternoon,
near his home, he having committed
suicide by swallowing csrbolc acid.
The commencement hop last night at
the Military Academy at West Point was
the social feature of the year there. Mrs.
Ayres did not attend, but her husband,
Msj G. G. Ayres; her son, Cadet AYres,
and her daughter, Miss Emily Ayres,
were present, the latter on the arm Of
Cadet Captain Andrew Lang, of Missis-
sippi.
The greatest gorge of saw logs ever
known in West Virginia stream broke
loose two miles up the Guyandotte river
at Z O'Clock yesterday evening and practi
cally swept out everything in the river
that came in its path. BOoms snd small
craft of every description were swept on
in front Of the massive gorge. Five piers
and big bridge were destroyed. the
loss will be about g, 600, 600.
CJl. S. H. Wreford, a prominent BUS
mess man, was shot and killed at
Brownsville, Texas, yesterday az the re-
suit of circular he issued in which he
bitterly denounced Capt. William Kelly
because of Kelly's testimony before the
Senate committee which is investigating
the Brownsville affair in Washington.
Jesse Thorbam, the stepson of Captain
Kelly, is charged with the killing.
Building interests in San Francisco
have brought about the organization of a
syndicate of outside capitalists, who will
advance $40, 200, 900 within the next
month, TO he used 10 construction on the
open-shop basis only. 1t is said that
few San Frsncisans have subscribed
funds to The syndicate. Another COM
bnatiJn in the building line is composed
of contractors. large construction COM
panies and mSterial men, who favor the
open-shOp plan and agree to build or
furnish material on that principle only.
In order to continue work on the
buildings in Washington on which GER
tain union crafts, members Of the Build.
ing Trades Necklaces Council, have
been locked out, the Employers Associs-
ton has made call upon out-of-town
nonunion workmen, aud it is said that
within the next few days sill Ofthe build
ings on which lockouts have occurred
will be supplied. One Of the contractors
informed committee of the unions tha
be WAS not opposed to organized labor,
but that he was working nonunion men
because members of the union hal left
his work.
A dispatch from indianapolis tells of
l man whose stomach burst from eating
90 much. Carl Scbuster went to In
liananapolis Wednesday from Canton,
ohio, and he brought with him such a
'avenoUs appetite that he literally ate {
himself TO death. After tremendous {
neal he complained of intense pains in |
lis stomach, and physician was hastily
but in a few. moments he I
lied. An autopsy, on the theory that
'chuster might have eaten something
was held by the coroner, but,
instead, he found long rupture of the
tomach, which had caused death. The :
rgan was in a perfectly healthy con-
itiOD, and the coroner found that the
deceased had eaten 30 heartily that his !
lomach had burst.
Negro Murderer's Confession. .
Standing on the gallOws, in Atlanta, C