Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-04-22
News Of the Day.

can railroad pIOpefliee'
An extensive fireworks factory at CHI
huahus, Mex, was destroyed yesterday
by On explosion caused By a lighted
cigarette stub being carelessly thrown
aside. Loss, 100000.
Lord Darlington, sentenced to death
for murder in 81. Louis, Mo-, must die.
The Z. s. Supreme COurth today dis
missed writ OF error whereby it was
sought to have the sentence OF death
reviewed.
judge Morris, Of the Corporation
Court of Charlottesville has ordered
local option election to be held there at
az early day. Judge Morris granted
the petition aud fixed the date for the
election on June 4.
Eleven of the Thaw jury met Saturday
at the Broadway Central Hotel, New
York, for reunion and dinner and
adopted plan 10 give an annual dinner.
Juror Sle,le says he believes Stanford
White got what he deserved.
It is stated that William Jennings
Bryan believes. that governmental control
of railroads, tried uuder the most favor.
able conditions, will prove failure. aud
that the United States will ultimately
be confronted with The direct question of
governmental ownership.
Upon the charge Of conspiracy in re-
straint Of trade, uinety-one business men
Of Toledo, Ohio, we're indicted Saturday
by the grand jury, which reported to
Judge Morris, OF the Common Pleas
Court. Master plumbers, lumbermen,
and prominent citizens are among those
named by the grand jury.
After having been kept secret for FIVE
long years, a tragedy OF Wyndhurst,"
the Thsw family mansion, became known
today. In the spring of 1902, beanIi-
iul Kentucky woman, The vile Of Pfes-
byterian minister and n relative Of Mrs.
William Tha@, committed suicide in
"Lyndhnrsl' by hanging.
Ex.Judge James d. Waters ia seri-
Onsly i'll at his home, in Belair Md. He
suffered partial stroke of paralysis.
After he left college he taught school
for time in Alexandria, and from here
he moved TO st. Lonis, where he took
up the study Of Law. During the year
1862 he went South and joined the Con-
federate army.
There is cOns,ornation among the bar
bers OF England over the invention Of a
Londoner named Witherington. He
has made a paste, which removts the
beard without the use OF a razor in ten
minutes. The paste makes the hair 81
brittle that il can be rubbed off clean
with a wet sponge. "No skin trouble"
is guaranteed, and The performance is
simply part of washing the face upon.
ar ising in the morning.
The annual meeting of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum Association, at the in
stiiution near Baltimore, had a tragic
ending yesterday. Moses j. Oppenhei-
mer, a prominent merchant and Jewish
philanthropist, had jusi begun the read
ing 81 his annual report, when he reel
ed, dropped into a chair, and expired in
the presence OF his son and some City of
his associates in the charitable work in
which he bad been Interested for years.
Orrie McNNiliams, feen-yesr-old
boy, who lived at Deep River, near Des
Moines, Iowa, choked to death yesler-
day as the result OF quickly swallowing
a piece of csndy ho was sucking while
playing baseball. He was catching for
the school team. AS a swift ball came
to him he swallowed the candy. He
could not extract it, and professor
urged him to hasten to doctor. He
started, but had gone only few blocks
when he staggered, fell, aud was dead
A terrific hal storm which passed
over CSthage, Yorktown and Clayton,
Texas, late Friday, doing enormous
damage to crops, houses and live stock.
Hails.ones as large az eggs fell, and at
Yorktown the ground was covered to a
depth OF twelve inches. The path of
the storm was twelve miles wide and
crops will have to he replanted. Fruit
trees we're shattered aud hailstones crash.
ed through the roofs Of frall houses.
South Texas Saturday experienced I'M
precedented weather, the conditions
pointing to snow.
Because she was afraid she was losing
the love that meant more than life to
her. Isabelle BOultelot, pretty French
girl, killed herself Saturday night in
New York having sought her lovers
room Sc the place TO die. Louis Belle
Vile, a member of tho orchestra at Ham.
merstein's Manhattan Opera House, WAS
the lover, and when he returned TO
his room In Nine, GaillSrd's boarding
house, on Twenty-eighth street, early
yesterday morning, he found the body
Of his sweetheart and letter which she
had written. telling bin that life was no
longer worth living. She had torn part
OF her clothing to shreds and stopped all
the crevices in the windows and door
aud turned on two gas Jets.
Facing revolver in the haads Of
Mrs. Edward Bradley. of Bethesda, Md,
officers of the law yesterday morning az
rested Edward Bradley, her husband,
formerly a deputy sheriff of Montgomery
and took him to Washington,
pending an investigation of the alleged
assault committed on Mrs. Rose Porter,
Of Bethesda, near Twenty-6fth street and
Massachusetts avenue northwest, about
8 o'clock Saturday night. Bradley ad
mits having been with the woman but
says they we're attacked by a negro.
Mrs. Porter, who Is the wife Of stone
mason 10 Bethesda, tells a story similar
10 most details to that told by Bradley,
rxeenf that sha clainla lhhra we're two