Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-09
News of the Day.

the South Corolina primary for United
States Senator over John Gary Evans.
Thomas Matthews, Of Chsrlestown,
W. Va, beat his wife nearly to death
and then cut his throat with razor yes
terdsy.
Two women, one grieving over the
death of her favorite SOD, the other des-
pondeut because of illness, leaped TO
death yesterday from windows In their
homes at New York.
Iu the most important political con-
ference OF the campaign, w. ]. Bryan
in Chicago yesterday told members OF
the nstional committee, who were
gathered in the Annex headquarters,
that the democrats had the battle won.
For beating his wife from 2 until A
o'clock in the morning, Benjamin
Hughes was yesterday fined $40 BY
Judge Mills, Of the Police Court Of
Washington. Hughes admitted bis guilt
and told the judge he was sorry.
To an interview at San Francisco,
yesterday, E. II. Hartman said that
there would be no extensive improve
ment work begun on any railway lines
under his control until the financial
situation had relaxed considerably.
By carrying eighteen of the twenty
three assembly districts Of Brooklyn,
Senator Patrick II. McCarren yesterday
maintained his political control in Kings
county, New York, and leaves him 10
control OF the democratic county commit
lee.
Pending the hearing on appeal from
conviction on an indictment charging
him with performing an operation on
negro girl, Edward Leon Thompson,
known as DR.. Leon, of Washington,
was yesterday released from the jail in
Washington, under 81, 900 bail.
John Ooughliu, the armed man who
wss arrested while attempting to reach
the president at Ssgamcre Hill, Monday,
was examined by the two physicians
Yesterday and pronounced insane. He
will be sent to an asylum at Kings
Park, L. l,
With roar that could be heard for
several miles so pounds of dynamite ex-
ploded during FIRE which destroyed a
large barn, corn house and burnt up one
horse on the country estate of Mr.. Pat
rick Feeney, at Granite, Baltimore
county, Md, last night shortly after 8
O'Clock.
George W. Morton, 40 years of age,
died suddenly in bed yesterday after
noon of spoplexy, at his home in Bslti-
more. He was q clerk in the employ Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. His
death was discovered when bis little
grandson was sent upstairs to call him.
Three men were killed, one was fatal
ly injured aud FIVE others we're seriously
hurt by the explosion of twenty pounds
of dynamite yesterday 90 PrOvin Noun
tain, nesr Agawam, Mass, where a
contracting company is building a dis
tributing restroom in connection with
The Spring feld, Mass, water supply sys-
TEN. All the victims were laborers.
Capt. James z. Crawford died sud.
denly at his home OF Salisbury, N. @,
yesterday, after severe illness, fIon
which he had partly recovered. He was
during the civil wsr captain of company
B, Forty-second North Carolina regi-
ment, and won distinction as a soldier.
He was seventy-tTo years old, and lie
survived by wife and four daughters.
A large oil tank, located near the Sal.
isbury, N. o., city limits, exploded late
Monday night causing much damage.
Ran RsgeD, superintendent of the Sails
bury electric plant, near the scene of
the explosion, was spsttered with the
flaming oil, and was slightly burned.
A bolt of lightning is supposed to have
caused the accident.
Result OF the application Of the
"Hughes test" 10 thirteen of the assem-
bly, districts of New York and Kings
county in the republican primary elec-
tons yesterday were decidedly interest
ing. Six OF the New York districts cast
maiorities for the denomination of the
governor add three against. All of the
Kings county districts cast decisive ma
jOrities against his denomination.
The shruuken and bleached body Of
an unacceptable woman, with eviden-
cies of the body having been covered
with quick lime, has been found on the
West Virginia shore of the Ohio river,
near Wellsville, o. With the body was
found a rope with bloodstains upon 1t,
and the authorities believe the woman
was murdered. To hide the crime the
body was covered with quicklime and
thrown into the river.
Despondent over i'll health, Mrs. Rosa
Campbell, % years old, swallowed
dose Of Iaudanum last night at her home
in Baltimore. Her husband, Daniel p.
Campbell, says he heard her threaten
several times 10 kill both herself and her
two children, one four years and the
other two years of age. When he saw
her throw away an empty bottle in the
yard of their home last night he remem-
bered her threats and quickly sscer-
tanned the contents OF the bottle to have
been lsudanum.
Rivalry for the hand of womsn,
which began in Sicily several years ago,
resulted in a murder at Cleveland, o.,
yesterday, when Angelo Mazzo, Sicil-
ian, was stabbed through the heart by
Carmen Bulone, also Sicilisn. Both
men loved the same girl 10 Porta, Sicily,
but Mszzo married the young woman.
BuloDe swore vengeance. In order to
escape Bulone's wrath the couple fed to
America. Bulone, however, followed
them, and yesterday, on q crowded