Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-23
News Of the Day.

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brews with their own government.
A total of 81, 297, 26S, 42O in new
money was printed and circulated by the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing dur
ing the last fiscal year, according to the
annual report of Director Ralph.
The franchises, under which the Cleve-
land Traction Company is operating
the the local street railway lines upon
a 3-cent.fsre basis, were defeated by a
majority Of 951 in the referendum vote.
Chairman Mack, OF the democratic
national committee, said yesterday he
thought the republicans had given up
hope of carrying the doubtful states in
the middle vest
The case against Miss Edith Writ, the
Kansas City Kan. } schoOlteacher charged
with cruelty, because she stuck a
pupils lips together with court plaster,
was yesterday dismissed by Prosecuting
Attorney Tsggart.
An account OF the business depression
the big rail mill and the bessemer of the
Maryland Steel Company, at SpsrrOws
Point, closed down this morning, after
having been 10 operation fer the past
three weeks.
Carried to the morgue 10 Chicago as
suicide, Gunther Goeitz, his throst
slashed from ear TO ear by razor, came
to life yesterday. Instead OF being en-
bslmed, he was rushed to the county
hospital where it is said he will recover.
The entire business portion of Rou-
Iette, Pa, a village of 500 people, has
been fire swept, causing $685. loss.
Forest fires which have been raging
north of the village are believed to have
caused the cOnhsgration.
An order was signed by Judge Bras
hears, in the Circuit Court at Annapolis
on Wednesday, appointing Ridgely 2.
Melvin, of Annapolis, and w. Thomas
Kemp, of Baltimore, receivers for the
Annapolis and West River Steamboat
Company. Bond was given fsr S25, 900.
Two brothers, John and Michael
Plisco, of Johnstown, we're yesterday
found dead 10 Philadelphia apartment
where they registered Wednesday night.
The gas was turned en- 10 their room.
Death is believed to have been acciden-
| tai.
DR.. Irving J. Cook, who was arrested
Tuesday, killed himself in room at the
Waldorf-Asoris in New York yesterday
afternoon by taking cyanide of potassium
and then shooting himself He had been
i indicted for manslsughter aud was out
on $40, 900 cash bail, which he put up
without trouble.
Hobson City, Ala, the only exclu-
sive negro town in the United States,
yesterday wss given back its autonomy
as a result of decision of Judge Cole.
man, of the Admission City Court, de-
clsring the statute annexing the town OF
Oxford null and void.
The 80 h annual convention of the
National w. @. 7. U. A. began in
Denver today. Mrs. Lillian M. N.
Stevens, Of Portland, Me-, president,
delivered the opening address. Tomor-
row evening there will be q big parade
and rally at the Auditorium by 5000
Denver children members Of the Loyal
Temperance Legion.
Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, former wife
of Brodie l.. Duke, multimillOnsire to-
baccO king, convicted August IL of OBJ
t4iuing money from a hotel by means Of
fraudulent checks, is making q final
fight in Chicago to avoid beipg senten-
ced to Jail for year. She is also resist
ing the payment of 81, 600 fine.
Because she thought the law was too
slow in its operations, jimmie Dempsey,
in Chicsgo, shot and fatally wounded
James Georgegopolis, well TODD Greek
Miss Dempsey recently swore out war
rant charging the Greek, her employer,
with assault. He WAS not arrested i'm
medistely. She told the police she had
a perfect right to do what she did.
With scores of persons along the
course of the North Canadian river, in
Oklahoma, the scene of yesterdays
food, still missing, and two-foot rise
in the river involving fresh danger for
the food victims, rescue parties are out
seeking to save endangered persons.
Hundreds have been rescued from peri
lous positions but it is feared scores are
still in danger.
Jspsn's hopes fer sufficient home
production of petroleum to make her TO-
dependent of other couDtr ca, is near full
tllIment as the result of the increased
depth to which number of wells in
her oil fields have been sunk. These
have been sunk to the third stratum,
depth of 800 feet, resulting in greatly
increased flow. Jspsn's importation Of
oil now amounts 10 more than $40, O00,-
900 annually.
By authority of law rushed through
the Vermont legislature only few hours
before, Governor Prouty has issued
proclamation, posiponiog the deer hun
ing season which was to have opened
at midnight o tober Is. This hasty &C.
ton is due to the fact that the forests are
dry rs tinder and n fresh outbreak Of
fires is feared if the woods we're filed
With careless campers. The Vermont
der season lasts only six days.
Edward Miers, 35 years old, was shot
and instantly killed by William Pugh
in the presence of Mrs. Miers, at Indisn-
apolis yesterday. Miers Was jeslous of
Pugb, who had befriended Miers' wife
when Miers was in jsiI. Pugh called
at the Mieis home and found Miers
thfre. Mrs. Miers declares her husband
made a motion toward his hip pocket
and PnRh fred. Miers fell dead 10 bis