Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-25
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Connecticut, 5000 miles away, estab-
lished new record for long distance
wireless communication.
The body of Miss Geraldine Tumilty
of Rochester, N. Y, has been recovered
from the Erie canal, into which an aU
tomobile in which she YVES riding last
night with E. s. Bartlett, president of
the TrebeIt Gas Engine Company.
plunged. BartletPs body WAS found
Later.
A "peeping Tom," who climbed to
the root of a stable to look into the
rooms Of the Johns Hopkins Nurses
Home, Baltimore, was captured shortly
after IL O'Clock last night by Lieut..
Charles Cole, OF the Central district, and
Sergeant Urspruch, of the Northern dis
trict.
A score of guests of the West6eld
! House at WesIfeld, near JsmestlwD,
N. Y, barely escaped death today when
| the structure was burned TO the ground.
From every window of the three story
building guests leaped through flames ID
he street aud five we're badly burned.
Tho loss was $40, 900.
The Cleveland, o., police have been
searching without avail since 2 o'clock
this morning for Fl. w. Gszell, secre-
tary-tressurer of the farmers and mer-
chants banking company, which re-
Gently made an assignment. A warrant
gas sworn ont by John Logan, depos-
itor, charging Gszell with the sbstrac-
ton of $50, 1926 from the banks fund.-.
= Connecticut set New Jersey pace in
E the srraigning and sentencing of the
abscondtr who had successfully fought
exrsdition for nearly two years. 10
less than seventeen hours from the time
Walker, the sbsconding savings bank
treasurer, reached Hatford he was being
led today from the court room under
sentence to serve 20 years in the peDi-
Tertiary.
Public Service Commissioned Thomas
| NJ. Osborne, of Auburn, N. Y, one of
the leaders in the home rule demo-
crscy movement and who refused to
support Bryan in his previous cam
paigns or Hearst when he ran for COVER
nor on the democratic ticket, today in 8
lster to the Nat oDal Comm tteeman
n, nan Mack announced his intention
of supporting Bryan for the presidency.
Declaring that they are in constant
danger OF assassination by the eyicted
tensntry, an organization of rich men
10 Harry and Kings and Queen counties,
Ireland, appealed today for troops to pro-
tect them. Attempts by the people to
drive off the herds of the so-called usur-
peIs in particular have precipitated
battles in which nearly a score Of herds
men have been killed.
Testimony that Win, a boy convict
from COBB county, WAS whipped to death
because be had spilled some coffee on a
hog at the state prison farm at Mil
ledgeyille, Ga, has created great sen
sation. The story was told legislative
committee which is investigating the
state convict lease syatem by We
prisoner who was afterwards released.
Real action as expected in Troy, n.
Y, today in The Hazel Drew murder
myftsry and 1t is even regarded as like
| ly thst an arrest may be made before
night. A railroad man, married, who
ia declared to have used the name of
John j. Msgner, in conducting an in-
trieue with the Drew girl, ia the latest
suspect. This man lives in Troy and is
SHOWN to have been absent at the time
Hazel Drew was slain.
Aroused by the nineteenth bomb
throwing incident Of the wsr between
gambling factions, the second within
the Loop District this week, Inspector
| Wheeler, of Chicago, ordered the detec-
tives of the Harrison street station to
bring in the perpetrators. A hole sey-
tral feet in diameter was torn in the
roof of the building. Thursday night
the saloon OF James ]. Oorbet at Van
Burean and State streets WAS dyusmited.
DR.. Carlton Flint, who was much in
the newspapers during the Harry Ken
dali Thaw trial, died today at Seabright,
n. j., after being struck and dragged
forty feet by sn automobile, while he
was walking ID the suburbs station to
take a train to New York. His cloth
ing became entangled in the machinery
and when the machine WAS stopped his
body, almost every bone fractured, was
pried loose from the cogs.
After fifty years of active service as q
telegraph operator, forty years Of which
have been spent at the key in the West
ern Union Office in Plsinfield, n, j.,
Charles II. Schermerhorn, the Oldest
active operator in the United States if
not in the world, is to be retired August
on a pension of $50 per month. Dur
ing the civil war he was telegraph ope-
rator for General Grant at Beverly when
the union troops were 10 camp.
1t is reported taat the eight West
Point cadets dismissed from the academy
for hsziDg will be reinststed. The
youngsters, including William Male, it, q,
son OF General William Male, of Vir-
GINA, called on Secretary Wright yes
terdsy afternoon and had long audi
ence. There is good reason 10 believe
that General Wright, provided President
Roosevelt does not interfere, will order
the reinstatement Of the cadets, not re-
garding the fern OF hszing in which
they INDUCED as being of very serious
nature.
Use DeWitt's Little Early Risers, peasant
little pills that are easy to take. Soid oy
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