Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-12
News OF the Day.

Arthur Rsue, a French author and
politician, died in Paris yesterday.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans will
DO placed on the retired list August Is.
Walter Keys, who was sentenced to
10 years in Jail by Justice Garland last
week for assault, was released Yesterday
% Judge Harlan on the grounds of de-
fectiye commitment.
Former U. 8. Senstor Roger QnsrIes
Mills, OF Texas, who is rated as one of
the wealthiest men In the southwest t. is
In serious condition at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital, at Baltimore.
The Harlan q Hollingsworth Cor
poratiou, of WILMINGTON, DEL, and
the Bethlehem Steel Company have
formed combination to build steel cars
aud the works at Wilmington are to be-
made the largest OF their kind In the,
| world.
Captain J. 8. Mitchell, who while
commanding the British yacht Deer
hound, saved captain Semmes, the COM
mander OF the Confederate ship Alabama,
and q number of the crew, after her
fight with the Kesrsags, and landed the
rescued men at Southampton, died in
Berlin Yesterday.
Only four.fifths of the 500, 900 raised
to bring 10 the republican national con-
| vent;on to Chicago was spent, and the
task of returning the remaining $40, 600
1 has been begun by the local committee
on arrangements. That sum is tt be
divided between the sos subscribers to
the fund.
Using an old fashioned all ver-mounted
revolver with which he fought against
the French at the battle of Sedan, dur
ing the Franco-Prussian war, Ferdi-
nand Conrad, IL years of age, a resident
of S.. Louis for qusr,er of a century,
ended his life by shooting lsst night.
Conrad was respondent because of his
insb lity to get work.
The great Peoples Opera House at
Berlin, where the highest grade psodu =
tons sre to be given, at prices within
the reach of the masses, is 10 cost 81
900, 900. 1t is expected that parlisme,
will grant half of the needed amount and
Berlin the other half, the latter receiving
a quid pro quo In the proprietorship of
the present opera house. Ths new tenn
pie of music will be situated on the
Pc slamerstrasse. The best seats will
C st S74 cents and the cheapest l2g cents.
A messengers pouch containing
| United States Government pay checks
for nearly $4,000 was stolen early last
week ia front of the bnilciog occupied
by the Department of Commerce and
Labor. Washington, where it had beenl
left by q colored messenger who was
riding wheel. On his return a few
rniUutes lpter, he found his wheel and
burden gone. Next day the pouch wss
found about halfway between Wash
ington and Alexandria. Tue wheel,
the pouch and the mail were found, Int
the pay checks had been abs;rsc,ed.
Nrtsern Pacific train No. 2, the
Northern Coast Limited, was wrecked
about twelve miles west of Glendiye,
Mont las. night. Fireman A. B. Mat
thews and an unknown tramp we're,
killed and probably 25 or 80 injured.
The train was travelling so miles an hour
when Engineer Litch lighted buroed
bridge. he reversed the engine aud
threw on emergency brakes, which pre-
vented all the coaches except the smoker
and mail train from going into the ditch.
Three masked men entered the home
OF Miss Maria DE Gsrmo, in a remote
part of Washington, Pa, yesterday
morning, after baItering down the door,
bound and gagged Miss DE Gsrmo and
her niece, Miss Lizzie Hartman, the
Oaly Occupants Of the house, and robbed.
them of their jewelry md small amount
of cash. Carpets were slsshed, mar
tresses ripped open and chests broken
into. When no large sum of money WAS
found the women were tortured until the
elder one tainted and the men left. MisE
Hartman, bleeding and cut, at last freed
herself frem the ropes and released her
aunt. Fifteen hundred dollars which.
had been received the day before for a
timber tract was found where the robbers
had overlooked 1t.