Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-21
News of the Day.


lands last week blew away houses aud
caused great damage to the town oil st.
Matthew, on the Island of Insgus.
The Central Telephone building and
postofEce at Paris we're completely de-
stroyed by fire last night. The loss is
estimated at about S., 900, 600.
DR.. Frank Huntington Snow, ento
mologist, and formerly chancellor of the
University of Kansas, died at Bell6eld,
Wis, yesterday, aged 68 years. He
was nstive Of Fitcbburg, Mass.
Minnie HeiniDger, Of York, Pa,
while in a Jealous rage, threw csrbolic
scid in the face Of her lover, John Chan
nels yesterday. The mans face was
badly burned.
An imposing Anglo German working
mems peace demonstration was held 10
Berlin yesterday Some 1000 German
workmen gathered to welcome dele
CATION representing the British worknen.
Mr.. Charles B. Roberts, who was
shot on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City
on August &c last, Was able to sit up
for one hour yesterday in q reclining
chair.
The Scherr leaders in West Virginia
announce that they are willing to with
draw their candidate from the guber-
material fight providing the Swisher
faction will agree to certain conditions.
Miss Elizabeth Nicol, aged II years,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Nicol,
of Marysville, o., died Saturday after a
! few days illness of peritoniIis, which
was caused by an liberated tooth.
Clint O. Heath, formerly real estate
dealer and promoter Of Denver COL,
Saturday night WAS found guilty Of en-
bezzlement of IS, 500 from Mrs. Mary
Hustled, of New York. The verdict car
ries eutsnce of one to tan years 10 the
penitentisry.
A party Of 200 sailors from the Ameri-
can battle ships Maine and Alsbams,
which sra nov at Naples, arrived 10
Rome yesterday and we're presented to
the pope by Mgr. Kennedy, rector of
the American College.
Msior General Lizard, who commit
ted suicide 10 London because Of a rumor
that be was responsible for his wife's
death, was absolved from all connection
With the murder by the coroner's YER
dict.
Lester Bresse, who escaped from Mount
Hope Retreat Last Thursday and was
taken to Baltimore by Frank Brown,
| IT,, sJn OF the former governor, was
psroled by Judge DuucaD until today
when he will go to Towsou and make
bis request for freedom to Judge Burke,
who signed the order committing him
last July.
From the Canadian woods and the
forests Of Maine down through the
Adirondack region to the Ostskills and
beyond to the Pennsylvania lumber
regions fires are burning. Reports from
the woods of Maine and Pennsylvania
and from the Adirondscks 10 New York
state indicate that the fires are progress
ing and spreading.
Edward I. Coles last night placed a
chair mp against the window OF his room
in an apartment house and took flying
leap to the court yard, FIVE stories below.
When the surgeon got around from
Flower Hospital be found that almost
every bone in the mans body was
broken.
Frederick L. Roswell, so years old, a
clerk 10 the employ OF the Sioger Man
ufacturing Company, Of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, his wife and their two children,
May and Edward, Z and 8 years ole.
we're drowned Saturday In Long Island
Sound of the Stafford breakwater, after
desperate struggle, following the cap
sizing Of boat.
William J. Bryan, democratic can
didate for president, WIS guest OF Alton
B. Parker at luncheon yesterday at
Rosemont, Esopus. He was sccompani-
ed by Governor Jennings, Of Florida.
They arrived at about IL o'clock, and
left at 4 o'clock for Albany, where Mr..
Bryan visited David B Hill at WolferPs
Root. No others were present at Judge
Parker's home.
Miss Jane Elizabeth Smith, aged %,
one of the most accomplished women OF
Pittsburg, linguist and graduate Of Vss-
sar College, daughter OF DR.. Henry
Smith, wealthy aged physician, and
sister Of John a. Smith, president Of
the Electric Age Publishing Company,
OF New York, committed suicide yester-
day at Pittsburg, by taking csr6olic
acid.
Declaring that the republican party is
owned, body and soul, by the dominant
power represented by Speaker Cannon
In the House and by cotsrie of rich
malefactors in the Senate, John w.
Kern, the democratic candidate for the
vice presidency, Saturday night opened
his eastern speaking campaign before an
enthusiastic audience at Westminster,
Md. The controlling element of the re-
publican party, he said, was stronger
than that party and considerably stronger
even than Roosevelt. Roosevelt, he de-
clared, has been unable to accomplish
single reform except by compromise with
the dominant power.
Surrounded by eravestones, With the
grave of the brides father as the altar,
a weird msrrisge ceremony took place
Saturday at Fert Worth, Texas, when
James O'Brien and Miss Matte CLARK
we're made man and vile 10 the German
cemetery by a Methodist clergyman.
Both bride spd bridegroom are from
Trinity. Texas, where the bridegroom,