Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-23
News Of the Day.

spent 8. Oysttr bay.
William II. Taft, 10 an address be-
fore the convention Of republican clubs
at Cincinnati, yesterday, held up Mr..
Bryan's record AID declared it was one
of negation and Reputation.
J. Polk Biser, formerly superintendent
of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and
for many years prominent locally IS
democratic politician, died yesterday at
his home in Knoxville, Frederick
county, sged IS years.
There was some commotion at Han
cock, Monday night, when large deer
came down from the mountains, passed
through Hsgerstown, Nd, crossed the
bridge over the Potomac river and dis
appeared in the Virginia mountains.
Mercury as a specific in the treatment
Of tuberculosis finds few advocates among
the medical men attending the Inter
national Congress OF Tuberculosis, the
exposition of which is now open at the
new National Museum building in Wash
ingtOn.
The American bsrk Star of Bengal,
Capt. Thompson, has been driven ashore
on Coronation Islsnd, in the Pacific,
and is a total wreck. Nothing is ssi1
of the fate Of the officers and crew Of the
wrecked bark, but the presumption is
that they were still On the vessel.
During gunnery drill at Toulon,
France, yesterday, one Of the big tuTrst
guns on the French armored cruiser
Latouche Treville exploded with terrific
violence, completely wrecking the alter
turret and killing outright the entire
gun crew OF 3 aud injuriug many Others.
A dispatch from Merida, Mexico, says
that the large Ell Pervenir match factory,
at that place, was blown up with dyna-
nile and destroyed. The loss was $780,
OOO The act was committed by WORK.
man, who vas dissatisfied because his
wages had been reduced. His body was
blown to pieces in the explosion.
Mrs. William D. Carney, wife of a
wealthy wholesale confectioner of Fall
River, r. L., Was instantly killed and
her two children were hurt when a Cres-
cent Park electric car struck the auto
mobile in which they we're riding on
Warren avenue in East Providence, late
yesterday afternoon.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation OF Labor, mu't
answer the questions which made him
angry when propounded by Daniel
Davenport, attorney of the Buck Stove
and Range Company, in the contempt
proceedings against, the American Fede-
rationist now going on in Washington.
George CLARK, negro, shot Constable
W. II. Taylor, who attempted to arrest
him at SberO, Tex, Monday night, and
mob hanged the negro to tree, leav-
ing him for dead. Yesterday morning
he was found to be still olive and was
tskeu to Jail. A second mob is now
threatening to lynch Clark.
George Thomas, the negro who slot
Sheriff w. W. Beard at Fort Gaines,
Ga, Monday, was lynched by mob in
the railroad station. First reports said
Thomas was killed by the sheriff, but be
escaped and took refuge in the railroad
ststion, where crowd of Infatuated citi-
liens located him and literally riddled
him with bullets.
Leo Black, OF Petersburg, w. Va,
who killed his sister while attempting to
sbooi his father, following quarrel with
toe latter, WAS fOund guilty Of involuD-
tary IN sDslaughter BY jury yesterday
afternoon. Blacks father and mother,
in accordance with promise made to
their daughter 90 her death bed, testified
in the defendants favor.
1t was learned at Reno, New, yester-
day thst Nat O. Goo 1win had filed suit
for divorce against his wife, known on
the stage as Maxine Elliott. The suit,
it is understood, was filed Monday.
Goodwin's attorneys refuse to give out
any Information regarding it. The
papers are in the form Of a sealed suit.
Goodwin left Reno last night.
Edgar Allen Poe may not have been
having a chop" dream when he wrote
his famous poem, "The Raven" after
all, for little nine.yesr.old Louis Quin-
ion, of Denver, Colo, who was accused
of stealing 81 from Mrs. Amos Throck-
NOR on's pocketbook on the evidence Of
the lstter's maybe, confessed thst
"Mag" told the truth.
Relatives of janis K. Davis, SO years
old, who has been missing from his home
in Washington, fear the man has COM
mitted suicide. Davis is said to have
told his wife on the morning of his dis
appearance that he would end his life.
he is the father of four young children,
and is said ID have been in i'll health for
some time.
At an early hour this morning the
West Virginia republican state commit
tee selected w. E. Glssscock, collector
| of internal revenue for that state, to fill
the place on The republican state ticket,
made vacant by the withdrawal Of
swisher, as candidate for governor. The
selection of Glasscock is not acceptable
TO Scherr, who probably will refuse to
withdraw.
The police are seeking the assailant of
Miss Stella Collins, age1 % years, who
was attacked in public park at st. Paul,
MIMI, Monday night, and her tongue
cut ont. The young woman's tongue was
cut off as neatly as If by surgeon ex-
perienced in such work. she was not
otherwise injured, save for few slight
cuts on her cheek. The crime was COM
mitled by an Italian. The police think