Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-16
News Of the Day.

vas hanged 1T Cannon City yer ,rdsy.
Four men were injured today st
Cleveland, o., 10 clash between
striking cap makers, non-union men
and a detail of guards EN- plOyed by a
d t,ctive agency.
By making a clean sweep in the dis
Gus throwing event at London TO-
Gay and taking first and third in the
shot-put, the American team materially
Iessoned the gap between the t,tal and
that of England before today's pro-
grsmme was completed.
During an electrical storm near
Kiug, Stokes county, N. O., Tuesday,
J. Il. Campbell. d. Cook, and Aaron
Tut lie, while engaged In thrsshiDg
wheat, were struck by lightning. Camp.
bell is not expect d to live. Cook and
Tut lie will recover. The same bolt OF
lightning killed mule and dog, which
were near.
The massive sandstone pillars which
for almost 20 years have formed a con-
spicuous architectural festure Of the
Fifteenth street (easl) front Of the Tres
ury building in Washington are giving
place t, solid granite columns, each
weighing 32 tons, exclusive of 6.iou
granite base. The grants came from
Milford, New Hampshire.
The fnsl sessions OF the annual con =
ventiou Of the Bottle Blowtr,' Associa-
ton Of the United States and Canada
eere held in Baltimore yesterday. The
officers we're reelected. They are :
President, d. A. Hayes, Philadelphia;
vice president, John Voll, Zanesville,
Ohio; secrttry, William Lsuner, Phil l.
delphis; treasurer, Conrad Auth, PiIti-
burg.
A net income OF $449, 46l, 1873. avail
able for dividends or surplus; S79, 900, q
1873 passengers csr.ied and 1876, 1885,.
$50 TINS of freight hauled, a;k mileage
of 1927, 976, employees numbering l,672,-
O74, equipment including So, 1888 leo.
motives, 1873 passenger cfrs and
1891 557 freight cars and 1872, S55 per-
Sous killed or injured, lie the showing
made in the Iuttr tate Commerce Com
missions repcr! yesterday for the year
ending June 30, 1907.
Ga Tuesday night q posse of over
|, 900 secured the woods 10 the vicinity
of Beaumont, TeGsS, iu an effort t. cap
lure An unidentified negro thu t attacked
and beat into insensibiitya thirieen-yesr-
old white girl, Ada Bell Hopkins, in
AictiDg injuries which may prove fstsl.
1t was the intention OF the mob to in
hlct quick punishment. Lst r Tuesday
an sged negro was mistaken for the one
sought and shot to death. The mob
burned two negro amusement resorts
aod threatened to destroy the other
Buildings occupied by negroes in the
vicinity OF the scene Of the crime.
A dynamite bomb exploded with r
rife force early yesterday in the area
way of fashionable apartment house 10
wett One Hundredth and Fcrtieth
street, New York, hurled scores of the
occupants from their beds, shattered
many windows and threw the tenants
into panic. A huge hole was torn in
the cement flooring OF the court where
the bomb went off, and considerable
ether dsmage was done TO the building.
There were AZ families living Ia the
apartment house, but as far as the pr ice
could learn, none Of them had received
Threatening lie t.rs, and the reason for
the bomb throwing is much Of q mys-
terry.
Steve Adams, member oil the Wes,
ern Federation of Miners, was acquitted
in Grand Junction, COL, yesterday
afternoon of The murder of Arthur
Collins. Adams alleged confession Of
the crime was excluded as evidence by
Judge Shsckelford, and eight Witnesses
testified to an slibi. Collins, who was
manager of the Smuggler Union Mine
at Telluride, WAS sh on the night OF
November 10, 1902, while playing cards
In his office. No move was made t.
resriest Adams on any of the other
murder charges growing out of the
Colorado labor troubles. and 1t is said
he will be permt,el to 90 free, as the
authorities are convinced of the impos-
sibiity of securing conviction In any
of these cases.
+. K. d. Pricktt', retired ministt r
OF the Methods. Episcopal Church and
formtr recorder of the borough of Metu-
chen, N. j., was shot and killed in the
street Of that place yesterday. Archie
Heron, charged with the shooting,
stood at the head Of the stairs 10 his
home, with a cooked revolver to defy
arrest, but surrendered when the con-
stables told him he would be taken, dea
or alive, no matter how many be killed.
Two years ago while Mr.. Pickett WAS
recorder, Heron was frequently sr-
raigned before him for disordtrly con-
duct and vas once sentenced to ten days
10 Jail. Mr.. Prckttl was 6S years Of
age, and had chsrEes In various Metho-
dist churches in the northern psrt of
New jersey. He was edit OF the
Methodist Recorder, weekly paper.
Hfrron has made no statement of the
affair to the authoritiep.
A. =. Nickerson, customs house inspe tor
and Thomas Mason, wharf Waterman, were
blown to pieces, and another insp ctor,
Charles AtwoO was so badly hurt that he
died on the way to the hospital. when a case
Of fireworks exploded TO-DAY in freight shed
No. 4 of the Boston and Maine Railroad on
Mystic Wharf at BOstou.
Roy Knabenshue made an unsuccessful at
tempt 10 sail his big passenger slrship today,
at Toledo, Ohio. After few minutes in the
air the role attaching the motor sni frame
work becsme loose and Knabenshue landed
on top Of the terminal station.
Afcer one of the hottest 24.hour ocean races