Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-14
News Of the Day.

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of 964 days 10 Jail by Judge Kimball,
In the police court, OF Washington, yes
tsrdsy, when convicted OF sssaulting Ed
ward Moore, sixty-fve years old.
The report that the OuDard Steamship
Company has finally decided to abandon
Queenlown as a port of call and run 10
Plymouth has caused little surprise in
shipping circles in London.
The wife of Eurico Caruso, the famous
tenor, has eloped from Florence, Italy,
TO England, with young friend of the
singer, according to Trieste newspaper,
III Psccolo, copies Of which we're re-
ceived in New York yesterday.
The liquidation OF the old Panama
Canal Company, which has been going
on since 1889, was completed in Paris
Yesterday when the civil tribunal OF the
Seine authorized a last payment 10
creditors Of per cent. and issued a
decrse of discharge 10 the receivers.
The inmates Of st. Johns Church
Orpbansge, Washington, journeyed To
the Zoo today for an outing, as the guests
of the Washington Lodge OF Elks. All
the little folks were provided with horns
and much footing on the way to the
park is expected.
Andrew Schaffer, a widower, residing
with his daughter, Mrs. Kate Jones. in
Baltimore, drink quantity OF muriatic
acid sbont $50 o'clock last night. He
was attended by DR.. NJ. O. Freilineer,
who had him sent to the Maryland Uni
versity Hospital where he died.
Mrs. Margaret Ann Gault, aged 90
years, widow Of the late Cyrus Gsult,
and daughter Of Capt. William Akin
son, who served in the American navy
during the war Of 1912, died Of the in
Hrmities incident to old sge at the resi-
dence of her daughter in Baltimore, yes
terdsy.
The elimination Of sick-bed romance
which had ito beginning 10 New Ro-
cbelle occurred in Clinton, near Wor-
csster, Mass, yesterday, when f. Ed
wsrl Peterson, wealthy New York
manufacturer, made Miss Alice Eliot
Stevenson, formerly pretty nurse OF
Baltimore, bis wife.
Roger Quarles Mills, former United
States Senator from Texas, who was op.
Grated on last Wednesday at Johns Hop
ktns Hospital, Baltimore, for intestinal
trouble, was reported late last night to
be doing remarkably well, and hopes
are entertained by those in charge that
the patient will be able to leave the hos
pital In q very short time, possibly with
in the next 10 days.
In an effort to have one man re-em-
ployed In bakery shop, on Lexington
avenue, New York, from which he had
been discharged for refusing to join the
baktr5 union, iJurneymen bakers one
hundred strong wrecked the bakery of
Pincus Jacobs esrly yesterday. The
o DIioe we're called out to disperse the ex-
cited people and several srrests we're
made.
The large brick brick building OF the
Deal Milling Company Of Cumberland,
four stories, burned last night An
apartment house, owned by Deal Bros,
adjoining, was Quilted, and a brick
building, occupied by John Wiegand as
a saloon, Paul Nice Warner using the
upper flor as s residence, was damaged.
The still atmosphere alone was respop-
sible for saving much OF the property,
nearly oil Of which was frame.
David More, farmer near Ander-
SOD, Ind, lost iOur-months-Old colt by
death, and as the animal appeared to be
healthy and vigorous up till death, q
post norton was held. Ii disclosed the
presence of two hesrtI. One heart WIS
in correct position, but abnormally large.
The extra heart WAS of normal size, but
located back Of the liver. 1t is sup
posed that one OF the hearts had been
inactive till shortly before death, when
the extra heart began beating and the
increased pressure burst blood vessel.
With her feet tightly bound together
and stocking stuffed down her throat,
Mrs. Adeline Miller, of st. Louis, Mo-,
40 yesrs old, was found dead Wednes-
day night by her husband, mail clerk,
when he returned from work. The face
and throat OF the woman were discolored
from strsngulstion, and she bad evident
y been dead several hours. The police
are searching for a yonDg man who Ia
said by neighbors TO have called on Mrs.
Miller Wednesday.
Before big audience at the EpWorth
League assembly at Lincoln, Neb., We'd
nesday night, Senator Robert M. LaFol-
ltte expressed great admiration and
friendship for William ]. Bryan, while
insisting that be himself was a republic
can. The fight against the railroads to
secure lower rates and no discrimins-
tons, be said, had been started back in
the seventies by Wisconsin, Illinois,
Iowa and Minnesota. These policies,
he added, we're not the product Of the
minds of either Bryan or Roosevelt. A
man 10 the audience accused LaFollette
of being democrat, but be denied 1t.
The local police, with the assistance
OF the sheriff and tbs county solicitor,
yesterday began search for property
worth $1,000, including $4,000 in
money, the loss of which Was reported
by Mrs. Persis Thompson, Of West
Chesterfield, N. a. Mrs. Thompson,
who is widow, stated that valusbles
had been hidden 10 pillowcase and
locked 10 trunk 10 the garrett OF
her house, the doors, windows and
shutters OF which she had carefully
nailed up from the inside before leaving
the place last Tuesday to visit her
daughter, In nearby town. When
she returned last night she found that a
door mad been burst open aud the house