Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-05
News Of the Day.

lands 10 several sections OF Washington
county, Nd, yesterday morning, al
though the lowest empsrature register
ed by thermometers was Al degrees.
Miss Lille Whestly was shot and killed
yesterday BY Mrs. Walter Allen, wife OF
the proprietor of the st. Charles Hotel
in Wichita Falls, Tex. Miss Whestley
was 10 a carriage with Mr.. Allen when
the shooting occurred.
Eight claims against the bankrupt es-
tate OF Harry K. Tbaw were filed with
Referee in Bankruptcy William &. Blair
late Thursday. The claim Of Josiah
Oopley Thaw, brother OF Harry ThsW,
for So, $40, WAS also proved.
Isaac King, a full-blooded Choctaw
Iodian, was yesterday pardoned by
the president. King was serving life
sentence for completely in the murder of
Joe Drake, white man, who married
Into an Indian family.
A man said to be Arnold Roberts, OF
MontcIair, N j., travelling salesman,
drank csrbolic acid early yesterday
while sitting on the steps Of the Denny
Methodist Episcopal Church, in Pitts
burg, Pa, and died at hospital q short
time lster.
Mrs. Susan NJ. Putnam, eyed Sc, and
living slJne, died yesterday st Frederick,
Md from the effect OF poison taken with
suicidal intent. Her daughter found
her unconscious in bed with an empty
bottle smelling Of csrbolic acid BY her
side.
Four apartment houses in Washing
ton were entered by thieves yesterday
and considerably more than 81 900 worth
OF jewelry wss stolen. Three places were
entered in N street northwest in the
forenoon, and one in g street northwest,
In the afternoon.
Alexander Troup, editor and pub
Usher of the New Haven Union, and
for years one Of the most ardent Bryan
men 10 the east, was found unconscious
last night in the wash room of the
Grand Central Station, New York, and
died q few minutes later 10 the stations
emergency hospital.
A sensational move in the Bayside
Yacht Club tragedy wss N ade yesterday
in New York, when i. was announced
that Mrs. Claudia Libbey Hams, the
beautiful wife of Capt. P,tsr Conover
Hams, it,, slayer of William E. AnDts,
would bring civil suit against I. Jen-
klus Hams, alleging that he alienated
her husbands love.
Notwithstanding bill for divorce is
pending in the District of Columbia
Supreme Court, complete reconciliation
was effected yesterday between Mrs. AL
bert 2. johnson and her husband, whom
she accused Of having negro blood 10
his veins, according to statement made
last night by F. Edward Mitchell, at
torney for Johnson.
An unknown two.mssted schooner
sank Yesterday off Cape Henry in Whist
is known as Middle Ground. The YES
sci was the second tow of the tug Priu-
cess, of Baltimore, which also had the
schooner Edward II. Cole in tow. The
tug proceeded without making the iden-
tity of the snnken vessel known. The
crew was rescued by the tug. The
schooner was water logged.
Mr.. Annie Schober, of Baltimore,
Wills cro ,siDl the track Of the Phila-
delphin. Blltimors and Washington
Railroad, just moth Of Frederick road
bridge, early yesterday morning, was
struck by a locomotive drswiog the
Washington express aud hurled 25 feet
through the air, landing in field, I'M
conscious from the shock for few
minutes. ----sa-s---
Margaret HUMPHREYS, the 11-Yesr-ol1
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin r.
Humphries, of Washington, died at
Georgetown University Hospital last
night rs the result of burns received 10
the afternoon while playing 10 the resr
yard of neighbours house. The body
was removed to the parents home, and
will be taken to Lynchburg tomorrow
for burial.
Three thousand people are homeless,
a score or more are injured, several
seriously, and the entire business section
Of Rawhide, New, is burned, as result
OF destructive confrsgrstion that start.
ed 10 the basement Of the Rawhide Drug
store, in the heart OF the
business section yesterday, and did net
cease until it hsd burned itself out The
loss will aggregate $3.50, 900, without
dollar of insurance. The citizens of
Rswhide met today and prepared to re-
build. Undauntad by the fire which
swept the place, and caused 81, 900, 600
losses and left 8, 900 homeless aud facing
starvation the inhabitants have adopted
the words, "watch us grow" as their
slogan.
The fireman of Baltimore and Ohio
engine No. 1898, in charge Of Engineer
A. Wrick, Of Cumberland, Nd, jester
day found box containing six sticks OF
4 ynamite 10 the coal 10 the tender. The
discovery of the dynamite was made
while the tain WAS coming from Que-
Junction, Pa, to Cumbtr-
and, and had 1t gone into the engine
furnace, would have blown the engine
10 atoms and wrecked the train.
Seven men volunteered to give por-
lions of their cuticle for little Andrew
Buscher, 9 years Of age, in one of the
most important skin-grafting operations
aver known 10 Washington, performed in
Georgetown Hospital yesterday morning.
Burned places on the boys back, neck,
and left shoulder were covered, the total
Of skin being almost 2 feet square. So
lar as the physicians can tell, the opera
lion has been success, and the boy is
doing we'll,