Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-05
News of the Day.

OF Brighps disease yesterday.
Bronson Howard, the playwright, died
yesterday ct Avon-by.the-Sea. n. j.,
from heart trouble, aged &C years.
Emperor Williams new style of wear
ing his mustsche caused sentry at one
of the forts to refuse to pass him.
Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Farley,
Bishop Foley and other prelsies now in
Rome, yesterday sent the pope congraiu-
lations ON bis fifth anniversary as poDtiff.
1t is now said that the deaths in the
Kootenai Valley, 3. O., fire will not
exceed rs and the loss to property will
not be more than 1000, OOO
Indications are of landslide for Bris-
tow for u. 8. senator from Kansas. He
defeats Senator Long in the State pfi-
mary elections.
Sorisno, provincial governor Of llocos
Mortek, Luron, has sent an expression
of sympathy upon the death Of former
President Cleveland.
Two men were cut in fight yesterday
at Spring Gardens, Baltimore, and two
Italians are held at Mount Winans Po-
lice Station, charged with the stsbbing.
Mr.. Mason L. W. Williams, of the
Baltimore and Carolina Steamship Com
pany, says the cotton crop of the south ia
the biggest for years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Oden, widow of Ma
thaniel Oden, was run down and in
stsntly killed by the Blue Mountain Ex-
press at Chewsville Station, Md, yester-
day.
Count ZeppeliD's sirship, 10 an eff
fort to make Neutrality-suspicious. flight
yesterday, reached Mayence and after a
slight delay for repairs started back for
Lake Constance.
Winfield Scot. Smyth, known TO
educators throughout the country as a
publisher of sc hool text books, died at
Southhsveu, Mich, yesterday.
Charles K. Osborne, of Virginia, and
Ernest H. Barber, of Kentucky, we're
admitted as midshipmen at Annapolis
yesterday.
The Atlantic Biscuit Company, an in
dependent corporation for making crack
ers, cakes and other food stufis, with a
plant at Baltimore, went into the hands
Of receivers yesterday with Its consent.
Walter Keys, aged 20 years, of Bslti-
more, WAS sentenced to 10 years in the
city jail yesterday morning by Justice
Garland on the charge Of felonious as
ssult on Frieds Sacks, aged II years.
John Barry and William Merchant, Of
Baltimore, the two boys arres ted in
Cleveland, o., for robbing the A. G..
Afford Sporting Goods Company, were
brought to Baltimore yesterday.
Fire destroyed the large bsrn of the
Hint1n Livery Company, at Hinton,
w. Va, yesterday. Thirty-feven val
liable driving horses we're burned to
death.
Pulled under the water by big snap
ping tnrtle, George Haugh, l0-years-Old,
Of Philadelphia, had narrow escape
yesterday from drowning ia the Schuyl-
kill river, at West Manayunk, while
in swimming.
Major Oharlee Curtis Mcconnell, U.
8. A. (retiredD, died at the Massasoit
Hotel, at Narragansett Pier, r. l., yea
terdsy at the age of 6S years. Major
Mcconnell served throughout the civil
war, and was on the staff of General
Sheridan.
Charles w. Westerfpld, % years old,
an assistant bookkeeper of the Produce
Exchange Bank, New York, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head in the book vault of the bank yes
tsrdsy afternoon, just as two checks bear
log his signature we're presented at the
paying leller's window.
Minnie Wicktrsham, nineteen years
cid, of Philspelphia, had terrible ex-
perience Sunday night while walking
in the botanical gardens of The Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. She WAS attacked
by an army OF bats, which flew into her
face and one of which became entingled
in her hair. Hystericsl from fright, the
young woman ran, turning in at the
University Hospital. At the top step
she slipped aud fell, fracturing one Of
her arms.
Mrs. Emily Wood, wife of DR.. Oran
Alphonso Wood, a prominent physician
of Msgnolis, N. j., who disappeared
from her home FIVE weeks ago, was ar
rested yesterday in house occupied by
negroes in Philadelphia. With her
was Bernard Smith, the negro chauffeur
of DR.. Wood, who disappeared with
her. She had spent on the negro, the
police say, 81, 500 since the elopement,
little over a month ago. Efort' are
being made to learn the whereabouts OF
Dr.. Wood Wood is believed to be
somewhere in the west and detectives
wish to notify him that Mrs. Wood has
been located. Mrs. Wood wss one OF
the most prominent women in Mag
nolia up to the time of her disap-
pearance June %. She and Bsrnari
Smith, the negro, are now in Moysme-
nsing prison.
Following the arrival in Washington
yesterday of Edward M. Hobsou, who is
charged with embezzlement from the
Hops Live Stock Mutual Benefit Com
pauy, and who ia alleged to have eloped
to New York with Mrs. Raymond Kyle,
lsst week, Mr,. Kyle returned to the
city lnst night and went to the home OF
her sister. She denies the elopement
story aud says Hobsoa is only friend.
She aIsJ says she went to New York