Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-05

The failed Allegheny Nau0nal bank,
10 which the city of PiItsburg has ST.
500, 900, is 10 pay up 10 foil.
Mrs. Ella Tompkins, 80 years old,
died yesterday At the home OF her son,
Mr.. Julian Tompkins, Of Baltimore.
Death was due to the infirmities of old
age.
Jackson A. Dykman, q senior at
Yale University and q son Of William
Nelson Dykmsn, OF Brooklyn, we'll
known corporation lawyer Of that city,
is unconscious and critically ill In his
apartments at the Garden City Hotel,
Long Island. BE was thrown from
his horse, on which he Was following
the Meadow Brook hounds yesterday
II is doubtful If DR.. Alexander Mann,
rector Of Trinity Church, Boston, will
accept the bishopric of Washington.
Such q protest from his psrishioners
met him when he returned Saturday
night from his summer home in Paris,
Me-, that yesterday he agreed to con-
slider the matter carefully before making
q decision.
Msrgart Smallwood, negress, Of
Willow Tree alley, Washington, is &C
cused of shooting and seriously wound
ing Mary Cartwright, also colored, yes
terdsy morning. while attempting 10
shoot Ethel Willisms, whom the police
say she accused OF alternating her hus-
bands affections. The Cartwright
woman is at Casualty Hospital in crit
icsl condition.
Caught In the merciless grasp OF one
of the disastrous storms which, for the
past month, have been sweeping the
Atlantic, battling for days against adj
verse winds and gigantic seas, only to sue
cumb finally TO tue fury of the elements
and plunge to the bot ON, is the fate OF
three masted schooner Beulah McCsbe
which sailed from Mobile, Ala, on Au-
gust IL bount for Porto Rico.
Gov. Charles E. Hughes, of New
York, has been forced to cancel half the
dates of his western speaking tour, if not
abandon the trip altogether. He arrived
In Chicago yesterday suffering from an
acute attack Of lsrypgitis. He went at
once to rooms Engaged for him and bis
party at the Auditorium Annex and went
to bed. During the afternoon bis con-
dition grew worse, and he suffered more
from the throat affection than at any
time since he became Ill.
One OF the most remarkable stories to
come 10 light for sometime was disclosed
ct police headquarters Thursday, when
| Mrs. Clara Croft, registrar of the Oin-
cinnati College of Music, filed a war.
rant charging Mrs. Lovey Osborne, aged
! 10, bride of but few months, with
forging her fathers name to q check fol
$3.50 Two years ago Hiss LOvey
Goode went to the College OF Music
from her home in Gainesville, Fla, to
complete her musical education. She
was one of the most beautiful girls ID
the college.
Thomas w. Lawson, the well-knowr
inaucier OF Boston, Mass, wse badly
bruised rendered unconscious, and
possibly sustained internal injuries 10
csrriage accident near the North Scitua'e
Railroad station, not far from Dream
void, his county estate. Mr.. LaWsou
was trampled upon and possibly kicked
by bis horse, aud was picked up IN
conscious by witnesses. He was car.
ried into a drug store unconscious, and
was taken from there to his home where
several doctors attended him. he re-
covered consciousness quickly, and his
frat inquiry was as to the safety of bis
daughter. When assured that she had
been uninjured, be expressed bis salts
faoIinn