Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-13
News Of the Day.

of selling impure milk.
Mr.. John NJ. Denisou, one of the old
est and best-known business men 10
Baltimore, died at his home, lsst night,
in the eighty-6rst year Of bis age.
Mira. Ruth Early Nash, sister OF Gen,
Jubal Esrly, Of the Oonfedersts army.
died at Gallipolis, o., Sunday night.
Mrs. Nash was the vile of the late SAM
uel J. Nash, and Is the LAST Of her family.
Captain 8. J. Mckinley, who died re-
Gently in Charles City, Ia, sged 70,
was shot 16 times during the American
civil war, four times ia one battle. AS
the result Of wounds 10 bones we're
taken from his body.
"Hard Luck" Dan Lawrence, known
from Nome to Butte as horse trainer,
plunger, the gambler who knew no limit
and who has lost several fortunes, drop
ped dead on the street OF Reno, New,
yesterday, a miserable wreck.
A purse containing $1,000 worth OF
jewels, the property OF Mrs. William
Sandless, of Baltimore, was found yes
terday 10 car OF the Hartford avenue
line by Conductor N. Garland. The re-
coyery of the purse later turned her sor-
row into joy.
Poslofice Inspector James E. Stuart,
of Chicago, yesterday began an investi-
CATION involving the sending of an al
legged bomb through the pails, the re-
cipient of the bomb being, it is said, a
city police officer or an army officer
Inspector Stuart refused to talk on the
subject
DR.. N. Richards, OF Rdgely, Nd, con-
victed 10 the circuit court at Denton,
yesterday evening, on the charge OF carry
ing q concealed wespou, was sen.
tened to pay a 6ue OF $500 and
costs. DR.. Richards was on Saturday
acquitted By a Jury OF the charge OF
sssaulting with intent to kill Eva M.
Richie.
All the men who were furloughed by
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany, at Cum berIsnd, Md, come months
$50, have been called back 10 work, and
during the past week several machinists
and helpers were brought to the south
Cumberland shops from Baltimore and
given work In the shops there.
Registration In Greater New York
closed yesterday with squirt. which car
ried all the five boroughs, except Man
haitian, ahead OF the figures ofI9O4, and
brought the grand total within 5000 or
80 of that year. The total registration
Ia the FIVE boroughs was 6Sl, 799. This
meaus a probable vote of 647, 600 SIS
against SCI, 900 in the last presidential
year.
Two children clsimed by death With
10 two days, and two tiny forms 10 two
small white cssk,ts constitute the heart
breaking misfortune which has befsllen
Mr.. aud Mrs. Louis E Yearly, Of Bal
timore, Md, who have been bereft OF
their only children. David E., the
younger, died Saturday, of stomach
trouble, ut the tender age Of IA months,
while Louis E., who was but four years
old, succuobed 10 spinal meningitis
Sunday.
David G. Cooper, of Teryville, Conn.
who made fortune 10 the manufacture
of oven thermometers for ranges, was
supposed to have been bachelor all HE
life. When he died several months ego
his two nieces who took care of his home
aud his Office work, were supposed - be
heirs to bis eststs of $4,000. His
will, however, discloses the fact that
had wife and twelve children In Chill,
South Americs, to whom the greater
part OF tss estate goes.
Martin Comfy, jr., an employe Of the
comptrollsr's Office and son of Martin
CJnly, ex-sssemblymsn of Brooklyn,
was crushed to death under 60.horse
power automobile yesterday when the
machine, which was whirliug along al
the rate Of forty miles an hour, leaped
from the road. crashed through an iron
fence and landed, bottom upward, in the
open subway cut Of the Long Island
Railroad at Howard and Atlantic sven-
ues, Brooklyn.
Mr.. Cannon, speaker OF the House Of
Representatives, has just sold $49, 900
worth Of his Nebrasks farm lands and IL
offering for sale still other property be
owns 10 eattsrn Nebraska. The fern
Speaker Cannon hss jut sold coptIins
700 acres and sold for $40 az acre. The
market price for lands of the same class
10 the vicinity is SO to $50. Mr.. Can
non purchased this land years ago when
lsnds were going at q song. He is re-
ported 10 own thousands OF acres OF land
in eastern Nebraska, right in the heart
of the corn and wheat belt.
Another hurricane, the second ia the
last 2S days, swept over New Providence
on October l, and the WIND, which blew
from the southeast and south With force
of 80 miles or more an hour, was accom-.
panied By torreutisl rains. The whole
Island is still practically under water,
over seven inches having fallen in the
two days sfnr the storm. The damage
to house property was slight, only some
small houses and outbuildings being d.
s!roysd. The loss to shipping, however,
was very severe, several large schooners
having been blown to sea, where they
fouudered.
The mob spirit caused by the arrest Ct
John Irby, a negro, for an alleged as
ssult on Miss Leila Dempsey at SpsitU-
burg, &. O., on Saturday last, has died
out. All the hsrdEsre stores, pawn
shops aud establishments were firearms