Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-10
News Of the Day.

Gen. Leonsrd Wood, u. :. A., was
thrown while wstching The German
army msneuVer,, yesterday, but escaped
unhuIt.
Talbot county sent the 6rst new cob
corn of the season to Baltimore yester-
day, when q Let of "a bags arrived Tor
sale. The corn was dry and we'll filled,
and was sold at SO 80 barrel.
Dean A. Smith, of Reese, Mich, a
wealthy retired farmer, yesterday visited
his brother, P. J. Smith, OF Cumber-
land, Md, whom he had not seen for 40
years.
The republican national committee
has decided to recognize the republican
organization In West Virginia which
nominated Charles w. SWisher for
governor as the regulsr party OF that
State.
Mrs. Frank Caller who, 1t is alleged,
as feminine "Black Hand" hiss for
several weeks been terrorizing business
men, was captured at Bsssemer, Mich,
yesterday after a gun fight with officers.
She Is the wife of miner.
Judge Alton B. Parker declared at
Washington that he is not willing to ac-
cept the nomination for governor OF New
York. The Judge will entertain William
J. Bryan next Sunday, and the nominee
will go to Baltimore Monday morning
g. NJ. 7. Bass, aged SO, who fell from
the trestle bridge across the Appomattox,
died at the Petersburg Hospital yester-
day. For many years prior to and after
the civil war he was principal of the
West ward public school there.
The police department of LynchburS
has been hard at work since Tuesday
aft in an effort to locate white
man, who is alleged to have sent box
of poisoned candy to Dixie Simpson, 8
white woman, who lives al Fourth and
Jackson streets.
Mystery surrounds the visit at Nor
folk of Prince RsDj Smile, whose nstiv-
ity is Kelat, Beluchistsn. The prince
arrived yesterday from Atlantic City
with 7 attendants and % trunks. When
seen by q reporter he declined 10 make
any statement regarding his visit to that
section.
An autopsy on the body OF Char
lctte. N. O., citizen, John j. Neale, a
middle-aged man, reveals that death
was due to pellsgrs, disease caused by
eating musly or fermenled corn. IL Is
the first case OF the kind ever brought
to the attention of the medical probes
sion OF that city.
Suddenly STACKED with acute indiges-
ton and heart disease as che was walK-
ing from a local theatre to the Dewey
Hotel, last night, Miss Eluore Lizer, q
school teacher of Newark, n. j who
was visiting 10 Washington, died before
abe could be t ken to the Emergency
HOspitl
Mr.. John Kronmiller, the republican
organization candidate, was nominated
for Congress in the Third Washington
dis riot, yesterday, receiving more plural
ity than there were votes cast for M
Elmer j. Jones, the Wacbter candidate.
Congressmen Wolf and Gill, democrats,
and Mr.. John Philip Hill, republican,
had no opposition.
A special from Oxford, Miss, quotes
former United States Senator w. V.
Sullivan as follows with reference to the
Lynchiug Tuesday night: 81 led th'
mob which lynch Melee Patton, and I'm
proud of il. l directed every move.
meut of the mob and / did everything
could to see that be was lynched. Cu'
a white woman's throat And negro
Of course wanted him lynched. "
WILL street profe. s.d ignorance yes
terday of the report from Copenhagen
that NJ. Albert, former minister OF jas
tice of Denmark, whose savings bank
failed because tof losses of $500, OOOr
had speculated heavily In Wall street.
Representatives of several international
banking houses said they were sure tbs
Danish cabinet officer did no trsding d.
rectly with New York concerns.
That some paris Of the railroad tun'
nels In Washington are not lighted IL
developed by the recent inquiry into the
death of Mrs. Lotde Hsriison, who ws'
thrown from a train and killed in one Of
them. About fifteen arc lights are used
nesr the large electric fans used to clesl
the tunnel of smoke, but from the fan:
to the mouth of the tunnel, about 300
yards, no lights are used.
Burglars, Tuesday night, made rich
haul in the pOstoffce at AdamstoD, near
Clsrksburg, w. Va, securing 1925 in
cash, $500 iu stamps and more than
800 10 jewelry, the latter being part o
the stock of the general store OF ID. K
Marin, kept in the same room with the
postofice. 1t is said that the safe from
which the booty was taken had not beer
locked. The robbers entered ty forcing
, open the side door of the store. Mr,
Martins residence Is adjoining the store
In a desperate shooting ARRAY with
| Two burglars, whom he met on The
street at Nh tn and Grand avenue, Lot
Aogeles, Gal shortly before 10 O'Clock
yesterday mUrning, Opt. Walter Auble,
Of The city police force, was shot three
times aud probably fatally wounded.
One of the men, Fred Horning, s
chauffeur, wss captured but the man who
did the shot ting, Carl Sutherland, &
wsiter, escaped. Captain Auble wa
former chief Of police of Los Angeles.
Conspicuous by their absence from
the republican stste convention al
| Snr;upfield fl vesterday were mcst o.