Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-01
News of the Day.

Dho Oeeu Hxeu ~ oO C6utt.
Count Boni de Gait ,llaDe, 1t Paris,
has secured temporary POSSESSION OF his
three children.
Thomas +. Gsrgsp, of Boston, di' d
at Berlin yeshrdiy following an opera
ton for stomach trouble.
The aged diret tress OF g'rl's 10 be ard
ing school at Ptris was mOrdertd by two
men yesterday.
John Siemsen and Louis DAbner,
known as the ''gaspipe thugs" of San
Francisco we're hanged yes;trify.
Mrs. Anna E. Lynch, of Pittsburg,
Pa, who weighed $40 pounds, died yes
teiday Of elephanlissis.
The Weslport murder mystery is still
uDsolved, and the police have very little
hope Of finding the guilty parties.
Children of Ell Paso, Tex, have I'M
earihtd 60 dynamite bombs hidden BY
Mexican revolntionhti.
Rev. A. P. Doyle, Of Washington,
has written the Vitcsn at Rome thst II
will not take long TO convert all Amfri-
cans to Catholicism.
George Washington Linthicun. one Of
the best-known farmers of Howsri
county, Md, died at Roxbury Millsyet-
t,rday. .G .1
N4rly everydbnildir in the mining
t,wn Of staff, rd, Rsle gh county. w.
Va, was wrecked yesterday ty powder
explosion. l.,.
Judge Taft has had three moro babies
named after him, while one family urged
him TO adopt young girl, which tff,r
was respectfully declined.
Wade Fl. Ellis, attorney general of
Ohio, has been offered the position Of
first assistant aItnnsy general OF the,
Unit d States.
f. @. Converse, q wealthy New Yorker,
and a walchman on his II, 900 acre estate
had plstOl duel with burglars, user
dsy 10 New York.
Brig. Gen. David K. WArdwell has
setrsted his leprous wife out Of Cali
forbis hospital and across the Mexican
border, where he will live with hfr.
Assistant Secretary Winthrop, of the
Treasury Department will watch the test
at Fort Mytr to d ,termine, whist prac;l-
cal use can be made of The airsbip 10 de-
t-cl smuggling.
Spencer Knott, BslIimfre and Ohio
freight conductor, Grafton, W. Vs.,
was drowned 10 TIE Pt tomsc esst Of
Keyser, Nd, yest,rday afternoon, and
his body was recovered two hours later
Kuo!t wss unmsrried.
Fire which it is thought originated
with a gasoline explosion on board
mttlr barge deslrty d the fish wharves
of the Philadelphia Fish Merchants As
socistioD, at Spruce street on the Della
W. re river, vest, r lay, entailing loss es-
timated at from $40 900 t. 500, 900.
Charles Humphries, chiefcltrk in the
Bureau of Police of Philadelphia, and
Harry B. Bromley, OF a well-known
family of manufacturers, were run down
and killed yesterday by a train while
crossing the tracks of the Reading Rlil-
road at NicetOwn slstiOn in the northern
section Of that city. Their auto crashed
through the gates at the crossing directly
in the path of tain.
Sitting at an open window in the
second story of bis house, in Washing
ton and firing number OF shots at
random frlm SScrliber revolver,
Virgil Sphinx, IN lat night ct rred up
t1e neighbOrhood. The timely arrival
of police probably prevented serious
damsge being done. No one, it appears
was struck by bullets as the result of
Spinkston's reckless use Of q revolver.
Detective Burlinpame, OF Washington,
who went 10 New York on Thursdsy to
bring back Edward NJ. Hobson, alleged
embezzltr, who eloptd with another
mans wife. wired yett,rday thst HobsOn
had been held for the Washii & on autbori-
ties by a commissioner. before whom he
was given hearing. The prisoner prob
ably will trrive in Washington today
in charge of deputy marshal.
Half dszad and bleeding from a dozen
small scratches, but appireotly other
wise unhurt, John Weiss, a mipGr, was
found on the Color Ido and Southern
Railroad track, nesr Empire City, yef-
terday, after plupg, of 900 feet from
the rad above. Abolt tw'nty feet
from where Weiss WIS found lay his
hose, crushed into an almost shapeless
mass.
A negro tesnster, Infatuated because
his wagon had collided yesterday after
noon at the Back River colgate 10 Bal
timtrs with a hesrse in which was the
body of Mr.. Amos Alexander, caused
considerable exc t,ment among the
monrotrs by firing about Is shot, from
a revolver at the horses attached to the
various carriages in the funeral colt,ge.
While the man is known, he had MT
been appreheuded up to lSts hour last
night.