Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-24
News Of the Day.

uie olShb1 -eCSOnN heouny yOoecAN"I'
Ned BoEles and Jim Burlinson, ne
eroes, were lynched at Charleston, Miss,
Tuesday for the murder of John Nathan,
a white man.
Wireless messages will not be flashed
from the Washington monument or re-
ceived there. The president has deter
mined to put his foot down on the pro-
possl.
w. T. Parrot, one of the best known
residents OF Albemsrle county, is dead
at his home, near Free UniJD, st the
advanced sge of ninety-six. be had
been member OF the Methodist Epis-
copsl Church for eighty years.
Mrs. Agnes Mallory, 17-yesIs-old, the
4.mopths bride Of John ]. Mallory, COM
mitted suicide In Baltimore yesterday
by drinking several ounces of carbolic
scid in her home. There Is no known
cause for her deed.
John Harb, aged rs years, q veteran
of the civil war, was struck by car
while trying to cross the track at Four
tenth and V streets, Washington, yes
terday, and died at Emergency Hospital
from the effects of bis injuries.
Joseph 4. Ellis, one Of the largest
real estate men of Roanoke, died yester-
day at AshevilIe, N. o., where he went
three months ago for his health. He
was 40 years Of age. The remains will
be shipped to Southampton county for
intermeni.
Yesterday Mrs. David Engle, wife OF
an American employed On The Mexican
Central Railroad at Victoria, Mexico,
killed her two children and then COM
mitted suicide. She frat sent $500 to
friend a! Dallas, Tex, to pay her funeral
expenses.
The Countess of Yarmouth, sister of
Hsrrs X. Thaw, and who recently wss
granted decree nulifying her marriage,
announced formally through her lawyers
yesterday that she had decided to drop
her title and henceforth be known as
Mrs. Copley Thaw.
A. Russell Peabody, one of the attor-
neys who had leading part In the de-
feusc of Harry K. Thsw, for the murder
of Stanford White, died suddenly yes
terday at Babylon, L. l., of pneumonia.
He had been i'll only since last Saturday.
Mr.. Peabody was member of a we'll
known southern family.
The compositors temporarily employed
at the government printing Office in
Washington during the midsummer rush
were dropped Tuesday evening, and en-
ployes of the competing division were
informed that they we're ct liberty to
take few days leave Of absence if de-
sired.
The second annual meeting of the
Poslmssters Association Of Virginia
opened at Roanoke yesterday. Adj
dresses OF welcome were made by Mayor
Cutchin, Of Roanoke, and Postmaster
Funkhouser, of Roanoke. Response
wss made by Postmaster r. E. Oabell,
of Richmond, president of the associa-
ton.
Crafty planning murder while he
expr ssed repentance for his misdeeds,
David Reilly, q waiter, Of Wilkes
Barre, obtained his release yesterday,
after trying to choke his wife and
daughter 10 death, and a short time
afterwards shot at his wife three times.
He believed he had killed her, and seeing
that the escape he had planned was i'm
possible, shot hiTself through the head.
The application of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for preliminary iDjunc-
ton restraining the Interstate Commerce
Commission from enforcing an order with
regard to the distribution OF coal care,
which was argued 10 the United States
Circuit Court in Baltimore on Wednes-
day, was denied yesterday in ruling Of
the three judges who sat in the case.
Joseph Small sccidently shot his wife
while on the hills above Barton, Md,
on Monday afternoon, while the two
we're out hunting, Mrs. Small being su
excellent msrksman and ardent hunter.
The gun was accidently discharged, the
load entering Mrs. SmslPs head. Small
picked up his wife and carried her to
Barton. She is not expected to recover.
Charles Knight, Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman, residing near Terra Ats, w.
Va, was taken to Cumberland, Md,
Yesterday with fractured skull aud bad
burns and bruises. He held his lantern
down into an oil tank car which vas be-
ing used to haul water to supply engines
on the railroad during the drought. and
the gas from the oil caused the explosion
which hurled Knight many feet away.
In the presence of his vile, who had just
told him good-by, intending TO begin
proceedings for divorce, Francisco
MILAN, mayor of West Tampa, Fla,
committed suicide yesterday by placing
the mUzzle of revolver in his mouth
and dschsrging two bullets through bis
brain. MILAN had served eight terms
as mayor Of West Tampa. He was
Cuban by birth.
Thomas L. Watson was yesterday |
made superintendent Of the State Geo.
logical Survey, which was created at toe
last session OF the General Assembly. |
The board met in the Office OF the COVER
nor The board decided to have DR..
Watson begin work at once. r. M.
Thornton, formerly a student at the
University Of Virginia, now taking
special course at Johns Hopkins Uni
versty, is to be assistant superintendent.
One hundred and ten men out OF
total of 1877 persons aboard the ship
Star of Bengal we're drowned last Sun
day afternoon when the vessel was torn
from the hold Of protecting tugs and