Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-27

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Mr.. Mays had been IN bad health Tor
some time, snd il is supposed she shot
herself in fit OF dependency.
George Washington Coleman, aged 81
yesrs, a miner employed by the CONSOLE
dated Coal Company in Klondike Mine,
No. z, was found With a bullet bole
through bis heart In the resr of the res
ideuce Of his mother at Oharlestown,
Md, a suburb of Homecoming, shortly
before 10 O'Clock last night. He was
married on Thursday last. No motive
can be ascertained.
Yesterday by shooting herself in The head
with revolver while visiting the home
Of her mothsr-in-lsw. Mrs. Elizabeth E.
In Winchester last night Miss Chris
tine Simpson, beautiful young woman
of New Orleans, became the bride Of
Ashton Hayward, prominent business
man of the same city. Miss Simpson
had been spending the summer at Capon
Springs and recently Mr.. Haywood sp'
pesred at the same resort. The couple
drove to Winchester yesterday evening
and we're married by Rev. DR.. Grammer,
of the Episcopal Church.
Smi b Musgrove, aged six years, walk
ed to the bureau drawer in his parents
home, at Wick, W. Va, yesterday and
removed bis fathers revolver, which he
pointed at his brother, Carl, aged three
years. The weapon wss discharged, the
bullet passing through the cbild's heart,
killing him instantly. The lad almost
went into convulsious when he saw the
blood squirting from his little brothers
breast.
Formal announcement was made at
the Department Of Justice lsts yesterday
afternoon of the appointment of Wade
n. Ellis, present Aitorney-General OF
Ohio, assistant to Attoruey-General
Bonapsrse In place OF Milton ID. Purdy,
who has been appointed judge of the
Federal Court of Minnesota. Mr.. Purdy
wss one of the principal "irust busters"
of the administration. Mr.. Ellis, is
slated to succeed Mr.. Bonapsrte If Mr..
Taft is elected president.
The monthly statement OF the collec-
tons OF internal revenue shows that the
t,tl for July, 1908, was $22, 029, BIG,
which is a falling off Of 81, S99, 5OS, as
compared with July, 1907. By far the
lsrzest part of this decrease is Ia collec-
tions from spirits. The most noteworthy
decrease Is the receipts from the retail
liquor dealers special tax, which amounts
to $216, 149. This indicates that S,646
retail liquor dealers went out OF business
during July. which is said to be lirgely
due to prohibition legislation.
God Instructed me to beat up and
kill man. He was the hardest man |
ever killed. l once hsd a fight with
ten men and killed nine of them"
With this amszing statement, Michael
Shipley, an insane patient at the Bay
View Asylum, nesr Baltimore, admitted
that he had fallen upon his roommate,
Franz Gross, u years old, also insane,
last Saturday st midnight, and With bis
bare fists had injured Gross so severely
that he never gained consciousness, ex.
piripg at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
What was announced as the first Of
fetal ststement Of contributions In the
present national campaign was made yes
t'rday by Treasurer Haskell, Of he demo-
cratic national committee. The stste-
ment deals with funds turned in by FIVE
daily newspapers aud The Oommontr,
their contributions reaching total Of
$l9 43S In connection with the state
ment, Moses c. WetmCre, oil the finance
committee, said that other papers which
had set marks as high IS SO, 900 for their
offerings would be beard from later when
their goal Is attained.
Though he is perfectly willing TO re-
main in the asylum until his heallh has
improved, Rev. George S. Fitzhugh, the
67-year-old minister who attempted to
we'd 1O-yesr-old Virginia Frazier near
Baltimore, last week, says that he has
not given up his idea of wedding the
child, and that he will do so, though be
has 10 wait three or fur years. Such
was the ultimatum that the minister
handed to his younge,t son, Mr.. Lse
Fitzhugb, when the latter visited his
aged father at Spring Grove yesterday.
The minister has improved greatly since
his removal to The institution, both
mentally and physically.
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