Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-02
News of the Day.

dONeiuOt heshCi ueo mhuc puOiO
40 appeal 10 the people Of 0klshoms
for money to aid him in overcoming
bis enemies, who, he declares, are the
enemies of the people.
Dol. Gabriel Thomas BaTbee Is dead
at the home Of bis son-ln-lsw, a. II.
Johnson, in Romney, w. Vs., aged
niuety-flur years He was native OF
Rsppahsnnock county, Va.
Director Of the Mint Leach announces
that he will this week resume the puT
chase of fine silver for subsidiary coin.
age. He states thst he expects to pur-
chase about 1875, 900 ounces each week
for an indefinite period.
That Richard Croker, the former
Tammsny leader, will come to New
York shortly alter the election, ia the
announcement made by his 500, Rich
ard, IT,, on his arrival from Europe
yesterday,
Suffering from severe burns about bis
face and body as the result of playing
with matches in the yard of his home,
Harry Shout, the fOur-year-old son of
Mr.. John sboOl, 253 Old York road,
nesr Baltimore, is in serious condition
at st. Joseph's Hospital.
While Mrs. Marie A. P. SmJth, Of
Washington was walking between
Twenty first and Twenty-second streets,
on P street, last night, a stsel-besded
bsg, containing 8 cents and check for
$l5 was snatched from her hand by
negro.
Six boys are reported killed at Sugar
Ridge, near Toledo, Ohio, when freight
train on the Toledo and Ohio Central
Railroad crashed into q heavily laden
excursion train returning from the fair
at Bowling Green. 1t is reported that
every one in the rear passenger coach
either was killed or injured.
Two lives were lost and twenty or
more persons we're injured at Spencer,
N. G., last night by the explosion of
powder storage house in the yards of the
Southern Railway Company, and most
of the buildings on the premises were
damaged either by the explosion or by
FIRE.
According to advices received at FL
Psso, Tex, County Judge Brewster and
Postmaster NJ. A. Frost, of Boquills,
Tex, were wsylsid and shot on Sunday |
while en- route from the cable house 1T
Ernsts mines to the postoffice. Ernst
died on Tuesday. His murdtrers have |
not been arrested.
The democratic state convention OF
Massachusetts yesterday nominated a
St.te ticket for the November election,
chose l6 presidential electors and adopt
cd q act Of resolutions, the main plsnks
of which sdvoc ate tariff, labor snd State
administration refC rms. j. H.Vahey, Of
WATERFOWL, was dominated for governor,
and Charles ]. BarlOu, OF Melrose, for
lieutenant.governor
The thrly-four;h annual convention
of the American Bankers Association
came to an end st Denver yesterday
afternoon with the election of George
NJ. Reynolds, of Chicago, as president,
and Lewis E. PitrsoD, OF New York,
as first vlce-president The convention
placed itself squsrely on record as
against both guarantee of bank deposits
aud postal savings banks.
Mich ,el Hepner, a saloon keeper, Col
south Bond street. Baltimore, was tr-
raigned before Judge Stockbridge yester-
day 10 the Criminal Court On the charge
of violating the Sunday liquor law and
was convicted. Judge 5tockbridge an
uouuced that In addition to revoking
Hepuer's license be would impose 6ne
of $500 and costs. The fine was later
reduced to $3.50.
At the residence Of Grover q. Hook,
west Washington street, Hsgerstown,
Md, Monday night, shot was fred
through a window in the bedroom iu
which Mrs. Hoch was lying seriously
ILL., The bullet WAS imbedded in the
wall just over Mrs. Hoch's bed. Twice
during the past week the Hoch home
has been entered by a strange mau,
evidently bent on robbery, but both times
be escaped before the officers arrived.
Harry s. Everett, the 13-yesr-old sOD
of Michael Everett, living on William
Collins farm, near Chestsrst)Wn, Nd,
was run over by his fathers farm wagon
aud instantly killed yesterday. The boy
had been TO town after load OF ferti-
lizer aud was returning when the fore
board of the wagon fell out, throwing
him between the horses feet and the
wagon pole. The wheels of the wagon
passed over the boys head, crushing the
skull and breaking the jaw.
Because his son Richard refused 10
give him money which he demanded,
John Burkhsrdt, &C years OLD, yester-
day shot aud seriously wounded the
younger man, then drank carcolic acid
and jumped from window of bis home
at Union Hill, N, j., ia an tffOrt to end
bis life. While father and son were be-
ing rushed to hosPit'l in an smbu-
lance the old man sprang upon the
wounded boy aud attempted TO strange
him. He fell back and died just as the
ambulance reached The hospital. Young
Burkhsrdt probably will recover.
A sensation involving four girls, two
of them students of james Milliken Uni
versity, Birmingham, Illinois, and one
Of them a daughter of the principal
Of one of the leading schools of Macon
county, was sprung yesterday, when
warrants we're sworn out for their
arrest, charging them with malicious
mischief by which q street car was
wrecked. The girls attended picnic
naar Uacafnr and On THAR uaz hnna 70. |