Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-07
News Of the Day.

The Missouri PsciGc Railroad has
ordered open all OF i locomotive shops.
A report has been received 1T II
Paso which says the Yaqui Indians have
killed 19 people.
For the first time in II yesrs 8 couple
at Chicago were parted yesterday, the
husband dying.
Robert Tnrnbull killed himself yes-
terday at New York because of the
heat
The British steamer Kirkwall was
sunk yesterday in collision with an
unknown bark in the North Sea.
Thomas #. Mitchell, Is years OLD
son Of David Mitchell, of Caroline county,
Nd, was killed by lightning yesterday.
Justice Gaynor and Governor Hughes
will probably be opponents in the New
York gubernstorial election.
A Michigan farmer, believing ia the
efficacy of advertising has inserted a
"0snt adj" in the Chicago paper asking
for rain.
The whole German nation is coming
to the aid Of Count Zsppelin TO enable
him to build a new sirship.
Struck By a Washington suburban
trolley car, a COW yesterday attacked the
coach and stampeded the passengers.
The Lambeth conference, in which
24l bishops Of Episcopal Church pSr:ici-
pated, has been concluded in London.
Paris was plunged in darkness for two
hours last night, because of an attempt
of electricians TO carry out general
strike similsr to that of MSrch, 1907.
Captain Hewett, OF the Salvation
Army, Brooklyn, will wed Marion
Woodman, wealthy girl, OF Bnrling-
ton, N. J.
Mr.. August F. P. Slenzy, inventor
of Baltimore, is completing the construc-
ton of an airship in which he expects
to sell in about two weeks.
John H. Ristau, Is years old, of Tow
sou, WAS drowned yesterday while bath
ing at Cape May Shore, on the Middle
river.
In the S5 days of fighting in the
streets of Tabriz, Persia, there have been
800 casualties and many Of the finest
residences in the city have been looted.
The international Congress OF His
torial Science opened in Berlin yester-
day, United States Ambassador Hill
delivering the opening address.
The body of the woman found chsrred
and burned on a mattress at New York
is now believed TO be that OF q Detroit
girl who came to New York seeking en-
ployment.
The steel tsin-screw suction dredge
Galveston, for the Engineer Corps OF
the United States army. was launched
by the Maryland Steel Company, at
Sparrows Point, yesterday.
Sophia Simms, colored, mother of
seventeen children, who resided at
Boyds, Nd, all her life, and fell from
q cherry tree last month, breaking
leg and arm, died at Freedmen's Hos
pital, Washington, yesterday.
Following Identification of the mutt
lated body OF boy found in Mud Lake
and adjacent ponds and waterways, as
that of Tuffs Shisin, Syrian, the Chi
cagO police last night arrested Joseph
Hasson on suspicion of his being the
murderer of the boy.
Convicted on a charge OF violating the
anti-psss law, 8. O. Watts was fined
$500, and "Gertie' Williams 800, in
the Helena, Mont. court yesterday.
VISITS who was a Great Northern brakes
man, secured pass fer his vile aud
gave it to the Williams woman.
Getting under small tent which a
camper was trying ID hold down during
yesterdays storm, the wind converted
the canvass into balloon, which was
swept off Dat Bird Island, Pa, in the
Susquehsnna, and deposited the fright
ened man in the river. He was able to
touch bottom and walked ID shore.
National Chairman Mack yesterday
announced the democratic national
finance and speakers committees, and
also made known the fact that Senator
OulbersOn, OF Texas, will be chairman
of the advisory committee, in place of
David r. Francis, of Missouri, who is
Ia Europe. Mr.. j. Taylor EIlyson, OF
Virginia, is on the finance committee.
Dropping 900 feet through the air
yesterday Mrs. Eva Jones, balloonist for
a carnival company which is conducting
a street fair at AbboItsford Wis, will
probably recover. The rope of her
parachute snapped, but she was caught
in a tree 30 feet from the ground,
When taken down she was unconscious,
several of her ribs were broken and she
was otherwise internally iOjured.
Frederick Smith, a bank clerk. is
dead today PEAR Soutneyville, VT,
shot by a spring gun set by his
employer, Frederick Blanchsrd,a farmer,
for sneak thief who had been raiding
the farm grsnary. Believing that the
gun had been removed, Smith entered
the erausry, and his foot caught 10 the
guns trigger. A big charge OF buck
shot entered his body and he was dead
in thirty minutes.
Three cent fare and free transfers will
probably be abandoned on Mayor Tom
l.. Johnson's municipality controlled
three-cept line in Cleveland, o., in the
near future. Mayor johnson and Presi-
dent Dupont, Of the Municipal Traction
Company, say that when the pay ss-you
enter cars are 10 operation on Cleveland
streets and the company gets all OF the
fares, without sharing with conductors,
three cent fare and FREQ tran sfers will be