Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-12-05
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TELEUkAFhItN DNEFiAAS
1.-THE publications at 2 O'Clock today
we're that Lynchburg Va, would vote
"dry."
The steamer Tampa of DstToit Is be-
lieyed to have gone down with sill hands
during this weeks storm on Lake SUI
perior.
Mrs. Fanny Renter, a delifious
pa.ient in the Methodist Hospital, at
Philadelphia, killed herself today BY
| apiDg from window.
Two men were killed and two injured
10 an explosion that demolished the
Corning Mill of the American Powder
Company Maynard, Mass. today.
King Victor Emmanuel WAS today in
Rome decorated with the American Gross
of Honor, a life saving order, by Lloyd
O. Griscom, the American Ambassador.
In the first hurdle race that he
ever rode, Danno Meher, the American
Jockey, today, won the Staines hsndi'
cap, at Kempton Park, England, on
Dsfla. He handled Dafla in splendid
style.
Seven men persisted when the Sand,
ard Oil barge number 1Ol foundered
ia the gale Thursday night off Seal
Island, N. S The tug John Hughes
which was towing the barge, srrived
at Shelburne, today and reported the
accident.
Sufocated by q small Ere In thelI
home 10 Moulton Court, shortly before
daylight today, the bodies Of John Sui
Ivan and his wife, both more than "
years old, living alone, were found In
their home at Williu auto, Conn, wher
the firemen extinguished the flames. Tit
fire ia thought to have started from
lamp.
The sleeping car companies will be
the next concern 10 the United S!stei
to be investigated, according to state
ment made by DR.. Harvey W. Wiley
chief chemist, today. He declares thai
measures will be taken to insure a sup
DIV of fresh sir in all such cars 10 The
United States, If he has his Way.
The receivers for the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company
went before Judge Young In the United
States district court at Pitttburg, Pa to-
day and 10 q petition asked that they be
allowed to turn over the stockholders
the immense properties of the corpora:
ton In east Pittsburg, France and
England.
Social problems of the graat cities Of
tbs country we're today brought sqUareIy
before the Federal Council of Protestant
Churches, in convention at Philadelphis,
when the committee on local declarations
and home missions urged more aggres-
sive aud united work by the protestant
denominations In the grea! centers OF
population.
Wiley Literal, deputy sheriff o.
Lawrence county, W. Va, and "BilP'
Vinson, an outlaw, we're killed 10 5
battle TO-DAY at Webb, 40 miles up the
Big Sandy river from Huntington, be-
tween a posse led by U S. Deputy
Marshal l an Cunningham and crowd
of twenty outlaws from Kentucky and
West Virgins, who had barricaded
themselves 10 Wilson's home.
Because he stated in an interview that tie
ammunition of the French Mediterranean
feet was poor in quality and 10 insult ,ient in
quality, the cor Gil Of ministers today re.
moved Admiral Germintt from the command
OF the feet. The action is considered q public
disgracing of the admiral and has stirred up
a storm of fractional feeling.
Fire # unknown origin today destroyed
the plant of the Pennsylvanis Art Rug Com;
pany 1t Norristown, Pa, and fatally burned
Samuel Polk, the Waterman. The loss 10
fully covered by assurance.
Their heads split open with an axe four
members of the C0smO Garcia family were
found today in their beds at their nome on
Crisco Creek, east of Trim lac, Col. Ihey
hal evidently been murdered ssYer"l Gays
ago.
been 1T the pumps night and day. the cargo
on the steamship COrnishman, which took
70 Yesterday at the Grand Trunk docks at
Portland. Maine, is still in flames. The 10 s
10 the railway exclusive OF freight destroyed
10 the wharv it is now said to be 100000.