Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-21
News Of the Day.


The British House Of Lor's passed
The stc,nd reading OF the old sge pen
sions bill, thus insutiDg its becoming
law.
A woman was fatally bnrned IN q
powder factory at J.rsey City, yesterday
when q nail in her shoe struck spsrF,
ignitiDg some powder.
The message sent by relay messenger
boys from the mayer Of New York to
the mayor of Chicago reached its desti-
nation t)dsy. IL hours and so minutes
ahead of the original schedule.
Rev. DR.. NJ. B. Whsrion, pastor Of
the Baptist Church in Eufsula, Ala, q
brother of the well-known evangelist,
DR.. II. M. Whait1n, died last night at
the Tabernacle In6rmsry in Atlanta.
At pistol point, six masked men early
today forced Clyde Sharp, cashier of the
First National Bank Of Ada, Ohio, ID
leave his bed, go t. the bank and open
the vault doors. 10 opening the inner
door, however, Sharp set of the fire
sisru The robbers fed, after taking
Sc from the cssh drawer.
A bill was filed In the Supreme Cour.
OF the District OF Columbia yesterday
afternoon asking that receiver be APP
pointed for the Washington Beef and
Provision Company. The complsinauts
are the T. 7. Keane Company and
Ohsrlfs E. Ebsl. The action follows
the Issuance of warrant for the arrest
of Rnssell I. Briggs, former president OF
The company, charging him with embez-
ri ,nent
The king and queen received more
than two hundred of The bishops who
attended the recent Pan-Anglican Con-
gress 10 farewell audience at Bnekiug-
ham Palace yesterday afternoon. The
Archbishop of Canterbury read an adj
dr,ss to his majesty presented by the
bishops, TO which the king graciously
replied. The Archbishop of Canterbury
also presented each of the bishops sepa-
raiely to the king, who conyersed and
shook hands cordially with the bishops.
Bishop Henry @. Potter, who has
been i'll at Fernleight bis summer
home near Oooperstowu, n. Y, since
Saturday. June q, and whCss condition
for several days was very crit cal, was
.ported worse yesterday after an en-
coursging period that continued for a
week past. The turn for The worse
came vest rlay 1t is reported by
those very near the bishop that the cou-
dtion OF the arteries ia one of the most
alarming symptoms in the present
phsse OF the case, aud that life in one
of the lower limbs is dormant.
In pistol duel on the principal
street of Monticello, Ca, yesterday,
Paul GOolsby and o. O. Greer, two
business men, Greer was shot to death,
falling on the exact spot where he
had killed his brother-iu-law thirty
years ago. Two shots we're exchanged
without effect, but Goolsby's third shot
struck Greer in the breast. Dropping
his pistol Greer seized a rock, and, stag
gering to bis fee', threw the missile at
Goolsby, striking his head and nearly
knocking him down. GOOlsby then ap-
preached Greer and shot him In the
head, instant death resulting.
dispatch from Madison. Wis, says the
condition Of former Postmaster General Will
liam Villas remains unchanged. At an early
hour today he still remained in the uncon-
scious condition into which he relspsed when
he was stricken yesterday.
The summer bone of w. B. Dinsmore, at
Steatsburg, N. Y, occupied by Robert Hunt
ingion, was burglarized last night aud silver
ware worth several thousand dollars carried
away.
John Kanrick Bangs. the humori,t and
thor, is going 70 take the stump for Will
| lam II. Taft through maine.