Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-28
News of the Day.

ufCHs, Ouo NiliaRe DeihB aiieauy HiPoo
out and another partly destroyed.
1t Is estimated that the loss caused by
the forest fires throughout the country
will reach 800, 100000
The police of Cleveland, O., are look
ing for Michael Horsam, who sold hi
wife and furniture to bosrder for $15
Edward Moot, OF Westhers6eld, VT,
on q wager, between sunrise and suuse
Oh Saturday cut chopped, split and
piled FIVE. cords of wood.
Confederate veterans rendered mill
tary honors when the widow of the late
General Brsxton Bragg was buried be-
eide her husband at Mobile on Saturday.
DR.. J. A. 8. Grassland, formerly
United States minister to Liberia and q
negro political leader, was arrested al
st. Joseph, Mo-, yesterday on charge
of grand larceny.
More than two hundred and fifty
thousand persons yesterday marched
through the streets of London to Hyde
Park, where q resolution condemniDg
the licensing bill WAS adopted.
Mrs. Abbie B. Rice, of Omsha, de-
cIares that when DR.. Frederick Rnskin
released her from an agreement 10 die
together he stated that be had engaged
Charles E. Davis to kill him.
By reason Of the protracted drought
B. F. Bsroes, of Morrisyille, Pa, was
able Saturday to accomplish the un-
precedented feat of driving q horse and
wagon across the Delaware river through
Trenton Falls.
Miss Edith North, aged twenty-one
years, died st the Western Maryland
Hospital, Cumberland, yesterday morn
ing from typhoid fever. She had bee j
nurse at the institution for over year
She was daughter Of ]. @. North, OF
Keyser.
The eleventh annual conference of the
Eastern Public Education Association,
comprising state and city superintend-
ents of 40 educational bodies from
Maine to Virginia, and east Of Piltsburg,
will convene in Washington today and
be in session until October 3.
In lighting a cigarette, Howard Smith
set fire to the gasoline in John I.
Floods launch, in Curtis Bay, pear
Baltimore, Saturday night, and in an
instant the boat was ablaze. Smith
leaped overheard to escape the flames
and WAS drowned.
Mr. Charles B. Roberts, it,, who was
shot on the boardwalk at Atlantic City,
left bis room in the hospital there for
the frat time Saturday. He spent the
entire afternoon on the roof garden Of
the hospital, where he received several
callers.
A tragedy occurred at Camp Jessman,
Msnils, Saturday night, resulting in the
death of Lieutenant Edward ]. Bloom,
of the Fourth Infantry, and Private SUIT
ties, Company K, Of the same regiment.
5uttles, for some reason, shot Bloom
and then cut his own throat. Suttles
died Immediately, butIBloom fingered
Until Sunday night.
10 corroborstion of the discovery that
he alleged posthumous article OF the
late ex-Presideut Cleveland, saying thai
he intended to support Taft, was 8
forgery, the declaration is made thai
Mr.. Cleveland declined to appoint
Judge Taft to the Supreme Court. This
assertion Is made in Washington by
Rev J. Milton WsldroD, president Of
the National Negro Political League.
While engaged 10 preparing a blast
on the new third track of the Lacks
wanna Railroad Company at Cross Keys,
small station near Tobyhanna, Pa.
yesterday morning, foreman and his
four assistants, employed by the Hyde
Il Mcfarland Construction Company, oil
New York city, wire killed by an ex-
plosion of twenty pounds of dynamite.
J. William Miller, dealer In vehicles
aud agricultural Implements, with stores
at Winchester, Vs.. Charles Town and
Msrtinsburg. w. Va, has made an as
Segment for the benefit Of creditors.
The liabi tiles are over $40, 900, $25, 900
of which ia due Winchester banks which
are secured.
Justice Mills at White Plains, N. Y,
on Saturday, ruled that Harry K. Thsw
shall have hearing IS to his sanity but
not a jury trial. Mr.. jerome has dropped
out of the case and Tnaw's acQuittsl is
predicted. Jerome said he did not feel
justified in mourning any more expense
to bis Office in connection with the case
outside of his own county.
Fred d. Yungling, a son of the late
David G.. Yungling, the brewer, died
yesterday afternoon in the prison ward
of Bellevue Hospital in New York,
from acute alcoholism. He had been
arrested 10 Yonktrs Saturday night
after having jumped his bond, subse-
quent to srraignment following the is.
suing of worthless checks to an amount
OF 1881, so.
Herman Bidder, Of New York, has
been appointed treasurer ofthe democratic
national committee 10 succeed Gov.
Haskell, of Oklahoma, whose resignation
WAS demanded by Mr.. Bryan. He says:
81 am goiog to do everything in my
power TO help the democratic party 10
win, because think that it will be only
by the election OF The democratic ticket
that the people Of the country will have
a chance of relief from the extortions Of
the trusts which are beiUg protected by
the high tariff"
His face, hands, head and bis nude
body covered with lacerstions aud