Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-19
News Of the Day.

some days past, causing loss of several
million dollars.
Though be is just out Of danger Or
vile Wright is already planning to build
new aeroplsne 20 use when he is able
to ay again.
Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt yes
tsrdsy applied Tor final decree in New
York in her action for divorce from
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Alice German, wife of Lester s.
German, well-kuown sportsman aud
representative of the DUPONT Powder
Company, died at her home 10 Aberdeen,
Nd, yesterday morning, having been q
victim Of heart disease.
The Bureau of Engraving aud Priut-
Ing at Washington is turning DOT new
emergency notes under the Aldrich-
Vreeland law at the rate of about 49,
1000 a day, and new vaults must be
bull. to store them in.
]. @. Ebtrhard, thirty.6ve yesrS old,
patient at the Government Hospital
for the Insane at Washington for more
than eight years, escaped from the in
stiiulion on Thursday night. he had
been confined In Ward N, where only
quiet, orderly patients are kept.
Forty-eight more army officers of
field command grade, including majors,
lieutenanl- colonels and colouel', who
are on duty 10 the War Department or
10 the District Of Columbia directly M
der the War Department, received their
"rding ORDERS" yesterday for the go
mile craftsmanship test.
The Maryland Bankers Association
Of Baltimore yesterday adopted resolu-
ton launching q new fight for a State
banking department and another look
ing toward a uniform and equitable as
sessment of bank shares. William B.
Cooper, cashier OF the Second National
Bank at Cheslertown, was elected presi-
dent.
Twenty members of the choir Of
the fashionable Woodlswn Pork Meth
odist Episcopal Church, at Chicago,
left The choir left last Sunday at the be-
ginning OF the service because Mrs. Alta
Beach EdmOuds, the new leader, wore q
big hat, heavy with plumes, despite the
objection of the other woman singers to
wearing hats at all.
The jail at Osss, POcshontas county,
W. Va, was partly destroyed by FIRE
Yesterday, and Mary Tysing, coOred,
the only pritoner, was burned to death.
| Her chsrred body was found on the bunk
of her cell. 1t is believed the woman
started the FIRE for the purpose OF ending
her life. She was in custody on a
charge of shooting her husband, Moses
Tysing.
In the face of stiff breeze, which
blew from the south, making an aerial
trip dangerous, Lieut.. B. d. Foulois
Snd Sergt. Edward Ward, OF the aero
nautic corps, took the Baldwin dirigible
balloon out for It's frat trial trip 10 ct.
joseph, Mo-, Yesterday evening. Ris-
ing 10 height OF 300 feet, they circled
about the military ornament grounds
for fifteen minutes before alightipg.
While In a jealous rage William
Reinert, a steel worker, yesterday shot
and killed MIS- Sarah Boyer, his board
lug house mistress, at South Bethlehem,
Pa, and then killed himself by firing
ak shots into his body. Mrs. Boyer
! gas 50 roa-s oil and had a husband
living 1t Reading from whom she had
been separated for two years.
L. W. Brown, aged so years, Of Fair.
view, small town near Fair
mont, W. Va, was killed on the race
track yesterday. While he was driving
young horse the lines became en-
tlpgled under the animals tail, and il
trying to extdcate then, Brown wal
caught between the wheel Of his sulky
and the shaft. The horse kicked hin
in the forehead and dragged him half
mile.
Unless the long-standing wage dis
pute is settled 100000 coltor
op ratives will be locked out today
The employers proposed to reduce wages
5 per cent, but they finally consented
to postpone his reduction until January
l of next year. The operatives yestsr
day voted as to whether or not thel
will accept this offer, and they probably
will.
DR.. J. F. Schsfiner, jr., physician
and druggist, died st Winstou-Salem
N. O., yesterday, aged 20. He joined
The Confederate army IS assistant surgeon
of the Seventh. Twenty.6rst, and Thir
ty.thjrd regiments; was promoted fielt
surgeon of the Thirty-third and Fourth
regiments, aud was finally made brigade
surgeon of Branch's and Rsmseur's bri
gsdes.
TIE body of Miss Alice Psiro, o.
Washington, who was drowned with
six uther persons By the capsiziug Of the
yacht Minnie Belle, of Oak Island, on
the night Of September 10, was found
yesterday by Capt. George E. Haskell
and Irving Cove, of Deer Isle, Me. Ii
YES identified only by the clothing
and laundry marks. This is the frs
body to be recovered since the night o.
the tragedy, when two we're found.
While Blanche Cribitr, 3 years old
the daught of Frederick Cribier, &
GUNNER resident of Helmetts, n. j.,
was at play near her home, yesterday,
large eagle swooped down and attempted
to carry the child away in its tslons
Cribier was attracted by the screams Of
his daughter. He fought off the birC
and, ss it attempted to fly away, his
brother, who had come up with a shot
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