Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-16
News OF the Day.

died suddenly Monday night, at East
port, opposite Annapolis, eyed As years.
Andrew Carnegie has written q letter
to the International Union urging uni
yersal pesce and asserting that Emperor
William hes it 10 bis power to put an
end to the war among civilized nstiors
King Manuel OF Portugal yesterday
reviewed 5000 troops on the occasion
OF the laying OF the foundation of mon
umeDt to the heroes of the war Of 1908,
who drove the French out of Portugal.
Daring aD operation performed upon
Mrs. Philip Kratz in Evansville, Ind,
the physicians discovered that the
womsn's heart was on her right side.
Her liver was on her left side, and htr
spleen on the right side.
Herbert Day, member OF the firm Of
Purdum & Day, merchants at Rockville,
Nd, mysteriously disappeared abOat ten
days ago. He is believed to have had
with him about $1,000 Of bis firms
money, and, it is believed that he may
have met with foul play
Picking up an old telescope case IN
the smoking car last night after the
Harptrs Ferry train arrived at the
Union Station, ia Washington, Con-
duetor n. O. Adams, of the Baltimore
aud Ohio Railroad, found it to contain a
live baby.
Professor ohm Churton COLLINS, author,
essayiot and lecturer and professor OF
English literature at Birmingham, was
found dead in the woods near Lowett)ft,
Fog, yesterday. 1t is believed that he
poisoned himself during fit of depres-
sion, nsulting from illness. Professor
Collins was born in 1848.
Mrs. Sarah Trott can readily tell any
body how to grow old gracefully. She
wss born on Elliolts Island, Eastern
Shore of Maryland, in 1907, snd Oh
October 5 will be 10l years old She is 10
full possession of her faculties, ready 10
entertain agreeable company, and has
many friends.
Part Of the city, across the river from
Bidteford, Nd, was swept by disas.
trous FIRE that broke out in the lumber
yard OF George A. CrOssman q Sons,
manufacturers of box shocks, esrly
yesterday, causing a loss estimated at
about $3.50, 000 The flames licked up
Is tenement houses 10 the vicinity.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has re-
ceived in az envelope postmSrked New
York oue-hslf of $500 gold certificate.
The ether half, the sender says, was ssut
10 The custom house in New York. The
amount will be deposited in the treasury
aud credited to COINCIDENCE " In q
typewriter, but unsigned nots tle sender
says: "The product of New England
conscience, tiuc!ured with Yankee
caution"
francesca Seid.ts, wealthy SicliaD,
who recently returned from the United
Sistes, where he had smassed fortune,
wss shot desd recently In the neighbOr-
hood Of Pslermo. The police have as
certsiued that be had been q member OF
the Black Hand and that he had return
ed to bis native country fearing the re-
venge Of his late comrades, whom be had
denounced to the American police. He
was slain by member of the band, who
had gone from America for the express
purpose Of killing him.
Word has been received that the pri-
vste car of the vice president of the B.
& o. railroad line was entered on
Monday night and valuable property
stolen. The Car was entered during the
run from Baltimore to New York. One
hundred shares Of Chicago Great West
err Railroad stock, a lite insurance
policy, a quantity of clothing, a bunch
of keys used on The car, and other ar
t Giles of value were taken. There is no
clue which may lead to the identity OF
the thief.
Sixty of the principal creditors Of A,
O. Yates & Co.,, held meeting in the
Office of Lequin and Arnold Merchant
Audit and Accounting Compsny in
New York, yesterday. There was a
debate of al hours length as to the sd-
visibility of accepting the offer of II
cents OD the dollar made for the stock
by Lit Brothers, Of Philadelphia. This
offer WAS finally accepted, and 1t was
unanimously agreed to pay so cents On
the dollar to all creditnrs on or before
October Is.
A number q young government en-
ployes in Washington have been asked |
to resign, because, it is alleged, they |
have been working for private individ.
usls or concerns after Office hours
Upon entsriug the service the employees
t1ok an ost1 TO serve none but the |
United States. Ia working after Office
hours, the government holds, they have
their oaths. The accused men
admit the charges, ard say they we're
forced to do outside work to make
enough money to support their families.
The death from loekjaw Of the four
een-dsys-old daughter of Mrs. Helen
Hardware, of Newark, N. j. is
puzzliDg both mother and doctors, as
.hey have been unable TO asceltiin any
hing that explained how the infant be-
came affected. A week sgo the child
became i'll. and its mother could not get
Ito mouth open to nourlsh it. When it
became worse she had it taken ID the
Jity Hospital. The doctors there at
,nce diagnosed it as case of tetanus,
something unusual for child of that
lge to have, but the attack had pro-
crossed 80 far nothing could be done,
Ind the child died.