Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-30
News Of the Day.

! mem DerSDlp lu Juo Otcnul CnOFclcts Anu
Dndgemen's Union.
George Reid, postmaster of Midland,
Allegany county, Nd, died 10 Scotland
yesterday.
Sayyid Muhammed, the Mirabeau of
Persia, was asssssiDstsd yesterday, it is
believed, by agents of the shsh.
Orders have been issued relieving Adj
miral Hemphill and placing Captain
HARDER In command of the Asiatic
squadron.
Arrivals of tomatoes TO Baltimore can
ners yesterday were heavy, all OF them
coming from the farmlspds of the Della
ware bay.
Trsnscontinental railroad lines will
abandon the Pacific carrying business
November l and Japanese steamship
companies are expected to get all the
business.
The government of Russia is prepar-
ing for an outbreak of cholera along the
Volgs and is taking steps to prevent the
disease from reaching ST. Petersburg and
Moscow.
Attorney General Bonsparte has is
sued q statement ia which he declared
that the war on the Standard Oil and all
other trusts will be carried on with re-
newed vigor.
1t is reported 10 New York that Har-
riman and Gould have entered into an
alliance by which Hartman will get an
entrance into Pittsburg and Gould will
get funds to finance his outlet II the sea-
board.
In riot among foreign miners st the
Providept mine, Belmont county, W.
Va, yesterday, the mine superintendent,
Charles Thompson, and his son were
very badly wounded, and two mine
bosses we're injured.
A man 10 Hammond, Ind, yesterday
cut hole through the room in which
Leon Wilmz lay sleeping and, showing
dagger through the aperture, fatally
stabbed Wilmz 10 the face and esr aud
afterward escaped. The cause Of the at
tack is unknown.
K. B. Pointer shot and killed @. W.
Jackson at Pierce, Tex, yesterday.
The men qusrreled over a one-cent post
age ct imp. Jackson had mailed letter
with only one-cent stamp on, and
Point T, who had charge of the postof-
fee, called his attention to the matter.
Mrs. Frank Pinkham, wife OF home
, steader near Bonesteel, 8. D., Tuesday
night cut the thrOsts Of her two boys,
aged IA years and six months, and then
committed suicide by cutting her own
throat. Ill health is said to have I'M
balanced her mind. The older boy may
| recover.
Crazed by the heat aud also somewhat
under the influence OF liquor, Tim j.
| MinahsD, 8 linemsn of Detroit, Mich,
wound up a quarrel with his wife by
shooting her twice through the head and
the heart yesterday, killing the woman
instantly. minahau then turned the re-
volver upon himself and inflicted dam
gerouS wound in his forehead.
Having been refused the appointment
OF Chief of Engineers, after 1t had once
been tentatively offered him by the pres
ident, Col. Thomas w. Symons, Corps
of Engineers, was placed upon the re-
tired list of the army yesterday upon his
own application and by direction of the
president.
There was q sensation 10 financial
circle, in Racine, Wis, yesterday when
it became krogn that John Schultz,
paying teller of the First National Bank.
had disappeared, and that the cash In
the vault when counted WAS found to be
shOr. $l5, 600. Schultze left the bank
suddenly while Bank Examiner Merton
was making the semi-snnual inspection.
Joseph Chamberlain, who returned
from the continent on Tuesday and is
remaining in London for few days on
his way to Birmingham, is reported to
be Ia a very grave condition. His eye
sight has become seriously affected. Even
II Mr.. Chamberlain has sufficient strength
to travel to Birmingham, il is believed TO
be extremely doubtful if be will ever
leave England again.
II. Chichester, 80 years old, of Rom
ney, w. Va, a well-known deaf muts,
was instantly killed near the Romney
depot yesterday by 8 passenger engine
backing over him. He had gone to meet
some relatives, and had sent them ahead
ia q carriage. He was many years
teacher for the deaf snd.dumb at Rom
ney, and leaves widow and three
daughters.
Lige Nelnns, a nonuniOn miner at the
Pratt mines, Ala, was fired on late yes
terday afternoon as he was going to work.
He returned the ere until be dropped
dead in his tracks. Deputies and
others who rushed TO the scene found
Ed. Miller, union miner, seriously
wounded and another union miner shot
in the head. A posse is looking for
more men.
Bishop Brent, OF Manila, twice elected
to the bishopric Of Washington, made
vacant by the death OF Bishop Sstterlee,
has arrived in Vancouver, B. o., and is
speeding to Boston. 1t is believed by
some Westinghouse that notwithstsnd-
ing his decliustion to accept the bishop
rio when first elected, Bishop Brent will
accept the position.
The Southern Railway has already be-
gun to prepare against car shortage and
to be in readiness to move this years
cotton crop, which, from all indications,
will be the largest in the counlry's his