Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-17
News of the Day.

Gent TO gid wire thst would encircle
the earth.
Eight persons partook of rsttlespake
dinner a. Newton, N. J Saturday. They
said the meat was good.
The Washington pscking-house man.
ayers have decided to estsbiish the "open
shop"
Herman A. Hider, a brakeman, Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, lived two weeks after
his spine had been broken in two places.
The amount Of money in circulation
per capita in the United States is little
over s35.
Cardinal Gibbons left Rome yesterday
for Switzerland. 10 accordance with his
request the pope has made number OF
priests monsignors.
a decisive victory of Sultan Abd-el-
Az of Morocco over The troops OF the
usnrper, Mulai Ba6d, wss announced
by wireless dispatch to Tangier.
Harry Thaw has been notified by Will
lism r. Blair, referee in bankruptcy at
Pitsbu'g, to appear before him on Fri
day to be adjudged bankrupt.
Sparks from a locomotive caused fire
at Grower Hill. village near Lima, o.,
which destroyed nine business places and
two dwellings.
The cruiser Colorado, which went
ashore near Lip Lip Poi0t, Puget Sound
Saturday, got of with slight damage only
TO her hull.
Two masked men held up and robbed
a trans.continental express trsin on the
Northern Pacific line near Spokane,
Washington, on Saturday. Only the
mail csr was rihed.
Mill No. 4, largest of group Of five
coaton mills owned by the Odell Manufac-
turing Company at Concord, N. o., was
burned Saturday entsiling loss Of $780,
900.
Charles F. Murphy, Tammsny Hall
leader, says Bryau is stronger than he
WAS in 1900 and will cSrry New Yotk
He says "Mr. Bryan is much stronger in
the state than he WAS either in 1896 or
1900"
Hurled fifty feet through the air, Sonny
BriggS, motor cyclist aud former anna
teur light weight champion boxer, WAS
killed yesterday in the presence OF 5000
persons at the Clifton Stadium, at Pat
larson, N. j.
Benjamin DeGildo, of PhiIadelphis,
shot and killed Benjamin DeFeix, fatally
wounded Pasqnale DeFelix, father OF
the murdered man, at Winchester, Pa,
yesterday, and then, to escape capture at
the hands OF an infuriated mob, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself.
Three drownings occurred in the waters
near Baltimore yesterday. One man
was sleeping on tafrail of tugboat and
fell overheard, another met death while
bathing in Curtis creek, and the third
fell from bost from which he was
grabbing in Rock creek.
During fight ia pig alley southwest
Washington, at an early hour yesterday
morning, Daniel Young, a negro, II
years old, was stabbed in the chest by
Wilfred Bucknef, another negro. Young
was removed to Emergency Hospital.
His conditen is serious.
On Tuesday evening Rear Admiral
Robley ID. Evans will have concluded
4S years Of service in the u. 3. navy and
at the age of 62 he will go on the retired
list. The admiral, unable to use one
foot because of illness. is at the Lake
Mobonk House, N. Y, where he and
his family sre spending the summer.
Employees and officials of the Depart
ment OF Justice in Washington are
worked up over rumor from Boston
hat w. ii. Lewis, negro assistant
United States attorney at that place, is
to be made Assistant Attorney General
of the United States in place Of Afford
W. Cooley, recently resigned on account
of i'll health.
Arthur Neidlander, "a years old, and
his wife, 10 years, we're found dead yes
terday morning, the former In room
above his grocery store at Columbus, o.,
and the woman in the street adjoining
the store. Although neighbors heard 8
commotion in the building about 2
O'Clock in the morning and hesrd
threat uttered in mans voice to kill
some one, they did not enter to learn the
nature OF the trouble, and the tragedy
was not disclosed until daylight, when
the bodies we're found.
While several boys and girls we're
playing in The woods 10 the lower end of
Caldwell, N. j., Saturday, Anna Dodge,
whose home is in Brooklyn, found the
nest of blsckbird, aud after examining
it closely, suddenly exclaimed. "0b,
look what | have found in the nest"
1t was a ring set with four diamonds.
Later q Jeweler examined it and said it
was worth $3.50. How it got into the
nest is a mystery, but it Is supposed 1t
was carried there by a blackbird.
The Illinois Central Railroad Saturday
night took all it, negro porters of trains
running through Springfield and dis
couraged all negro travellers from going
to or through the capital. Negro portera
on trains bound for points beyond
Springfield are dropped off the trains
several miles north of the capital, aud
p0rters on trains from the south are like