Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-25
News Of the Day.

weight OF its body.
King Alfonso arrived in London yes
terday on bis way to the ISle OF Wight,
where he is to meet Queen Victoria.
The United States Court in Cincinnati
Yesterday refused to restrain the enforce
ment of the order requiring synthetic
whisky to the labeled Limitation"
The cashier of German bank yester-
day killed himself after losing 10 specu-
lation 1926, 900, which he had embez-
zIed.
An oil we'll at tumble, Tex, blew
up Yesterday bringing from depth OF
| 200 feet below the surface whole
tree.
It has been about definitely decided
that former Senator Roger Qusrles Mills
will leave the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, tomorrow afternoon.
Rt. Rev. Robert A. Gibson, Bisnop Of
Virginia, Archdeacon Neve and Mr..
Joseph Wilmtr, sailed from Liverpool
on the Mauretsnia Saturday for New
York.
Mr.. David F. Haynes, head OF the
firm of D. F. Haynes q Son, one OF
the largest pottery concerns in the coun-
try, died OF general debility yesterday at
bis home in Baltimore, aged 70 years.
The United States Court Of Appeals
at st. Louis, in two decisions, yesterday
upheld the safety appliance law and de-
clsrsd that it supersedes the common
law rule OF reasonable care"
John shorb, 60 years old, we'll
known farmer of near Hanover, Pa,
fell asleep last night on the Western
| Maryland Railroad tracks and was struck
and killed by freight train.
Sir Thomas Upton, yesterday, sent
| $500 to the fund for welcoming home
the American team Of Olympic athletes.
Fifteen bsttalions Of the regiments Of
Grestsr New York will take part 10 the
demonstration.
Judge Thompson, Of the United
states Circuit Court of Cincinnati, o.,
has denied the petition OF the Union
Disabling Company fer an Injunction to
restrain the government from branding
imitation whisky as such.
A rock fish weighing 80 pounds and
measuring 81 inches 10 length was
| landed by Mr.. Beck off Fort Howard,
Nd, yesterday, after a spirited and
strenuous struggle, aud his friends keep
I him busy relating the experience he met
with on thst trip.
A highwsymsn yesterday held up
,even stage coaches FIVE miles from Old
Faithful Inn, in Yellowstone Park,
Wyo.. and robbed the tourists of more
than $4,000. The bandit escaped.
Two tops of cavalry and a squad oil
government scouts are in pursuit.
Stricken with paralysis Of the heart
while iu bathing in the Chesapeake bay,
at Rock Hall, Md, Mr.. Gilber! Thomas
Smith, 25 years old, of Baltimore, was
drowned within sight Of score OF fel-
low-9albers on Sunday afternoon last.
The body was recovered shortly after
ward.
Facional politics is obtained to he
directly responsible for the killing yes
tarday of Henry Frecka by Rober
| Frowine, bis rival caudidft, for republi-
can central committeeman at Irontop,
TO-. Tie two men met on the street
and Fr1wine wss seen TO draw his gun
and commence shooting. He was al
rested at his home.
William Travers Jerome, district a.
torney of New York county, is acquitted
of the charges brought against him by
VIM. F. King, OF New York, demand
ing his removal from Office. Commit
sioner Richard l.. Hand, who hes been
considering the charges, filed his report
| exonerai ing Mr.. Jerome yesterday after
noon with Governor Hughes.
Jacob F. Boyer, q Union veteran,
nearly IS years oil, was seriously in-
iured yesterday by falling 80 feet from
the top of q large pear tree at his home
near Rohrersville, near Hsgerstown,
Nd. The accident was due to the
breaking of limb sgainst which the
ladder on which he was standing was
restinp. He fell to the ground and was
unconscious when found.
| A desperate fight occurred in the
lsil at Upper Marlboro, Nd, last night
when Ollie King, the guard, went to
one of the upper cells to give Frank
scboen, who was complaining of being
sick. some milk. King was savagely
attacked, and In the struggle, Schoen
got possession of the keys, but King held
on to him. The prisoner succeeded 10 un-
locking the front door aud got as far "a
the jail gate, when he was overpowered'
After successfully eludiog The slenths Of
the Baltimore Police Department for the
past ten days, Robert Lee Cochran,
farmer clerk in the Office of Building
Inspector Preston, in Baltimore, who
ia wanted on the Chsrye Of embezzling
5000 of the city's money, walked into
The Eastern Police Station yesterday
and surroundered himself. Cochran ap-
pesred to be in highly excited stlte
OF mind.
Panic seized Mrs. Mary Abruzzo, Of
Brooklyn, yesterday, when a gas stove
exploded and set fire to the clothing Of
her tbrae-yesr.old SOD, Joseph, and
baby carriage in which was her infant
SOD, Charles. Mrs. Abruzz) threw the
baby from the third-story window, and
then lesped after it. The boy Joseph,
left 10 the apartment was burned to
death, and Mrs. Abruzzs aud her baby
was MORALLY injured by the fall.
After writing three notes, In which he
directed what disposition should be